The Grove is the game-facing branch of the broader DAN effort, extending that project into something interactive, explorable, and structurally distinct from a pure authoring tool.
It is being developed by Ignus VanMule as a connected component rather than a separate disconnected experiment, which means its design is tied closely to the same larger questions about interface, authorship, and participation.
At this stage, The Grove is best understood as an in-development prototype whose role is to test how those ideas behave once they become playable.