docs/COMPETITION_GOAL.md

DreamWall: AfterBlock Museum Competition Goal

Goal

Win the Build Small Hackathon by making DreamWall feel like a new way to preserve memory: an emotional Minecraft museum where real objects, prompted paintings, animals, and personal symbols become placed artifacts with passports and tiny spirits.

Submission Bet

AfterBlock Museum is not a chatbot and not a normal image generator. It is a Minecraft museum ritual:

• visitors scan a relic, memory, animal spirit, or prompted painting
• the curator assigns a hall and museum placement
• each artifact receives curation scores, resonance links, and a plaque
• a constrained spirit awakens and speaks from the artifact lore
• the app renders a 3D Minecraft artifact, prints a passport card, exposes a live Paper handoff, and emits dreamwall.museum.v1
• the Minecraft server becomes the proof surface: the same relic gets a route compass, lit floor path, engraved nameplate, lectern passport, and right-click profile button at its generated XYZ

What To Avoid For V1

• Real-money payments
• Blockchain/NFT claims
• Complex ownership law
• Persistent public multiplayer economy before the demo works

Use curation score, visitor echoes, and resonance instead of auction language.

Winning Demo

One continuous three-minute video:

1. Open the Hugging Face Space.
2. Type one ordinary object and one story caption, then click Place in Museum.
3. Show the main 3D relic; keep commands collapsed unless needed.
4. Open Living Map and show the living museum map, You are here banner, lit route, and exact XYZ.
5. Open Passport + Profile for the QR/share link and artifact history.
6. Open Join Minecraft so judges see the already-built world card, server address, and server proof commands without turning the video into a ZIP-install walkthrough.
7. Switch to Minecraft, run /dreamwall pack, /dreamwall museum check, then paste the generated /dreamwall import object | story | @owner command from the Space.
8. Show the atlas target, hold the route compass, follow the lit floor from YOU ARE HERE, and show the placed item, engraved nameplate, lectern passport, and profile button at the generated plot.
9. End with: "AfterBlock turns the things people would throw away into places they can visit."

Critique

What works:

• The browser app has a clean job: turn one object and one story into a museum packet.
• The Minecraft server is the moat. It makes the memory spatial, walkable, and persistent instead of just another generated image.
• The exact coordinate contract is easy for judges to understand: the Space says plot x,z; Minecraft proves that exact plot exists.
• The passport/profile layer makes the "spirit" useful: it becomes the artifact's history page, not a vague chatbot.

What does not work if over-emphasized:

• A giant texture browser is impressive but noisy; use it only as backup proof.
• "Spirit" as a standalone feature sounds redundant unless it is framed as the relic profile/history.
• Generic-looking previews weaken the emotional hook. In the video, pick one object that renders clearly and has a specific caption.
• PebbleHost setup is not the story. The story is Space -> route compass -> exact in-world relic.
• Downloads and SFTP belong in the appendix. Lead with the living object and the in-world proof.

Best way to win:

• Demo one memorable relic, not ten features.
• Spend most of the video on the continuity proof: same prompt, same passport, same CustomModelData, same XYZ, same in-world artifact.
• Show the proof manifest only if asked; use it as judge confidence, not as the emotional centerpiece.
• If PebbleHost access is ready, record the live server. If not, record the locally verified Paper world and be explicit that PebbleHost upload is password-gated.

Target Prizes

• OpenAI Codex Track: public GitHub repo with Codex-authored commits.
• Adventure in Thousand Token Wood: strange, emotional, delightful, AI-load-bearing, and small enough to run without a giant model dependency.
• Off-Brand: Minecraft museum terminal rather than default chatbot UI.
• Tiny Titan: constrained local semantic curation is far below the 32B ceiling and can be swapped for a <=4B model without changing the packet.
• Best Demo: object to 3D model to hall to passport/profile to exact-coordinate Minecraft proof in under three minutes.
• Community Choice: passport cards and optional social tags make the output shareable without forcing spam.
• Sharing is Caring: sample artifact traces and server packets make the system inspectable.
• Field Notes: docs/FIELD_NOTES.md explains why a Minecraft museum is a small-model memory machine.
• Judges' Wildcard: the weird coherent claim is that ordinary objects become places when the museum decides "when" they are art.