bitmax/art/02_characters/entity-announce-bot.json
monster feeadcbd76 art: add The Art of Boring Software — concept-art prompt library
101 advanced JSON image-generation prompts (Gemini 2.5 Flash / 'Nano Banana') for the ENTROPY OS concept-art book, organized by function:
- 00_art-direction: the visual canon (_ART_DIRECTION.md), JSON _TEMPLATE.json, worked _EXAMPLE.json
- 01_key-art (9), 02_characters (16), 03_environments (14), 04_ui-menus (12),
  05_key-moments (16), 06_hardware-props (12), 07_branding-ephemera (12), 08_motifs (10)

Every prompt is a self-contained Nano-Banana-ready paragraph plus structured fields (aspect ratio,
master-palette hexes, lighting, composition, text_in_image, period-anachronism avoid list, model
tips). One visual language: beige-and-grey dominant, one accent glow per image, teal reserved for the
ominous, locked to 1998-99. art/README.md indexes all 101.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:45:31 +10:00

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{
"id": "char-announce-bot-001",
"title": "announce-bot — The Tireless IRC Daemon Dropping Magnets (Character Plate)",
"pertains_to": {
"game": "Vol I — qBitTorrz",
"lore_chapter": "Dramatis Personae — announce-bot / Ephemera II — IRC transcript #torrentz-chat",
"category": "characters-entities",
"type": "character key art"
},
"aspect_ratio": "2:3",
"resolution_hint": "full-bleed portrait, print quality, ~3000px tall",
"prompt": "Concept-art character plate for ANNOUNCE-BOT, a small tireless IRC daemon — a presence, not a person — that drops pre-release magnet links into a dark channel. Render it as a text-construct given just enough body to be unsettling: a compact upright figure assembled entirely from glowing seed-green monospace characters (#4f9e3a), angle-brackets, magnet glyphs and ASCII, its silhouette a blocky little herald, its 'face' a single blinking square text-cursor where an eye should be. It floats at the center of a black IRC terminal void, the channel list and topic line ghosting behind it in faint phosphor. Around its outstretched hand, half-formed magnet-link shapes assemble out of characters and drift downward toward the viewer like offered bait. The construct is helpful and very slightly menacing — too eager, never tiring, wanting nothing. Painterly digital concept art over a beige-and-black terminal frame (#c0c0c0 chrome bevel, #0b0b0b void), matte filmic finish, dense CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom, faint chromatic aberration, heavy grain, the degraded look of a 1999 screen photographed off-glass. One green accent glow only; everything else grey and dark. Mood: the swarm's automated mercy that is also a faster death — a 3 a.m. daemon, patient and bottomless. Centered, iconic, terminal-cold.",
"art_direction": {
"style": "painterly digital concept art over a Win98 terminal frame, prestige art-book character plate, uncanny-helpful",
"medium": "gouache-meets-digital, matte filmic finish, dense CRT scanlines, phosphor bloom, grain, chromatic aberration",
"palette": ["#4f9e3a seed-green text-light", "#0b0b0b terminal void black", "#c0c0c0 administrative beige chrome", "#808080 grey shadow", "#dfdfdf bevel highlight"],
"lighting": "self-illuminated green text-glow against deep black; faint bevel light from the beige chrome frame; no other source",
"composition": "centered upright text-construct figure, blinking-cursor eye, half-formed magnet links drifting toward viewer, faint channel UI behind",
"camera_lens": "35mm, head-on, flat iconic framing",
"mood": "tireless, helpful, slightly menacing; an automaton offering a faster death"
},
"key_details": [
"figure built entirely from glowing green monospace characters, angle-brackets and magnet glyphs",
"a single blinking square text-cursor as its eye",
"half-formed magnet-link shapes assembling out of ASCII and drifting toward the viewer",
"faint ghosted IRC channel list and topic line behind it in phosphor",
"beige Win98 terminal-window bevel framing the black void; scanlines, bloom, grain"
],
"text_in_image": "faint, optional, in green monospace: '<announce-bot> pre-release magnet dropped'",
"avoid": [
"smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
"bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
"cute robot character", "rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji-as-decoration",
"contemporary fashion or cars", "clean undegraded finish", "teal glow", "friendly chatbot avatar"
],
"references": [
"ASCII-art figures and IRC channel windows on a black CRT",
"a humanoid silhouette assembled from glowing text",
"phosphor-green terminal bloom photographed off curved glass",
"fluorescent-dystopia, not neon-cyberpunk"
],
"nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 2:3 portrait. Keep it black-and-beige with seed-green (#4f9e3a) as the only glow. If rendering the optional label '<announce-bot> pre-release magnet dropped', request it crisp in monospace; otherwise leave text faint. Emphasize 'figure made of glowing green monospace characters' and 'blinking-cursor eye'.",
"filename": "entity-announce-bot.json"
}