Sandbox Dialogue Kit

Sandbox Dialogue Kit is a set of 7 dialogue components 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 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.

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 Sandbox reading of it: a light interface on a desert tan palette with sky blue accents, built around a header band across the top of the frame, chamfered buttons at 112x40, banded bars divided into 12 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 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 Sandbox family, which means this kit and the Sandbox panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for voxel and blocky games.

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