GREEN-E
GREEN-E
"Circuits that grow in front of your eyes, bit by bit"
White Camellia Baby Juniper Stary Dahlia
ABOUT:
Lost in the Badlands,
Your amongst the rubble, searching of valuables for a glimpse at a brighter day. In another restless day of survival, you stumble across a pod, in it contains a hope for our desolate world.... Welcome GREEN-E. While in dialogue being the potential salvation of this digital planet, Green-e to us is digital plant that grows as if it were at your fingertips. It's purpose lies in its simplicity and it's roots in multisensory function. Visually you are a displayed a plant of your nature, pixel based art and sounds resume to build a retro esthetic, crafting a nostalgic essence. Along the welcoming visuals, Green-e intends to put together a complete user experience by accruing another sense, hearing. In medical fields, it is proven that when certain frequencies are produced, our bodies have a reaction. Since green-e aims for short but fruitful daily interactions, I've supplemented Green-e with a a sound bar that emits a 432hz note when interacting with Green-e. This plant aims to be a " virtual soothing agent" that gives its user peace of mind while also the digital interactions of a game.
FUNCTION:
Grow, Reflect, Resonate
The purpose of Green-e is simple, to induce users into making a positive cycle of both digital and physical health. Gathering elements that are both rooted in nature and our daily interactions, the culmination of the meditative frequencies and digital hominess creates a rooted interaction for users to gauge and grow. After our initial dialogue and animations, you are greeted with a special plant amongst a variety of sprites. The aim is to grow the plant through a simple and quick daily interaction through the strike of the mallet, this will serve as green-e's only input.
"Strike the
Chime to Flourish"
1 strike will cause the dew of the Morning to drop onto your plant, giving it the chance to grow. Accompanying this will be uplifting quotes or thought provoking questions to hopefully add a "helpful stone to ones shoe". Further, every interaction with green-e will be counted, aiding in your personal statistics to display time and dedication to a healthier digital and physical world.
DATALOG DIALOGUE
"I can’t believe it. It broke the soil. Just... one tiny green thing. The dome sensors say it’s alive—actually alive. No rot, no mold. It’s like holding a sunbeam in the dark. I don’t know how long it’ll last, but... it’s here. And it’s mine."
"The roots are taking. Water uptake is higher today. The leaves—well, leaf—has a color I’ve only seen in old vids. A sort of shimmer, like it’s breathing. Everyone before me failed. But maybe... maybe this time, something stays."
"It's got a stem now. Reaching up like it remembers the sky. There hasn’t been a real sun in decades, but it still stretches. I caught myself talking to it today. Called it ‘Luma.’ Dumb, maybe. But when there’s nothing left, you name the things that might stay."
"Two full leaves, wide like a signal flare. They're soft. Damp to the touch. The air in the dome feels... lighter, cleaner. I woke up without coughing this morning. Don’t know if it’s the plant or just my head playing tricks. Either way, I’m not stopping now."
"It’s budding. A tight little knot, right at the top. Means it’s maturing. I’ve read about this stage but seeing it—living it—feels unreal. If the old texts are right, this plant could oxygenate a whole bunker. Maybe even bloom. God, let it bloom."
"The bud’s changing color. Not dying—transforming. It’s like it’s remembering something ancient, older than even the Fall. I can smell it when I get close. Sweet. Clean. Like rain on hot metal. The dome’s walls are sweating now... like they’re waking up too."
"It’s in full bloom. A crown of gold and green in a world of ash. The sensors are off the charts—CO₂ down, O₂ rising. I stayed with it all night. Couldn’t sleep. Just watched. It’s the first real thing this world has seen in years. And I was here to see it. Maybe even start again."
"This morning, there were bees. I don’t know where they came from—no records of them, no trace. But they found her. Landed soft on the petals like they never left this world. I cried. I didn’t even know I could still do that. This isn’t just survival anymore. This is return."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." – Rumi
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." – Martin
Luther King Jr.
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." – Arthur Ashe
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." – Leonard Cohen
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you." –
Walt Whitman
"And still, I rise." – Maya Angelou
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought
together." – Vincent van Gogh
"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still." – Chinese proverb
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." –
Winston Churchill
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by
achieving your goals." – Zig Ziglar
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing." – Audre Lorde
"Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is
final." – Rainer Maria Rilke
"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies." – Mother
Teresa
"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." – Psalm 118:24
"If you're going through hell, keep going." – Winston Churchill
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive." –
Marcus Aurelius
"Joy is not made to be a crumb." – Mary Oliver
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." – Rumi
"Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation." – Oliver Sacks
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." – Edgar Degas
"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun." – Alan
Watts
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." – George Orwell
"I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old
ones." – John Cage
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having
new eyes." – Marcel Proust
"The unexamined life is not worth living." – Socrates
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost." – J.R.R. Tolkien
"Hell is the truth seen too late." – Thomas Hobbes
"To be great is to be misunderstood." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We live in the world when we love it." – Rabindranath Tagore
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." – Lao Tzu
"There is another world, but it is in this one." – Paul Éluard
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." – César A. Cruz
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
summer." – Albert Camus
"You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to see it." – Thomas
Kuhn
"To love at all is to be vulnerable." – C.S. Lewis
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join
the dance." – Alan Watts
"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anaïs Nin
"Become who you are." – Friedrich Nietzsche
"Risk is the price of freedom." – T.S. Eliot
"Nothing human is alien to me." – Terence
"Your silence will not protect you." – Audre Lorde
"He who has a why can bear almost any how." – Nietzsche
"You make the path by walking." – Antonio Machado
"Only the ephemeral endures." – René Magritte
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." – Gandhi
"Brevity is the soul of wit." – Shakespeare
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'" – Lao
Tzu
"I rebel; therefore I exist." – Albert Camus
"Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall." – Rumi
"The map is not the territory." – Alfred Korzybski
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is
faced." – James Baldwin
"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude." –
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." – Oscar Wilde
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the
darkness conscious." – Carl Jung
"What is now proved was once only imagined." – William Blake
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." – Thomas
Merton
"Don’t wait. The time will never be just right." – Napoleon Hill