/evol/ - Evolution Games

Sorry for my lack of activity here the last few days - I was out of state for a wedding. I am also starting my new job tomorrow so I will attempt to update/evolve when I can, but might not be around a whole lot. These games are always amazing because of the community, not the game leader (though I like to think I help).

I am making this a sticky so we can put all ideas/discussion/questions into one thread so I don't have to sort through individual games to find said things.

I want to start by suggesting everyone pop over to the wikia and edit when they can. I know we don't have a lot of players now, but I fear one day a game may reach page 15 and all will be lost.

http://evol.wikia.com/wiki/Evol_Games_Wikia

GMS created this and to my knowledge is the only one who had edited anything (this is an apology from me as well).

So, let the discussion commence!

New players, read this!

First, welcome new players. We need you. Similar to fight club, if it is your first time on the board - you have to evolve a creature. So how do these games work? There are really only 2 rules:

1) Take an image, alter it somehow, save as .PNG

2) Post the image with a short description on what has changed

You should also name your creature, you can keep the old name or give it a new one. New names tend to signify a splinter-species. This thread does not count as a game.

There are a few other guidelines for playing.

> If a previous player made a change (added wings for example) the next evolution should not remove the same change. It can breed out over time, but allow the species to splinter and grow first.

> There is no winning, you do not "own" these creatures. The point of this game is to have a good time and help build a universe. If you're a control freak we don't want you playing.

> Please get my approval for a new game. We need to build on what little we have, Rome fell because it spread itself too thin.

I want you to play and have fun. If you find the game is stale or want to add something new, let me know. This is not my game, it is ours.

So I'm sure you guys have some other masterpieces laying around. Or maybe you just want a place to drop in other pictures that don't really fit in the other threads. New or old, this is the place to do it.

Welcome to Thrasja island, a small cluster of tropical islands (consisting of two major islands, and small dots of land, all of which is easily accessable) far from any other land, with a climate perfect for life. The forests on Thrasja are lush and tall, akin to the rainforests of Earth. There is a large lake near the top of the large island, between two peaks. Three large rivers go down the mountain, holding fresh water that feeds into the lake from an underground well. smaller creeks are common around the big rivers.

Meet the inhabitants of these islands below:

The Oco are primarily herbivorous, eating bark, leaves, fruit, tubers, and other vegetation, but are known to feed on dead animals and anything it can catch. They scale the trees of the island, using their large front limbs like ice picks. They are adept swimmers as well, being descendant from octopus-like creatures, as evident from their eight limbs and hard beak. Their sturdy exoskeleton keeps them mostly safe from falls and predation. Their long "tail" gives them balance while climbing, and a rudder while swimming. They are active at any time of day or night. Females will lay their soft-shelled eggs by the hundreds by the sea, or in rivers or lakes, wherever there is water. If any eggs find themselves out of water, they will not develop and "die" until water becomes available to them, and then the eggs will continue to develop. Oco are primarily solitary, but do not mind the company of other members of their species. Oco are mild-mannered and are generally only aggressive when hungry or looking for a mate.

Laz are plain lizard-like animals. They are capable of eating everything the Oco do (they are capable climbers and swimmers as well), but their main prey is the Hof. Laz must be active during the day, while the sun can warm their bodies, as they are cold blooded. At night, Laz are inclined to dig underground the beach, where the sand/soil is still warm from the sun's rays. They lay their clutch of 3-5 hard-shelled eggs in the hot sand. Laz are extremely aggressive and territorial.

Hof are small hoofed mammals, and are very similar to small rodents of Earth. They primarily eat vegetation and seeds, and produce many young quicklPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

The Caves, it's abundant in underground ponds, only if you can find them. The caves are frigid, despite this, they have boiling sulfuric pools as well.

The Sik are insects that use it's two legs to hop around, and uses it's tail to push off the ground.

They has a head ornament that has no blood vessels going to it. They use it to confuse the Zih into biting it, as to give the Sik a better chance at survival.

These creatures a much more resistant than the Zih, as they feed off the Ubt, using their dual-pronged lower leg to scoop up any that float to the edges.

The Zih the only creature with bioluminescence in this dark abyss. It is amphibious, and moves from pool to pool. They don't have eyes, and therefore, some get lost in the migration from pool to pool.

These creatures dominate the water pools, as they are the only creatures that are capable of swimming.

On land, these creatures are very slow, and move like an earthworm, making them easy to pick off.

They feed off the Sik, which can become a problem, as the Sik have eyes, and are much faster, meaning they also starve easily.

The leads the pools to be littered with dead Zih at the bottoms of them.

The Ubt are waterbound creatures who float on the surface of the sulfur pools, they absorb nutrients from the vents below those volatile pools.

They're amorphous body allows them to move around, but even then, their movement is slow, and inconstant.

Welcome to the deep sea!

Here we have 3 creatures all hanging around volcanic vents:

Ble – A crude cell. It is slightly photosynthetic. It has no form of locomotion and just rolls around on the ocean floor

Uing – A fat-bodied worm. It feeds mostly on debris put out from the vents.

Syx – An immobile predator. The Syx reaches out attempting to grab anything it can. It uses its roots to attach to the sides of volcanic vents.

Let us go forth and populate the deep sea!

