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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,330 Views)
Nyarlathotep
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Genetically modified posthumans are placed in an alternate Earth during its Triassic, and their descendants rule the Mesozoic in place of dinosaurs.
What types would there be? And surely they would niche partition? So like a weirder version of the Triassic?
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Genetically modified posthumans are placed in an alternate Earth during its Triassic, and their descendants rule the Mesozoic in place of dinosaurs.
What types would there be? And surely they would niche partition? So like a weirder version of the Triassic?
Yes, there would be different types and niches. They would be introduced very early in the Triassic before archosaurs can really take much of a foothold. And it might be a no Triassic-Jurassic extinction world too.
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Talenkauen
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I developed a new concept for a video game, when I was on the drive back from Kansas:

It's a unabashed Monster Hunter clone, but a slight spec twist. Instead of wyverns and dragons, there are magical hybrid equivalents to synapsids, temnospondyls, placoderms, etc. The main humanoid race isn't humans, but furry bipedal therapsids, with vaguely lemur-like and owl-like traits.


The monster classes include (but not limited to):

- Clawbeasts: The standard mammalian creatures. Technically they sport a mix of both mammalian and reptilian/synapsid traits.

- Wingbeasts: Avian creatures with wings toothless beaks. They're actually not birds, and sport certain traits of early mammals.

- Finmanders: Large draconic amphibians. Basically just monstrous temnospondyls with added lissamphibian or crocodylian traits.

- Dracoderms: Ancient, draconic, terrestrial placoderms. Basically the game's answer to elder dragons.


Unfortunately, I don't know to code, ATM, so this is but a pipe dream.
PLEASE NOTE: If I come off as harsh or demanding whilst talking to you, please tell me. I apologize in advance.....


UPCOMING PROJECTS:

Projects here
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Nyarlathotep
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As long as you don't go ludicrously over the top with weapons you should be right as rain.
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A series of planets that at a glance seemed habitable.

But upon closer inspection are for the most part decidedly not or will become uninhabitable shortly.

reasons for this vary, including...
- The planet's star slowly cooking it alive, some primitive alien life persists on this planet... just barely, in caves and at the poles
- The planet had produced sapient life, which wiped themselves and all life on the planet clean with their own super-weapons due to being at war with themselves
- A planet that seems by all accounts habitable, and even has oceans, but for whatever reason it's life could not adapt to something similar to earth's oxygen crisis. These primitive microbes still persist where oxygen could not reach.
- a thriving alien planet with an incredible and perfectly habitable environment... that will never be explored since it's believed a rogue planet will impact it soon, destroying everything on it's surface.
- a planet that was basically nuked by a gamma ray burst
-(...and other reasons too)

these planets, all orbiting stars that are relatively close to eachother, have been nicknamed 'the fates'
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A terraformed world project where the organsims introduced (except for essential organisms) are all animals that i tamed in ark currently,this would include.

Microraptor
Beelzebufo
Kentrosaurus
Titanis for the terror bird
Pulmonoscorpius
Dilophosaurus
Dire wolf
Pteranodon
Parasaurlophous
Triceratops
Megaloceros
Baryonyx
And the eastern river otter for the otter that is in the game.
Projects in work
Raparia

Future project ideas:
Tale of the horned beasts - A alternate evolution project where ceratosaurus never went extinct and instead evovled to better fit the new challenges they shall face ahead of them.

Umber - A alternate universe project where portals have been opening up to a moon named "umber" other then a few species of freshwater and saltwater fish, as well as invertebrates. Pangolins,Iguanas,Noasauriade, and Cuttlefish are the most prominet group of animals.
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Okay, a serious idea now. Basically, a terraformed planet used for conservation and the farming of endangered species. After the fall of man, evolution is left to its own devicea. 50 million years later, there are pseudo-ungulates evolved from pandas, flying Tasmanian devils, whale-like otter shrews, andrewsarchus-like tigers, and pangolins with re-evolved teeth.
Projects I'm probably going to do:

Evolutionary continuum:
Currently unnamed project- takes place 250 million years after the extinction of man
Alternative Evolution:
The Sanctuary- The best zoo in the world
The Habitable Zone:
Sapients of the universe- exactly what it sounds like
Alternate universes:
A bestiary of the land of Hyrule- again, exactly what it sounds like
Ixuligaxa- A Sheatheria-esque project but the wildlife came from the orvadacian and earlier.
Café Cosmique:
Ultimate power- A gritty reboot of Power rangers, but not too gritty, some xenobiology and posthumans
The menagerie- A world where a team is formed to combat the increase of crimes by Folklorish and Mythological creatures
To Sum It Up- a bestseller in the sanctuary universe, It focuses on Rises and Falls, Trials of the century, and the worst of the worst
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Terraraptor411
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A colonized planet that humans set up as a theme park, but then abandoned. The idea was to create a planet inhabited soley by organisms named after the most well known mythological creature. Dragons.

The planet Dracos.

Reptiles:
Dracorex hogwartsia
Guanlong
Mei long
Ikrandraco avatar (Pterosaur)
Komodo Dragon
Bearded Dragon
Draco volans
Chinese River Dragon
Dragonsnake (Xenodermus javanicus)

Fish:
Leafy Sea Dragons/Weedy Sea Dragons
Dragonets (Callionymidae)
Black dragonfish (Idiacanthus atlanticus)
Family Stomiidae (Barbed Dragonfishes)

Arthropods:
Dragonflies
Pheidole drogon (Ant species)
Shocking pink dragon millipede (Desmoxytes purpurosea)

Other Lifeforms:
Dracunculus Nematodes
Blue dragon nudibranch (Glaucus atlanticus)

Plants:
Snapdragons
Dracunculus plants
Dragons Blood Tree

I'm not going to use this idea, and the list of organisms is extremely preliminary. Anyone who would like to do it go nuts.
Current Projects:
Alien Earth
Ultimate Pangea

Potential Future Projects
Future of the North Star: TBD

My DA Page: https://terraraptor.deviantart.com/
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Okay, I developed this tree about the multicellular organisms of my worlds (not that I have a ready idea of ​​how these worlds are).
all have the same ancestor (like all of life), but over time some have been literally taken to another planet by superior forces.

