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+{
+  "schemaVersion": 1,
+  "about": "Origin Engine's style catalogue: 37 art styles in the engine's own words, each with what a critic checks on a rendered frame, the premises it fits, the look preset it maps to (an .ogt of type look; `extends \"<slug>\"` in a game's own look builds on it), the UI skin pack, palette and asset specs, and an art-bible direction the agent expands per project. `look.support` says how faithfully the engine renders the style today: full (every primitive draws), partial or planned (the primitives in `missing` are still to land), content (the look lives in authored art; the engine frames it). og-taste §12 explains how to use it. The descriptions are original; no game or studio is the reference for a style.",
+  "categories": {
+    "pixel": "Pixel and retro",
+    "paint": "Paint and line",
+    "shape": "Shape and material",
+    "render": "3D rendering"
+  },
+  "skins": [
+    "pixel",
+    "cartoon",
+    "fantasy",
+    "scifi",
+    "paper",
+    "neon"
+  ],
+  "artBibleTemplate": "Art bible for {title}. Premise: {premise}. Camera: {camera}; platform and display size: {platform}. Style: {name} ({descriptor}) Direction: {direction} Palette: {palette}. Asset specs: {assets}. UI: the {skin} skin pack, re-coloured to this palette (og-taste §1). Avoid: {avoid}. Proof: the game's look is assets/looks/{game}.ogt, extending \"{slug}\"; capture the title, play and results screens with og run and check each against: {checks}. Every later asset is made inside this bible; a request for one asset never redesigns the style.",
+  "styles": [
+    {
+      "slug": "expressionist-painting",
+      "name": "Expressionist paint",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Visible brush marks, clashing colour masses and distorted faces turn every frame into an emotional painting.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Large areas show brush-stroke texture rather than flat fills or gradients.",
+        "Colours are non-naturalistic: shadows carry saturated hues (greens, violets) instead of grey.",
+        "Edges between colour masses are broken and uneven, never clean vector curves."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "narrative RPG, detective, dialogue-heavy adventure",
+        "mood": "melancholy, feverish, introspective",
+        "era": "modern literary",
+        "audience": "adult story-led players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/expressionist-painting.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.paintRadius",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "PostEffects.lut"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "the painting is content: painted portraits and backdrops",
+          "Stylise.paint* for 3D parts to match the painted art"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, but 3 to 5 dominant masses per scene",
+        "rules": "Complementary clashes in shadows; one dominant temperature per scene; avoid neutral greys."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "portraits 512 to 1024 px",
+        "faceBudget": "low-poly blockouts under the paint",
+        "outlinePx": "0 (edges are paint)",
+        "textureDensity": "painted at 1.5x the displayed size"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Paint first: masses before detail, colour for emotion rather than light, faces allowed to distort, every surface carrying the hand.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "photographic textures",
+          "clean digital gradients",
+          "uniform brush size everywhere"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "bold-comic-illustration",
+      "name": "Bold comic illustration",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Strong contours, sharply grouped values and saturated accents against deep shadow, for instant readability in motion.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Every character has a continuous dark contour at least 2 px wide at 1080p.",
+        "Shadows are hard-edged shapes, two or three values per material.",
+        "Saturated accents cover under 15 % of the frame and sit on the characters or pickups."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action roguelike, brawler, hero shooter",
+        "mood": "intense, mythic, confident",
+        "era": "contemporary comics",
+        "audience": "core action players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/bold-comic-illustration.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.toon",
+          "PostEffects.outline",
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "MaterialStyle.shadowTint"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "20 to 40 colours",
+        "rules": "Deep warm or cool shadow colour shared by all materials; accents in one hue family per faction."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 120 to 200 px tall on screen",
+        "faceBudget": "5k to 20k triangles per character",
+        "outlinePx": "2 to 4",
+        "textureDensity": "hand-painted textures, 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Graphic shapes, hard shadows, thick confident lines, colour reserved for what matters, poses pushed for silhouette.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "soft gradients across forms",
+          "thin uniform lines",
+          "saturated backgrounds competing with characters"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "watercolor-wash",
+      "name": "Watercolour wash",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Transparent layers, pooled pigment at the edges and open paper space give scenes a soft, breathing quality.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Colour regions show darker rims where they meet other colours (pigment pooling).",
+        "A paper grain is visible in flat areas at 100 %.",
+        "At least a quarter of the frame is light, unpainted or nearly unpainted space."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "exploration platformer, narrative puzzle, relaxing adventure",
+        "mood": "gentle, sad, hopeful",
+        "era": "timeless",
+        "audience": "casual and story-led players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/watercolor-wash.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.paintEdgeDarkening",
+          "Stylise.paintBleed",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvasStrength"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "12 to 24 colours",
+        "rules": "Light values dominate; two or three pigments mixed into the rest; no pure black."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 80 to 160 px",
+        "faceBudget": "low (soft shapes)",
+        "outlinePx": "0 (pigment rims instead)",
+        "textureDensity": "textures 0.5 to 1 texel per screen pixel, wash-painted"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Layered translucent washes, edges that pool and bloom, white paper as light, depth by overlapping washes and haze.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "opaque paint",
+          "hard black outlines",
+          "everything equally soft (the player must stay crisp)"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "pixel-3d-hybrid",
+      "name": "Pixel sprites in 3D sets",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Pixel-art characters and props stand in lit 3D sets with depth of field, shadows and reflections, while their own edges stay crisp.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Sprite edges stay on their own pixel grid while the 3D set is smoothly shaded behind them.",
+        "Foreground and background blur by depth (depth of field visible at the frame's top and bottom).",
+        "Sprites cast or receive shadows that agree with the set's sun."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "JRPG, tactics, adventure",
+        "mood": "nostalgic, grand, warm",
+        "era": "modern remasters of 16-bit RPGs",
+        "audience": "RPG players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/pixel-3d-hybrid.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "PostEffects.depthOfField",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom",
+          "Stylise.pixelSnap",
+          "billboard sprites",
+          "SpriteDesc.dropShadow"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "sprites 32 to 64 colours; the set is unconstrained but graded to match",
+        "rules": "Grade the 3D set with a LUT towards the sprites' palette so the two read as one world."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output, sprites authored at 1/4 to 1/6 scale",
