Clicking a plant or a visitor in the prototype now opens the field journal. It is a place to notice details, ask a small question and follow the thread to another discovery.
The current collection has 21 profiles and 40 locally stored, openly licensed reference photographs. Nature text links to its sources; photographs retain author and licence information. Fictional story notes are kept distinct from real nature references.
Artwork identification is a separate task. A beautiful generated bee or flower model is not evidence of a species. The journal makes that distinction explicit, and reference-only profiles are not presented as creatures already living in the corner.
The aim is to let curiosity do the work. A player can simply enjoy a visitor, or choose to look more closely and learn a little about the real world that inspired it.
Reference photograph credits
The field-journal capture includes these real reference photographs, embedded in the prototype interface and resized for this website. Cropping and presentation are part of that interface.
- Bumblebee October 2007-3a.jpg — Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Bombus terrestris - Tilia cordata - Keila-crop.jpg — Ivar Leidus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Lycaena phlaeas male Bytom.jpg — Adrian Tync, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Magerwiesen-Margerite Sachsen Germany 17.jpg — Lupus in Saxonia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographic content retains its original licence. The nature reference photographs are distinct from the generated character and garden artwork.