THE GENRES
Each genre owns a border colour scale tied to intensity. World is the exception — its border carries the flag of the card's country or region rather than a solid colour.
Each genre spans an intensity scale — from pop intensity to hardcore intensity.
Crimson + gold yellow blend into amber orange — the hue inherits influence from both parent genres.
A transition node is a genre + intensity pair. Current out rules:
- Mainstream (pop) fans out to every genre at pop intensity, including itself.
- For any non-mainstream node (genre A, intensity B), out includes self: (A, B).
- Same genre intensity branches: (A, B + 1) and (A, B - 1).
- Neighbour genre branches at same intensity: (next(A), B) and (previous(A), B).
- Neighbour genre branches at lower intensity: (next(A), B - 1) and (previous(A), B - 1).
- Extra pop hub link: when B = pop, non-mainstream nodes also link to Mainstream (pop).
- Some subgenres add an influence bridge (bidirectional). Example: Turntablism includes a Hip-Hop (experimental) influence, so this pair adds extra transitions in both directions.
Matchup wheel rules are circular on the outer ring:
- Mainstream has no advantage and no weakness.
- For genre A, advantage targets are A + 2 and A - 3 on the wheel.
- For genre A, weakness targets are A - 2 and A + 3 on the wheel.
- If a subgenre of A has influence genre X, X is removed from A weak targets (when present).
Each country or region has a single pin at an approximate representative point; opening the pin lists every country-native subgenre defined for that place.
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Scroll to zoom, drag to pan, double-click empty space to fit the world again. Pin colour follows the country flag border. Nearby regions cluster — click a cluster to zoom until it splits; when it cannot split further, a summary opens. Click a pin for that country or region and its subgenres. Click empty map to close popups.
When a card has a subgenre, intensity comes from that subgenre. When there is no subgenre (genre-only card), intensity is taken from the genre row below: Electronic is hardcore, Hip-Hop is soft, Classical, Rock, and Reggae/Dub are experimental, and all other genres are pop.
Mainstream (shown as Pop on cards) is only the centre of the colour wheel — it is never the parent of a subgenre. Chart-pop and catalogue hits use a musical family parent (for example Vintage or Disco/Funk) instead.
| Genre | Intensity (no subgenre) |
|---|---|
| Rock | 50% |
| Pop | 50% |
| Electronic | 50% |
| Hip-Hop | 50% |
| Disco/Funk | 50% |
| Reggae/Dub | 50% |
| Classical | 50% |
| Vintage | 50% |
Each genre defines a full colour theme used across the card frame. You can preview a subgenre alone, a country or region alone, or combine a subgenre with a country to apply the World/Genre border rule automatically.
