Entropy & Repair
Restoration as a repeated, imperfect act rather than a single victory. The world degrades, and care is ongoing.
Interactive Work
Wyldore: Shared Survival
"What does it feel like to practice mutual aid with a non-human companion in an environment that is always trying to erode you?"
Artistic Intent
Wyldore is an interactive work about care under pressure: how tenderness, reciprocity, and repair can exist inside a hostile climate.
The project uses an atmospheric, slow-paced interactive environment to stage a relationship between a participant and a small number of mythic companion-beings who respond on their own terms.
The work aims to provoke a specific emotional arc:
Unease→Attachment→Responsibility→Relief→Quiet Solidarity
Themes
The ideas that drive every design decision
Reciprocity
Assistance earned through trust and care. Your companions help because they choose to.
Nonverbal Intimacy
Emotion conveyed through movement, proximity, and small gestures. No dialogue trees—just presence.
Shared Traces
The comfort of encountering evidence of others without requiring synchronous presence. You share this world with others.
The Experience
A simple, legible interaction cycle designed to foreground affect rather than mastery
1
Encounter
A companion-being appears in the environment, cautious and self-directed. They are not waiting for your command.
2
Offering
You place an object—an offering—and wait. Attention and patience are part of the interaction.
3
Trust
After repeated care, the companion chooses proximity. Trust is earned.
4
Co-Restoration
Together, you and your companion enact small acts that push back the environment's "Gloom" and reveal renewed life.
5
Unprompted Return
Your companion offers unexpected gestures—small gifts, seeking safety, playful behaviors—reframing the relationship as mutual.
Companion Beings
Mythic creatures who respond on their own terms.
Autonomy
Companions initiate behaviors on their own. "Help" is their response to trust.
Vulnerability
The environment can frighten companions. Your role becomes protective—they need you too.
Affection as Action
Gifts and gestures are intentionally "useful enough," but primarily expressive. A flower means something.
"Mascot Suit" aesthetic: chibi-proportioned beings with large heads, simplified limbs, and buried joints. Softness inside harshness.
The Gloom
Environmental pressure as dramaturgy.
"The Gloom" is a volumetric atmospheric condition that functions as the work's ongoing tension. It is less an enemy than a persistent pressure: obscuring, chilling, and unsettling.
The Gloom creates stakes for shelter, light, and togetherness. It is what makes care meaningful—because without pressure, there is no relief.
ObscuringChillingUnsettling
Aesthetic Direction
"Rugged Cozy" — storm-weather resilience contrasted with the warmth of shelter
Expressive Restraint
Emotion is conveyed through body language (tilts, bounces, hesitations), texture-swapped eyes for simple emotional states, and small symbolic particles (hearts, questions, sweat) used sparingly as punctuation.
Pantomime Over Realism
Readable silhouettes, exaggerated gestures, and clear emotional states over complex facial animation. The aesthetic is conceptually aligned: softness inside harshness.
Development
Wyldore is currently in active development.
Phase A: Concept & Experiments
Companion pantomime studies, Gloom atmosphere study, offering interaction prototype
Phase B: Prototype
One biome, 2–4 companions, restoration arc, asynchronous trace prototype
Phase C: Presentation Package
Curated build, documentation set, artist statement, submission materials