Mallwave Level Select

Mallwave Level Select is a set of 12 level select and world map pieces drawn in the vaporwave style, where rounded and folded corners carry pink-and-teal slabs over a deep indigo ground. It contains four stage node states, a straight and a curved path, each locked and open, a region name plate, a fog of war edge, a zoom control and a map legend box.

A level select map is built from two things, nodes and the lines between them, and the lines are what every free set leaves out. Drawing them in engine is where the map falls apart: a stroke drawn by code does not match the art style, and a path that is straight in one style and hand-wobbled in another cannot be a rectangle.

This is the one frame style that allows a curve; every other one in the catalogue is strictly angular. The gradients run across the long axis in two saturated stops rather than fading to a neutral, because a washed-out vaporwave gradient reads as a mistake rather than as a mood.

Inside that style this is the Mallwave reading of it: a dark interface on a plum haze palette with sunbleached gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 132x40, hollow-cored bars divided into 16 segments, and two-tone icons on a 16px 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 paths ship in the same drawing language as the nodes, straight and curved, each in a locked and an open reading. Locked is dashed and thin, open is solid and full weight, which means progress along a map is visible as a change in the connections rather than only in the nodes. The four node states are told apart by structure: locked is hatched across, available carries a single dot at its centre, cleared fills solid and perfect adds four corner brackets to the filled node. The fog edge is drawn as a stepped band rather than a soft blur, because a blur rasterises differently in every engine and a map edge is exactly where that shows.

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 Mallwave family, which means this kit and the Mallwave panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for synthwave, dusk-set and retro-romantic interfaces.

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