https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawin...

You guys are welcome: https://marcmajcher.github.io/jerrysmap/

Reminds me a bit of the truck driver who's been building a scale model of NYC for 20 years. That crossed HN 3 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657268

There's a good People Make Games video about this from a few days ago

https://youtu.be/Is8N7B9b0GQ

> The entire process is driven by instructions on a card drawn from a special deck created by the artist.

I like this. I like that his system pushes the creative process forward without relinquishing the actual creative part of it (making the map tile).

Reminds me of _Journeys Into the Outside_ by Jarvis Cocker.

And that reminds me of the time when I saw him in passing in a corridor at King's Cross Thameslink and my hand was halfway up into a wave before I realised that he wouldn't know who am.

I know Jerry Map (I hope that someday will be a exposition in Spain) because I love it, I love the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art. The people who maybe mad and they built a world with own rules.

I remember the book of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress or Cataclysm DDA .

And weird games as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic .

My favorite part about this/what blows my mind is that his system has him editing singular tiles at any given time. He seemingly only gets to see what it actually looks like at intervals like 15 years apart. There are probably entire epochs of his system that he'll never actually see laid out because they've since been overridden.

I used to do things like this when I was a kid (less extreme, never more than a single sheet of paper), where I would create some natural features: a lake shore or river, maybe a freeway or two or a railroad and then start platting out a subdivision in the open spaces. It was a delightfully meditative practice and maybe I should start doing it again.

The most Borgesian thing to ever be posted on HN.

From the first sentence and image on jerrysmap.com I seriously thought it was Jerry Garcia's doing for a second.

Looks like the OG fortnite map to me

In high school I remember entertaining myself in class by using grid paper to draw little tile based maps. It’s like playing Minecraft by hand. I imagine the concept is lost to a lot of Gen Z or Gen Alpha by now. Too much imagination required.

People Make Games just did a terrific documentary on this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8N7B9b0GQ&pp=0gcJCUECo7VqN5t...

It would make an interesting map generation algorithm that could feed the card data and specified map tiles into an image gen AI system that would have to take the map tiles and try to follow the rules.