+        "spriteScale": "48 to 64 px characters",
+        "faceBudget": "2k to 20k triangles per set piece",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "textures 1 to 2 texels per screen pixel; sprites nearest-filtered"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Crisp pixel figures in miniature lit sets: tilt-shift depth of field, warm light shafts, soft bloom, everything framed by a slightly high camera.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "filtered (blurry) sprite textures",
+          "sprites at mixed pixel sizes",
+          "photoreal sets that out-detail the characters"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "faceted-low-poly",
+      "name": "Faceted low poly",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Visible polygon facets and simplified meshes, broad colour fields in place of textures, depth from silhouettes and layers.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Facets are visible: each triangle shades flat with a hard edge to its neighbour.",
+        "Surfaces carry flat colour, not detailed textures.",
+        "Distant layers separate by value or fog, not by detail."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "exploration, flight, puzzle, survival",
+        "mood": "serene, airy, contemplative",
+        "era": "modern indie",
+        "audience": "all ages"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/faceted-low-poly.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.flatShading",
+          "Fog",
+          "Sky"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "16 to 32 colours",
+        "rules": "Colour per material, gradients only from lighting and fog."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 300 to 1500 triangles",
+        "faceBudget": "props 50 to 500 triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "no textures or 1 palette texture"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Planar facets, flat material colours, soft fog for distance, silhouettes designed from few polygons.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "smooth normals",
+          "detailed textures",
+          "high polygon counts that hide the facets"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "sculpted-clay",
+      "name": "Sculpted clay",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Tactile, slightly lumpy surfaces with blunt edges and fingerprint irregularity, often moving with the stutter of stop motion.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Surfaces show soft bumps and irregularities (normal or displacement detail) at close range.",
+        "Edges are rounded and blunt; no sharp machined corners.",
+        "Animation holds poses for 2 or more ticks (stepped, not interpolated)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "adventure, platformer, comedy",
+        "mood": "warm, odd, handmade",
+        "era": "stop-motion film",
+        "audience": "all ages, art-house"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/sculpted-clay.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.roughness",
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.sheen",
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.normalMap",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "PostEffects.depthOfField",
+          "AnimationPlayer.stepFps"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "cartoon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "warm, slightly desaturated plasticine colours",
+        "rules": "Matte surfaces; saturation from the clay, not the light."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 3k to 15k triangles",
+        "faceBudget": "props 500 to 5k",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "normal maps with thumb-print detail, 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Matte modelling clay, blunt forms, visible handling marks, miniature depth of field, poses held like stop motion.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "glossy plastic",
+          "perfect smooth surfaces",
+          "fluid interpolated animation"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "8bit-pixel",
+      "name": "Early console pixels",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Tiny sprites, a handful of hard colour steps per ramp and tiles that repeat on a strict grid, read at a glance like the first home consoles.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Zoomed to 400 %, every edge in the play area sits on one logical pixel grid: no half pixels, no smoothing.",
+        "A capture holds at most 16 distinct colours outside the UI, and each sprite uses at most 4.",
+        "Characters are 16 to 24 logical pixels tall and readable as silhouettes when filled black."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "platformers, arcade action, short roguelikes",
+        "mood": "brisk, cheerful or tense",
+        "era": "1980s home consoles, jam games",
+        "audience": "nostalgic core players, game-jam audiences"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/8bit-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.palette",
+          "Stylise.pixelSnap",
+          "Antialias off"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "8 to 16 colours",
+        "rules": "Ramps of 3 or 4 steps per material; one shared black; no gradients; background colours darker or desaturated against sprites."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "256 x 144 or 256 x 240",
+        "spriteScale": "16 x 16 to 16 x 24 characters, 8 x 8 or 16 x 16 tiles",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "0 or 1 dark pixel",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Flat colour blocks with hard edges, readable shapes before surface detail, sprites drawn on an exact grid, tiles that repeat honestly, animation in few frames with strong key poses.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "smoothed or rotated sprites",
+          "sub-pixel movement",
+          "gradient skies",
+          "colour counts that drift between assets"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "voxel-worlds",
+      "name": "Voxel worlds",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Cubes build characters, architecture and terrain, visible in stepped silhouettes and broken edges, under any lighting.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Silhouettes are stepped: every edge is made of axis-aligned cubes.",
+        "The cube size is consistent across characters and environment (or in clear multiples).",
+        "Faces shade flat; light changes per face, not per pixel gradient on a face."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "sandbox, building, destruction, survival",
+        "mood": "playful, creative, chunky",
+        "era": "modern indie",
+        "audience": "all ages"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/voxel-worlds.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.flatShading",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "box instancing"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "32 to 64 colours (a voxel palette)",
+        "rules": "One palette for the whole world; shade by light, not by palette steps."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 16 to 32 voxels tall",
+        "faceBudget": "greedy-meshed, under 5k triangles per model",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "palette colour per voxel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Everything from cubes of one size, palette-coloured faces, strong ambient occlusion in corners, destruction that reveals the grid.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "mixed voxel sizes",
+          "smooth shading",
+          "textures inside voxels"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "illuminated-manuscript",
+      "name": "Manuscript page",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Scenes composed like a decorated page: flat figures, ink lines, ornamental borders and lettering woven into the image.",
+      "checks": [
+        "The frame has an ornamental border or margin occupying at least 5 % of its area.",
+        "Figures are flat (no cast shadows or form shading beyond line).",
+        "Text in the UI uses a calligraphic or book face and sits inside the composition, not in floating boxes."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "narrative mystery, historical adventure, card games",
+        "mood": "scholarly, wry, devout",
+        "era": "medieval and early modern",
