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clowder simulator

type: game | status: in development | blog tag coming soon?

clowder simulator will be a creature / life sim game, where you play as a group of cats, also known as a clowder! and you make stories about them.

it's primarily inspired by the sims 3 warrior cats legacy challenges i played as a kid. i loved playing out the story of my warriors ocs, taking care of them, and all that.

but the format was limiting - the sims 3 wasn't built for feral cat play, or cat society building! you've got this sim stuck in your basement because you can't play cats without one, there's no inter-clowder politics, death is fake except for old age, your camp is all cat furniture with grass swatches, your cats can eat bugs that fill them up just as much as a shark, sickness and medicine were handled with random number generator websites and player-made rules... i could go on and on.

it's too early in development for me to say much about the game itself though, unfortunately. i do have some guiding principles in mind and some prototypes in progress, but i wouldn't expect anything exciting for a few more years.

currently, clowder simulator is mostly a solo project - my sister and i brainstorm together, but i do all the work lol.

it's also very, very early in development. i finally have design goals and that kind of stuff, but it's gonna be a long time (like, years) before we get from prototypes to a whole game.

but i'm okay with that! clowder simulator is definitely a big dream for a first game, but i believe in myself :3 i know i can do hard things as long as i have a path forward and can take it step by step

crylans

type: worldbuilding | status: irregular but i always come back | carrd, toyhouse world

crylans are an open species, co-owned by myself and my pal wybie.

more to come later!

jaySMP: xera

type: storytelling | status: ongoing | my twitch, my youtube

the jaySMP is a minecraft survival multiplayer server hosted by my friend jay (link eventually), with a focus on collaborative storytelling & giving everyone a chance to shine!

xera (they/them or star/stars/starself) is my character in the jaySMP. they're a traveller, not from the town of Marigold, where the majority of our cast lives - they've said they're from "far away," and the longer you get to know them, the more you feel like that's one hell of an understatement.

star was found near a hunk of flaming scrap metal that star's later referred to as the "crash site." star seems far more science-oriented than friend-oriented, with a focus on environmental sciences - at least, that's what their chatter about "cleaning up" the crash site has suggested. but i don't know, something's not adding up.

i was gonna add a youtube embed but google wants to get its cookie hands all up in here and i don't like that! so here's Helping Xera