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Release color-coded screw-pins in the right order to restore tiny botanical machines that bloom when solved.
State
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Pipeline stage
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Advisory score
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Game design document
# Pin & Bloom — Game Design Document v0.1
**Status:** provisional candidate for pretotype
**Updated:** 2026-08-08
**Source opportunity:** opp-calm-fastener-logic
**Production authority:** none until pretotype selection and prototype greenlight
## Product definition
Pin & Bloom is a portrait, flat-2D mobile logic game. The player releases color-coded screw-pins
from layered protective plates in a safe order. Removed pins travel into visible sorting trays.
When the last brace clears, the tiny botanical automaton beneath it unfolds and blooms.
Store-positioning candidate: **Pin & Bloom: Screw Puzzle**
Short promise: **Calm mechanical puzzles that come alive.**
Market evidence supports the broad fastener-puzzle lane. Calm pacing, restoration payoff, fair
economy, and retention are hypotheses.
## Audience and use
- Adults and older children who play logic/sort puzzles in one-to-five-minute breaks
- Players who value readable rules, undo, offline play, and low-pressure sessions
- Not aimed at physics-sandbox or high-speed competition players
- Primary device: phone in portrait; tablet layout scales without changing board topology
## Design pillars
1. **See the rule.** No hidden faces, random physics, or camera search.
2. **Think without pressure.** Normal mode has no timer, lives, or mid-level interruption.
3. **Every solve restores something.** Completion creates a short, memorable living-machine reveal.
4. **Failure teaches.** A jam pauses the board and offers undo/restart; it never sells emergency
recovery as the only path.
## Core loop
1. Read the layered automaton and three visible color trays.
2. Tap a screw-pin to preview what it holds and where it will travel.
3. Tap again to release it.
4. A freed brace slides away when none of its pins remain.
5. Three same-color pins in a tray convert into one decorative seed and clear that tray.
6. If every tray is full with no legal release, the board enters Jammed state.
7. Undo or restart; no life is consumed.
8. Clear every brace and tray.
9. Watch the automaton bloom for two seconds; collect its seed and continue.
Target level time: 60–180 seconds. Target first-session set: five levels in under ten minutes.
## Player verbs
- Inspect: one tap previews pin, held brace, and destination tray.
- Release: second tap confirms.
- Undo: restores the exact previous deterministic state.
- Restart: returns to the certified initial state.
- Pause/resume: persists board state locally.
- Pan: available only when accessibility zoom is enabled; normal boards fit without panning.
No drag precision, camera rotation, pinch dependency, or rapid tapping is required.
## Board model
### Entities
- **Bloom core:** final animated object; never blocks a pin.
- **Brace plate:** flat illustrated shape with a visible z-order and one or more pin sockets.
- **Screw-pin:** color plus redundant engraved symbol; occupies one socket.
- **Tray:** three slots, visible at all times, accepts one configured color family.
- **Seed:** post-match reward token; cosmetic/progression only.
### Deterministic rules
- A pin is legal when its head is not covered by another brace and its destination tray has space.
- Removing a pin changes only its socket, destination tray, and any newly unheld brace.
- A brace releases when all of its pins are removed; movement follows a authored 2D vector.
- Tray matching is deterministic: three equal color-symbol pins clear immediately.
- Jammed means zero legal pin moves while uncleared braces remain.
- Undo restores the exact prior board snapshot, including tray and brace state.
- Every shipped board has a solver certificate produced by the same pure rules module.
- Random generation may choose among certified boards; it never changes a loaded board.
## Difficulty grammar
Difficulty comes from visible dependency depth, branching factor, tray pressure, and symbol count.
| Tier | Layers | Colors | Trays | New demand |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---|
| Seedling | 2–3 | 2 | 3 | learn inspect/release/match |
| Sprout | 3–4 | 3 | 3 | one safe ordering dependency |
| Canopy | 4–5 | 4 | 3 | plan two matches ahead |
| Conservatory | 5–6 | 4–5 | 3 | branching solutions and controlled jams |
No normal board uses a timer. Daily challenge may count moves but cannot remove undo.