+        "audience": "story-led adults"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/illuminated-manuscript.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "RenderSettings.toneMapping none"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "the page is content: figures, borders and lettering",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas for the vellum grain"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "10 to 16 colours",
+        "rules": "Parchment ground, iron-gall ink, a few mineral pigments (ultramarine, vermilion, verdigris) and gold."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "figures 100 to 200 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 2 ink lines",
+        "textureDensity": "illustrations at 2x display size"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Flat drawn figures in ink and mineral colour, borders and initials as structure, text as part of the picture.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "perspective-correct 3D",
+          "glossy materials",
+          "modern sans UI"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "rubber-hose-animation",
+      "name": "Rubber-hose cartoon",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Round-headed characters with bendy tube limbs, pie-cut eyes and constant squash and stretch, inked like early theatrical cartoons.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Limbs bend in smooth curves without elbows or knees.",
+        "Animation shows squash and stretch on every anticipation and landing.",
+        "Film grain or gate weave is visible on the full frame."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "boss-rush shooters, platformers, party games",
+        "mood": "manic, playful, grotesque",
+        "era": "1930s cartoons",
+        "audience": "core and nostalgic players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/rubber-hose-animation.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "PostEffects.filmGrain",
+          "PostEffects.vignette",
+          "PostEffects.lut",
+          "flipbooks"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "the look is in frame-by-frame animation (flipbooks); the engine supplies the film treatment"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "cartoon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "sepia or muted primaries, 12 to 24 colours",
+        "rules": "Inked black lines, flat fills, a warm faded grade over everything."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 150 to 300 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "3 to 5, tapered",
+        "textureDensity": "frames drawn at 24 fps, played on twos"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Bouncy hand animation, tapered ink, flat fills, a faded film print over the whole frame, every idle pose alive.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "skeletal tweening that looks rigid",
+          "clean digital colour",
+          "thin uniform lines"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "pencil-hatching",
+      "name": "Pencil and hatching",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Shadow built from line density and direction over paper, in greys or sepia, whether drawn flat or wrapped around 3D forms.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Shadows are made of parallel lines whose density increases with darkness; no smooth gradients.",
+        "Paper grain is visible in light areas.",
+        "The capture is greyscale or within one hue (sepia) except for at most one accent."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "horror, mystery, folk tales, exploration",
+        "mood": "uneasy, intimate, old",
+        "era": "hand-drawn",
+        "audience": "adult story-led players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/pencil-hatching.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.hatching",
+          "Stylise.hatchingLevels",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "Stylise.ink"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "graphite or sepia ramp plus paper, optional single accent",
+        "rules": "Value from line density only; the accent marks danger or the goal."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 120 to 200 px",
+        "faceBudget": "2k to 10k triangles (lines carry detail)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 2 pencil",
+        "textureDensity": "paper texture 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Graphite on paper: hatch direction follows form, darkness from density, edges wobble slightly, paper shows through.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "gradients",
+          "digital clean lines",
+          "colour fills"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "gothic-contour",
+      "name": "Gothic ornament",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Clean-contoured simple characters inside intricate, curling architecture and misty depth, dark but delicate.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Characters are simple shapes with minimal facial detail and clean outlines.",
+        "Backgrounds contain dense curling ornament or pointed arches in at least two depth layers.",
+        "Depth layers fade into haze or glow towards the back."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "interconnected exploration platformer, challenging 2D action",
+        "mood": "melancholy, ominous, beautiful",
+        "era": "dark fantasy",
+        "audience": "core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/gothic-contour.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Fog",
+          "PostEffects.glow",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom",
+          "Stylise.depthBands",
+          "sprite layers"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "ornament is content; Stylise.depthBands for layered haze"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "cool desaturated base with 1 or 2 glowing accents",
+        "rules": "Dark blue-grey grounds, pale characters, glows in one hue."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 60 to 120 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 2 clean",
+        "textureDensity": "illustrated layers at 1x"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Simple bright characters against intricate dark architecture, layered haze, soft halos on light sources.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "detailed characters competing with backgrounds",
+          "flat single-layer scenes",
+          "saturated palettes"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "lush-painted-worlds",
+      "name": "Lush opaque painting",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Opaque, weighty colour masses with selective brushwork and rich warm-cool contrast build dense painted environments.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Large areas are opaque painted masses with visible but selective brushwork.",
+        "Lit surfaces are warm and shadows cool (or the reverse) across the whole frame.",
+        "The environment is dense but layered: foreground, play plane and background separate by value."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action RPG, isometric adventure, story platformer",
+        "mood": "rich, nostalgic, elegiac",
+        "era": "painted illustration",
+        "audience": "core and story players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/lush-painted-worlds.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.paintRadius",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "PostEffects.lut",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "painted backdrops are content; Stylise.paint* for 3D props"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, organised by warm light and cool shadow",
+        "rules": "Saturation highest at the light's edge; value grouping in three planes."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 100 to 180 px",
+        "faceBudget": "props 1k to 8k triangles, hand-painted",
+        "outlinePx": "0 to 1",
+        "textureDensity": "hand-painted at 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Opaque painting with weight, warm light and cool shadow, brushwork saved for focal areas, rich layered detail.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "transparent washes",
+          "photo textures",
+          "noise-like detail everywhere"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "decorative-storybook",
