We used to play evo games on this very board, even. Of course, the audience for that kind of thing hasn't posted here in about 8 to 10 years.

>>93615585
>8 to 10 years
god, now I feel old.

>>93615585
Do you know where they've gone now?

>>93615780
In theory they should have gone to /qst/ but more likely they just went on towards other hobbies. Banning games killed this board.

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>>93616152

>>93615780
No, but I know the Sagan people still accept new players for their planets. You could play with them or their forums might have a lead on other play groups.

>>93614781
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/neslife-attempt-3.223596/
I was playing this back in 2007, unfortunately most of the images are dead now.

>>93621016
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/neslife-evolution-game.170754/
I found an even earlier thread that predates Sagan 4 by about 4 months. How far back do these go?

>>93621299
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-evolution-game.163726/
Found an even older one

>>93614781
2010 was roughly the time when everything went to shit. rulesets becoming less autistic and requiring less rulebooks, necrons becoming shit, wizards of the coast and games workshop gradually becoming weird...
some good tabletop games after it but otherwise everything started degrading and driving old fans away to replace them with new ones

back then there were old beards playing stuff in the corner, now there are no more old beards, i have a beard and there is nobody to play with and the new ones are idiots
take me back

>>93627585
How times have changed, huh?

>>93614781
What the fuck even is that?

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>>93638045
The image or the links?

The image is a cladogram from the second link. There's a bunch more of them, I just grabbed what I thought was the most interesting one. Here's another.

>>93638045
Unless you mean what the fuck is an evolution game. It's when a bunch of bored drawfags get together and start "evolving" made-up animals.

https://fanlore.org/wiki/List_of_Evolution_Games

hot fucking dman.

>>93638864
>>93641833
How can I never have heard of this? What the fuck.

>>93648713
I think it's because nobody ever talks about evo games unless it's to other people who play them. I think that's a damn shame, because some of them are great to just read, too.

There's a ton of links to ones run on /tg/ and /qst/ here:
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Evolution_Games

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Hijacking this, this is now an evolution game thread
Here's the starting creature, some blue thingy in the ocean of a world that just started having life like 3 minutes ago when I started drawing it
Now go evolve it, one little alteration at a time

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>>93651974
He has evolved bigger eyes so he can see UV light and avoid sunburn if he crawls/swims too high up in the water column

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>>93651974
legs to crawl on the seafloor

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>>93652194
It develops a more prominent spine for minor defensive purposes and for larger leg muscles

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>>93652194
this one is evil and has adapted pointy bits to kill >:)

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>>93652269
this one stands up with big clawed arms to scrape up algae and defend itself from the evil one

(if the mods kill us we're hopping over to /qst/ right?)

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>>93652136
His eyes get bigger to watch out for evil

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>>93652622
It develops a larger tail to scurry about quicker

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>>93652393
It develops a more agile body to better evade the clawed one's defences

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>>93652393
Unfortunately for tailguy, evil can swim too now

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>>93652640
His eyes got even bigger. If he can see evil soon enough, he might escape.

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>>93652640
Smaller tailguys find that they survive more when they partially burrow into the silt sea floor

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The evil swimmers start using stealth tactics

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>>93652747
Undulating membrane.

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>>93652845
Its body gets longer so it can more easily evade predators

Is nature healing?

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>>93652737
He lives in the twilight zone now so his eyes got even bigger to see the dim light. Also, he's red now.

>>93652986
Honestly, this is the most fun I've had online in ages. I missed this.

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>>93652823
Evil's longer mandibles make it able to keep a grip on prey in the deep more easily, even if its aim is slightly off.

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>>93653026
Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. What benefit does this even give him? Is it sexual display? Are there even any females of his species? What is going on?

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>>93652434
One little duplication of a hox gene and a fetal segment gets cloned. Welcome to a hexpodal lifestyle.

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>>93653654
We can go deeper. Also, save as png next time!

>>93627498
never seen another one of us in the wild

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>>93653568
Evil wasn't too keen on choking on (eye)balls, so it became a peaceful filter-feeder instead.

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>>93653611
Now free from predation, his eyes got even bigger. Like some kind of bird of paradise, but with eyeballs I guess.

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>>93653568
Another form of evil evolved the perfect solution.

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>>93656200
Those that can fend off Evils and scrape more algae tend to live longer and reproduce more. The knuckle-walking Morepod keeps larger and sharper claws than its shorter-limbed peers.

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>>93657173
Now it plays host to symbiotic bacteria living in all that extra, immune-suppressed ocular fluid. They supplement nutrients and vitamins in those cold deep waters, and the Oculus provides a stable environment for them to reproduce in.

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>>93656493
A free-drifting movement keeps the energy cost down for the low returns on filter-feeding. The limbs minimize over time.

poster of >>93651974 here
i’m proud of you guys
let this be a reminder that great things can happen if you just take the initiative in starting cool projects and games

Very cool

>>93661732
Do you happen to have a name for this planet/ocean?

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>>93652867
Some develop protruding eyes to better see predators above them from the seafloor

I am this exact type of autist. Bumping.

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>>93657152
Front-facing limbs to more easily load its elastic weapon.

>people having fun and being autistic and drawfagging together
I feel like I stepped into a time warp to 2008

>>93668025
You mean 2006? :P

>>93667992
Idk, I assume you mean /se/ and I feel like they're a bit too serious about it. They're pretty insistent that there's a fine line between evo games and collaborative speculative evolution, which tells me most of them have never actually played an evo game.

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>>93659690
I think the Morepod might have a genetic problem with duplication transcription errors. At least the top-facing eyespot makes it easier to tell when the shadow of a predator is passing overhead.

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>>93665360
Camouflage

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>>93661471
The Redeemer's limbs are so hydrodynamic now. Neat.

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>>93667566
Larger spinnerets require more food to maintain, but they also lower the time between hunts and the risk involved in a snipped clencher.

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>>93653611
There is a fervent debate in the twilight zone oculus community. Are you an eye female or a tail female? The resounding answer, after 10000 years of debate, is a decisive "yes."

>>93675781
You can't see it but I've made this thing bigger. The titan of the ocean, a whole six inches long.

People in this thread probably already know about but a guy called biblaridion on youtube has probably the best spec evo project besides maybe tira. Its called alien biosphere. Its got spiders. He also has some conlang stuff if you're into that.

>>93676410
Fake fan, alien biospheres IS tira

>>93676521
Shit you're right. Im thinking of the bird one with the 3 legged frog things.

what the fuck is tira

>>93676591
The name of the planet in Biblaridion's Alien Bioshperes series.

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>>93668898
Don't get better eyes, just get more eyes.

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>>93676951
How much more?

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>>93678629
I tried to do compound eyes but Im no paint guru

>>93679765
He lost his ass eyes in the divorce.

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>>93680078
They came back.

>>93678629
Am I fucked up if I think this is the cutest drawing in the thread?

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>>93675781
>>93676374

The mouth for the Sandy Eeleye now opens along a large portion of its upper digestive tract. By coincidence, the anatomy of the oral flaps and the muscular channel within both allow a powerful suction force to be brought to bear. It can strip an area it lands on clean of algae and bacteria slimes in the same time it takes to swallow.

Huh. I think we're on autosage. That's a bummer.

>>93680971
>check op
>7 days and 4 hours ago
Fucking bumpfag forced this shitty rule on us.

>>93680983
Pour one out for the homies we lost along the way. And may bumpfag rest in fetid piss forever and ever. Amen.

>>93680983
it’s over
meanwhile over in my home board of /vst/ threads can last over a year if you time bumps right
check out the ms paint unit design threads, i think you guys will love them

>>93681515
How about a new thread on /qst/? I'll see about getting this thread and all its images saved.

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While we still have time, I made a cladogram

before we die does anyone have any confessions of love or w/e

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>>93684060
OP here, I actually knew evo games dated at least as far back as 2006 the whole time (in fact, I'm a prolific contributor to the one I linked in the first post) and wanted to spark a discussion for research purposes and to get a wide breadth of perspectives on evolution games, especially from sites where they were especially popular for a time :)

This thread was very informative, and I even pitched into the evo game--I'm actually the guy who kept making that one lineage's eyes bigger, lmao. Attached is a screenshot of the folder with all the images I did.

(I'm a digital archeologist and evo games stoke my autism)

>>93684113
Make another thread for this one. Don't let it die
>>93684060
I've been a little scared to say it, I didn't want to ruin our friendship. But I can't just not say anything. I love you and I have since I first met you. I didn't want to be your friends out some manipulation tactic to get you to like me, I'm just a coward who missed his chance. But I had to say something.

>>93684167
Any name suggestions? On thisisnotatrueending I tagged it as "Threadjacker Evolution Game", but I'm not the one who hijacked the thread and started the evo game, so I don't want to step on toes here.

>>93684199
Don't name it yet. We can make one in a thread with traffic that isn't about to die.

>>93684237
So we should hijack another thread instead of making a new one? Not sure the mods will like that, as funny as it would be. I was about to post a new one in /qst/ with the thread title "WTWEGV'10? (Evolution Game part 2)"

>>93684258
god damn that v was supposed to be a b. good thing I didn't hit post yet

>>93684237
Since I don't want to irritate the mods (I think this one only worked because the thread was already about evolution games), I went ahead and made it as a completely new thread.
>>>/qst/6085624