Made with Nano Banana 2 Lite · CC0 · 8 Aug 2026

Image: Wide landscape game background: the shabby recepti

Generated from: Wide landscape game background: the shabby reception hall of a run-down time-travel agency. A worn reception desk with a bell, towering filing cabinets stuffed with overflowing folders, a humming circular time-gate portal set into the back wall glowing softly, a row of wall clocks all showing different wrong times, a small framed "employee of the month" portrait hanging crooked, a sad potted plant, teetering stacks of paperwork, 1970s office furniture and linoleum floor. ART DIRECTION: hand-painted gouache storybook illustration. Visible brush strokes and dry-brush texture, warm dusty palette of terracotta, sage green, cream and warm grey, soft edges, gentle wonky hand-drawn perspective, cosy and slightly melancholic, no hard outlines, colour applied in loose confident patches. Like a printed children's picture book from the 1960s, warm and tactile. Clean uncluttered centre and lower area so game interface can overlay. No text, no letters, no logos, no watermark, no people.