i have been talking about procedural generation a lot recently, so i decided to supplement with some world building! i'll be writing threads on specific aspects of the world my game is set in. i'm going to start with a few technological species. the first of these is the kith. - ThreadSky

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lorenschmidt.bsky.social • 30 days ago

i have been talking about procedural generation a lot recently, so i decided to supplement with some world building! i'll be writing threads on specific aspects of the world my game is set in. i'm going to start with a few technological species. the first of these is the kith.

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lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

kith are vertebrate analogs from a parallel earth. on average, they are a little lower to the ground and a little more lightly built than humans. they can walk bipedally but don't always.

they share some biology with humans, eg they can eat a lot of the same food, but they're not close relatives.

lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

kith evolved as highly social pack hunters. they're faster at a sprint than humans are, and significantly better at jumping, but they're not endurance runners.

lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

kith have a mantle of brightly colored, patterned, movable spines on their backs which acts as a display surface. the angle / posture of the mantle as a whole carries meaning, as does the rotation of the quills- they have different patterns and colors on different surfaces.

lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

this is supplemented by body language to speak a family of self-contained visual languages. evolutionarily, these were important during pack hunting, for coordination during emergency situations, etc..

lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

kith also have verbal languages, which tend to be used over shorter distances, in higher trust or familial situations, or when speaking with other species which are more verbally oriented.

lorenschmidt.bsky.social•30 days ago

kith also have sign languages, which rather than being spoken with the limbs primarily, as they are in humans, often exist in a continuum with visual languages.

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