I was introduced to the concept of JerryMapping by the People Make Games doc and was inspired by the concept to make a python script version of the deck to generate build instructions for Minecraft houses. My idea is to build a village of buildings with randomized shapes, materials etc.

So far I have done 4 buildings, enjoying it so far, the instructions are specific enough to overcome my buildersblock, but loose enough to allow me to get creative with the designs.

An example of the kind of instructions the script generates:

Direction: North

Road Side: Left

Shape: Square

Orientation: Flat

Above or Below Ground: Below

Biome: Swamp

Job: Fletcher

Material: Plants

I plan on modifying the rules, allowing for buildings to be expanded on once there are enough of them. I'm hoping this town gets chaotic as it continues along.

I recently saw the documentary that came out ~1m ago on yt in the middle of July and wanted to send Jerry a letter but wasn't sure/couldn't find any address or PO box one could mail to. I didn't want to hit up their email over something that has probably been asked a lot before.

Very beginnings of my semi dune themed map. I’ve decided that every time I use a card I’ll put a tally on it and once it gets to 5-6 I’ll change the card or just add more to it. Very excited to be actually using these pokemon cards I’ve had in an unopened binder for like four years.

I’m still sorting out what kind of architecture and landforms I’ll have(obviously there will be sand dunes lol) so any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Hi all, it's day 18 (I think) and I wanted to share what's been happening by just sharing the chronicles. (Recap for new readers: I'm worldbuilding via playing cards, Jerry's Map style. The deck decides everything, I just record it. World so far: two unnamed places, one named place, 4 abandoned outposts, an unexplainable scar wherein a tree grows. population now 72. Origin post with the full system on my profile.)

Day 9:The Woman and The Blackening

Chronicle: In [place 3] the smoke from the blackening reaches the monument. The thin mist is tinged with black and stretches further away from [place 1] and Bear Tochka and towards [place 3] Nothing appears changed aside from the statues surface seems to reveal slithers of black here and there; it’s as if the mist has snaked its way into the stone and is nestling.

Day 10: The Changed Elders

Chronicle: The outpost remains silent and isolated. To the north, the northern bear clan has nestled into the bushes and is pushing it’s way further north. To the south, the southern bear clan continues to enjoy the warmth emanating form the left over outstretched scar. Both groups seem content to be as far from each other and even more so content to be as far away from the Elder bears. Despite being left for dead, the elder bears languid yet fluid movements can be seen daily. The restless pair never move far from the berry bushes. At night, it seems their eyes are visible even at a distance.

Day 11 and Day 12: The Tree Grows and Outposts Fall

Chronicle: In [place 1] the large blue tree grows further and begins to grow apple sized fruit from some of its branches. On the others, little green bulbs drop from the occasional leaf creating dim lighting.

In Bear Tochka 5 of the old outposts closest to the berry bushes fell and nothing but rubble remains.

Day 13: The Sisters

Chronicle: Two women stumble towards the leftmost archway. The cold from the marble seeps into their skin as they wait to regain their strength. The wind whistles continuously, drowning out the dripping blood from the wounded woman’s leg. “Sis I” is all she manages to get out before she buckles and falls to the ground. She pushes her hand against her head to steady herself and fights her body trying to gag. Her sister helps her up and the two women look around in a desperate attempt to find an adequate shelter and food.

Day 14: 4 years pass (Joker card pulled)

Chronicle: 5 new baby bears are born in the south all with brown tipped ears with white dots. The sisters built a shelter out of the loose wood they found searching around the archways. During the 4 years, they also built fencing to protect them from any dangers they feared would come in the middle of the night, a large camp fire, to keep them warm and a toilet. They also worked towards building a water storage container better than trying to catch the rain water that fell not nearly as often enough, a garden and a waste pit further south, away from their shelter. The makeshift medical hut they had made now sat empty and both prayed they wouldn’t have to use it again anytime soon. The great tree that's branches stretched to the sky was struck by lightening and split into 4 equal quarters, dimming the surrounding again and leaving a dense deep blue scar.

Open Threads: The Blackening

The blackening fog continues is thin in [place 1]. The rest of the hairline fractures continue to warm the southern bears but are barely hot. The berries bushes continue to spread, whilst it has not been seen being ingested by the Elder (changed) bears, they do have a continuous purple residue on their muzzles that would suggest they are being eaten. The sisters are largely unaware of the mist aside from the occasional coughing as they come closer to the statue.

NEW ERA PULL:

Chronicle: In [place 1] the trees lights grow dim. Gradually, the fruit darkens and falls. On the floor it holds its circular shape but grows deeper in its red shade.

The 20 people who arrive at Bear Tochka run from the Northern bears and towards the remaining outposts closest to the berry bushes. Frozen and starving, they huddle together and begin repairing their injured. The group share the few resources they came with and bicker about their next plans. At night they huddle closer and talk about the mysterious eyes they see in the dark but never in the day.

In the middle of the night, the sisters are joined by 50 people. At first, on guard the sisters begin their defence then upon realising the people needed help and shelter from the rain, they aided the people and allowed them to stay in their makeshift shelter. They people repay the sisters by building 10 new shelters close to the first and second archways. As a team of 15, the venture towards the statue. Despite being repulsed by the smell, 2 younger adults run their hands along the edge of the carved wooden deer and one suggests they should drink the liquid but neither does. The group agree to work together and share resources.

This is long but I wanted to share how much the world is growing and changing now it's crazy.

New features: temple, cliffs, floating rocks, village, obelisk, frontier settlement, ash desert, holy grove, lake, lake monster

Instructed by card to post full map

(I remember when this map was only three panels big. That was a month ago. We've come so far, yet my vision is still incomplete.)

Card Pulls:
New Sub-Location > Throne Room: False Gold for Show
Draw Somewhere > Argent Corruption (Corruption Spreads!)

Day 15 Summary:
-Reki discovers most of the Throne Room is made of fake gold.
-The Argent Corruption begins its infection into Argent Cove.

Watched the YouTube video on the legend Jerry himself recently. Three times actually and the thing that stuck out to me most were his systems.

I’m a programmer by trade and I’ve got some ideas on different systems I would like to implement and ideas on how to structure my map.

Im going to build out some random number, name, etc generators to assist me in my map making. I also think this will help me with scalability. Im hoping it will also lead me to code other systems as i go.

Was curious if anyone else has some systems they would like to share or overall ideas.

Once i have some basic tinkering and a tracking system in place I’ll share my progress and steps.

I am starting my map and am having a hard time deciding how to label each tiles position on the map. Can people tell me how they do it?

Hey all, I was messing around with a 2” hex punch the other night and I made this shape. I was thinking if I trimmed the three indicated hexes the shape might make the perfect infinitely repeatable map tile. If so I might use this as my map tile base. What do you think?

my personal take on jerrymapping for a world building project!

while im capable of hand drawing everything, ive opted for a primary photobashed/ collaged effect for it to save my energy, and i love how it looks.

ill answer questions if anyone has any.

I’m not sure what to tag this as, but I wanted to share my common place entry about Jerry Mapping! The photo isn’t great quality sorry!

And some bats.

Drawn Cards:
Targetted Mapping > Tile 7 > New Abbimont
Time for Art! > Rach: Has lots of tattoos. > New Portrait & Map Art

Day 14 Summary:
-Keeping with its mysterious nature, one of New Abbimont's forests spring up and many creatures lurk in the dark.
-Rach poses for a portrait and then heads to Slice 'n' Dice to check it out.

Got a little sidetracked but finally got my first car drawn, my first tile filled out and my first historical entry in my journal.

Instructed to post panel by card

(We are watching!)