Fifteen pieces of a games night: Dice, DiceTray, PlayingCard, CardHand,
Deck, Chessboard, GoBoard, MahjongTile, Domino, Roulette, CoinFlip,
BingoCard, TicTacToe, ScoreTrack and Meeple. Component number 500 is
a meeple, which seems right.
Dice tumble, coins turn and wheels spin on a cue, a frame at a time,
and land at once under Reduce Motion. Hands lift the card you point
at and play the one drawn on top; pieces and stones pick the lighter
of Lit and Ink for White, so they read in every palette; the computer
plays a fair O; FREE is a star in every language.
New 12x12 icons: Spade, Club, Diamond, Meeple, King, Queen, Rook,
Bishop, Knight and Pawn.
Twenty pieces of a retro desktop: Desktop, DesktopIcon, Taskbar,
StartMenu, AppWindow, Calculator, Notepad, Minesweeper, ControlPanel,
TrayIcons, ShutdownScreen, BootScreen, Screensaver, Snake, Dock,
RunDialog, DiskDefrag, WallpaperPicker, ClipboardPanel and LockScreen.
The calculator really adds up and calls division by zero GAME OVER;
Minesweeper and Snake are playable, first click always safe; START
cascades its submenus without moving the rows already open; windows
drag by whole dots; the screensaver's logo changes color at each wall
and sparkles in a corner; the defragmenter is oddly soothing. Clocks
that step back hold at zero, and typed or copied text never reaches
the log.
icon.Bomb is the new 12x12 mine.
Fifteen components that dress an AI agent's work as an RPG party:
AgentCard, ToolCall, PlanQuest, ThinkingOrb, TokenMana, ApprovalPrompt,
AgentLog, SubAgentParty, MemoryCrystals, AgentStatus, DiffScroll,
ModelSelect, PromptBox, CostCoins and Checkpoints.
The context window is HP and the token budget MP; tool calls are spells
that CAST, glow, then land OK or FAILED; the transcript reads as a battle
log whose newest line types itself out; models line up like fighters.
Busy signs keep moving under Reduce Motion, decoration stops. Commands
and prompts never reach the log, and a veiled PromptBox casts nothing.
icon.Crystal is the new 12x12 save and memory crystal.