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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,430 Views)
GlarnBoudin
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Beetleboy Jacob
Dec 12 2015, 01:51 PM
Which project is this?
One of the project ideas I posted on an earlier page on this thread.
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OK, but which one?
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- A alt evo where placental mammals never evolved. I think it's a bit big for me to continue it for too long. And, surely, something like that has been done before.

- My own try at a Habitable Zone project. Nothing new or fancy, no sophonts, just good old:
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I think the major reason for me not making anything is the fact I cannot draw or make any kind of reasonable looking art to match my projects. Whilst art is not important for an amazing project (JohnFaa is one example of this), I think massive walls of text aren't quite enough for my own work.
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Right now I'm working on a multi-time period future evo project called Earth through the Ages. Although I haven't posted it up on the forum yet, I have been doing a lot of work on it privately, and I think it is probably one of the most ambitious future evo projects here, possibly outdone by The Future is Far, though I'm not sure yet as we're only 2 pages in on Dragunthunder's project..
The first chapter of the project will be about life alongside humans, including urban wildlife and animals in the ever-expanding sewers, and some odd animals that have evolved in space-cities, having become better adapted to hunt and breed in zero-gravity.
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I thought of a series of projects called the "Thousand Planet Experiment" Projects. Basically a terraformed planet fuckfest, all set in the same universe (no reason to, I mean the planets would never interact or would they). One ideas I had:

- Theria (The Mammal Planet). Three horizontal and identical continents (which span from the north to the south to cover every kind of biome) inhabit this planet. On one continent each, Prototheria (monotremes), Eutatheria (placental mammals) and Metatheria (marsupials) animals are released, to independently evolve for 50 million years. After 50 my, the continents all form land bridges, and a war of the mammals takes place. etc. etc. through all the animal classes was basically the theme. This project was replaced due to the fact I wanted to have a monotreme only planet. Maybe I'll come back to it one day.
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Dec 14 2015, 03:59 PM
I think the major reason for me not making anything is the fact I cannot draw or make any kind of reasonable looking art to match my projects. Whilst art is not important for an amazing project (JohnFaa is one example of this), I think massive walls of text aren't quite enough for my own work.
I'd recommend that you start drawing, even if you don't think you're very good. You'd be surprised at how you improve. For an example, here's my DeviantART- take a flick through. Four years of drawing have gotten me from 2D cutouts to 3D dinosaurs. :)
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One Idea that would nice is a terraformed planet where marsupials and monotremes are the only mammals introduced.

Emus, kingfishers, crocodiles, komodo dragons, parrots, snakes, toads, fish and invertebrates are also introduced.

Foliage would be like Australia, with a bit of Africa in the mix.
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An alternate evo, with a sentient culture that evolved from Suminia
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What about a terraformed world where monotremes, xenarthans, afrotheres, and marsupials are the only tetrapods introduced and left to evolve for 40 million years?
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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An alternative evolution scenario where different groups of marine reptiles dominate the seas in the Mesozoic.
-Hupehsuchians replace ichthyosaurs.
-Hyphalosaurs replace mosasaurs.
-Metriorhynchids replace pliosaurs.
-Thalassosaurs replace plesiosaurs.
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A planet where the civilized aliens evolved from wolf-like critters instead of apes. So far I have some concept drawings of the Caenens, and a list of various stats about their home planet and its two moons.
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Future varanids that evolved a more erect limb posture, and a warm-blooded metabolism.
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Nice ideas.
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GlarnBoudin
Nov 7 2015, 02:26 PM
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Oct 19 2015, 04:01 PM
I had an idea briefly today of a world of organisms that look like cartoon characters/plushie animals, but for biologically plausible reasons. For example, they have large eyes for night vision or eye spots that look like massive eyes, and their chubby appearance conceals radula-like mouthparts and other predatory appendages.
You know, I've actually had a similar idea for a while, except it was a bit more limited.
Basically, it would be an alternative evolution project with a group of islands around the size of the Hawaiian ones in the Pacific, with prosimians being the major mammalian fauna, evolving into a variety of forms that looked a lot like muppets.
Other organisms would include giant flightless galliforms (Big Bird), large pyrotheres that evolved into elephant-like forms, and a late-surviving abelisaur that turned to a panda-like herbivorous existence (Barney).
http://www.erbzine.com/mag17/1744.html

As for my projects: I've been thinking a lot about a future evolution project, mainly just to focus on East Africa, the Mediterranean, and the colonization boom on Antarctica. May main problem is aside from East Africa going east and Antarctica going north I don't know what the projections are for continental movement.
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Nov 26 2015, 06:31 AM
I've recently noticed there are multiple other candidates for extra landmasses or 'lost continents' made from abyssal shelves, that could easily have come land potentially. Popular and plausible candidates for this are Zealandia, Sundaland (though really an extension of Indonesia), Kerguelen or even an Atlantis based off the mid Atlantic Ridge. However, there are also other landmasses which could be used for island projects if people were to desire. The Indian Ocean has multiple large plateaus that could easily form landmasses as shown here:
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Ther have been multiple projects about aome land masses, such as Zealandia, Lemuria (based off the real mascarene and broken ridge plateaus), some greater Azores and even my own Atlantis and Kerguelen. But Afaik, no one has ever done a project regarding the largest of these, known as Ontong Java (Zealandia is made up of multiple plateaus do it doesn't count as largest), which lies not far north of New Guinea. At a staggering 1.86+million square kilometres in size, It was the largest igneous province known, surpassing the runner up Kerguelen by over 610,000km2 (which is more than the area of Madagascar). It's formation is believed to have caused a marine extinction event during the Cretaceous 125-120 million years ago. I have no plan of doing a project around a terrestrial version of this plataeu at this point, but if anyone else is interested, then I'm offering this up for them :).
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Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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