## Content structure
- Chapter 1: Paper Conservatory — flower, moth, watering can, songbird, seed clock
- Chapter 2: Sunlit Clockhouse — orrery vine, weather vane, tea automaton, bell flower
- Chapter 3: Cloud Nursery — kite fern, rain beetle, wind blossom, moon greenhouse
- Each chapter: 20 certified boards, five automaton families, four difficulty tiers
- First prototype: one flower automaton, five certified layouts, two-to-four colors
## Progression
- Solved boards add restored automatons to a shelf.
- Seeds unlock palette variants and shelf decorations.
- Chapter access follows completed-board count, not streaks or calendar pressure.
- Optional daily board reuses certified grammar with a move-count medal.
- No energy system, lives, punitive streak loss, or consumable power economy in v0.1.
## Business model hypothesis
INFERRED candidate:
- free first chapter;
- one-time full-game unlock;
- optional cosmetic palette packs;
- optional rewarded preview of a solution step, never required for a solvable board;
- no banner or interstitial during a board.
Willingness to pay, price, conversion, and revenue are UNKNOWN. Pretotype and later store tests must
compare this with a conventional free/ad-supported offer before production lock.
## UX and game states
Canonical states are specified in ux-flow.md. Gameplay must support Ready, Inspecting, Animating,
Jammed, Paused, Solved, and Restoring from persistence. No generated image may introduce a state
absent from that file.
## Art, motion, and audio
- Strict flat 2D orthographic presentation; no isometric or 3D camera
- Light paper-and-enamel botanical atelier; readable mechanical layering
- Released plates glide and settle; no uncontrolled rigid-body physics
- Bloom reveal lasts at most two seconds and can be shortened in accessibility settings
- Audio: soft click, paper slide, ceramic tray note, three-note bloom phrase
- Haptics: light inspect tick, medium release, optional bloom pulse
Art rules live in visual-brief.md and art-bible.md.
## Accessibility
- Every pin color has a unique engraved symbol and tray silhouette.
- Minimum interactive target: 48 CSS pixels in prototype; Unity equivalent scales by Canvas.
- Contrast target: WCAG AA for UI text and essential icons.
- Color-blind preview modes: deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia simulation during QA.
- Reduced motion, haptics off, sound sliders, large text, and hold-to-confirm alternative.
- No essential information conveyed by animation, color, sound, or haptics alone.
- Full state recovers after interruption without forcing replay.
## Analytics and validation
Only collect with consent and the minimum event payload:
- tutorial_start, tutorial_complete
- level_start, pin_preview, pin_release, undo, jam, restart, level_complete
- level duration, move count, undo count, jam count, solver-certificate ID
- chapter_paywall_view, unlock_start, unlock_complete
No advertising identifier is required for the core game. Prototype validation focuses on rule
comprehension, next-move predictability, completion, and desire for another board.
## Technical architecture
- Pure BoardState, MoveValidator, TrayMatcher, JamDetector, Solver, and LevelLoader modules
- GameController orchestrates; BoardView and InputHandler remain separate
- Integer IDs and explicit z-order; no physics engine in the rules path
- Level JSON includes braces, sockets, pins, trays, initial z-order, release vectors, and solution
certificate hash
- Save after every committed move using versioned local JSON
- Portrait reference 1080×1920; safe-area aware; minimum supported play width 320 CSS pixels
- Stage 2 implementation is dependency-light HTML/CSS/JavaScript before Unity
## Acceptance tests
1. Solver confirms every bundled board has at least one solution.
2. MoveValidator rejects covered pins and full destinations.
3. Undo restores a byte-equivalent prior rules state.
4. JamDetector reports jam only when no legal moves remain.
5. Save/reload resumes the same board state.
6. Color-blind mode remains playable using symbols alone.
7. A first-time human completes tutorial level without spoken help.
8. A human can predict the consequence of the highlighted next move.
9. Full board can be played at 320-pixel width without overlap or scroll.
10. No timer, life loss, mid-board interstitial, or pay-required recovery exists.
## Kill or revise risks
- Kill if pretotype viewers cannot explain the restoration payoff after five seconds.
- Revise if the botanical theme is liked but the fastener interaction is unclear.
- Kill if the prototype feels like a slower clone after five boards.
- Revise if tray pressure recreates the unfairness the concept promises to remove.
- Kill if certified content requires more authoring effort than the small-team limit permits.
