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SE Census - Favorite Projects; LAST ONE, I SWEAR!
Topic Started: May 23 2018, 10:43 PM (1,116 Views)
Icthyander
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It's hard for me to choose a favorite project (I've probably spent the most time reading and gotten the most enjoyment out of the Library through just its shear quantity), but one project that has always really captivated me is Abacaba's 2D World Project.
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Dromaeosaurus
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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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Favorite of all time? Probably The Future is Far for its vast scope and the originality of many species. 2D World has to be a very close second, though. After that, I'm fond of Ilion, Serina, and - does it count? - the "last vertebrate" contest.
Off-site, the Nauceans have a special place in my heart.
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!)

My projects here:

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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Tartarus
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Prime Specimen
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As with the creatures census, its hard to pick favourites here. Still, some projects that have really stood out for me:
-The Future is Far, by Dragonthunders
-Terra Metropolis, by Sheather
-Proxima B and its sister project Centauri, by Akurian452
-Beetleboy's Sylvaria was quite good while it lasted.
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Mynameisnotdave23
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ZoologicalBotanist
May 24 2018, 06:29 AM
There are several projects that i like, including

- Avisia
-Diyu
-Serina
-Xugroyruta: The Chlorine Earth

There are more that i really like, but those are the ones I thought of off the top of my head.
That's quite suprising, since the project is new and I've only posted one species, it means a great deal to me, friend.
Projects


Avisia, an island archipelago isolated for over 88 million years, and is know home to megafaunal birds, mekosuchine crocodiles, and many relics. (currently in infancy)
Read here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8192410/2/#new

Deviantart: https://mynameisnotdave23.deviantart.com/
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malicious-monkey
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Spec Ops
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Lost world: Diyu
Alt Evolution: Zealandia
Xeno: Nereus
Narrative: Eden
"My recommendation would be to just draw things now and draw good things later." - Nanotyranus

Ilion: an illustrated tour of a tidally locked planet
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malicious-monkey.deviantart.com
sunriseonilion.wordpress.com
supermalmoworld.tumblr.com
Redbubble - Ilion art prints and more
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Scrublord
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Father Pellegrini
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Currently-running and recent projects I love:
Sheather's Serina
Empyreon's Nereus
Carlos's Lemuria
Chuditch's Autralia, Where Everything Wants To Kill You
My own The Big One
Dragonthunders's The Future Is Far

Old projects I love:
Canis's RECON RPG setting (seriously, we need to bring this one back. It had so much potential!)
Titanomonstrus's Postocene
Heteromorph's Late Cenozoic
The Evolutionary Continuum group project

My Projects:
The Neozoic Redux
Valhalla--Take Three!
The Big One



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In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado.
--Heteromorph
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Mynameisnotdave23
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My favorite projects:

Serina- Birds, birds, and... tripodal fish?

Sheatheria- A magical aesthetic and FLYING ENDOTHERMIC FROGS YASSSS.

The Future is Far- A wonderful mix of bizzare creatures.

The great Song- It's nice seeing a familiar setting (to me) be turned into a future wonderland.

Australia, Where everything wants to kill you- Rule of cool MFers!

And so many more...


Projects


Avisia, an island archipelago isolated for over 88 million years, and is know home to megafaunal birds, mekosuchine crocodiles, and many relics. (currently in infancy)
Read here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8192410/2/#new

Deviantart: https://mynameisnotdave23.deviantart.com/
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Dromaeosaurus
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Haemothermic orthostatic matrotrophic lexiphanic deuterostome
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LittleLazyLass
May 23 2018, 10:43 PM
I've just barely been a part of this place for a third of its lifespan (holy shit, I've been here for a third of the forum's lifespan)

Wanna hear something funny? I've been on this forum for a third of my own lifespan

Oh, and how could I forget? I really liked Akurian452's Man After Man Revisited, too bad it's been inactive for so long. And - offsite again - herofan135's Urban Future.
Edited by Dromaeosaurus, May 25 2018, 02:53 PM.
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!)

My projects here:

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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Sceynyos-yos
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Ilion
Diyu
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Beetleboy
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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The Great Song - such wonderful detail and charm, has such a distinctive and comforting feel to it

The Alithocene Epoch - proves that you don't need a 'gimmick' to have an excellent project. Such good quality critters

10 Million Years of Rain - I could talk so much about how much I love this project, it's got such a wonderful flair and style, and very original creatures

Viam Alternatus - probably one of the best realistic mythology projects
~ The Age of Forests ~
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CeratosaurusKing
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For me it's

The future is far -
Really nice project, that has inspired me to create my own spec creatures.

Rich man's ark - This project pretty much inspired me to get a account on here, my first project was heavily inspired by it, and i like how thr community decided on which creatures should be brought in. We need more of these on the fourm.

Diyu - A very intresting project, i love the nightmarish beasts this project has spawned out of it.

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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GreatAuk
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Northern Penguin
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TFIW expanded edition by ZoologicalBotanist

Jurassic World 2.0 by RoyalPsycho

My Man after Man Project Revisited by Akurian452
Let us dance together.
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Archeoraptor
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"A living paradox"
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there is basically too much to name
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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GlarnBoudin
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My favorite projects? Hmm....

- A Million Years BC and Jurassic World 2.0. Both of them take two topics that tend to be, well, kinda looked down upon here and making them into truly unique worlds that make you constantly yearn for the next update.
- The Xenologist's Hollow Earth is utterly fantastic, not just for its incredible take on the classic concept of a lost world, but the sheer amount of work that was put into everything from the animals to the individual islands.
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Sheather
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Nereus by Empyreon is a wonderful and beautiful world that though not as richly detailed as it could be comes to life due to the large number of beautiful illustration.

But my most favorite would be Borea, by the long-absent member Heteromorph. This one inspired me more than any other single project and the concepts he brought up were particularly pivotal to my choices regarding some of Serina's finer details such as myrmecophytes and extinction events. It hardly got off the ground, but the ideas laid out were so wonderfully new, innovative and yet seemingly very plausible. There are few really thorough future evolution scenarios on the forum and I felt this one had incredible promise, and indeed would be overjoyed to see him return with anything new for it in the future.

Troll Man's last turtle contest entry too was exquisitely immersive, though that may or may not qualify?
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