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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,408 Views)
Dapper Man
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A WIP, but I thought of this: a Early Cretaceous POD, with sapient beings that are descended from Boreopterids. Also includes Entelodont/Hyena like Psittacosaurs and Semi-Arboreal Spinosaurs.
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Manitou; The Needle in the Haystack.
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Oct 1 2016, 10:02 PM
With so many different project ideas on my plate, and me wanting them to all be tied together by the F.I.N.D.R narrative, I feel the need to give a bit of a description about what I would like to see out of them. but to make sure I'm not being intrusive or taking up too much space, I'll put the thing under a spoiler.

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I would love to help you out with these.

Also, I'd like to propose a different spin on the whole "Humans never evolve" thing: A world where anatomically modern humans do evolve, but never really get farther than Europe. The various branches of the hominid family that we wiped out never go extinct, allowing for a hell of a lot of new breeds of posthuman.

Also, you had me at spinosaurs, Dapper Man.
Edited by GlarnBoudin, Oct 3 2016, 01:52 PM.
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GhoulBoudin
Oct 3 2016, 01:52 PM
trex841
Oct 1 2016, 10:02 PM
With so many different project ideas on my plate, and me wanting them to all be tied together by the F.I.N.D.R narrative, I feel the need to give a bit of a description about what I would like to see out of them. but to make sure I'm not being intrusive or taking up too much space, I'll put the thing under a spoiler.

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I would love to help you out with these.
I'll be open to suggestion with those, Aether in particular, though I still have prep to go through before that point. Such as the other ideas I had, since 'the morning' has come and gone. It's on the to do list, be assured.

EDIT:And here it is! Once again, Spoilered to save space.
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A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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A fantasy world, not really spec-based. In a sense, it's a miss-match of the Mesozoic and Holocene, Dinosaurs and kin, and Humans and their livestock co-existing. As such, the prehistoric animals are given "stars", to determine how dangerous they are, kind of like the star ranking system as seen in Jurassic World: The Game. Not sure how or where I should put this, but it'd be a unique idea. The animals would be directly from the Mesozoic, so the animals wouldn't have changed a bit.

EDIT: I'd post this soonish, but I can't seem to be happy with my drawing of T-Rex. *sigh*
Edited by Dapper Man, Oct 13 2016, 10:20 PM.
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My name is Yiqi15, and this is literally my first post on Zetaboards. I've currently got a few ideas I'm looking to post on here. The one i'm working on is Wild Skies - a project based around several alien planets that have either been terraformed or colonised by humans.

Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Oct 11 2016, 06:29 AM
My name is Yiqi15, and this is literally my first post on Zetaboards. I've currently got a few ideas I'm looking to post on here. The one i'm working on is Wild Skies - a project based around several alien planets that have either been terraformed or colonised by humans.

Welcome to the forum Yiqi15! I hope you enjoy your stay here. If you like, you can introduce yourself properly at the Member Introduction area, to get yourself known. I look forward to seeing Wild Skies and any other speculative works you might create.
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Oct 11 2016, 09:59 AM
Yiqi15
Oct 11 2016, 06:29 AM
My name is Yiqi15, and this is literally my first post on Zetaboards. I've currently got a few ideas I'm looking to post on here. The one i'm working on is Wild Skies - a project based around several alien planets that have either been terraformed or colonised by humans.

Welcome to the forum Yiqi15! I hope you enjoy your stay here. If you like, you can introduce yourself properly at the Member Introduction area, to get yourself known. I look forward to seeing Wild Skies and any other speculative works you might create.
Thanks!
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

My Zoochat and Fadom Accounts
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- Fandom
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Well, I've had this idea for the past week, and it is a project revolving around a universe where half of it consists of solid matter, and is incredibly small, basically the size of the Sun. However, it still manages to have light, liquid water, and all gases necessary for life, and even plate tectonics. It has had distinctly Earth-descended life for the past 120 million years.

Basically, something like this

Again, some parts still need some work

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The Time Bubble- A universe-sized terrarium

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It's a fishbowl terrarium. You're making a sun sized terrarium.
As for ideas I'm currently making a Dyson sphere you can find it in the Habitable Zone.
Edited by Dakka!, Oct 13 2016, 09:05 PM.
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Unrelated:The Final Spec:What Could Have Been, And Still Can
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Oct 13 2016, 09:04 PM
It's a fishbowl terrarium. You're making a sun sized terrarium.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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What about a world where Dryolestids, Notosuchians, and Allotherians survived to the present day?
Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5035229/1/
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A project about a colony town of Aliens that settle in the Black Hills in South Dakota starting in the early 1900's. It would focus on introduced alien species and their interactions with native earth animals, although some entries would be about the relation between the aliens and the humans (for instance, I have planned an entry about some words local people got from trying to pronounce the alien language).
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Oct 14 2016, 06:53 PM
What about a world where Dryolestids, Notosuchians, and Allotherians survived to the present day?
has anyone ever done Allotherians?
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Parts of the Cluster Worlds:
"Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP)
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(Inspired by this horror concept made by a friend of mine a while ago)

An alternate universe project based on The Library in that it's an endless facility of some sort, but instead of a library, this would be an endless field of crops. Biome types would include things like massive fields of corn as large as continents, city-sized greenhouses, humble patches of things like turnips and potatoes as large as small towns, jungle-like orchards, ocean-sized rice paddies, and underground mushroom farms. At regular intervals, non-organic creatures like the monster in the linked image would come out of seemingly nowhere and tend to the crops, harvesting them, trying to drive out anything trying to eat the produce, and planting seeds of normal, modern crops.

In terms of temperature, this 'Cornucopia' would be constantly about the same temperature as an average New York spring day; warmer temperatures are maintained within the greenhouses. Seasons don't exist here, providing a constant growing season, but weather does occur normally. Groundwater also exists, with wells being scattered across the area and over time, being converted into ponds through erosion. Water also flows through irrigation channels.

I might also include barns and shit for animals-whether or not said 'livestock' is normal varies from locale to locale. In one place, you might find perfectly normal goats and sheep being cared for by the 'Harvesters'; in others, you might find meat operations dedicated to indricotheres, colossal insects, or even aliens. (Note: these creatures would never escape out; the meat of Harvester-slaughtered animals is carted off to wherever they seem to take the rest of their harvests, with a new animal appearing within a few hours.) I imagine that a lot of strange creatures could develop that specialize in snatching such animals.

Plant life would all be descended from weeds or any type of plant cultivated in human history, while fauna would be descended from creatures that eat or pollinate crops or are commonly found in gardens, sucked in through randomly opened portals. Time would be dilated similarly to the library and split into various 'eras' named after the most commonly grown crop of the time.

So far, I've got this definite list of species to introduce:
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I could see this easily becoming a collaborative project, especially considering how many users hear seem to know a thing or two about agriculture.
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