## What this is A 3D recreation of one year in a temperate forest ecosystem, built as a continuous autoplay loop where every reseed *advances* the year instead of restarting it. Eight sub-locations sit on one map — meadow clearing, deep forest interior, riverbank with beaver lodge, owl tree, fox den, woodpecker snag, forest pond, hilltop overlook — and 12 era bands progress from Early Spring (April) through Mid Summer, Autumn, Deep Winter, and Thaw (March). Sky, fog, grass tint, and leaf color all lerp through four full season palettes per frame. Snow falls in winter, leaves drift in autumn, pollen swirls in spring, fireflies appear at summer dusk. Fourteen named cast — Doe Hazel and her fawn Sprig, Buck Cinder and rival Wren, vixen Rua and her kits Ember and Scamp, Owl Octavia, Beaver pair Splash and Otter, Raccoon Bandit, Woodpecker Tap, Robin Sky, Squirrel Acorn — share the woodland with seventy-eight instanced background animals and a forty-four-name pool that surfaces in the chyron rotation. The forest *remembers*. localStorage saves every named animal's age and family between reseeds. After ten minutes the world advances to Year 2: Sprig is a yearling. After another ten minutes, Sprig is an adult and has her own fawn. The beaver dam piles up incrementally across the year. The sapling planted in Year 1 grows visibly taller in Year 5. You don't play it. You watch it. And it remembers you watching. ## Why this is mind-blowing Most demos forget you. This one doesn't. Open it once and you see a meadow on a spring morning. Come back tomorrow night and Hazel is older, the fawn she had has her own fawn now, the beaver dam is finally finished, and the sapling you saw planted is now a real tree casting real shadow. Reseed every ten minutes is the *clock* of the world — a Twitch viewer leaving the stream on overnight gets a multi-year time-lapse of one woodland ecosystem with the same named cast aging through it. The chyron narrates cross-system: a deer fawn taking first steps in the meadow while across the forest a buck spars with a rival is *one event in one frame*, the way nature documentaries cut. Twenty director cameras are hint-filtered to the active season — winter cameras dominate the snow act, owl cameras the dusk, the hilltop overlooks the autumn storm. It's the cozy wildlife stream you'd actually leave on overnight to find aged the next morning.