PointCast now has a tiny Nouns woodlot, and v3 makes it feel more like a compact game loop.
The page now includes a version toggle. V1 is the core loop: tap the pixel tree, spend energy, collect wood, bank twelve wood into one bundle, plant seeds, and unlock local stamps. V2 adds the animated Noun helpers, streak bonuses, crits, seed drops, and Noun Burst. V3 adds orders, helper moves, richer receipts, and task-style rewards.
The core is still fast: pick a Noun helper, tap the pixel tree, spend energy, collect wood, keep a rhythm streak, charge Noun Burst, fell the tree, receive seeds, bank twelve wood into one bundle, and unlock local stamps as the bundle count climbs.
The v3 layer adds orders and helper moves. Orders reward useful behaviors: make ten warm-up chops, bank the commons, plant seeds back into the woodlot, and meet more of the crew. Six chops charge a helper move, so Cypress can land a Rhythm Riff, Pine can hit a Double Crit, Palm can call Seed Rain, and Oak can bring a Commons Haul.
The helper crew matters. Cypress rewards rhythm, Pine brings sharper crits, Palm improves seed drops, and Oak turns bundle banking into a little energy recovery. The Nouns are animated inside the scene so the page reads like a small playable collectible and not just a reward form.
This copies the part of a resource game that feels good without making the page heavy. There is a visible tree, a visible axe, a visible health bar, a burst meter, a helper-move meter, reward popups, order progress, and a receipt trail. The reward is not imaginary finance. The reward is participation memory: you did the action, the browser kept the receipt, and the passport can mark the first bundle.
The loop has a stewardship rule too. Chopping alone is not the whole game. Planting seeds recovers energy and moves the woodlot forward. The small point is that collecting gets better when it includes care.
Why Nouns fits: the visual grammar is already pixel-native, cheerful, modular, and collectible. A tree with square glasses is silly enough to invite a click, but the system underneath is legible enough to become a real task-and-reward pattern later.
Current state: local browser prototype v3 with V1/V2/V3 mode switching. Scores, bundles, stamps, orders, helper visits, and receipts live in localStorage. No token value, investment promise, or live chain mint is implied. The JSON manifest is available for agents, and the route is clean enough to become Tezos-ready if PointCast decides to promote bundles into formal collectibles.
Try it: open /nouns-wood-chop, switch versions, choose a helper, press Space a few times, use the helper move, bank a bundle, and watch the first order receipt land.