bitmax/art/07_branding-ephemera/brand-qbittorrz-software-box.json
monster feeadcbd76 art: add The Art of Boring Software — concept-art prompt library
101 advanced JSON image-generation prompts (Gemini 2.5 Flash / 'Nano Banana') for the ENTROPY OS concept-art book, organized by function:
- 00_art-direction: the visual canon (_ART_DIRECTION.md), JSON _TEMPLATE.json, worked _EXAMPLE.json
- 01_key-art (9), 02_characters (16), 03_environments (14), 04_ui-menus (12),
  05_key-moments (16), 06_hardware-props (12), 07_branding-ephemera (12), 08_motifs (10)

Every prompt is a self-contained Nano-Banana-ready paragraph plus structured fields (aspect ratio,
master-palette hexes, lighting, composition, text_in_image, period-anachronism avoid list, model
tips). One visual language: beige-and-grey dominant, one accent glow per image, teal reserved for the
ominous, locked to 1998-99. art/README.md indexes all 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:45:31 +10:00

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{
"id": "brand-qbittorrz-box-001",
"title": "qBitTorrz — Boxed Retail Software Box",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "Vol I — qBitTorrz",
"lore_chapter": "The Beige Pages — Approved Software Listings",
"category": "branding-ephemera",
"type": "retail software box product shot"
},
"aspect_ratio": "3:2",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed landscape, print quality, ~2400px long edge",
"prompt": "A trade-shelf product shot of the boxed retail software 'qBitTorrz' as it sat on a 1998 store shelf — a chunky beige cardboard software box, three-quarter angle, photographed under cool fluorescent light against an out-of-focus grey big-box-store backdrop. The box is regulation administrative beige (#c0c0c0) with grey bevel edges; across the front face the wordmark 'qBitTorrz' in a confident period sans, with a quiet seed-green (#4f9e3a) accent — the one living color, a small arc of light-threads streaming away from a node, the Seeder's emblem of generosity-as-outflow. A grey strip of cramped low-resolution Win98-style screenshots runs along the bottom: tiny windows of a download list and a peer swarm, dithered and unglamorous. A circular holographic 'Approved' sticker (silver foil shifting faint teal-and-amber) is slapped slightly crooked over one corner, catching a hot specular glint. Taut shrink-wrap throws a long diagonal glare and soft wrinkles across the whole face; a price-gun sticker reads 'P.O.A.' and tiny copy reads 'OMNIDYNE GENERAL SYSTEMS, S.A.' and 'Approved Vendor — Fiscal Year 1999.' Painterly matte concept art with the grain and slight chromatic aberration of a scanned catalog photo, a little sun-faded. Mood: mundane, generous, faintly doomed retail melancholy. 3:2.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "1998 boxed-software retail product photography, trade-shelf realism, melancholy-mundane",
"medium": "painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, scanned-catalog grain, shrink-wrap specular glare, chromatic aberration at edges",
"palette": ["#c0c0c0 administrative beige", "#dfdfdf bevel highlight", "#808080 bevel shadow", "#4f9e3a seed green accent", "#207878 faint holo teal", "#ffb000 faint holo amber", "#0b0b0b deep shadow"],
"lighting": "cool overhead fluorescent store light; hard specular highlight on the holographic sticker and shrink-wrap glare; soft grey ambient",
"composition": "single box at a three-quarter angle, screenshot strip along the bottom, crooked Approved sticker on a corner, blurred grey store backdrop",
"camera_lens": "85mm product lens, shallow depth of field, slight perspective on the box",
"mood": "ordinary retail dread; a generous program packaged to fail"
},
"key_details": [
"beige cardboard software box, three-quarter angle, grey bevel edges",
"'qBitTorrz' wordmark with a seed-green emblem of data-threads streaming away from a node",
"strip of tiny dithered Win98 download-list / peer-swarm screenshots along the bottom",
"crooked circular holographic 'Approved' foil sticker with a hot glint",
"shrink-wrap diagonal glare and soft wrinkles across the front",
"price sticker 'P.O.A.', footer 'OMNIDYNE GENERAL SYSTEMS, S.A.' and 'Approved Vendor — Fiscal Year 1999'"
],
"text_in_image": "'qBitTorrz', 'Approved', 'P.O.A.', 'OMNIDYNE GENERAL SYSTEMS, S.A.', 'Approved Vendor — Fiscal Year 1999'",
"avoid": [
"smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
"bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
"rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji", "contemporary fashion or cars",
"modern app-store screenshots", "sleek minimal packaging", "QR codes"
],
"references": [
"1990s boxed PC software on a big-box retail shelf",
"shrink-wrap glare and crooked holographic certification stickers",
"cramped dithered Win98-era screenshot strips on box backs",
"scanned software-catalog product photography"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 3:2. Render 'qBitTorrz' and 'Approved' crisply. Keep beige-dominant; seed-green is the only product accent, the holographic sticker may flash faint teal/amber but the box stays beige. Emphasize shrink-wrap glare and the crooked foil sticker.",
"filename": "brand-qbittorrz-software-box.json"
}