+      "name": "Storybook ornament",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Gentle contours, patterned plants and soft colour shapes make explorable picture-book worlds.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Contours are thin and gentle, slightly darker than the fill rather than black.",
+        "Vegetation and props carry repeating decorative patterns.",
+        "Depth comes from overlapping flat planes, not from perspective shading."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "cosy adventure, crafting, puzzle, children's games",
+        "mood": "whimsical, cosy, curious",
+        "era": "folk illustration",
+        "audience": "children and casual players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/decorative-storybook.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "sprite layers"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "illustration is content; Stylise.ink and paintCanvas"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "cartoon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "16 to 32 colours",
+        "rules": "Soft saturated hues, coloured line work, patterns from the same palette."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 80 to 160 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none or flat-shaded low poly",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 2 coloured",
+        "textureDensity": "illustrations at 1x"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Flat illustrated planes, ornamental plants and patterns, gentle coloured lines, overlapping layers for space.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "black outlines",
+          "realistic lighting",
+          "empty unpatterned fills"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "classical-painting-collage",
+      "name": "Old-master collage",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Figures and landscapes from classical painting recombined into moving scenes, oil surfaces meeting visible cut seams.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Surfaces show oil-painting texture (craquelure, glazing, brushwork).",
+        "Cut edges between elements are visible and deliberate.",
+        "Characters move as cut-out pieces (rotating parts), not as smooth deformation."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "point-and-click adventure, absurdist comedy",
+        "mood": "irreverent, solemn, surreal",
+        "era": "renaissance to baroque painting",
+        "audience": "adults, art lovers"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/classical-painting-collage.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "sprites with transforms",
+          "PostEffects.vignette",
+          "PostEffects.filmGrain"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "the source paintings and cut-outs are content (public-domain scans or original painting); no engine primitive is missing"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "the source paintings' own",
+        "rules": "Grade all sources to a common varnish tone with a LUT."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "cut-outs at 1x their display size",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "0 (cut edges)",
+        "textureDensity": "scans at 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Painted fragments reassembled with visible seams, puppet-like movement, a common varnish grade.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "sources with mismatched lighting left ungraded",
+          "smooth vector animation",
+          "copyrighted reproductions"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "detailed-doodle",
+      "name": "Fine-line doodle worlds",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Countless tiny people and objects drawn with simple, slightly irregular lines, like a giant hand-drawn map.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Lines are thin (1 to 2 px) and slightly irregular.",
+        "A capture shows at least 30 separate small figures or objects.",
+        "Shading is minimal: forms read by line, not by light."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "hidden object, sandbox toys, puzzle",
+        "mood": "playful, busy, curious",
+        "era": "timeless doodles",
+        "audience": "all ages"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/detailed-doodle.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "unlit materials",
+          "sprites"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "the drawing is content; Stylise.ink can outline 3D props to match"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "monochrome ink or 4 to 8 light colours",
+        "rules": "White or off-white ground; colour never hides line."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "figures 20 to 60 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 2",
+        "textureDensity": "drawings at 2x display size"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Hand-drawn line everywhere, dense miniature scenes side by side, very little shading, humour in the details.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "thick outlines",
+          "realistic shading",
+          "empty areas"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "black-figure-pottery",
+      "name": "Black-figure pottery",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Flat dark silhouettes with fine incised detail on ochre grounds, framed by meanders and horizontal bands.",
+      "checks": [
+        "The capture is within an ochre-and-black palette plus at most one extra colour.",
+        "Figures are solid silhouettes with thin lighter detail lines inside.",
+        "The composition is organised in horizontal bands with patterned borders."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action platformer, myth adventure, fighting",
+        "mood": "heroic, mythic, stylised",
+        "era": "ancient Mediterranean",
+        "audience": "core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/black-figure-pottery.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "content",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.palette",
+          "Stylise.posterize",
+          "unlit materials"
+        ],
+        "missing": [
+          "silhouettes are content; Stylise.palette locks the colours"
+        ]
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "2 to 4 colours",
+        "rules": "Ochre ground, black figures, a lighter line colour, optional red-brown."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "figures 100 to 200 px",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D) or unlit low poly",
+        "outlinePx": "incised 1 px lines",
+        "textureDensity": "flat fills"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Silhouette action, incised details, banded friezes and meanders, a fixed two-tone palette.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "shading on figures",
+          "extra colours",
+          "perspective depth"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "heavy-ink-shadows",
+      "name": "Heavy ink and shadow",
+      "category": "paint",
+      "descriptor": "Solid black shadows, rough hatching and muted colour shape distorted figures, with highlights saved for danger.",
+      "checks": [
+        "At least 30 % of a capture is solid black or near-black.",
+        "Transitions from light to shadow use rough hatching, not gradients.",
+        "Bright highlights appear only on characters, threats or interactables."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "roguelike, gothic RPG, horror",
+        "mood": "grim, oppressive, desperate",
+        "era": "comic noir, gothic",
+        "audience": "adult core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/heavy-ink-shadows.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.posterize",
+          "Stylise.hatching",
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "PostEffects.vignette"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "muted 12 to 24 colours plus black",
+        "rules": "Desaturated mid-tones, black for every shadow, one blood or fire accent."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 150 to 300 px",
+        "faceBudget": "2k to 10k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "3 to 6, rough",
+        "textureDensity": "painted textures with ink overlays"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Black masses carry the mood, rough ink hatching shapes form, proportions distorted, light is rare and meaningful.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "grey soft shadows",
