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Something I'd love to see studied but definitely hasn't been is how humans arrange themselves while waiting in groups in spaces. Empty rooms, tables but no chairs, tables and chairs, random objects, etc. I have a ton of meetings at work and watching the way people filter into rooms is fascinating

The thing is, it's not really the map that Jerry has designed here. Not quite. Instead, his art has been directed by a magnificent deck of cards of his own creation, filled with different rules that he's constantly tweaking and updating.

Jerry's deck of cards, with the top card reading "Make 3 photo blanks" and "Add 1 card".

The chipmunks, too, are visited by angels: spirits which share their morphology, except that they have millions of cheeks, stuffed with millions of seeds. Cheeks like undulations of divine fire, tiling reality

Yet another new project lol. This time it's a monster tamer that takes place inside a giant evil tower that's locked in time stasis. Here's some of the NPCs, the Architect and Codicier.

The Codicier. She is a short, rotund, mouse-like creature in a green hempen robe. Her mouse tail is visible from under the hem of her robe. She is wearing a large, repeatedly mended witch hat, as well as an overstuffed leather backpack. Her expression is comically worried.The Architect. A tall, lanky figure made of blue stone, with chipped and square facial features. He is wearing a colorful red and tan robe reminiscent of a priest's gown, and has a key on a golden chain around his neck.

Hey all! My partner is hosting a #gamejam based around games like Zoo Tycoon! 🦒 It's running from tomorrow until May 13th, so if you like animals or game dev (or animal game dev), you should totally come check it out and participate! itch.io/jam/lets-go-...

Let's Go To The Zoo Jam!!

A game jam from 2026-04-13 to 2026-05-14 hosted by Echinobeast. This is my first game jam!! I've thought about hosting for awhile and decided to bite the bullet and finally put one together! Gone are ...

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Lexically, parentheses and quotation marks are super interesting. Very few written symbols depend on another symbol later in the script to provide meaning. I think more conlangs should use contextually defined symbols like that, even just for standard sound glyphs

My experience with Highguard: I wanted to try it out before it shut down. So, I downloaded it, booted it up... and then spent twenty minutes troubleshooting so many errors that I gave up. Man, I *like* hero shooters and wanted to give it a fair shake, but it literally didn't even let me. RIP.

Some more of my OCs! A group of sillies that are best friends despite their differences. From left to right: Miki, a chef and the heart of the group Hayley, the American exchange student Pirona, a quiet and shy clown girl Meiru, a sci-fi loving cosplay dweeb

A lineup of four character designs. First is Miki, a short girl wearing a chef's jacket and a blue beret with short brown hair. Second is Hayley, a taller cowgirl wearing a stetson hat, red bandana around her neck, and traditional cowboy garb. Next is Pirona, a tiny girl with bright pink curly hair and red/blue heterochromia, wearing a colorful spotted clown outfit. Last is Meiru, a towering tall girl who is poorly cosplaying a robot.