Potato Salad is a Find-It challenge NFT with new hidden characters revealed every drop.Mint yours on opensea
Sample Potato Salad mints
How does it work?
Generative!
We drew a bunch of characters, then wrote an algorithm to randomly position them so every piece is unique!
Fun!
Each piece has one hidden character in it, and each drop will have a different character! Try to find the hidden character!
Bonus!
One lucky winner will be chosen every drop to get a custom pfp drawn by Wendi!
Genesis Drop - April 2nd
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
Today we have two very special cuties to find: a grape jelly holding a peanut bb, and a peanut holding a jelly bb! One of them will be hiding in every piece!
View the collection
April 3rd
Everyone should have a cactus.
Hidden in today's challenge are all sorts of silly cacti. Many are alike, but only one is the special Friend of the Day. Where's the Friend?
Find your cactus friend
April 4th
No one could remember his name.
Today is April 4, and OG Star Trek fans are going to love this challenge! Hidden in each piece is one unlucky redshirt who got missed when everyone beamed back up.
View the drop on OpenSeaApril 5th
Qingming
Today is Qingming Festival, which is traditionally a day when Chinese folks head to the cemetery to clean ancestors' graves, bringing offerings and decorating their tombs with flowers. Afterwards, the rest of the day is spent outdoors; eating, flying kites, and enjoying the spring. In honor of Qingming, today's character is a headstone that has been bedecked in flowers, with offerings of food and incense for the ancestors.
It's also our first coloring-book drop!
Explore the coloring pages
Who makes this?
Wendi, the Artist
BIPOC (Filipino/Chinese), queer (ace), vegan.
Was practically a Luddite prior to a hand tremor that forced her to turn to drawing with a tablet. Loves snacks, campfires, soaking, mountains, the sound of the ocean, and researching obscure shit. Calls all cute animals “kitty!” even when they are not in fact kitties. Sometimes eats popcorn and says it's dinner.
Lucas, the Coder
Vegan, Canadian, he/him.
Grew up around computers and synthesizers, hoping to one day join Depeche Mode as backup haircut. Loves baking, getting in nature, and being in his woodworking shop.
We're just two people who have lots of projects going on and also are big into self-care, so we're not going to overwhelm you or us with a giant pile of goals right out the gate. Here's what is actually doable for us:
Roadmap 2022
April 2: Potato Friends Launch
Every day in April, a fresh potato friend will be released, and every Potato Salad minted that day will feature the daily potato friend.
Only one potato friend will be released per day, and once that day is over that potato friend has officially retired and will not be featured again.
There are 50 mints available per day, and every mint is unique.
The secret characters will not be announced in advance, so each day dawns with a surprise.
Raffle
At the beginning of each day we will draw randomly from amongst those who minted the day before, and one winner will receive their own special PFP version of their potato friend, drawn by Wendi.
April 30
Last day for April's Potato Salad! If 290 or more Potato Salads mint in April, we're going to keep it going, and do another round in June. If once again 290 or more have minted in June, we'll do a round in August. AND if Potato Salad is still getting love in August, then do we ever have a very special and spooooky October lined up for you!
After October, which is bound to be loved because it's going to be BITCHIN', we'd like to do a special holiday salad set, and that will be the end of first Year of the Salad.
Technical Requirements
- ✔ Draw lots of potatoes
- ✔ Automate procreate files-to-asset pipeline
- ✔ Create randomized layouts
- ✔ Support color families
- ✔ Ensure special character is never occluded
- ✔ Support multiple special characters per piece
- ✔ Support random backgrounds per color family
- ✔ Support random sizing
- ✔ Automate creation of 8k images
- ✔ Automate traits
- ✔ Automate asset creation on Opensea
Props & Credits
Thanks to Generative Artistry for the tutorial on circle-packing.