+          "clean thin lines",
+          "bright saturated scenes"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "monochrome-pixel",
+      "name": "One-ink pixels",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Black and white (or one ink on one paper) pixels where silhouette and negative space do the work, with at most one accent for signals.",
+      "checks": [
+        "A capture contains 2 main colours covering at least 95 % of pixels; any third colour marks an interactable or danger.",
+        "Every sprite reads as a silhouette on the ground: no mid-tones inside shapes.",
+        "Text and HUD use the same two colours."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "exploration platformer, puzzle, short narrative",
+        "mood": "stark, quiet, playful or eerie",
+        "era": "handheld LCD, 1-bit computers",
+        "audience": "jam and core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/monochrome-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.palette",
+          "Stylise.posterize",
+          "Stylise.dither"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "2 colours plus at most 1 accent",
+        "rules": "Pick ink and paper first; shading only through dither or pattern; the accent means one thing."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "160 x 144 or 256 x 192",
+        "spriteScale": "12 to 24 px characters",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "the silhouette is the outline",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Two values, crisp silhouettes, patterns in place of shading, negative space as composition, one accent with one meaning.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "grey anti-aliasing",
+          "decorative accent colours",
+          "dense textures that break silhouettes"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "16bit-pixel",
+      "name": "Late console pixels",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Fuller sprites with ramped shading, parallax layers behind the action and saturated colour, the richer pixel language of the following hardware generation.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Background layers scroll at visibly different rates and never at the playfield's speed.",
+        "Shading on sprites steps through 4 to 6 tones per material with no smooth gradients.",
+        "Edges stay on the logical pixel grid when the camera moves (compare two captures 1 s apart at 400 %)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "platformers, action adventure, racing, fighting",
+        "mood": "energetic, bright, heroic",
+        "era": "early 1990s consoles",
+        "audience": "nostalgic and general players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/16bit-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.pixelSnap",
+          "Antialias off",
+          "sprite layers for parallax"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "32 to 64 colours",
+        "rules": "Ramps of 4 to 6 steps; hue-shifted shadows (cooler) and highlights (warmer); saturated accents on characters, calmer backgrounds."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "320 x 180 or 384 x 216",
+        "spriteScale": "32 to 48 px characters, 16 x 16 tiles",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 dark pixel, selectively broken by light",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Volume from stepped shading, layered parallax for depth, lively multi-frame animation, saturated colour kept to the characters and pickups so the playfield reads.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "anti-aliased or mixed-resolution sprites",
+          "parallax layers that match the playfield speed",
+          "blur"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "detailed-pixel",
+      "name": "Dense illustrative pixels",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Pixel art pushed towards illustration: rich clusters, subtle hue shifts and detailed scenery, with the pixel grid still visible on close look.",
+      "checks": [
+        "At 400 %, single-pixel clusters form textures (bark, stone, cloth) rather than flat fills.",
+        "Each material shows at least 6 tones with visible hue shifts between them.",
+        "Characters still read against the scenery: a greyscale capture separates them by value."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "exploration, adventure, interconnected platformers, narrative platformers",
+        "mood": "warm, wondrous, melancholy",
+        "era": "modern pixel art",
+        "audience": "core and story-driven players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/detailed-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.pixelSnap",
+          "Lighting2D",
+          "PostEffects.glow",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "48 to 128 colours",
+        "rules": "Long hue-shifted ramps; a value plan per scene that keeps the play area mid-value and the foreground darkest."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "480 x 270 or 640 x 360",
+        "spriteScale": "32 to 64 px characters",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "selective, coloured rather than black",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Hand-placed pixel clusters that describe material, light that pools and glows, scenery as rich as the characters but quieter in value.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "noise textures standing in for clusters",
+          "pillow shading",
+          "detail in the play path that hides hazards"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "luminous-pixel",
+      "name": "Glowing pixels on dark ground",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Pixel scenes built on dark bases where saturated light sources, rim highlights and glow carry the composition.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Mean luminance of a play capture is below 0.25 while the brightest 2 % of pixels are above 0.8.",
+        "Light sources show a halo (bloom or glow) wider than the source itself.",
+        "The player character is lit from at least one local light, not only ambient."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action adventure, twin-stick, cyber and sci-fi exploration",
+        "mood": "mysterious, intense, lonely",
+        "era": "neo-retro",
+        "audience": "core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/luminous-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Lighting2D",
+          "Light2D",
+          "PostEffects.glow",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "neon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "24 to 48 colours",
+        "rules": "A near-black ground with two or three saturated light hues; no mid-grey fills; accents reserved for interactables."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "480 x 270",
+        "spriteScale": "24 to 40 px characters",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "rim light instead of outline",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Dark masses and bright accents; light defines form, glow marks what matters, colour leads the eye through the level.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "flat ambient lighting",
+          "glow on everything",
+          "bright backgrounds that drown the accents"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "topdown-tile-pixel",
+      "name": "Top-down tile worlds",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Overhead or three-quarter tile maps with upright sprites, where steps, cliffs and overlap make height and paths readable.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Walkable floor, walls and drops are distinguishable in a greyscale capture.",
+        "Characters are drawn upright and are occluded by tall tiles in front of them (y-sorting works).",
+        "Tile seams are invisible: no gaps or bleeding lines between tiles at any camera position."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action RPG, tactics, farming and life sims, overhead adventure",
+        "mood": "adventurous, cosy, curious",
+        "era": "16-bit era RPGs",
+        "audience": "general and RPG players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/topdown-tile-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "tilemap layers",
+          "Sprite.sortY",
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.pixelSnap"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "32 to 64 colours",
