An avatar that grows through real volunteering.
Raízes is Noreva Studios' new project: every player creates and raises an avatar born as a baby — and what makes it grow isn't screen time, it's real volunteer work in the community, validated by parish councils.
You can buy clothes. You can't buy character.
What is Raízes
In Raízes, your avatar is like a child: you customise the baby at birth and, from then on, everything it becomes reflects your choices — the objects it lives with, the decisions you make for it and, above all, the hours you dedicate to your community.
Volunteer hours — cleaning paths, supporting local festivals, helping elders, preserving heritage — are validated by the parish council and converted into Sementes (Seeds), the game's merit currency. With Seeds, the avatar has birthdays, learns crafts and earns the tools of its growth.
Character is built differently: through decisions and challenges inside the game — village dilemmas with no right answer, only the person your avatar is becoming.
How it works
The council publishes an event
River clean-up, local festival, memory gathering — real parish projects.
You sign up and show up
QR check-in on site, with a council-appointed manager present.
Hours become Seeds
Proposed by the event manager, confirmed by the council — dual signature, no shortcuts.
The avatar grows
Seeds pay for birthdays, tools and books. Each level is a year of life.
Objects teach
An equipped pencil develops drawing; a wooden spoon, cooking — day after day.
Decisions shape character
Daily dilemmas and birthday crossroads shape who it becomes.
The rules that define us
Merit can't be bought
Seeds are only born from validated volunteering. Never for sale — no exceptions.
Character can't be clicked
The last third of every personality trait is only earned in real life.
The council validates everything
Two roles, two signatures: the event manager proposes hours, the administrator confirms.
No ads in the prototype
And when they exist, never for minors. The 13–17 experience stays clean, always.
Project status
✓ Concept
✓ Game Design Document
▸ Prototype (Phase 0)
Pilot with a parish council
Expansion to more parishes
Are you from a parish council?
The pilot starts with one parish — yours could be the first. See the partnership programme and talk to us.
Partnership programmeWhat about Project Ota?
The 3D world of Ota remains on the horizon. Raízes is the first step that builds the community, the partnerships and the model that will make it possible — and the avatar you raise in Raízes will one day be your character in the Noreva worlds.
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