Forces card game pilot batch — GenAI prototypes generated across multiple providers
image_card_game_design — Provider LeaderboardEffective score = score × success_rate. Updated via telemetry from this pilot run.
Each card shows prototypes from up to 5 providers side-by-side. All images served durably via media.serve_minio_object_v1 from MinIO (no expiring CDN URLs).





Subject: A radio tower broadcasting concentric sound waves over a stylized Arabic calligraphy map of N. Africa + W. Asia, with multiple dialect bubbles converging toward a central script.
Style cue: Mid-century propaganda poster aesthetic, gold-on-deep-red, Arabic calligraphy as visual core.



Subject: Yugoslavia in 1991 fragmenting into 7 jigsaw pieces — Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo — each piece labeled, edges crumbling and smoking.
Style cue: Editorial illustration, charcoal-and-crimson, fragmented woodcut composition.



Subject: McDonald's golden arches descending from a New York skyline to suburban towns to a small village — a cascade of golden M's flowing downward through a city-tier hierarchy diagram.
Style cue: Mid-century commercial poster meets data flow diagram, gold + violet.



Subject: Syrian refugees walking through European countryside on a railway track, headed toward Munich/Berlin; thousands of figures stretching to horizon; German border sign with 'Wir schaffen das' faint.
Style cue: Editorial documentary illustration, muted forest greens + crimson scarves, somber-but-hopeful.



Subject: Manchester 1850 skyline — chimneys outnumbering church steeples 20-to-1, smog turning sky brown, Ship Canal silhouetted, working-class terrace housing in foreground; small Engels notebook detail in corner.
Style cue: Doré London engraving aesthetic, charcoal + ember-orange + sepia, industrial sublime.



Subject: Manchester 1840 — textile mill smokestacks belching, steam train, workers pouring out at shift change; sun obscured by smoke; underlying countryside fading.
Style cue: Doré-style engraving, charcoal + ember-orange accents, dramatic chiaroscuro.



Subject: Greenland appearing larger than Africa on Mercator projection — split-screen with same continents on Peters equal-area projection showing true proportions; mathematical formulas faint.
Style cue: Cartographic technical drawing, blueprint cyan + cream, mathematical precision.



Subject: Tuvalu coastline with rising sea visibly encroaching, Pacific homes on stilts barely above water; in background, digital projection of 'Tuvalu Digital Nation' metaverse archipelago.
Style cue: Editorial illustration with eco-futurism, turquoise + warning amber, melancholy + technological hope.



Subject: Bangladesh village circle of 5 women borrowers sitting in lotus position passing a loan booklet between them — Grameen Bank logo, rice fields surrounding; village solidarity.
Style cue: Editorial illustration, Bangladesh palette - emerald rice greens + saffron sari + warm earth tones, cohort solidarity.



Subject: Watt's separate-condenser steam engine in the Soho Manufactory — brass valves gleaming, flywheel mid-rotation, smoke and steam venting, engineer silhouette inspecting; engineering diagram overlay faint.
Style cue: Industrial design poster + engineering blueprint, navy + brass + steam white.