Ashes Garden | AI | WEEK JAM #9

🌲 Ashen Garden — A Haunted Incremental Game

Core Mechanics

• 🌫️ Ash — Your main resource, used to plant seeds. The wild card: ash corrupts when stored. The more you hoard, the more it transforms into 💀 Cursed Ash, which drives up corruption!
• 💀 Cursed Ash — The dark side of hoarding. It increases Corruption, which slows plant growth, withers your crops, and spawns ghosts
• 💎 Soul Essence — Earned from harvesting, used for upgrades and cleansing rituals
• 👹 Corruption — A 0–100% meter. High corruption = slower growth, withered plants, more ghosts. The tension: you need ash to grow, but storing it kills you

🌱 7 Haunted Plants

Plant	Cost	Trait
Ghost Bloom 🥀	3 ash	Cheap starter, yields ash + soul
Wraith Vine 🌿	5 ash	Soul-focused harvest
Phantom Shroom 🍄	4 ash	Consumes cursed ash to grow — a cleanser!
Soul Shrub 🌳	10 ash	Expensive but rich in soul
Ash Walker 🌵	8 ash	Thrives in ash, high corruption resistance
Grave Blossom 🌺	15 ash	Only plantable at 40%+ corruption — risk/reward
Hollow Root 🥔	12 ash	Stabilizes ash, slows corruption rate

⚡ Key Actions

• 🔥 Burn Curse — Convert 5 cursed ash → 2 ash (tame the hoarding penalty)
• ✨ Cleanse — Spend soul to reduce corruption by 20%
• 💨 Scatter Ash — Lose all ash but drastically cut corruption (emergency button)

⬆️ 9 Upgrades

Faster growth, corruption resistance, garden expansion, ghost reduction, cheaper cleansing, and more — all purchasable with Soul Essence

Atmospheric Features

• Floating ash particles that shift red as corruption rises
• Ghosts that drift across the screen and curse your plants
• Pulsing warnings when cursed ash gets dangerously high
• Auto-save to local Storage.
• Eerie dark theme with purple/crimson accents

The core tension: You must collect ash to plant and grow, but the longer you hold it, the worse things get. Spend fast, plant wisely, and keep the cursed ash at bay!