ROOT

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Think Lord of the Rings adventure meets The Martian collaborative survival tale as an interactive series for VR.

climate-ecology

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About

ROOT is a live-action, dialogue-driven, narrative VR game. In a climate-wrecked future, people find immortality by uploading their consciousness into computers. But when a solar storm causes a worldwide blackout, humanity’s only hope for survival is to travel across the scorched Earth to restore power to the ROOT directory.

Impact

We are focusing on one key strategy: Ten Percent Less. Specifically, we hope to: Encourage at least 10,000 people to reduce their resource use by 10% and donate $10/month of their income to environmental action charities.

Team

Kristen Gorlitz - [contact redacted] Matt Lubetich - [contact redacted]

Funding

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Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.

Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/1672897108642x639946952087494300
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Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.