Pierros, the new maintainer of the hackergotchi requests page proposed a
size increase to 120x120 px (I used to make them at 96x96), so probably
that's the constraint: maximum width of 120 px.

What I don't like in your example is the badge covering people
faces/mouths, is like they are silenced or terrorists trying to hide.

Haha, yes, you're right. That bugged me too. :)

We are space-constrained only on the horizontal, you shouldn't have a
problem using more vertical space.

So let me get this straight, as long as we keep the width to 120px (or whatever the maximum size is/will be), we can make it taller? That's great news if true, it'll give me a lot more freedom for a cool badge.

Thanks for the info!

Jef