+ );
+}
+
+function ReportIssueNavAction({
+ issue,
+ isOpen,
+ isPending,
+ onChange,
+ onOpenChange,
+ onReport,
+}: {
+ issue: string;
+ isOpen: boolean;
+ isPending: boolean;
+ onChange: (issue: string) => void;
+ onOpenChange: (isOpen: boolean) => void;
+ onReport: () => Promise;
+}) {
+ return (
+
+
+
+
+
+ Report issue
+
+
+ }
+ />
+ );
+}
+
+// Final asset slot: add an optional poster image here when KHIX key art is ready.
+const KHIX_LORE_FILM_EMBED_URL =
+ "https://www.youtube.com/embed/hi1gLM-suzE?rel=0&modestbranding=1";
+const KHIX_LORE_FILM_POSTER_IMAGE = "";
+
+const LORE_ARTISTS = {
+ amira: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirabhuiyan/",
+ name: "Amira",
+ },
+ christina: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-nguyen-53971a326/",
+ name: "Christina",
+ },
+ chrissy: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-nguyen-53971a326/",
+ name: "Chrissy",
+ },
+ david: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-navarrete-/",
+ name: "David",
+ },
+ gabriela: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriela-zambrano-7074363b4/",
+ name: "Gabriela",
+ },
+ lena: {
+ href: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-tran-/",
+ name: "Lena",
+ },
+} as const;
+
+interface LoreCredit {
+ href: string;
+ name: string;
+ prefix: string;
+}
+
+const LORE_PROCESS_IMAGES = [
+ {
+ alt: "Concept sheet for Hat Lenny with flower, wing, color, and shape notes.",
+ copy: "After Knight Hacks VIII, Lenny is free from the gem, but freedom does not erase what happened. Lena's sheet explores what changed through the flower, wings, shapes, and colors while keeping Lenny soft and familiar.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.lena, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-hat-lenny-reference.webp",
+ title: "Lenny After the Gem",
+ },
+ {
+ alt: "Pink sketch of Lenny standing among mushrooms and small flowers.",
+ copy: "Gabriela's sketch catches one of the first searches for the enchanted forest. Mushrooms, flowers, odd shapes, and magic all had to find the right balance between inviting and uneasy.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.gabriela, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-lenny-sketch-garden.webp",
+ title: "The First Glimpse Beyond the Treeline",
+ },
+ {
+ alt: "Animation workspace showing Lenny drawn over a forest background.",
+ copy: "The animation passes turned a still forest into a place with timing, breath, and pressure. Small changes in spacing, hold time, and background motion decided how watchful the scene felt.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.chrissy, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-animation-process.webp",
+ title: "When the Forest is Magical",
+ },
+ {
+ alt: "Sketch of a dark forest corruption creature holding a glowing figure.",
+ copy: "The corruption needed to feel connected to the gem's aftermath. These sketches helped define magic that kept growing after its purpose broke: beautiful, wrong, and still awake under the roots.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.lena, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-corruption-concept.webp",
+ title: "What the Gem Left Behind",
+ },
+ {
+ alt: "T.K. reference sheet with armor, helmet, sword, and energy details.",
+ copy: "T.K.'s disappearance gives the forest a reason to be explored. The armor, helmet, sword, and energy details show that he is capable, but the enchanted forest is strong enough to pull him out of reach.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.david, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-tk-reference.webp",
+ title: "T.K.'s Trail Ends in the Forest",
+ },
+ {
+ alt: "Finished illustration of Lenny smiling next to T.K.",
+ copy: "This piece brings the mascots together so the theme reads at a glance. Lenny is changed, T.K. is tied to the mystery, and the forest around them is still holding something back.",
+ credit: { ...LORE_ARTISTS.lena, prefix: "Made by" },
+ src: "https://assets.knighthacks.org/khix/lore-lenny-tk-final.webp",
+ title: "Before the Forest Closes In",
+ },
+];
+
+function LoreMediaCredit({ credit }: { credit: LoreCredit }) {
+ return (
+
+ {credit.prefix}
+ {credit.name}
+
+ );
+}
+
+function LoreExperience() {
+ const hasFilm = KHIX_LORE_FILM_EMBED_URL.trim().length > 0;
+ const hasPoster = KHIX_LORE_FILM_POSTER_IMAGE.trim().length > 0;
+
+ return (
+
+
+
+ Knight Hacks IX: Into the Forest
+
+
+ When the gem shattered at the end of Knight Hacks VIII, Lenny was free
+ from its control and the city was no longer trapped beneath its glow.
+ The broken pieces sank into the soil. Roots wrapped around them.
+ Flowers grew where the corruption should have died. From that place,
+ the forest began to grow.
+
+
+
+
+ Story film
+
+ The forest is waiting for its voice.
+
+
+ )}
+
+
+
+
+
Inside the art book
+
Pages of the Forest
+
+ This page is a look inside the worldbuilding behind Knight Hacks IX:
+ sketches, meetings, rejected directions, character sheets, logo tests,
+ animation passes, site ideas, and weekly decisions. The theme started
+ as a feeling, then became a stack of smaller choices about what the
+ forest should look like, how Lenny should change, where T.K. went, and
+ what kind of world grows from damaged magic.
+
+
+
+
+
+
1 year ago
+
The corruption took root.
+
+ After Knight Hacks VIII, the team wanted Knight Hacks IX to grow
+ from the story that came before it. The gem did not vanish when it
+ shattered. Its fragments became seeds beneath the ruins. Grass
+ pushed through stone, vines climbed over the old damage, and trees
+ grew too fast around the places where the gem fell. Lenny has been
+ seen near the treeline. T.K. is missing. Something left behind by
+ the gem is still awake deeper in the enchanted forest.
+
+ The Knight Hacks IX logo had to work outside the website. It needed
+ to hold up on merch, social graphics, slides, signs, and the places
+ where the theme has to be recognized quickly. The shirt render shows
+ whether the mark still feels sharp when it leaves the design file.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ For the people behind Knight Hacks IX
+
+
+
To My Team
+
+ Thank you for making this event and continuing to shape it into the
+ hackathon you wanted people to experience, especially the hackers
+ walking into their first one. This has been many months of planning,
+ checking, adjusting, and caring about details most people will never
+ see. Because of that work, hundreds of people will get the chance to
+ grow as builders, teammates, and leaders.
+
+
+ You are giving your time so students at the University of Central
+ Florida and across the nation can find opportunities, build
+ confidence, and become stronger software engineers and people.
+ Knight Hacks IX exists because you kept showing up for the version
+ of the event you knew it could become.
+
+
+ And to the design team: thank you for bringing our event to life.
+ Knight Hacks has always cared about being an experience before it is
+ an event, and you made that true this year. Every canvas, sketch,
+ logo pass, motion test, shirt render, color choice, and visual
+ experiment shows the care and passion you bring to the work.
+
+
+ You turn ideas into something people can see, feel, wear, and
+ remember. You also show how art, design, and storytelling belong
+ inside software engineering and the careers people build from it. We
+ are nothing without you as a team, and every part of Knight Hacks IX
+ is stronger because of what you made.
+
+
+ And to every other team that contributed: thank you for carrying
+ your piece of this event with so much care. Outreach, sponsorship,
+ workshops, development, operations, mentors, volunteers, and
+ everyone who jumped in helped make Knight Hacks IX real. I love
+ y'all, and this event is better because all of you chose to build it
+ together.
+