Blocks Tutorial UI

Blocks Tutorial UI is a set of 12 tutorial and onboarding markers drawn in the voxel style, where each surface is the front face of a cube with a lit top face and a shaded right face. It contains four directional callout balloons, a solid and a dashed highlight ring, a corner-bracket highlight box, two step indicator states, a tap mark, a drag gesture trail and a skip strip.

Every other kit in this catalogue covers part of the screen. This one points at it, and that inverts the rules: a highlight that fills its middle hides the thing it is highlighting, and a callout that can only point one direction is useless on three of the four screen edges.

The extrusion is real geometry rather than a shadow: the light angle never changes, there are exactly three tones per block, and the front face is inset so the cube stays inside its own sprite bounds.

Inside that style this is the Blocks reading of it: a dark interface on a cool stone palette with signal orange accents, built around a single bordered frame, square-cornered buttons at 132x48, tick-marked bars divided into 8 segments, and solid icons on a 24px grid. Those measurements are why two families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

The callout ships with the tail on each of the four sides as separate sprites rather than one balloon to rotate, because rotating it throws the shading to the wrong side and a tutorial balloon is used at all four screen edges in the same session. The highlight ring and box are hollow, stroke only and no fill, so whatever is underneath stays fully visible, which is the entire point. The step dots are countable so a player can see how much of the tutorial is left, which is the one thing that keeps them pressing next.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x, so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Blocks family, which means this kit and the Blocks panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for voxel and blocky games.

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