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Extinction - Evolutionary ASCII Suggestion Game
« on: July 19, 2013, 01:52:06 pm »

The world is recovering.
One million years ago, the greatest challenge that oxygen-breathing life ever faced had finally been conquered. The Gelidian era ('frozen') has finally ended. The glaciers, after 400 million years of grinding the newly-born continents into rubble and dirt, have joined with the sea, and their cargoes of minerals have arrived in the waters. Trillions of photosynthesizing cells are pumping billions of tons of breathable gas into the air and ocean. Oxygen and nutrients are available in vast quantities, and multicellular life has begun. Most are simple creatures, focusing only on taking what they need from the blue-green liquid soup that surrounds them. One of the most prolific of these is the seafloor blob, a tiny organism that feasts off of the organic matter in the ocean's waters. They cover the floors of the ocean. For now, life is good, but competition is starting. One of them is destined to become great, though. And its form of life will survive, no matter what.

This one reproduces, and then dies, like the many other blobs of the reef. But its descendants are evolving. How, though? Will it evolve muscle and dig, or feast on fellow members of its species? Will it let itself free from the ocean floor? If there are a million different choices it could take, which is the choice that it will follow in the end?

That choice is up to you.

 
Spoiler: Explaining the game (click to show/hide)

Welcome to Extinction, a game which will hopefully NOT end in what its title may initially suggest!
Evolutionary suggestion games are fun, but they are even more fun when you add some (rudimentary) illustrations!

ASCII, brought by yours truly, using REXPaint. Check the spoiler in quote above to see! (I never said they will be of X@Com quality)
Also, I know that the "world map" is not exactly accurate yet, but I should get that sorted out soon enough.


Adaptation and Competition both sprawled into very different paths. Let's see where Extinction brings us! (hopefully not to itself)
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Re: Extinction - Evolutionary ASCII Suggestion Game
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2013, 01:54:15 pm »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.
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« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2013, 03:16:32 pm »

+1

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« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2013, 03:27:14 pm »

PTW
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Re: Extinction - Evolutionary ASCII Suggestion Game
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2013, 03:38:28 pm »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.
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Re: Extinction - Evolutionary ASCII Suggestion Game
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2013, 06:00:25 pm »

+1

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-1, not only is it not worth the minerals, it also clashes with my "image"...
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« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2013, 10:49:15 pm »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.
-1
web are essentially a sponge (if that), no gut.
Evolve endosymbiotic algae
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« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2013, 11:56:37 pm »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.

+1 let's get to Cthulhu as quickly as possible here. 
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« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2013, 11:58:39 pm »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.

+1 let's get to Cthulhu as quickly as possible here.
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« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2013, 12:00:48 am »

Elongate into worm- or tentacle-like animals, which snag swimmers-by.

+1 let's get to Cthulhu as quickly as possible here.
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« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2013, 12:04:18 am »

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« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2013, 12:42:13 am »

OH GOD YES!
Evolve hydrogen chambers in our skin.
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« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2013, 04:47:24 am »

Spoiler: Evolution attempts (click to show/hide)
// If someone who hosted evolution games in the past could explain to me how the rolls work via PM, I'd be thankful. I only have a basic grasp of this, so there may be flaws.

Spoiler: GENERATION 2 (click to show/hide)
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« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2013, 05:00:40 am »

Evolve fins and tails to allow faster movement.
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