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[Paxiecrunchle]

Edited into original post. It hurts my biologist soul.

*offers hug* this whole game hurts my inner biologist.

[Roboson]

"mitosis" is too sciency, try again. (Feel free to edit original post)

Descriptions like whale or nautilus dont matter nor what way it moves, but why. (If at all)

So was flying enough or you need me to edit it?

[RoseHeart]

A
Float - what does this mean?
Gets energy from absorbing sunlight

B
Eats light
It multiplies by splitting into bits - how many?

C
eats light
releases toxic vapor - whats that/whats it do?

D
Ram prey - who are they?
Vomit - how far?
travels in swarms - where?

[helmacon]

Make a bacterium that eats light and releases toxic vapor in response. (Oxygen) It is primarily an aquatic organism. After incurring enough nutrient and replicating internal structures it splits into two identical organisms. It takes on an orangish red hue when in quantity.

In an anaerobic world, oxygen will be toxic to creatures not adapted to deal with it.

[RoseHeart]

Not sure I'll let that pass, I might. I really recommend trying to find simpler words. Forget everything you know about the Earth and just see this board game as the only thing that exists. You know that each space occupies one lifeform. Now you give it its habits for it to exist in this place. It's almost as if it is reading what you're saying and trying to interpret it from never experiencing those things.

[Paxiecrunchle]

A
Float - what does this mean?
Gets energy from absorbing sunlight

B
Eats light
It multiplies by splitting into bits - how many?

C
eats light
releases toxic vapor - whats that/whats it do?

D
Ram prey - who are they?
Vomit - how far?
travels in swarms - where?

That's what happens when you actually ask people to be as vague and minimalistic as popular.

B: eats light means red pigment based photosynthesis, but you said we couldn't use terms like that
Float: means it floats on the water by storing a bible of gass in vacuole, I mean a I don't know, give me time to come up with an unscientific term.

[RoseHeart]

Alright. Alright. Imagine that you are creating a nanobot. Give it instructions. It only understands simple words. There you go.

[RoseHeart]

If you really appreciate the terms and truly understand them. Then you should be able to explain the basic concept to a child.

[helmacon]

If you really appreciate the terms and truly understand them. Then you should be able to explain the basic concept to a child.

Well sure, but when describing a whole organism there are a lot of concepts in play. For sake of brevity we use terms that describe whole systems. I could describe the entire process of photosynthesis in child like terms, but it would take a while. And thats only one part of my design.

[Roboson]

My creature has three tentacles surrounding a longer tentacle with a mouth on the end. It has four eyes evenly spread around the body so that it can see in all directions. It's mouth tentacle can stretch to twice the creature's body length. This mouth and tentacles are attached to a squishy body. That body is contained in a spiral shell. This shell is both light and very hard. The shell also contains gas sacs filled with lighter than air gas. This lets the creature float. The creature moves by taking in large amounts of air and rapidly expelling it, moving the creature. It can and does eat most organic matter. It does so by vomiting its super powerful stomach acid onto the target and then slurping up the digested food. It can vomit it's acid to distances twice its body length. It is unaffected by its own acid. If it looks like something may be food, the creature vomits on it. If it melts, its food, if it doesn't its not food. All living things that are not this creature or a predator of this creature look like food to this creature. Regardless of however much dissolved it slurps the vomit  and any digested organic matter back up. This makes a disgusting sound.  It travels in swarms for safety in numbers. The swarms constantly search for more food. They have no set destination, they just constantly look for food. If food is spotted the spotter will make a slurping sound and move towards the food. Others naturally follow the slurper and move towards the food. When the food is eaten a slurping noise is made. This signals the other members of the swarm that food is gone. The other members of the swarm also make a slurping noise to signal it is time to move on. The swarm then resumes looking for more food. When a predator/threat is spotted the spotter emits a chattering noise and aims it's mouth at the predator/threat. Others in the swarm do the same. If the threat/predator comes within two body lengths of any individual, all individuals within two body lengths of the predator emits a loud slurping noise and vomits on the threat/predator. Other's not within two body lengths move closer so they are less than two body lengths from the predator. They then also vomit on the predator. After the predator is no longer perceived as a threat, it is treated like food. The creatures mate and reproduce every four meals. They give live birth to single individuals.  These babies fly with the swarm and are capable of doing so from birth. Babies are six inches long. Adults can grow to be up to six feet long. Their color varies on an individual basis and can be any color found in the sky during dawn/dusk.

[Paxiecrunchle]

I'm basically a large red colored bubble alga that floats by trapping gases and makes more of itself by ripping itself into smaller prices wihch get big again and then do the same thing after eating more light energy they rely on the tide to carry them.

[RoseHeart]

My creature has three tentacles surrounding a longer tentacle with a mouth on the end. It has four eyes evenly spread around the body so that it can see in all directions. It's mouth tentacle can stretch to twice the creature's body length. This mouth and tentacles are attached to a squishy body. That body is contained in a spiral shell. This shell is both light and very hard. The shell also contains gas sacs filled with lighter than air gas. This lets the creature float. The creature moves by taking in large amounts of air and rapidly expelling it, moving the creature. It can and does eat most organic matter. It does so by vomiting its super powerful stomach acid onto the target and then slurping up the digested food. It can vomit it's acid to distances twice its body length. It is unaffected by its own acid. If it looks like something may be food, the creature vomits on it. If it melts, its food, if it doesn't its not food. All living things that are not this creature or a predator of this creature look like food to this creature. Regardless of however much dissolved it slurps the vomit  and any digested organic matter back up. This makes a disgusting sound.  It travels in swarms for safety in numbers. The swarms constantly search for more food. They have no set destination, they just constantly look for food. If food is spotted the spotter will make a slurping sound and move towards the food. Others naturally follow the slurper and move towards the food. When the food is eaten a slurping noise is made. This signals the other members of the swarm that food is gone. The other members of the swarm also make a slurping noise to signal it is time to move on. The swarm then resumes looking for more food. When a predator/threat is spotted the spotter emits a chattering noise and aims it's mouth at the predator/threat. Others in the swarm do the same. If the threat/predator comes within two body lengths of any individual, all individuals within two body lengths of the predator emits a loud slurping noise and vomits on the threat/predator. Other's not within two body lengths move closer so they are less than two body lengths from the predator. They then also vomit on the predator. After the predator is no longer perceived as a threat, it is treated like food. The creatures mate and reproduce every four meals. They give live birth to single individuals.  These babies fly with the swarm and are capable of doing so from birth. Babies are six inches long. Adults can grow to be up to six feet long. Their color varies on an individual basis and can be any color found in the sky during dawn/dusk.

m.o.g.

[RoseHeart]

Alright. Tomorrow I will try this again.

Here is an example life form. A COMPLETE one:

Eats light
Makes a copy on a random space nearby.
Moves to a random space not near a different kind of lifeform.