+        "rules": "Floors desaturated and mid-value; walls darker on their faces; characters most saturated."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "384 x 216 or 480 x 270",
+        "spriteScale": "16 x 16 tiles, 16 x 24 to 24 x 32 characters",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "1 dark pixel on characters only",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "A strict tile grid, height told by wall faces and drop shadows, upright characters sorted by their feet, paths readable before decoration.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "perspective mixed between tiles",
+          "decoration on walkable paths that hides edges",
+          "shadows that disagree in direction"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "low-resolution-3d",
+      "name": "Low-resolution 3D",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Simplified models, small textures and pixelated output recall early 3D consoles, often with modern lighting on top.",
+      "checks": [
+        "The frame is rendered at 240 to 360 logical lines and scaled up with nearest filtering.",
+        "Textures show large visible texels (64 to 256 px textures on whole characters).",
+        "Vertices wobble or snap as the camera moves (compare two captures)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "survival horror, exploration, retro shooter",
+        "mood": "uncanny, nostalgic, lonely",
+        "era": "late 1990s consoles",
+        "audience": "core and horror players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/low-resolution-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.vertexSnap",
+          "Stylise.affineTexturing",
+          "Stylise.depthBits",
+          "Stylise.dither",
+          "Fog"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "scifi",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, but posterised to 32 levels per channel",
+        "rules": "Fog colour equals the clear colour; dithered gradients."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "320 x 240 or 480 x 270",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 300 to 1000 triangles",
+        "faceBudget": "props under 300 triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "64 to 256 px textures, nearest-filtered"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "A low-resolution frame with nearest upscaling, wobbling vertices and warped textures, short fog, modern light where it helps mood.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "high-resolution textures",
+          "smooth anti-aliased edges",
+          "long draw distance"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "coarse-pixel",
+      "name": "Minimal low-count pixels",
+      "category": "pixel",
+      "descriptor": "Very few pixels per figure, no faces and almost no texture: silhouettes, empty space and a few colour masses carry mood and story.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Characters are at most 12 logical pixels tall and have no facial features.",
+        "At least 40 % of a capture is a flat background mass.",
+        "Large colour masses (sky, floor, walls) each use a single colour."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "point-and-click horror, narrative, minimalist puzzle",
+        "mood": "eerie, contemplative, unsettling",
+        "era": "early 1980s computers",
+        "audience": "story-led and jam players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/coarse-pixel.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight",
+          "Stylise.palette",
+          "Antialias off"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "6 to 16 colours",
+        "rules": "Each scene has one dominant mass colour; detail colour only where the eye should go."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "160 x 90 or 192 x 108",
+        "spriteScale": "6 to 12 px characters",
+        "faceBudget": "none (2D)",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "1 texel per logical pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Reduction as a choice: suggest, never render; leave space empty; let sound and timing do what detail would.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "added texture to fill space",
+          "faces",
+          "high logical resolutions that soften the reduction"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "anime-cel-3d",
+      "name": "Anime cel-shaded 3D",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "3D models drawn with the hard shadow shapes and contour lines of 2D animation, framed and timed like an anime cut.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Shadows on characters are one or two hard-edged bands, no smooth gradients.",
+        "Characters have a dark contour whose width is consistent at the same distance.",
+        "Shadow colour is tinted (cool or warm), not black or grey."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "fighting, action RPG, character action",
+        "mood": "dramatic, energetic, youthful",
+        "era": "contemporary anime",
+        "audience": "anime fans, core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/anime-cel-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.toon",
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.gradientMap",
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.outlineWidth",
+          "PostEffects.outline",
+          "MaterialStyle.shadowTint",
+          "MaterialStyle.outlineDistance"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "neon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "24 to 48 colours",
+        "rules": "Two tones per material (lit, shadow) with hue-shifted shadows; highlights as shapes."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 120 to 300 px tall on screen",
+        "faceBudget": "15k to 40k triangles per character",
+        "outlinePx": "1 to 3, by distance",
+        "textureDensity": "flat or lightly painted, 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Cel shadows as designed shapes, lines that thin with distance, tinted shadows, dynamic camera and impact frames.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "physically based specular",
+          "soft shadows on characters",
+          "outlines of uniform screen width at every distance"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "inked-comic-3d",
+      "name": "Inked comic 3D",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Volumetric models keep bold outlines, drawn surface marks and exaggerated colour: a comic page given depth.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Thick black outlines on silhouettes and major creases.",
+        "Ink marks (hatching or strokes) are painted onto surfaces.",
+        "Proportions are exaggerated (oversized hands, heads or weapons)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "looter shooter, action, brawler",
+        "mood": "irreverent, loud, gritty",
+        "era": "contemporary comics",
+        "audience": "core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/inked-comic-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "PostEffects.outline",
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.toon",
+          "Stylise.ink",
+          "Stylise.hatching",
+          "Stylise.hatchingSpace",
+          "Stylise.hatchingDepth"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "scifi",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, saturated",
+        "rules": "Bold local colours, black ink for all shadow edges."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 150 to 300 px",
+        "faceBudget": "10k to 30k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "2 to 4",
+        "textureDensity": "hand-inked textures, 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Comic ink over 3D: heavy outlines, hatched shading painted in, punchy colour, exaggerated shapes.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "photoreal textures",
+          "thin outlines",
+          "muted colour"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "paper-craft",
+      "name": "Paper craft",
+      "category": "shape",
+      "descriptor": "Folded planes, visible sheet thickness and layered cut paper become the world's construction.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Surfaces are flat planes with crisp folds; no smooth organic curvature.",
+        "Paper grain or fibre is visible on lit surfaces.",
+        "Layered sheets cast soft contact shadows on the layer behind."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "puzzle, cosy adventure, platformer",
+        "mood": "calm, delicate, handmade",
