Spades

Spades is an artist/former mapper within chat chat. He is known for coming up with the ideas for chat chat the game, chat chat the comic series, coming up with memorable quotes such as,"you can't survive the testosterone tornado.", and putting together the unofficial timeline of the Swedish Empireball universe. As of April 2020, he has a YouTube channel with 38 subscribers and makes videos either relating to his home state of North Dakota, or remakes of stuff he did in middle school. He announced in January of 2020 that he was working on an Alternate Future of the World series, but in April, he announced that it was being scrapped.

Addition to chat chat
Spades was chosen completely at random to be in chat chat. He was added by Gulfstream on January 15th, 2020.

Personal life
Spades was born on October 7th, 2003. Spades has revealed that he has a brother and that he has no pets. In his free time, he enjoys playing Super Smash Bros., Doom, Animal Crossing, and enjoys going on long walks. Spades also plays the piano and violin, but is well aware that he could be much better if he just practiced more.

Super Smash Bros. related content
Spades's very first project in the mapping community began on September 9th, 2019. He was trying to create a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate roster with prominent members of the mapping community. Throughout the 2 to 3 months it was in development, Spades reached out to different mappers across the internet to ask them if they wanted inclusion in his project. The last update to the image was seen on December 4th, 2019. Later in February, Spades announced that he couldn't continue the project as he had trashed the wrong .pdn file, and wasn't able to continue it as a result. With the cancellation of the big roster, that didn't stop him from making other Super Smash Bros. related content. Later in February, he made screens featuring some of the more well known mappers.

Alternate Future of the World
On January 24th, 2020, Spades made the announcement that he would be working on an Alternate Future of the World series. Production continued on it until March 13th, when the last frame of the unfinished project was uploaded to Discord. A month later in April, he announced that the series would be scrapped due to interference with school, and just being discouraged to work on it.

Alternate Future of the Unreal World
In January 2018, long before Spades had Discord or was considering joining the mapping community, he used to play a game with some of his friends in real life. They never had an official name for this game, but you would pretend you're a made up country in another universe, and you'd do stuff that countries do, but with your friends as countries. In December 2018, Spades began to hand draw comics and show them off to his friends, who thought they were awesome. After watching the first 12 episodes of Alternate Future of Europe by Bace Bulgarian Mapper, Spades considered making his own mapping series involving these characters using the history of the game they wrote down. Every country involved in the comics or the mapping series (excluding the already existing nations such as Japan) was based off one of Spades's friends in real life. Spades began working on the mapping series on August 15th, 2019, but the idea was quickly forgotten when Spades got other ideas, or had to deal with school. The series would have started with the regular world map in 2020. An alien invasion happens, and it's left to the two great powers who just conquered the earth (The Republic of Spadeland and the Empire of Pranzia) to carve up the land and survive. Many, many years pass and after years of fighting and bickering, another alien civilization invades the earth and takes down the 2 powers with ease. After all of the Pranzians and most of the Spadelanders have been genocided, one of the few Spadelanders left in hiding breaks into a military base which supposedly houses a machine that lets you travel to another timeline. The last Spadelander travels through the device and arrives in the United States of America, on April 15th, 2019. The Spadelander being lost and confused goes to a public library and starts up Paint.Net to tell his story.

Other mapping ideas
Alternate Future of Oceania - One of the first three ideas that Spades came up with. This idea was immediately scrapped

AFOW North Sentinel Island - Another of the first three ideas. This idea had very little work done on it, and was scrapped about a month later for multiple reasons

Alternate History of the World, the 20th Century - This project seemed like a good idea, but Spades was unable to come up with a good plot for it, and thus decided to stop production

Alternate Future of the Inverted World - Probably Spades's favorite idea where the land is replaced by water, and vice versa. A map and a few countries were planned for this, but Alternate Future of the World took priority over this, so Spades stopped work on it.