Art credits · illustrations
How the pictures were made.
All 11 illustrations on PlayWharf were made for this site on 23 October 2026 with OpenAI's gpt-image-1.5 image model, from our own written descriptions and in one shared style. Each shows a place, a map or a scene from a game's world. None is a screenshot or official artwork, none copies a game's logo or unit art, and no game studio made or approved them.

Campaign table: a campaign map under a lamp, with wooden army blocks and a laptop showing territories. Shown on: Home, About page.

Territorial.io: an island split into dozens of coloured territories, the kind of map Territorial.io is played on. Shown on: Territorial.io game page, Method page.

Generals.io: a square-tile board with mountains, two walled towns, army stacks and a crowned general. Shown on: Generals.io game page, FAQ page.

Lichess: a chess game on a café table at night, with a chess clock and a laptop showing another board. Shown on: Lichess game page, Compare page.

webDiplomacy: europe around 1900 with army blocks and fleets, and two diplomats whispering over a sealed envelope. Shown on: webDiplomacy game page, Dock notes page.

Freeciv-web: an early civilisation: a walled town by a river, farms, an ox cart, a trireme and a temple on the hill. Shown on: Freeciv-web game page.

Planets.nu: a star cluster with a ringed planet, two starbases and a fleet travelling between them. Shown on: Planets.nu game page.

Turn at the desk: a player entering orders on a world map late in the evening, with notes on the moves. Shown on: Game picker page.

Hex map on the train: a hex map on a phone during a commute. Shown on: Games page.

Parent and teenager: a parent and a teenager looking at a map of territories and a chat panel together. Shown on: Home, Play safe page.

Empty table: an empty campaign table: a map, one block, a finished hourglass and a lamp still on. Shown on: 404 page.
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