+        "era": "handmade crafts",
+        "audience": "casual and all ages"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/paper-craft.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterialDesc.flatShading",
+          "MaterialStyle.flatShading",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "soft shadows"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "paper",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "8 to 16 colours",
+        "rules": "Colours of real paper stock: muted, slightly warm; white is off-white."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters as 200 to 600 triangle folded shapes",
+        "faceBudget": "under 2k triangles per prop",
+        "outlinePx": "0 (folds and shadows)",
+        "textureDensity": "paper texture 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Everything is cut, folded or stacked paper: planar facets, thin edges, soft contact shadows, paper grain.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "smooth shading",
+          "glossy materials",
+          "saturated digital colours"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "miniature-diorama",
+      "name": "Miniature diorama",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "High, often isometric framing, small rounded architecture and soft shadows make the world look like a tabletop model.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Depth of field blurs the frame's top and bottom bands (tilt-shift).",
+        "Shadows are soft with strong ambient occlusion in corners.",
+        "The camera looks down at 30 to 60 degrees."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "city builder, cosy building, puzzle, tactics",
+        "mood": "calm, charming, cosy",
+        "era": "contemporary",
+        "audience": "casual and all ages"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/miniature-diorama.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "PostEffects.depthOfField",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom",
+          "Sky",
+          "soft shadows"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "cartoon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "soft pastel 24 to 48 colours",
+        "rules": "Bright but slightly desaturated; warm sunlight, cool shadows."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "buildings 500 to 3k triangles, bevelled",
+        "faceBudget": "rounded props",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "simple colour textures or vertex colour"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Toy-scale world: rounded bevels, tilt-shift focus, soft sun and occlusion, high camera.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "eye-level cameras",
+          "sharp machined edges",
+          "grim lighting"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "painterly-3d",
+      "name": "Painterly 3D",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "3D spaces whose simplified materials, shaped forms and painterly colour step away from the photographic.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Surfaces show brushy, broad colour regions rather than photo detail.",
+        "Forms are deliberately shaped and exaggerated (architecture leans, props chunky).",
+        "Colour is harmonised across the frame (a coherent palette, not natural variety)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "immersive sim, action adventure, RPG",
+        "mood": "atmospheric, stylised, moody",
+        "era": "illustrated",
+        "audience": "core players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/painterly-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.paintRadius",
+          "Stylise.paintAnisotropy",
+          "Stylise.paintCanvas",
+          "PostEffects.lut",
+          "Fog"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, harmonised by a LUT",
+        "rules": "Two or three dominant hues per area; graded towards them."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 120 to 250 px",
+        "faceBudget": "10k to 30k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0 to 1",
+        "textureDensity": "hand-painted, 0.5 to 1 texel per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Hand-painted textures, shaped forms, a painterly filter over the frame, a coherent graded palette.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "photo textures",
+          "realistic proportions",
+          "noisy high-frequency detail"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "cinematic-realism",
+      "name": "Cinematic realism",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Believable materials, human proportions and natural light, organised by cinematic framing, depth and colour control.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Materials respond physically: metals reflect the environment, rough surfaces scatter.",
+        "Lighting is naturalistic with soft shadows and indirect fill (ambient occlusion visible).",
+        "The frame is graded (a LUT or colour cast) and uses depth of field or atmosphere for focus."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "action adventure, open world, narrative drama",
+        "mood": "grounded, epic, intimate",
+        "era": "any period",
+        "audience": "core and mainstream players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/cinematic-realism.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "StandardMaterial (PBR)",
+          "Environment",
+          "PostEffects.ao",
+          "PostEffects.depthOfField",
+          "PostEffects.lut",
+          "RenderSettings.toneMapping agx",
+          "Antialias taa"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "scifi",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "free, graded",
+        "rules": "One grade per area; avoid oversaturation; skin tones protected."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 150 to 400 px",
+        "faceBudget": "30k to 100k triangles per hero character",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "PBR textures 1 to 2 texels per screen pixel"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Physically based materials, natural light, film-like grading and lenses, composition from cinema.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "flat ambient light",
+          "saturated game-y colours",
+          "stylised outlines"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "muted-cinematic-3d",
+      "name": "Muted theatrical light",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Simplified 3D forms in restrained colour, lit by local beams and haze like a stage, where tonal layers tell the story.",
+      "checks": [
+        "A capture's average saturation is low (below 0.25) with at most one saturated accent.",
+        "Light arrives in local beams or pools (god rays or spot lights) with haze between layers.",
+        "Forms are simplified but keep volume (soft shading, no outlines)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "puzzle platformer, horror, cinematic adventure",
+        "mood": "bleak, tense, haunting",
+        "era": "contemporary art-house",
+        "audience": "adult story-led players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/muted-cinematic-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "PostEffects.godRays",
+          "Fog",
+          "SpotLight",
+          "PostEffects.lut",
+          "PostEffects.vignette",
+          "PostEffects.filmGrain"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "scifi",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "greys and one accent",
+        "rules": "Desaturated everything; the accent is red or warm light only where the story points."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 60 to 120 px",
+        "faceBudget": "simplified 2k to 10k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "plain materials, little texture"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Stage lighting: dark grounds, beams through haze, simplified forms with soft volume, a single accent.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "bright even light",
+          "busy textures",
+          "saturated palettes"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "layered-silhouette",
+      "name": "Layered silhouettes",
+      "category": "shape",
+      "descriptor": "Foregrounds as solid contours against lighter, hazier layers behind, so shape and value carry the depth.",
+      "checks": [
+        "The nearest layer is a near-uniform dark silhouette with no visible surface detail.",
