TITLE: SPROUT STREET — pixel plant nursery
PROMPT: Create 'SPROUT STREET', a cozy pixel-art nursery: a chunky 16-bit-style shop shelf of seedlings rendered with box-shadow pixel grids or a pixel canvas; day counter, coin balance, watering can, and a shopkeeper cat that blinks and meows (tiny synth meow, WebAudio, gesture-gated). Plants grow through visible pixel stages (seed → sprout → lumpy bud → bloom) with distinct palettes; some droop if neglected. Interactions: click a pot to water (droplet animation, soil darkens), plants advance on a fast in-page clock, bloomed plants can be sold for coins with a satisfying cha-ching, coins buy rarer seeds; the cat pads along the shelf occasionally. Wholesome, tiny, alive.
DESCRIPTION: A cozy 16-bit nursery in a plum-colored shop: five terracotta pots on a shelf, each a canvas of chunky pixels — seeds sprout into two-leaf sprouts, lumpy buds, then plus-shaped blooms in four species palettes (daisy, bell, ember, moon) with sparkle pixels; neglected plants droop grey-brown and wilt (click to clear them, soil visibly darkens when watered). A fast in-page clock (tick every 3.2s) drives thirst and growth; clicking a pot waters it with a plip, WATER ALL drinks the shelf, SELL BLOOM (+15¢) cha-chings a two-tone coin sound, and seeds cost 10¢ from the shopkeeper cat — an ASCII face that dispenses rotating wisdom ("mrow. the ferns like thursdays.") when you sleep to the next morning. All sounds are tiny square/sawtooth synth blips, gesture-gated.
TECHNIQUES: per-pot canvas pixel painting with stage-dependent sprite routines, thirst/growth probabilistic state machine on an interval clock, species palettes, wilt and clear cycle, coin economy, WebAudio square blips / sawtooth meow / two-tone cha-ching, cat dialogue rotation.
INTERACTION: Click pots to water; buy seeds and sell blooms in the shop; NEXT MORNING advances the day and moves the cat; watch growth stages progress on their own.