Bitrush Loading
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20 Y2K loading and waiting indicators for dark interfaces — ink black with
signal yellow accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Bitrush Loading is a set of 20 loading and waiting indicators drawn in the Y2K
style, where everything is flat and printed — thick straight outlines, solid
blocks, no glow anywhere. It contains an eight-frame spinner, a three-frame
dot cycle, a loading bar frame with four fill steps, an indeterminate striped
bar, two skeleton text lines and a skeleton image block.

The loading screen is the screen a player looks at longest and the one nobody
makes art for. It is also the one place where a bar means something different
from everywhere else: a resource bar shows a value, a loading bar shows a
process, and using the same sprite for both is how a health bar ends up on a
loading screen.

No gradient and no halo: the whole set is flat colour with a heavy straight
outline, which is what separates the Y2K poster look from the neon one. The
silhouettes are composed corner by corner rather than scaled from one
rectangle, so a badge and a banner in the same set do not share an outline.

Inside that style this is the Bitrush reading of it: a dark interface on a ink
black palette with signal yellow accents, built around a header band across
the top of the frame, tab-shaped buttons at 148x52, banded bars divided into 8
segments, and solid 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 spinner ships as eight frames rather than one sprite to rotate. Rotation
exists in every engine, but the number of frames does not — and in a pixel
style a spinner that rotates smoothly is wrong, it should step. An eight-frame
atlas is correct in both cases and works everywhere. The skeleton placeholders
are here for the same reason the spinner is: an empty screen while content
loads reads as broken, and a grey block that has the shape of the thing
arriving reads as waiting.

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 Bitrush family,
which means this kit and the Bitrush panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for retro-futuristic menus and poster-styled interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Play the spinner frames in order at about 12 frames per second; slower
    reads as stuck and faster reads as noise.
  - Use the indeterminate bar when you cannot report a percentage, and switch
    to the stepped fills the moment you can — a fake percentage is worse than
    none.
  - Lay the skeleton line and block in the same positions as the real content
    so nothing jumps when it arrives.
  - Keep the loading bar in the accent colour rather than a resource colour; a
    loading bar that looks like a health bar is read as one.

License: CC0-1.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/bitrush-loading
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