Welcome to the great desert. In front of you is an open landscape shaped with occasional hills and mountains. The heat here is oppressive and the land is cracked, dry, and dead. For a few months out of the year, the desert springs to life with these creatures:

Dico - A strange and fragile plant. During the dry months it shrivels and rolls across the landscape. When the rain comes the Dico hydrates and races to go to spore. Spores that land in pools form new young Dicos and the cycle begins anew.

Nish - Shelled invertebrates. Their dried eggs come to life in the vernal pools. They eat anything organic voraciously (including other Nish). When they can, they mate and their eggs dry as the wet season ends.

Iby - A weak mollusk. Its clear body is its main defense. It spends the wet months cooling and feeding in the waters. When the dry months come the Iby dig into the mud and cover themselves with mucus. They rely on their fat reserves until the next wet season brings fresh Dico.

In the stretch of land between the great desert and the mountains lies an ancient land. Flesh stretches like a canvas across an alien landscape. There are no plants, or species of animals. The plains are their own species. Individual body parts form from the land – some are free moving, most are rooted in place. The free-moving creatures are called fleshlings – they are short-lived and have no impulses or instincts, they just jut around looking for other fleshlings to dine upon. The air here is heavy and wet and the weather is always warm. Patches of fur flow like grass in the humid wind. Occasionally pools of algae appear giving the landscape a vibrant green hue. Tumorous mounds grow the size of large hills and spikes of bone stand like naked trees.

This is the new home of the Syxiar Hominad, Xigz, Halon, and Hobo. (Some will also remain in their original biomes as well)

There are large pools of water-like fluid so the Syxiar Hominads can remain in their water-dwelling form.

There are 2 creatures that form other than the fleshlings:

Symbionts - slow moving and often root to anything they can get ahold of; they prefer mobile creatures. When attached they feed off the creature, but do no kill it. In exchange, they provide amazing eyesight to the mostly blind fleshlings. (yes, they can attach to the Hobos, Xigz, Syxiar, and Halon.)

Hum’yl – voracious bipeds. They drag their long mouths across the landscape gobbling up any fleshling unfortunate enough to get in its path. When they are ready to breed they attach their maw to the landscape and feed off it. The Hum’yl always bear 2 children that burst from the body of the “mother” when gestation is complete.

The Janjira game has migrated! This is the current lineage's information can be found over here: http://8ch.net/janjira/

The rules are the same as the other threads

Same deal as the other one:

1) Pick a tile

2) Draw a rough outline of the continent/island

3) Make sure you connect to any open spaces if left in an adjacent tile

Try to make it look like the islands we see in the main map.

Welcome to the pixel game. Another version of the no description game, but a bit smaller. Pic related are our 3 starting creatures. Let's see where fate takes them.

- No descriptions allowed.

- Be creative

- Have fun

Hey users of the /evol/ board! I know I haven't been posting much recently… but… I've been retooling an idea I had when I first found out about Evogames a couple of months ago.

I present you: Janjira

Worry not, as I will still be active on this board, but I wanted to create sister board.

It's basically the same, but you follow one creature as it splinters out into various different creatures.

If this interests you, then follow along!

http://8ch.net/janjira/

This game will be similar to the no description game (which seems to have run its course), but with a twist. In the forsaken plains fleshlings are creatures that spring up from the landscape and live for a short period of time before their unstable genetics dissolve into a puddle of useless flesh. In this thread we will create some and have them slowly evolve overtime. The resulting creatures may or may not become relative or important to the over-all world of Nubterra.

This game is different in there are no starting creatures, just body parts that wonder around the landscape on their own. You can use pic related to help make a creature, or draw one up from scratch. Combine body parts from the list and/or feel free to add some I may have missed. After you design your creature, other players may evolve it as normal.

I have one major rule that must be followed at all times - == Make it weird ==

This game is inspired from a few things. First and foremost is the philosopher Empedocles who had a strange theory of evolution. He stated "Here sprang up many faces without necks, arms wandered without shoulders, unattached, and eyes strayed alone, in need of foreheads". Fun stuff!

If not already perfectly clear, this game takes place in the Forsaken Plains.

I'm new to this board and I want to contribute.

SHORES:

The shores are a paradise for life, having many miles of water and area to grow, with easy access to the sun. In addition, the temperature is a lukewarm tempature, hardly damaging to any creature.

There are three creatures who have their hold in the shores.

The Sprun

This creature is a colony of smaller, identical cells. each cell is oblate with two tentacles on each end. This allows them to manipulate water and the nutrients floating through it. It pumps the water along it's body, distributing the nourishment equally along the cells. The cells grow and split individually, and decay into their basic parts as they die. They eat everything they can break down.

The Ayalt

The Ayalt is simple- it clings to the sand, other living objects, or the surface tension of the water. It uses photosynthesis to process nutrients from the water into proteins, and a substance similar to fat or sugar witch is energy rich. It produces oxygen from breaking down carbon dioxide.

The Clend

The clend is a mobile, small creature that lives in and plucks from Sprun. It reproduces "traumatically", hunting down another clend, tearing it open and placing small, virus like objects which uses the partially live body to produce many tiny clend. A clend has no gender, and the ripper passes on more genetic code then the rippee, because they tend to live longer, which drives up competition- rip or be ripped. They have no competitors but themselves as of yet, so they have little defense but an offense.

!!The shores have plenty of room for diversity, so it is rare for a species to be replaced when a new one evolves, unless one fills the same niche so well it destroys the competition completely.!!