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Comment below if you'd like to a be a Secret Santa and recipient. With this comment, include a picture of the nicheling you'd like drawn, as well as any info you can give about them (genes, personality, hobbies, differences from photo etc). If you are giving a picture not from the game, please include their official niche genes. Signups end the 20th of December! I will use a random generator to pair participants. (I will not be a participant) I will pm everyone with their recipient's name, nicheling and info. Everyone makes their art. It can be traditional, digital, pixel, a sculpture, whatever you want; animation, gif, plain, anything! Please try your best with this. The quality of your art style is not to be judged, but please make it just as good or even better than your usual art! Do not sign your art or post it on any platform, including the forums. Everyone PMs their art to me as soon as they are finished. Art is due by 31st of December If you do not send in your art in time, I will request art from an Emergency Santa to fill the place. You may only post your art AFTER the rest of the art is released on On or slightly after 2nd of January, I will post the finished art with the recipient's name (I will not reveal the Santas myself). Everyone may make their guess on who was their Secret Santa. Secret Santas may confirm or deny these guesses. Please wait for your recipient to guess you and then confirm the guess rather than announce that you were so-and-so's santa. If it's been a while and you're not sure who your SS and you made a guess without confirmation, PM me and I'll confirm it for you. If your recipient has made a correct guess and you confirmed, you may post your art to other places (DeviantArt, Fanart section etc). You may also sign the art. (If you'd like your signed art used instead of the unsigned version if posted elsewhere by other people, just say so.) Like the last few years, we will have Emergency Santas (ESs). ESs will make art for anyone whose Secret Santa did not finish or submit their art by the 15th. ESs need to be able to quickly make art. This Emergency Art (EA) does not need to be of the same quality of the official art; EA is just so everyone can receive something at the same time. ESs can also be a regular Santa at the same time but are not required to be. Just ask if you'd like to be an Emergency Santa. They're documented below. Emergency Santas: @Modiano TIPS -Try out a new style or a style you haven't revealed before. It will be harder to guess the Secret Santas. -Don't start a big project if you're not 100% you can finish it. Go with something simple to give yourself time to finish and not be rushed. OTHER -This is the 8th annual Secret Niche Art Santa!!! -Check out previous Signups here: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 -Check out previous Art here: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 REMEMBER THIS - Sign up below by December 20th. -Send in your nicheling submissions by December 20th. -Start your art as soon as possible once I PM the info. -Send in our art no later than December 31st. -If you do not submit your art by then, a volunteer will make art in its place. Save your late art for Jan 2nd or later. -On or near Jan 2nd, the art will be released. Make your guesses and make sure to confirm or deny if they're directed to you! -MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL

If you're going with the real-time strategy angle, how about field of vision mechanics? Instead of a lit up circle all around the animal, have only the part of the cicle it sees light up. Nichelings with forward-facing eyes could be better hunters due to increased depth-perception, while nichelings with eyes on the side of their head could notice approaching predators easier. This could be a trait that's affected by the head gene, since that already determines eye placement on the current 3d models