UX flow
# Pin & Bloom — UX Flow and State Matrix v0.1
**Status:** provisional; authoritative for screen inventory
## Primary flow
Launch -> privacy/consent when required -> Home -> Chapter Shelf -> Level Preview -> Gameplay Ready
-> Play -> Solved -> Bloom Reveal -> Result -> next level or shelf.
Recovery flow:
Gameplay -> Jammed -> Undo or Restart.
Gameplay -> Pause -> Settings or Resume.
App interruption -> local save -> Resume Card -> exact prior board state.
Trial flow:
End of free chapter -> Full Game Unlock -> platform purchase -> success returns to Chapter Shelf;
cancel or failure returns without losing progress.
## Screen inventory
| ID | Screen/state | Required content | Exit paths |
|---|---|---|---|
| S01 | Launch | mark, loading state, version fallback | consent or Home |
| S02 | Consent | essential privacy choices, plain language | Home |
| S03 | Home | Continue, Chapters, Daily, Settings | selected destination |
| S04 | Chapter Shelf | restored automata, progress, locked chapter reason | Level Preview, Home |
| S05 | Level Preview | automaton silhouette, difficulty, best moves | Gameplay Ready, back |
| S06 | Gameplay Ready | full board, trays, goal, optional first hint | Playing, Pause |
| S07 | Inspecting | selected pin, held braces, destination preview | confirm, cancel |
| S08 | Animating Move | locked input for short deterministic motion | Playing or Jammed |
| S09 | Jammed | explanation, Undo primary, Restart secondary | Playing, Ready |
| S10 | Pause | Resume, Restart, Settings, Home | selected destination |
| S11 | Solved/Bloom Reveal | restored automaton, skip affordance | Result |
| S12 | Result | moves, undo count, seed, Next, Shelf | next level or shelf |
| S13 | Settings | audio, haptics, symbols, text, motion, privacy | return to caller |
| S14 | Resume Card | saved level and timestamp, Resume, Restart | Gameplay or Preview |
| S15 | Full Unlock | exact included content, price from platform, Restore | purchase/cancel |
| S16 | Purchase Result | success, cancel, failure, retry guidance | Shelf or Unlock |
| S17 | Daily Board | rules, move medal, no timer | Gameplay, Home |
| S18 | Error/Offline | recoverable message, retry, offline-safe path | caller |
## Interaction rules
- Back during play opens Pause; it never abandons silently.
- Overlays dim but do not blur essential board state.
- One primary action per modal.
- All destructive actions require confirmation: Restart, Home while unsaved, reset progress.
- Undo remains on the lower-right one-thumb arc; Pause remains top-left outside the puzzle board.
- Trays remain above the bottom safe area and never move between states.
- Loading, empty, locked, disabled, and error states use icon plus text, not color alone.
- Store price and purchase result are rendered by native/platform UI, not generated raster art.
## Responsive contract
- Portrait is canonical.
- At 320–430 CSS pixels, board scales uniformly; trays remain one row.
- Tablet adds side margins and a wider shelf; it does not rearrange board topology.
- Safe-area insets protect Home/gesture bars and display cutouts.
- Large text may wrap menu labels to two lines; gameplay icons retain 48-pixel targets.
## Visual-generation boundary
GPT Image 2 may illustrate S03, S04, S06, S09, S11, and S12 as style references. Production UI
remains editable in code/Unity. Art references cannot remove accessibility labels, change button
priority, add currencies, or convert the board to 3D/isometric.
Visual brief
# Pin & Bloom — Visual Brief v0.1
**Status:** locked for provisional GPT Image 2 generation
**Model:** gpt-image-2
## Visual thesis
A sunlit pocket conservatory built from cut paper, matte enamel, and restrained brass. The board
reads like a beautifully printed mechanical diagram that becomes alive when solved.
## Pillars
1. **Light, not dark:** warm ivory canvas, daylight, generous breathing room.
2. **Mechanical clarity:** every overlap, pin, socket, and destination is readable at phone size.
3. **Botanical reward:** leaf, petal, moth, seed, and vine forms make restoration emotionally legible.
4. **Premium restraint:** no toy-plastic gloss, casino sparkle, neon bloom, or generic wood planks.
