The Vault and The Tour
At a glance
- New:
Code transmission: Your code lifts off the field, races down a lit link into the seal and charges the core while the Vault checks it.
- Improved:
Distinct answers: Wrong, dormant, already claimed, locked and lost codes each end the transmission in their own way.
- Improved:
Vault console: Thinner, quieter rims, a glass Access Log and a more even chamber, with the Break the Seal button as the brightest thing on the panel.
- Improved:
Admin Panel: A slightly deeper red and lighter glows, with full-bright red kept for active and primary controls.
- Improved:
Scene transitions: Leaving a scene sends its pieces flying past the camera, and the next scene streams in from around you and builds itself.
- Improved:
Alive while you scroll: While you read a chapter, scrolling slowly circles the camera around the scene, and faster scrolling stretches the view.
- Improved:
Into the games: From the Arcade, the camera dives through the 2048 cabinet's screen straight into the game.
New features
Codes travel into the seal
While the Vault checks a code, its characters stream out of the field to the console's port, run down the link as a bright packet and strike the seal, which spins up and charges until the answer arrives.
- A wrong code is thrown back down the link and lands in the field with a jolt.
- An already claimed code is handed back gently in pale light; a dormant code gutters out in grey; a locked vault cuts the link; a lost connection breaks it halfway.
- The answer shows as soon as it arrives, after a short minimum so the transmission can land.
- Subtle motion plays a shorter version and Motion off skips the travelling effects; a matching sound plays if sound is on.
Improvements
A calmer Vault console
The console's frame glows less, the field, buttons and status chip have a layered glass look, and the Access Log now sits on a glass panel with a lit rim, so the Break the Seal button stands out as the main action.
Softer red in the Admin Panel
The Admin Panel uses a slightly deeper red with lighter glows on headings, tabs, meters and selected options, and a gentler bloom in the 3D scene. Layout and behaviour are unchanged.
Smoother journey through the Tour
The flight between chapters takes more scrolling and every step of it has something happening, so fast scrolling no longer skips straight to the next scene.
- Each chapter's heading, text, tags and link fade in one after another as the camera arrives, and leave before it sets off.
- Scenes play their moment on their own while you pause: To Do ticks its tasks off with sparkles, and the Arcade's sign and screens switch on before a coin drops in.
- Very long jumps, such as picking a chapter from the side rail, cut there with a short fade instead of racing through every scene.
- Motion: Subtle tones everything down; Motion: Off and reduced motion still show composed, still scenes.