+        "At least three depth layers are visible, each lighter than the one in front.",
+        "The player is identifiable by silhouette alone."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "puzzle platformer, cinematic platformer, exploration",
+        "mood": "lonely, tense, dreamlike",
+        "era": "timeless",
+        "audience": "story and puzzle players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/layered-silhouette.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.depthBands",
+          "Fog",
+          "unlit materials",
+          "PostEffects.godRays"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "neon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "1 hue in 4 to 6 values, or black plus a gradient sky",
+        "rules": "Value steps per layer; colour only in the far layers or a single accent."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters as silhouettes 60 to 120 px",
+        "faceBudget": "silhouette-only, low poly",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "none needed in the foreground"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Black shapes in front, haze and light behind, readability by contour, depth by value steps.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "detail on silhouettes",
+          "rim lights everywhere",
+          "foreground layers lighter than background"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "minimal-geometric",
+      "name": "Minimal geometry",
+      "category": "shape",
+      "descriptor": "Rectangles, circles and triangles in a small set of colours, ordered by proportion, rhythm and empty space.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Every element in a capture is a basic geometric shape or a simple composition of them.",
+        "A capture uses at most 6 colours.",
+        "At least 30 % of the frame is empty background."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "puzzle, rhythm, abstract arcade",
+        "mood": "calm, precise, playful",
+        "era": "modernist design",
+        "audience": "all ages, casual"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/minimal-geometric.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "unlit materials",
+          "boxGeometry/sphereGeometry/planeGeometry",
+          "RenderSettings.toneMapping none",
+          "Antialias msaa4"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "neon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "3 to 6 colours",
+        "rules": "One ground, one figure colour, one accent; contrast by hue and value."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "shapes sized to a grid",
+        "faceBudget": "primitives",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "none (flat colour)"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Geometric primitives, flat colour, deliberate proportion, movement and spacing as the expression.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "texture and noise",
+          "gradients",
+          "ornament"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "neon-vector",
+      "name": "Neon vector lines",
+      "category": "shape",
+      "descriptor": "Thin glowing lines, grids and bright particles on dark fields, like a vector display.",
+      "checks": [
+        "Mean luminance of a capture is below 0.15 and line pixels are near full brightness.",
+        "Lines glow: a halo wider than the line itself (bloom).",
+        "Geometry is drawn as lines or wireframes, not filled surfaces."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "arcade shooter, rhythm, racing",
+        "mood": "electric, hypnotic, intense",
+        "era": "1980s vector arcade, synthwave",
+        "audience": "arcade and rhythm players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/neon-vector.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "RenderSettings.bloom",
+          "emissive unlit materials",
+          "Trail",
+          "Beam",
+          "particles",
+          "PostEffects.chromaticAberration"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "neon",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "black plus 2 to 4 saturated hues",
+        "rules": "Each hue one meaning (player, enemy, pickup); white only for the hottest centres."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "line widths 1 to 3 px",
+        "faceBudget": "line geometry",
+        "outlinePx": "the line is the shape",
+        "textureDensity": "none (emissive colour)"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Luminous lines on black, grids for space, particle bursts, bloom as the material.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "filled shaded surfaces",
+          "grey backgrounds",
+          "too many hues"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "monochrome-dither-3d",
+      "name": "Monochrome dithered 3D",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "3D scenes reduced to one or two colours where dot patterns carry every tonal transition while perspective stays real.",
+      "checks": [
+        "A capture contains at most 2 to 4 colours.",
+        "Gradients are rendered as a visible ordered or noise dither pattern.",
+        "The scene keeps real 3D perspective and depth cues."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "mystery, exploration, horror, puzzle",
+        "mood": "eerie, nostalgic, dreamlike",
+        "era": "early 1-bit home computers",
+        "audience": "core and art-house players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/monochrome-dither-3d.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "Stylise.posterize",
+          "Stylise.palette",
+          "Stylise.dither",
+          "Stylise.pixelHeight"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "pixel",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "2 to 4 colours",
+        "rules": "Ink and paper, optionally one mid-tone and one accent."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "320 x 240 to 640 x 400",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 80 to 200 px",
+        "faceBudget": "2k to 10k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0",
+        "textureDensity": "textures nearly irrelevant: light carries value"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Real 3D lighting quantised to one bit, dither as the only shading, a low-resolution grid that keeps the pattern crisp.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "grey anti-aliasing",
+          "colour",
+          "dither that crawls when still (use a stable pattern)"
+        ]
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "slug": "luminous-layered-painting",
+      "name": "Luminous layered depths",
+      "category": "render",
+      "descriptor": "Painterly side-on scenery in many foreground and background layers with strong luminous focal points against dark masses.",
+      "checks": [
+        "At least four parallax layers are visible, foreground darkest.",
+        "Luminous focal points (glows, light shafts) stand against dark masses.",
+        "Distant layers fade by atmospheric perspective (lighter and cooler)."
+      ],
+      "premise": {
+        "genre": "exploration platformer, adventure",
+        "mood": "wondrous, mysterious, emotional",
+        "era": "illustrated fantasy",
+        "audience": "core and story players"
+      },
+      "look": {
+        "preset": "templates/looks/luminous-layered-painting.ogt",
+        "presetReady": true,
+        "support": "full",
+        "primitives": [
+          "sprite layers",
+          "Fog",
+          "PostEffects.godRays",
+          "RenderSettings.bloom",
+          "PostEffects.glow",
+          "Stylise.paintRadius"
+        ],
+        "missing": []
+      },
+      "skin": "fantasy",
+      "palette": {
+        "size": "dark cool masses plus warm luminous accents",
+        "rules": "Value structure first: dark foreground, mid play plane, glowing background."
+      },
+      "assets": {
+        "logicalResolution": "native output",
+        "spriteScale": "characters 60 to 150 px",
+        "faceBudget": "3D props 2k to 10k triangles",
+        "outlinePx": "0 to 1",
+        "textureDensity": "painted layers at 1x"
+      },
+      "artBible": {
+        "direction": "Deep side-on layers, glowing focal points, light shafts and bloom, atmospheric fade into the distance.",
+        "avoid": [
+          "flat single-layer backgrounds",
+          "bright overall exposure",
+          "no focal light"
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}