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Wow, those are some great stories.

The family tree browser really helps to illustrate these, and gives you a little memento to keep forever (you always have that link, and can look back at your family whenever).

Love those two happy, wrinkled Sol brothers hanging out together at the end.

These diagrams remind me of the board game Agricola.

Very cool!

Well, I'm looking for human names here...

I know some people are named after non-human things.

But there is something special and strange about human names.  These made-up words that don't necessarily mean anything.  Nonsense words that we call ourselves.

Maybe this is a strictly Western or even English idea....  or maybe the meanings have just been lost/forgotten.  My first name supposedly means "healer," but nobody knows that meaning.

My last name means plumber, though, and any German would know that meaning.

Contest is great!

I'm probably not going to accept artwork into the game.... it's really important that the whole thing is drawn by the same hand for consistency.

So, don't worry about scaling and stuff like that.

But here's a bit of info:

I draw the lines first with a Uniball Vision Micro pen.

Then I use a light table (tracing table) to trace the outline of the lines (to define soild areas) and then color those outlines.  I use Tombow brush markers to color.

After scanning, the lines can be merged on top of the colors by using a multiplicative blend in Photoshop or GIMP.

It will now, as of the update that the servers are going down for right now.

But only new deaths, post-update, will show bear, snake, etc.

Guess what?

You found the fill for the baby penis!

This was generated outside the editor by me manually.  I guess the .png version isn't needed, but I left it in there by accident.

It's so tiny that it doesn't matter... might as well leave it in there because it's kinda funny.

Well, the first names include all names that occurred more than 5 times in 2016 in the US, including Hawaii.

I just checked, and "Moana" is on the list, so we've got the Polynesian names covered.    (just kidding ).

Also, because the US is a melting pot full of immigrants, it's probably a pretty good sampling of names from many parts of the world...

Anyway, 30,000 names is a lot of first names..... there's quite a lot of variety on that list.  It's not just "standard" American names like Bobby and Suzy.... it's full of names that I've never heard before, names I can't even pronounce.

There are probably millions of names in the world, however, and I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also, just saying "Add some names from _____" doesn't help much.  I'd need a source of data.

Maybe there's a better, more comprehensive list than the one that I'm using.  Give me a link to it, and I'll take a look.

Also, I'm definitely not supporting accents, special characters, or different character sets in the name lists....   A-Z characters only, please.

You do not inherit your mother's marker.

You inherit any marker that is on your screen when you are born.

This does not happen server-side, but client-side.  In fact, home markers are 100% client-side.  The server is not even aware of them.

When you are born, the client looks around you for a home marker object.  If one exists, it takes it as a home marker.  If not, then not.

ALSO...

There is a lot of confusion about home markers, which leads people to make multiple markers in the same area.  This is NOT needed.

No one can destroy your home marker, because it all happens client-side.  Once you build a marker in a spot, your client will remember it throughout your life, even if the marker is removed.

So, multiple people can share the same marker by tearing it down and rebuilding it in the same spot, once for each person.

Thus, a village only needs one marker, not one for each person.

Think of it like a flag on a mailbox....

Yeah, you can't hold anything while being held, so you drop it on the ground.

If the ground is cluttered, then it may move quite far away to find a place to land.

The bug that was causing some people to not get logged has been fixed, and all those "lost lives" have been restored.

There may be some other bugs as well.... not sure what is causing the duplication of some lives.  Looking into it.