## Locked invariants
- Flat 2D orthographic front view
- Portrait gameplay topology even when a reference board is landscape
- One central layered automaton; three fixed trays below; minimal HUD above
- No perspective depth, isometric angle, 3D render, camera rotation, or hidden back faces
- Braces use visible cut-paper layering; pins are circular with engraved symbols
- UI remains outside the playable object and never covers a legal pin
- Images contain no production text; labels live in Markdown and editable UI
## Palette roles
| Role | Color |
|---|---|
| canvas | warm ivory #F7F0E3 |
| primary ink | slate #253342 |
| mechanism accent | restrained brass #C88A3D |
| success/leaf | green #5FA47A |
| active/coral pin | coral #E87567 |
| information/sky pin | sky #7FB7D8 |
| alternate/lilac pin | lilac #9B8BC4 |
| error/jam | brick #B94E48 |
Color is never the only encoding. Pin families pair circle/triangle/leaf/star engravings with color.
## Shape and material language
- Large rounded botanical silhouettes
- Thin slate outlines with consistent weight
- Shallow printed-paper occlusion shadows only
- Matte enamel pin heads; small restrained brass centers
- Braces look cut and printed, not photorealistic wood or metal
- Trays resemble low ceramic seed dishes with symbol embossing
## Typography and icons
Use a friendly humanist rounded sans direction with open counters and clear numerals. Production
font must be licensed and selected later. Icons use two-pixel-equivalent slate strokes, rounded
caps, and one idea per glyph. No generated text is accepted as final typography.
## Motion and VFX
- Inspect: 120 ms outline breathe, no scale bounce
- Release: quarter-turn pin, vertical lift, curved tray path, 300–450 ms
- Brace clear: authored slide vector with paper shadow collapse
- Match: three quiet ceramic notes and a small seed-ring ripple
- Bloom: 1.2–2.0 s unfolding with two restrained pollen arcs
- Reduced motion: instant state changes plus 150 ms fades
## Anti-references
Avoid dark sci-fi panels, steampunk grime, glossy 3D toy renders, isometric boards, realistic
workbenches, generic wooden screw boards, candy-match UI, casino particles, excessive bevels,
oversaturated neon, dense presentation sheets, fake device frames, watermarks, and added text.
## Master-board strategy
1. Generate gameplay-master.png from the locked invariants.
2. Visually verify topology, dimension, palette, and readability.
3. Generate world-language.png using gameplay-master.png as the style reference.
4. Generate ui-language.png using gameplay-master.png as the style reference.
5. Record every prompt, output, and QA decision in asset-manifest.json.
Art Bible
# Pin & Bloom — Art Bible v0.1
**Status:** provisional candidate; not production locked
**Authority order:** GDD -> UX flow -> this written Bible -> verified reference images
## Core identity
Pin & Bloom is a light editorial 2D puzzle, not a simulated workshop. Its visual signature is a
flat botanical automaton held under patterned paper braces by enamel screw-pins. Solving replaces
clutter with a moment of life.
## Gameplay composition
- Warm ivory full-screen field
- Quiet top HUD: back/pause, level indicator, undo
- Central automaton occupies roughly 58% of screen height
- Three symbol-coded trays sit in the lower play area above the safe zone
- Essential pin heads remain at least one touch target apart
- Overlap shadows explain z-order but never imply uncontrolled depth
- Legal selection adds slate outline and a dotted path to the destination tray
- Illegal selection explains the blocker with a short brace-edge pulse
## World families
### Paper Conservatory
Pressed flowers, moth wings, seed clocks, watering mechanisms. Coral, leaf, sky, and ivory dominate.
### Sunlit Clockhouse
Circular brass diagrams, tea leaves, bells, weather vanes. More slate and brass; brightness remains.
### Cloud Nursery
Wind petals, rain beetles, kite ferns, crescent greenhouse forms. Sky and lilac expand; no dark space.
Every family uses the same pins, trays, outline weights, and UI tokens.
## Interactive object rules
- Pins: circular, matte enamel, high-contrast engraved symbol, small brass center
- Sockets: visible ivory ring with dashed symbol when empty
- Braces: one dominant botanical contour each; no random polygons
- Bloom core: visually quiet until clear; then unfolds, never explodes
- Trays: fixed location, three visible slots, symbol embossed on rim
- Seed reward: small flat emblem; no coin shower
## UI system
- Cards: ivory or white with slate outline and 16–24 px equivalent radius
- Primary action: leaf green fill, slate text when contrast passes
- Secondary action: ivory fill, slate outline
- Warning/jam: brick outline plus knot icon; not a red full-screen flash
- Progress: restored-object silhouettes, not a generic currency bar
- Modal hierarchy follows ux-flow.md; visual art cannot add more currencies or CTAs
## Accessibility and clarity
- Symbols repeat every color meaning.
