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Merlijn (aka Syraleaf!)
@syraleaf.bsky.social
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🌿 Game Designer
🌿 Working on Crumble of Civilizations & Grand Succession
🌿 Have you considered throwing cats at the problem?

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Some movies just stick with you ^^
A plant pot with a cactus inside. Both the pot and the cactus have googly eyes on them.
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Missing content can lead to funny systems sometimes :P
A comment in a file with the following text: The spawning of new animals should obviously happen in the female buttt that one doesn't exist (yet) so it is in the male atm. This also means that all black birds are now gay smile emoji
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Trashcat
A cat sleeping in a pile of cartboard & plastic
November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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XD She's jealous of the cat on my lap so now she's sleeping in between my mouse and keyboard
A cat sleeping in between the keyboard and mouse by trying to lay down as flat as possible.
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Mushrooms :>
A very zoomed in picture on some mushrooms on a mossy forest floor. The mushrooms have white caps and stems with the top of the caps turning slightly brown in colour.
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Halloween cat
Cat laying among the apples and onions against the wall. They're staring at the camera as if they're about to curse the vieuwer
October 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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One of these seems more dangerous to eat than the others ^^

They're quinces btw!
Three pots with quince. One with brightly coloured mushrooms. One with a yellow pear... And one with a completely scorched face screaming out towards the camera.
October 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Cat :)
September 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Look at this lil guy!
A completely black salamander sits on some small stones.
August 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Cool clouds!
A view of the mountain. To the right of it white clouds swirl in a circle, revealing the blue sky above
August 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Cool clouds!
A view of the mountain. To the right of it white clouds swirl in a circle, revealing the blue sky above
August 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I liked how the light interacted with this tree
A berk(?). The picture it taken looking up towards the leaves from the ground. The white bark is covered in moss and the leaves are slightly translucent causing some to look muddy green and others to look bright & light green.
August 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Oh and also this xDD
(Read the sign)
A very large sign held up by a heavily decorated circular wooden frame that reads "Tiers" "Paradise for snowshoe hikers." Surrounded by a grassy field with a bright blue sky, in the middle of summer.
August 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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More mountains!!!!
A bright blue sky filled with yellow clouds flying into a mountain top whose body is filled with pine trees A field of white clouds flies is surrounded by mountains. Above it, another field of clouds rests - creating an unique second layer of clouds on top of clouds - which is seen from the top of a mountain.
August 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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The weather improved and we managed to sneak in a small hike! (~5h)
Large spike-y mountains with muted yellow and gray colours. The tops are partially covered in clouds A mountaintop covered in strands of clouds. Below the peak are pine trees blocking more incoming clouds from both sides creating a sort of battle line along the ridge.
August 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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But our previous hike was pretty good!
A small dirt path surrounded by alpine grass. It is a wide shot with a clear sky and some tiny white clouds - the mega fluffy kind - on both the left and right of the photo the terrain raises up with some pine trees here and there. In the distance various mountains can be seen. Giving a sense of scale of how far this path is and how tall those mountains are A fish-eye photo of a tall piece of rock, about 6 times the height of a house, being illuminated by the sun in a rocky landscape. A hikers hut can be seen on the right of it, looking tiny in comparison. Small alpine pine trees (that sounds funny) cover the bottom left and top right of the photo (with the latter hanging down) White clouds cover the sky and across a huge distance rocky mountains can be seen Pine trees on the left slowly give way to a rock formation that gets increasingly taller the more you look to the right, making for an imposing mountain that would be impossible to scale without climbing equipment.
August 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Mountain holiday timeeee
This time with more than a little bit of rain T_T
A mountain filled with pine trees absolutely covered in low hanging clouds
August 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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This graph makes me deeply uncomfortable and extremely angry.
Figure 2. Top 10 EU member states investing in Israël. 50bn the Netherlands, 9bn Luxemburg, 5bn germany. The rest is even lower. The graph uses bars. The distance is endlessly large between germany and the Netherlands.
July 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Work pov
July 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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This is a "sit with the cat outside" kind of day
Picture with a white cat on my lap on a terrace. A table can be seen with an empty glass on it. The weather is sunny.
May 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Something something rendering server...

In other news: We moved the painting lol
May 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Cat!
An orange and light black cat are leaning against each other on a striped bed.
April 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I can relate when you talk about different team sizes succeeding. I wonder if we can have a big team succeed in the small indie space? Like what would a funny coop game look like in AAA. Is that something we should want?

Thanks for sharing! :D
To end in the same way: Im writing from my bed+cats
A young orange and gray cat are leaning against each other on a bed. They seem very relaxed. The sheets have green/white stripes.
April 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Sleepy cattos
Two cats were sleeping on stacked cloth outdoor chair covers. The leftmost white-black striped cat woke up and is looking at the camera while the rightmost orange blob cat is yawning with her mouth open. Both are chonky cats
April 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Also more fluff because double fluff is best fluff
March 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM