Competition EvolutionThe game can still be accessed below but whenever I try to access it I get a page loading error. I need to ask does this happen to anybody else? I can't even get onto the host's website either so it appears something is wrong.Here's a forum game I have designed. It's all about evolution, and I'm looking for new members to join in. It's pretty quiet just now so we welcom new players.
If you're interested, have a look here:
[link]A new Project?I have been thinking... I wasn't going to continue Alternative Earth until much later. It's still sitting in its folder, but I don't feel like continuing right now. I have a new idea in mind that I'd like to explore in Earth's setting.
It's a project where all tetrapods and all lobe-finned fish die out at the start of the carboniferous period, 360 million years ago, and explores how life might have evolved in their absence. EDIT: I have decided all jawed fish will be joining them, so that changes can take effect in the sea as well as on land.
I'm currently studying up on the known life forms from back then so I can put together a general picture of how the world might have looked back then before starting this project.
The difference here is I'll be evolving many life forms and not just fish or animals. I'll cover plants too.
Hopefully I'll be started on this soon.
New PhylumThis project is in the works just now, please excuse inaccuracies or advise please!

Currently on: 1 million years from the first bilaterian worm.
New Phylum gets its name from harbouring one last remaining phylum of multicellular animals left alive on the planet at the start of the project.
The planet resides in a star system that has a single yellow-dwarf star. There are a handful of other planets in the system.
New Phylum is in the early stages of the development of complex life. Having harboured nothing but simple unicellular species, its now home to tiny multicellular animal, plant and fungus-like organisms.
The multicellular animals got off to a good start but the number of species bottlenecked to just one at the end of a devastating mass extinction that resulted in increased heat and radiation raining down uppon the planet (currently still figuring out why though). This leaves only the worms - microscopic bilaterians with few simple organs. What is left for them are hundreds of niches to exploit and a whole planet to conquer... until the next mass extinction.
Current related deviations:
Grip worm - Folds of skin provide this worm with a means of latching itself on to the algae growing on the ocean surface.
Winged worm - Swiming ability has improved due to the growth of slightly enlarged membrane connected by moveable spines.
Bristle fin - A large herbivorious species that uses simple fins to help it swim.
Floating gas worm - Keeps itself afloat near the ocean surface using gases given off by the bacteria in its intestine when they digest plant material.
Mini filter feeder - This herbivore collects floating algae and detritus from the sea water using a filter made up of the muscle fibres that control its mouth.
Coastal bristle swimmer - A shallow sea variety that stays near the flora growing on submerged cliff-sides.
Clingy Herbivore - A herbivore that uses hooks to hold on to colonial plants like bubble algae.
Bristle swimmer evolved - Bristle swimmer was rather successful in cycle 9. This is one of its many descendants in cycle 10.
Close-up of a carnivore feeding - One of the carnivorous worms feeding upon a smaller worm.
Winter White - ... yeah, wasn't a very original name, no. This is the third planet from the yellow dwarf star, coming after New Phylum. Its much like Europa in nature and four times larger than Earth.
Evolution of the worms - this is just the beginning of the evolutionary progress of the worms on New Phylum, it features every species I've made for cycle 9 so far.
Rock grabber - A herbivorious microscopic worm that latches on to rocks to feed on drifting detritus.
Hairy biter - An omnivorious, near carnivorious, microscopic worm covered in protective spikes.
Bristle swimmer - Another microscopic worm, this time a herbivore that can swim well.
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Prehistoric SpeculationI'll be posting many of my own interperatations of what I think some species of extinct animal may look like. I may even start to draw sceneries. I will do my best to stick to fact and will use any references I can.
Current related deviations:
Catopsalis (Cretaceous - Paleogene period) - A prehistoric mammal.
Velociraptor (Cretaceous period) - With feathers.
Megazostrodon (Triassic - Jurassic period) - Its with its offspring.
Acanthostega (Devonian - Carboniferous period) - How acanthostega might have looked.