Ok, we have the plants and the fungus basically, there are normal fungus, but there are also large pillars of fungi with gigantic hyphae and symbiosis with some yellow photosynthetic oraganisms, they have some plant characteristics.

We have the "photosynthetic things" that are several things that have different pigments, there are many single-celled organisms with various colors, and how on earth, in those worlds this is also a mess, so I'm only going to focus on the multicellular ones.
We have brown algae, which are more or less the memes of the earth, but with a greater variation. Blue plants, they descend from something like cyanobacteria, I still have not thought how they are going to be but they can be something that looks like corals (?)
then we have golden algae that are leaves ... golden. We have the red algae that are also like those of the earth, but more developed and with terrestrial species. Common plants, literally those of the earth. After pink algae that exist in cold places like in icebergs and snow, being part of a kind of "terrestrial plankton." And the purple plants, which are not so different from the plants of the earth. There are also black plants but I do not know how they would be


Also we have structures that consist in a bag or container with a gel, and in this gel there are particles and photosynthetic organisms, they differ in 2 groups: crystal gelplants, which have blue and green pigments and has a translucent shell and hard as glass, and another group that has the mixture of these pigments (different species have different colors).

now when it comes to the plents, I did not exactly think about their biology and stuff, but they consist of things like polychaetes and velvet worms that do symbiosis with organisms with green pigmentation (this happened several times), then some kind of gastropod that does photosynthesis with the blue pigment, however, assuming a larval and movable stage, being able to choose to rotate and turn a tree or live and reproduce like an animal, generating almost 2 different species. After we have some kind of mollusk that makes photosynthesis with the pigments purples, and a totally separate type of pink plants.

these things obviously do not all exist together in the same place, but they are the autotrophic life forms of several worlds

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How about a terraformed world where no trees are introduced, instead red alage and some plants that were introduced take the role of trees?
Projects in work
Raparia

Future project ideas:
Tale of the horned beasts - A alternate evolution project where ceratosaurus never went extinct and instead evovled to better fit the new challenges they shall face ahead of them.

Umber - A alternate universe project where portals have been opening up to a moon named "umber" other then a few species of freshwater and saltwater fish, as well as invertebrates. Pangolins,Iguanas,Noasauriade, and Cuttlefish are the most prominet group of animals.
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Apr 8 2018, 12:05 AM
How about a terraformed world where no trees are introduced, instead red alage and some plants that were introduced take the role of trees?
I had this idea several times hehe
this idea of replacing green plants with something else always sounds interesting
the things that always see my mind are pliants, super-developed algae, and myxotrophic fungus
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I was thinking of something like Rhinogrades 2.0
an analog of this history. An archipelago larger than the previous one, and with a greater variation of them, like small insects to great mammals. but the most difficult thing to do is to make animals less crazy than the Rhinogrades, as a normal herbivore or predator (because most snouters are frutivores and insectivores). I also thought of another type of vertebrate endemic to these islands, since since the snouters were isolated or something like that, other animals should do the same
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Apr 8 2018, 05:50 PM
I was thinking of something like Rhinogrades 2.0
an analog of this history. An archipelago larger than the previous one, and with a greater variation of them, like small insects to great mammals. but the most difficult thing to do is to make animals less crazy than the Rhinogrades, as a normal herbivore or predator (because most snouters are frutivores and insectivores). I also thought of another type of vertebrate endemic to these islands, since the snouters were isolated or something like that, other animals should do the same
What about something like an alternative evolution of the Rhinogrades?
An new land bridge has risen from the sea floor and connects directly to North America and the island of Hy-yi-yi.
A few species of Snouters were successful at leaving their precious island home by setting adrift on rafts of vegetation. Afterwards, they reached a new archipelago larger and more mysterious than the previous one, as no human has ever explored this new island before. But the island is not entirely new at all, since it was isolated at the same time as the Hy-yi-yi archipelago during the late Cretaceous. There is a large variation of native wildlife from small insects to bizarre mammals. But the most difficult about them is that they are less "crazy" than the Rhinogrades, as they mostly consist of "normal" predators and browsers (because most snouters are frugivorous and insectivorous). There is also another order of mammals endemic to these islands, since the snouters were already isolated for a long time, other animals should respond to the same case of isolation.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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[/quote]it's a great idea, though this idea does not exactly come from the original islands or anything, but I thought of something similar, snouters a bit more normal going to other islands or to the mainland.
I wonder what kinds of bizarre mammals can land on that other island
I also thought of something as a snouter turtle, derived from turtles with pig nose and stuff like that, or other types of snouters as a family who developed things like toupera star nose, and then went to the waters turning things like seals.or a type of octopus snouter. that has lost all limbs and only uses the tentacles of the mouth. I have to think of more aquatic snouters.
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Hear me out on this one. A project in a warming world where a group of frogs, descended from Budgett's Frogs, start radiating out of South America and beyond into more and more diverse forms, after a mass extinction event cripples mammals and birds. I talked vaguely of this on Discord.
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