I've been working on a total-conversion mod lately, turning dwarf fortress into a scifi game - controling a colony of humans on a strange planet.
Here are some WIP screenshots:
Digging with picks is not very futuristic, so i gave them nanobots instead. Here a human is attacking a cougar with his canister of the stuff. All weapons and equipment are changed; Jumpsuits and phaser rifles, yay.
A human, or perhaps "terran"; not decided on that. The human race is split up in several castes, each with an unique modification that does something beneficial.
A custom workshop - the Bioforge. In this building, you convert wood (or animal parts, if you got them) to plastic. Plastic is used to build your base. (Ok, you don't technically
need plastic to do that, but i like to.) The forge looks a bit ugly because i can't use the ']' symbol in a building; it interprets it as the end of the tag instead.
The plants and ground is unfinished, i'm planning to make blue/red/green alien trees & slimy pink/blue/green etc ground later.
Humans have a few robots to help them out in the hostile environment; they bleed oil and are made of plastic & metal.
Now, i'm about to add animals & plants. However, i need names and ideas. I don't really feel like alienating anybody, so i'm trying to avoid using stuff from other works like Alpha Centauri/Star Control etc because not everybody is familiar with those, and won't understand what a "Mind Worm" is for example.
If you have any comments, suggestions or ideas i would be happy to hear them.