- Essential outlines remain readable in grayscale.
- Paper shadows are under 12% opacity and never carry information alone.
- UI text targets WCAG AA contrast.
- Reduced motion and large text are designed states, not post-production patches.
## Technical production rules
- Reference canvas: portrait 1080×1920; Art Bible boards may be 1536×1024 landscape.
- Production UI: editable Unity sprites/TMP/layout, not flattened generated screenshots.
- Gameplay pieces: separate sprites with consistent pivots; braces preserve empty pin sockets.
- Nine-slice panels: empty center, uniform border, no baked text.
- File naming: family_subject_state_variant.png.
- Raster concept boards may guide vector/procedural recreation; they are not automatically game-ready.
- Generated source, prompt, references, and QA result remain in asset-manifest.json.
## Do / don't
Do:
- show one unmistakable flat gameplay board;
- use light space and limited color;
- make blocking relationships visible;
- pair color with symbols;
- make restoration the emotional focal point.
Don't:
- turn the board isometric or 3D;
- make a dense slide full of tiny examples;
- bake production labels into images;
- reuse generic wood-plank/screw visuals;
- add characters, currencies, timers, lives, or mechanics absent from the GDD.
## Reference boards
- art-bible/gameplay-master.png — canonical gameplay frame and palette
- art-bible/world-language.png — object families and material/shape language
- art-bible/ui-language.png — editable UI/component direction
Each board is accepted only after visual inspection against the written invariants.
Gallery (3 images)
gameplay-master · https://autechsolutions-game-factory.pages.dev/ideas/pin-and-bloom/files/images/art-bible/gameplay-master.webp Generation prompt: Use case: ui-mockup
Asset type: canonical mobile gameplay reference for a 2D puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: show one premium portrait mobile gameplay scene for Pin & Bloom, a calm screw-pin logic puzzle where protective paper braces are removed to reveal a botanical automaton
Scene/backdrop: warm ivory sunlit field with generous breathing room
Subject: one central flat layered flower automaton held by six large enamel screw-pins and three clearly overlapping cut-paper braces; three fixed ceramic symbol-coded trays below the board; minimal quiet HUD above
Style/medium: polished flat 2D editorial game illustration, cut paper plus matte enamel plus restrained brass, crisp vector-like edges
Composition/framing: straight orthographic front view, portrait game topology centered inside a landscape reference canvas, large readable objects, no device frame
Lighting/mood: soft daylight, calm, optimistic, premium, low contrast shadows only for layer order
Color palette: warm ivory, slate ink, leaf green, coral, sky blue, lilac, restrained brass
Constraints: strictly flat 2D; every screw-pin fully visible and touchable; colors paired with engraved circle triangle leaf and star symbols; exactly three trays below; UI outside the board; no text
Avoid: 3D render, isometric angle, perspective camera, realistic workbench, generic wood planks, dark steampunk, cyberpunk, toy plastic gloss, candy UI, timer, lives, currencies, characters, presentation sheet, multiple panels, watermark, extra text
ui-language · https://autechsolutions-game-factory.pages.dev/ideas/pin-and-bloom/files/images/art-bible/ui-language.webp Generation prompt: Use case: ui-mockup
Asset type: editable UI direction reference for a 2D mobile puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: show a small coherent Pin & Bloom UI component system matching the supplied gameplay master
Subject: home card, chapter card, level preview card, primary and secondary buttons, pause modal, jammed modal, result card, undo pause settings and accessibility icons, three-slot tray component
Style/medium: polished flat 2D vector-like mobile UI, cut-paper restraint, matte enamel accents, slate outlines
Composition/framing: light landscape component board with eight large readable groups and generous spacing; components shown straight-on; empty text areas; no device frame
Lighting/mood: calm daylight, friendly, premium
Color palette: match the gameplay master exactly and preserve semantic color roles
Constraints: Image 1 is canonical; flat 2D only; UI must look editable and production-feasible; use symbol placeholders rather than words; show color-plus-symbol accessibility; no baked production copy
