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clowder simulator

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

clowder simulator will be a storytelling game, where you play as a group of cats, also known as a clowder!

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.

one of my main goals with clowder simulator is to encourage players to try out different types of cat society! especially given the issues that have come to light with the warriors series over the years, i've personally enjoyed creating unique governing systems for my little collection of feral cat characters, and i want to enable more warriors enthusiasts to explore new options like that! it'll almost be a bit like a city manager almost in that regard.

currently, clowder simulator is a solo project! it's also very, very early in development, and since it's my first non-visual-novel game, i'm expecting it to take a long time before i graduate from prototypes to something that feels like a game.

but i'm okay with that! clowder simulator is maybe a big dream for a first game, but not too big! (hopefully? haha.)

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