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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,346 Views)
peashyjah
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Tartarus
Oct 11 2017, 05:50 PM
That "forests as oceans" idea sounds really cool. I would love to see a project like that.
It sure is awesome!
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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Nov 3 2017, 07:08 PM
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Nov 3 2017, 07:06 AM
Reverse world where vertebrates are small and degenerate, and invertebrates are the dominant megafauna. think tiny, insect sized amphibians and squamates, and giant terrestrial polychaetes and pelagic chaetognaths hunting them.
I second this, but I must suggest something. Having vertebrates bet tiny while having every single other animal group become megafauna seems a little to unrealistic. I suggest picking one group of "invertebrates".
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I was thinking either neotenic fish larvae for aquatic "nanoverts" and amphibians for land. Theres gotta be a lower limit for mammals due to the whole giving birth and stuff. As for megafauna...

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Tenno
Nov 4 2017, 09:17 PM
As for megafauna...

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I see, you are a man of culture.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Nov 4 2017, 09:17 PM


I was thinking either neotenic fish larvae for aquatic "nanoverts" and amphibians for land. Theres gotta be a lower limit for mammals due to the whole giving birth and stuff. As for megafauna...

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oh boy, I can't wait to see the world of giant worms with fins.
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Various Earth lifeforms on a terraformed planet orbiting an orange dwarf star with tens of billions of years of habitability.
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Not a particular project perse, but some more speculation with regards to alternate hominin branches before Homo sapiens. Examples of this could be what if the Paranthropids hadn't gone extinct and had continued on their path of specialised herbivores.
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What about the "Mediocre Project"?

It takes place 40 million years in the future, and man is extinct. there are such tropes as lagomorph deer, hand-walking birds, whale penguins, and killing off most carnivorians.

it's map will be a direct rip from Dougal Dixon except reskined, and there's no attention to flora or fungi at all. it's really only going to focus on tetrapods and some arthropods, without giving a flying fuck about fish. and they explain creatures by boring ass lists!
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Nov 3 2017, 03:33 AM
Adman thoutgh of that,world dominated by samp
There's a lot of lesser K-Pg extinction projects, but what about a harsher one? In this scenario the the asteroid is 4 kilometers wider (that's 14 kilometers wide) and has a much greater effect, similar to the Permian extinction. A few lizards, turtles, frogs, a bird and a mammal are the only tetrapod survivors. I really like this one, but it's only in it's very beginning stages of planning.
Adman though of that world dominated by squamates ,amphibians,chelonidis and choristodera
in a hardder k-pg mammals would fare better than birds so what about a birdless cenozoic with more diverse flying mammals
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
coming soon......a world that was seeded with earth´s weridest
and who knows what is coming next...........

" I have to know what the world will be looking throw a future beyond us
I have to know what could have been if fate acted in another way
I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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A project where super-advanced beings create a planet in an empty solar system and follow it along billions of years. Bickering all the way, competing to give supremacy to their favourite clades, and starting planet-wide disasters to spite each other.

Heck, make them schoolchildren from an impossibly powerful multigalactic civilization that have to evolve an intelligent species from scratch as a school assignment. They would try multiple strategies, different environments, more direct or indirect approaches, etc. - it would be a neat way to explore what intelligence is and how it arises.

Something about life on Earth in the far future - like, 500 million years hence at least - would also be nice.
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My deviantART page - My other extra-project work - Natural History of Horus and its flora and fauna - A graphic history of life (also here) - AuxLang Project: a worldwide language - Behold THE MEGACLADOGRAM - World Without West: an alternate history

SpecEvo Tutorials: Habitable Solar Systems (galaxies, stars and moons); Planets (geology, oceans and atmosphere); Ecology (energy, biomes and relationships); Alternative Biochemistry (basic elements, solvents, pigments); Biomechanics (body structure, skeletons, locomotion); Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, digestion, respiration); Perception (sense organs and nervous system); Reproduction (from genetics to childbirth); Offense and Defense (camouflage, poisons and weapons); Intelligence (EQ, consciousness and smartest animals); Civilizations (technology, domestication and culture); Exotic Life (living crystals, nuclear life, 2D biology); Evolution (genetics, selection and speed); Phylogeny (trees of life); Guide to Naming (how to name your creations) (and more!)

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Natural History of Horus (19th century naturalists... in space)
Galactic Anthropology (intelligence takes many forms around the Milky Way)
Settlers from the Deep (a tour in a blind and slimy future)
Coming soon: A Matter of Time (a history of the future... all of it)
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Another not quite spec project that I did kind of ask about a good while back; an alternate present with divergent human involvement in the biosphere (roles off the tongue, don't it?). What species were spared by our alternate decisions? What alternatively went extinct? Could anything have been domesticated that wasn't here? Given the high number of potential branches off this one prompt alone, it might not be suited for just a project, though.
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At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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A project where a planet is one giant salt flat. Introduced animals are brine flies and brine shrimp
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Yiqi15
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A project where a planet is one giant salt flat. Introduced animals are brine flies and brine shrimp
As well as flamingos and ants?
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

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

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Nov 7 2017, 09:09 PM
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Nov 7 2017, 08:16 PM
A project where a planet is one giant salt flat. Introduced animals are brine flies and brine shrimp
As well as flamingos and ants?
What about the Lake Eyre Dragon?

Anyway, knowing IIGS this is supposed to be a vertebrate free world.
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Nov 7 2017, 09:09 PM
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Nov 7 2017, 08:16 PM
A project where a planet is one giant salt flat. Introduced animals are brine flies and brine shrimp
As well as flamingos and ants?
No ants, no lake Eyre dragons. Maaaybee flamingos.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Something like IIGS's salt world project, but there are no flamingoes, and other species introduced include mesosaurs, Lake Eyre dragons, pygocephalomorphs, and highly salt-tolerant goby fish. The planet also has high volcanism, and hardy plants are also introduced.
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