Avoid: full 3D screens, isometric panels, dark UI, glassmorphism, neon, casino particles, extra currencies, timer, lives, ad buttons, dense tiny component catalog, fake paragraphs, watermark
world-language · https://autechsolutions-game-factory.pages.dev/ideas/pin-and-bloom/files/images/art-bible/world-language.webp Generation prompt: Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: object and environment language board for a 2D mobile puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: a clean curated collection of Pin & Bloom botanical automata and modular game objects that exactly matches the supplied gameplay master
Subject: one restored flower automaton hero, one moth automaton, one seed clock, three cut-paper braces, four enamel symbol pins, three ceramic trays, two empty sockets, one seed reward
Style/medium: polished flat 2D editorial game illustration with crisp vector-like edges, cut paper, matte enamel, restrained brass
Composition/framing: single light landscape board, large separate objects with generous spacing, no overlapping objects, no labels, no fake presentation captions
Lighting/mood: soft daylight, calm and premium
Color palette: match the gameplay master exactly
Constraints: Image 1 is the canonical style and shape reference; preserve its flat orthographic dimension, outline weight, palette roles, material finish, pin symbols, tray construction, and botanical identity; no text
Avoid: new mechanics, 3D, isometric perspective, realistic metal, generic wood, dark background, dense moodboard, tiny thumbnails, character mascot, watermark
Release color-coded screw-pins in the right order to restore tiny botanical machines that bloom when solved.
State
idea-rejected
Stage
0
Score
89
GDD excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a portrait, flat-2D mobile logic game. The player releases color-coded screw-pins from layered protective plates in a safe order. Removed pins travel into visible sorting trays. When the last brace clears, the tiny botanical automaton beneath it unfolds and blooms.
Art excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a light editorial 2D puzzle, not a simulated workshop. Its visual signature is a flat botanical automaton held under patterned paper braces by enamel screw-pins. Solving replaces clutter with a moment of life.
Release color-coded screw-pins in the right order to restore tiny botanical machines that bloom when solved.
State
idea-rejected
Stage
0
Score
89
GDD excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a portrait, flat-2D mobile logic game. The player releases color-coded screw-pins from layered protective plates in a safe order. Removed pins travel into visible sorting trays. When the last brace clears, the tiny botanical automaton beneath it unfolds and blooms.
Art excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a light editorial 2D puzzle, not a simulated workshop. Its visual signature is a flat botanical automaton held under patterned paper braces by enamel screw-pins. Solving replaces clutter with a moment of life.
Release color-coded screw-pins in the right order to restore tiny botanical machines that bloom when solved.
State
idea-rejected
Stage
0
Score
89
GDD excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a portrait, flat-2D mobile logic game. The player releases color-coded screw-pins from layered protective plates in a safe order. Removed pins travel into visible sorting trays. When the last brace clears, the tiny botanical automaton beneath it unfolds and blooms.
Art excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a light editorial 2D puzzle, not a simulated workshop. Its visual signature is a flat botanical automaton held under patterned paper braces by enamel screw-pins. Solving replaces clutter with a moment of life.
Release color-coded screw-pins in the right order to restore tiny botanical machines that bloom when solved.
State
idea-rejected
Stage
0
Score
89
GDD excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a portrait, flat-2D mobile logic game. The player releases color-coded screw-pins from layered protective plates in a safe order. Removed pins travel into visible sorting trays. When the last brace clears, the tiny botanical automaton beneath it unfolds and blooms.
Art excerpt
Pin & Bloom is a light editorial 2D puzzle, not a simulated workshop. Its visual signature is a flat botanical automaton held under patterned paper braces by enamel screw-pins. Solving replaces clutter with a moment of life.
