Coinop Dialogue Kit

Coinop Dialogue Kit is a set of 7 dialogue components drawn in the arcade style, where the colour is the body rather than the border — saturated slabs with pointed ends. It contains a speech box with a tail, a speaker name plate, dim and bright continue indicators, idle and selected choice rows and a tooltip panel.

A dialogue box is the single most-read surface in a story game, and it is not the same thing as a window panel: it needs a tail that points at whoever is talking, a name plate that sits on top of it without covering the first line, and a continue indicator with two frames so the engine can blink it.

Each slab is filled with a two-stop gradient running along its long axis, and the marks are drawn dark on top of the colour rather than bright on top of black. The pointed ends are part of the silhouette, so they survive being scaled instead of being an outline effect.

Inside that style this is the Coinop reading of it: a dark interface on a plum black palette with coin gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 200x56, hollow-cored bars divided into 5 segments, and two-tone icons on a 32px 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 selected choice row is marked by an indent and a pointer rather than by a colour change, so the state survives a colourblind mode and a greyscale shader. That matters more here than anywhere else: choosing the wrong dialogue option is a mistake a player cannot undo.

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 Coinop family, which means this kit and the Coinop panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for racing, arcade and score-driven interfaces.

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