PHILOSOPHY
Pick up one thing. The world becomes larger.
What does Glass And Stone value?
01PHILOSOPHY
Pick up one thing. The world becomes larger.
Finding a stone. Learning its name. Keeping it. Making something from it. Passing it to someone else.
Knowledge and its sources, value, making, provenance, ownership and exchange. These are the ideas that shape this world.
Glass And Stone is not a world where the person who accumulates the most wins.
Pick up one stone.Learn its name.Wonder why it is here.Wash it.Break it.Observe it.Keep it.Display it.Pass it to someone else.Bring it together with glass and make something new.
Attention to one small object can lead outward: to geology, making, memory, another person's work, and eventually to a world you have not yet seen.
That widening of curiosity is what Glass And Stone values.
Attention makes the world richer.
Some days you may search for a rare mineral. Other days you may find nothing and simply watch the sea.
Visit another person's gallery. Move furniture around your own room. Listen to music. Keep an ordinary stone simply because you like it.
There is no single correct way to live in this world.
You do not have to fight.You do not have to take from others.You do not have to hurry.Expand the world within you.
02STONE & SCIENCE
Be faithful to real stones.
For a child, this world may be the first place they learn a stone’s name. We hope that encounter opens a door to the real Earth.
Creating an imagined island brings a responsibility: to check the knowledge we share.
Check the name and the evidence.
We use official IMA-CNMNC materials to check mineral names and species status, and research papers, museum records and scientific references for properties and formation.
We distinguish mineral species from rocks, fossils, gem names and varieties. Species rarity is also guided by real-world occurrence data.
Explain where an image comes from.
We prioritize photographs of real specimens with verified reuse terms, recording the collection, original image, rights and any changes.
When we use AI-generated or reconstructed images, we label them accordingly. They are distinct from specimen photographs and are not evidence of a mineral’s appearance or properties.
Leave room for what we do not know.
Color and shape cannot tell us everything. We do not fill gaps in our knowledge with plausible-looking descriptions or images.
We distinguish island fiction and simplifications for play from real-world knowledge. Making an explanation accessible to a child should not mean hiding uncertainty.
Keep correcting what we share.
We retain sources, verification dates and a record of changes. New findings or errors are reasons to revisit both descriptions and images.
The review of our existing data and images is ongoing. Checking, explaining and correcting are part of how we grow this world.
Meet curiosity with care.
03VALUE
Value is not one thing.
No single number can explain what a stone or a work means.
In Glass And Stone, several different kinds of value can exist at the same time.
SPECIES RARITY
How rare the mineral species is on the real Earth.
How often you encounter it on the island also depends on the local geological setting.
SPECIMEN QUALITY
The qualities of this particular specimen: size, crystal form, exposure, preservation and individual appearance.
GEOLOGICAL INTEREST
What geological story the stone carries: its host rock, formation environment, pressure, temperature, fluids, volcanism or erosion.
PROVENANCE
Where it was found, who found it, and how it has moved through the world.
PERSONAL VALUE
The meaning it has to one person: a first discovery, a shared memory, or a stone found after a long search.
MATERIAL POTENTIAL
What it might become. It can remain a specimen, or become part of a work that does not yet exist.
ARTISTIC VALUE
What someone feels when they encounter a finished work. The game does not reduce beauty to a single official score.
MARKET VALUE
What another person is willing to pay at a particular moment. A real part of exchange, but not a complete definition of value.
UTILITY
How it can be used in the world: making, displaying, living with it, or passing it to someone else.
Quartz may be common as a species while one particular quartz specimen can be exceptional.
A globally rare mineral may be visually modest.
An ordinary stone you found yourself may become something you would never want to sell.
Market price is one answer to the question of exchange.
It is not a score for beauty, scientific importance, memory, or what an object means to a person.
VALUE IS PLURAL.
04STONE + GLASS
Making creates new value.
Cherish a stone just as you found it. Bring it together with glass to make a work of your own.
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Keeping a stone and making a work are both ways to express what you love.
A rare and beautiful specimen can be enjoyed just as it is.
If that stone is used in a glass work, the original specimen no longer remains as an independently tradable stone.
A new work carries the stone’s history forward, with the creator’s own artistic expression.
And an ordinary stone may become part of a work someone never forgets.
The character of the materials meets the vision of the maker.
Together, they create new beauty and value that is uniquely their own.
The choice of colors and forms, and the thought behind a work, become part of what makes it special.
Keeping the specimen can be meaningful. Making the work can be meaningful.
The choice belongs to the player.
05PROVENANCE
Who found it. Who made it. Who owns it now.
When objects can move from one person to another, ownership alone does not tell the whole story.
Glass And Stone separates three roles.
FINDER
The person who originally found the stone.
CREATOR
The person who made the work from stone and glass.
OWNER
The person who currently owns that individual object.
Ownership can change.
Finder and creator history do not disappear when an object is sold.
For example:
A finds a stone.
B buys the stone.
B uses it to create a work.
C later buys that work and displays it in a gallery.
The stone was found by A. The work was created by B. The current owner is C.
The journey is part of the object.
A change of owner does not erase what came before.
In Glass And Stone, provenance is part of what an object means.
06A QUIET ECONOMY
Coins are not the value of everything.
Glass And Stone has an economy.
Stones and works can have prices. A player may sell a stone they found, sell a work they created, or buy an object from someone else and place it in their own gallery.
But having a market is not the same as making market price the final definition of value.
Coins are a common language that allows different things to move from one person to another.
Coins can return to the player's life in the world: repairing tools, growing a gallery, changing floors and walls, adding furniture and lighting, choosing clothes and accessories, or enjoying dances and emotes.
The purpose of the economy is not simply to make a number go up.
It helps discoveries, works, ownership, places, and ways of living circulate through the world.
COINS ARE A COMMON LANGUAGE OF EXCHANGE — NOT THE VALUE OF EVERYTHING.
The player with the most coins is not automatically the most important person in this world.
The work with the highest sale price is not automatically the best work.
A work that sells for little is not therefore meaningless.
The market exists.
But the market does not define the value of the world.
THE MARKET SERVES THE WORLD.THE WORLD DOES NOT SERVE THE MARKET.
07WHAT YOU TREASURE
You decide what to treasure.
You love its color. Its shape catches your eye. It holds the memory of finding it yourself.
Rarity and price are not the only measures of value. This is a world where you can cherish what matters to you.
Season 1 begins on Aonagi Island.
Pick up ordinary stones on the shore. Walk through the forest. Follow the river. Enter caves and the abandoned mine.
Eventually, you discover that another island lies beyond the sea, with different geology and different stones.
The First 72 were the first encounters placed in this world.
Your memories are not only about how many stones you found, but which ones you came to love.
New minerals are still being recognized by science. Our understanding of the Earth continues to change.
The world of Glass And Stone can grow with that knowledge.
Keep a stone you love. Make a work. Display it in your gallery. How you enjoy it is up to you.
As you arrange your finds and creations, your gallery also holds the memories of your time here.
Glass And Stone is not a world that ranks stones, people, or works from most valuable to least valuable.
Some stones contain nothing rare.
Some works may never sell for a high price.
That does not make them meaningless.
Geological diversity. Beauty felt by another person. The memory of finding something yourself. The history of receiving it from someone else.
What to keep. What to display. We believe those choices should be yours.
You do not have to fight.You do not have to take from others.You do not have to hurry.Cherish what you love.
The sea continues beyond Aonagi Island.