Dandelicat is an interactive narrative website about a creature who is half cat and half dandelion, learning how to live after entering an unfamiliar world. Through playful interactions and emotional storytelling, the project explores adaptation, identity, and quiet forms of change.
Hi, I am Dandelicat ;p
I am a tiny creature who is half cat and half dandelion. I used to live like a cat in the Cat World. I slept and woke up with my own body rhythm, and I understood everything around me in a very cat-like way. Then one day, a dandelion seed changed my body.
To learn how to live with my new identity, I entered the Dandelion World. Time, language, and rules work differently here, so I have to learn new ways of living, little by little.
Avery Made My World Interactive
My creator, Avery, turned my story into a chapter-based interactive web experience. Visitors can drag sliders, install patches, and unlock chapters to help me learn the rules of the Dandelion World.
In Body Clock, visitors help me adjust to a new rhythm of time. In Language Patch, they help me understand a new language. In Dandelion World, I finally enter this new world, only to realize that some of my cat habits are slowly fading away.
Things I Learned in the Dandelion World
Body Clock Chapter
After I arrived in the Dandelion World, the first thing I had to learn was a new rhythm of time. Visitors drag a slider to push me out of bed and keep me from falling back asleep (😿…), helping me adjust my body clock.
Little by little, I wake up from the rhythm of the Cat World and begin to adapt to the days, nights, and body states of this new world.
Language Patch Chapter
I begin to learn the language of the Dandelion World, but the words here do not become clear right away. Visitors need to drag floating language patches and install them into my brain. Each patch brings me a little closer to understanding how this new world expresses itself.
Dandelion World Chapter
After learning body time and language, I finally enter the Dandelion World.
But when I see mice and fish again, things that used to feel familiar, they no longer feel the same.
The desires and instincts I once had as a cat begin to feel strange. This chapter shows how, as I become more adapted to the new world, I also move a little further away from the cat I used to be.
Updates Are Not Always Upgrades
For me, an “update” does not simply mean becoming better. Each update helps me live more smoothly in the Dandelion World, but it also takes me a little further away from the cat I used to be.
Avery uses “system updates” and “patch installation” as the logic of my world, turning the process of adaptation into something useful, awkward, funny, and a little bit sad. Through playful web interactions, visual storytelling, and a strange-cute character, my story becomes a digital world that visitors can browse, click, and experience.
How Avery Built My World
Why I Am Half Cat and Half Dandelion
Avery made me half cat and half dandelion partly out of a love for cats, and partly out of an interest in the nature of dandelions. Dandelion seeds can be carried by the wind to different places. They drift, scatter, and continue growing in new environments. To Avery, they became a way to think about change, migration, and the process of adapting after being carried somewhere unfamiliar.
My cat side carries habits, instincts, and a past way of living. My dandelion side carries me toward drifting, change, and a new world. I do not fully belong to the Cat World, and I do not fully belong to the Dandelion World either. My body exists between these two states, making change something that can be seen.
Why I Install Updates
Avery uses “system updates” and “patch installation” to show how I learn a new world. An update usually sounds like something positive: fixing problems, becoming better, becoming more compatible. But for me, each update is not only an upgrade. Updates help me live in the Dandelion World, but they also slowly change the way I understand time, language, and myself.
How My World Feels and Moves
Avery did not turn my story into a plain text explanation. Instead, Avery built it as a web experience that visitors can drag, install, unlock, and explore. Sliders, language patches, maps, colors, and strange-cute visual elements all become part of how I learn the Dandelion World. When visitors move through my chapters, they are not only reading about my changes. They are helping those changes happen through their own actions.
Where My Story Comes From
My story comes from Avery’s experience of moving between different cultures and languages. Many changes do not happen all at once. They appear slowly in everyday life: in the way we speak, the way we understand others, the rhythm of our days, and even in habits that once felt familiar.
Avery created me, a tiny creature who is half cat and half dandelion, to turn these quiet but lasting changes into a world that can be seen, clicked, and experienced.
Come visit Avery’s thesis project and play with me in the Dandelion World.
Let’s Dandelicat!
Meow 🐾
Tools & Technologies:
Tools & Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, Adobe Illustrator, GitHub Pages
Additional visual support: AI-assisted image editing for selected background elements.
