01 / THE ORIGIN
Elias and Bruno.
It started here.
BRUNO / THE HEART OF THE STORYELIAS & BRUNO
Bruno is
Elias’s dog.
But their story goes deeper than that.
Four different times, Bruno was there when Elias needed him most.
NOT ONCE.
NOT TWICE.
FOUR TIMES.
And those four moments became the foundation of one simple idea:
Every Dog gets
four lives.
I wanted to bring Elias and Bruno’s story onchain, but I needed a visual language that was simple, recognizable and capable of becoming a real collectible identity.
THE IDEA THAT BECAME THE PACK
That’s where
ASCII came in.
I liked the idea behind ASCII Cats. The concept was simple and genuinely good, but I felt the execution could have gone further — stronger mechanics, better distribution, more focus on real people, and more reason for the collection to matter after mint.
So I took that idea and built my own interpretation around a story that was already personal to me.
ASCII DOGS.
4,444 DOGS. FOUR LIVES EACH.
Built around survival, progression, $BRUNO and future gameplay.
Because Bruno saved Elias four times.
Meet the Genesis Dogs.
4,444 personalities. Four rarity tiers. Find your Dog.