# Cracktro (クラックトロ) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.308 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/cracktro
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Cracktro, a style from Digital Art, 1980s-1990s.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: bolting a short screen to the front of something being passed around, to give the group's name, or packing a burst of sound and image into an executable with a small size budget. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Text scrolling endlessly across the screen
- Bands of color running behind it
- An oversized group name held at the center
- A run of greetings naming other groups

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Hold the oversized group name at the centre and keep the effect moving around it
- Type and lettering: Monospaced bitmap letters running the greetings along the bottom without a break
- Material and surface: Patterns generated from formulas and a short looping tune, built with no asset files
- Colour: #e6fbfd carries the ground, #3a80c5 is the colour the style is remembered by, #0a0f13 holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: technique, rebellion, exhilaration

## What goes wrong

Line up the effects but drop the name and the run of greetings, and the calling card is gone, leaving only a short piece of animation.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cracktro/design.md