Use case: ui-mockup
Asset type: canonical mobile gameplay reference for a 2D puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: show one premium portrait mobile gameplay scene for Pin & Bloom, a calm screw-pin logic puzzle where protective paper braces are removed to reveal a botanical automaton
Scene/backdrop: warm ivory sunlit field with generous breathing room
Subject: one central flat layered flower automaton held by six large enamel screw-pins and three clearly overlapping cut-paper braces; three fixed ceramic symbol-coded trays below the board; minimal quiet HUD above
Style/medium: polished flat 2D editorial game illustration, cut paper plus matte enamel plus restrained brass, crisp vector-like edges
Composition/framing: straight orthographic front view, portrait game topology centered inside a landscape reference canvas, large readable objects, no device frame
Lighting/mood: soft daylight, calm, optimistic, premium, low contrast shadows only for layer order
Color palette: warm ivory, slate ink, leaf green, coral, sky blue, lilac, restrained brass
Constraints: strictly flat 2D; every screw-pin fully visible and touchable; colors paired with engraved circle triangle leaf and star symbols; exactly three trays below; UI outside the board; no text
Avoid: 3D render, isometric angle, perspective camera, realistic workbench, generic wood planks, dark steampunk, cyberpunk, toy plastic gloss, candy UI, timer, lives, currencies, characters, presentation sheet, multiple panels, watermark, extra text
Use case: ui-mockup
Asset type: editable UI direction reference for a 2D mobile puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: show a small coherent Pin & Bloom UI component system matching the supplied gameplay master
Subject: home card, chapter card, level preview card, primary and secondary buttons, pause modal, jammed modal, result card, undo pause settings and accessibility icons, three-slot tray component
Style/medium: polished flat 2D vector-like mobile UI, cut-paper restraint, matte enamel accents, slate outlines
Composition/framing: light landscape component board with eight large readable groups and generous spacing; components shown straight-on; empty text areas; no device frame
Lighting/mood: calm daylight, friendly, premium
Color palette: match the gameplay master exactly and preserve semantic color roles
Constraints: Image 1 is canonical; flat 2D only; UI must look editable and production-feasible; use symbol placeholders rather than words; show color-plus-symbol accessibility; no baked production copy
Avoid: full 3D screens, isometric panels, dark UI, glassmorphism, neon, casino particles, extra currencies, timer, lives, ad buttons, dense tiny component catalog, fake paragraphs, watermark
Use case: stylized-concept
Asset type: object and environment language board for a 2D mobile puzzle Art Bible
Primary request: a clean curated collection of Pin & Bloom botanical automata and modular game objects that exactly matches the supplied gameplay master
Subject: one restored flower automaton hero, one moth automaton, one seed clock, three cut-paper braces, four enamel symbol pins, three ceramic trays, two empty sockets, one seed reward
Style/medium: polished flat 2D editorial game illustration with crisp vector-like edges, cut paper, matte enamel, restrained brass
Composition/framing: single light landscape board, large separate objects with generous spacing, no overlapping objects, no labels, no fake presentation captions
Lighting/mood: soft daylight, calm and premium
Color palette: match the gameplay master exactly
Constraints: Image 1 is the canonical style and shape reference; preserve its flat orthographic dimension, outline weight, palette roles, material finish, pin symbols, tray construction, and botanical identity; no text
Avoid: new mechanics, 3D, isometric perspective, realistic metal, generic wood, dark background, dense moodboard, tiny thumbnails, character mascot, watermark
{
"version": 1,
"status": "verified-provisional",
"model": "gpt-image-2",
"authority": [
"gdd.md",
"ux-flow.md",
"visual-brief.md",
"art-bible.md"
],
"assets": [
{
"id": "gameplay-master",
"role": "canonical gameplay and palette reference",
"prompt": "image-prompts/gameplay-master.txt",
"output": "art-bible/gameplay-master.png",
"references": [],
"qa": "passed: strict front view, six visible pins, three trays, no text or extra mechanics; low-relief material rendering is acceptable as reference, not production geometry"
},
{
"id": "world-language",
"role": "object, material, and world-family reference",
"prompt": "image-prompts/world-language.txt",
"output": "art-bible/world-language.png",
"references": [
"art-bible/gameplay-master.png"
],
"qa": "passed: palette, pin symbols, trays, botanical identity, and straight-on object language remain consistent with gameplay master"
},
{
"id": "ui-language",
"role": "editable UI and component direction",
"prompt": "image-prompts/ui-language.txt",
"output": "art-bible/ui-language.png",
"references": [
"art-bible/gameplay-master.png"
],
"qa": "passed with caveat: coherent UI language and no forbidden economy; generated index numerals are non-authoritative and must not enter production UI"
}
]
}
