WolfQuest

PearlyReborn wrote:I actually think a game based on jumping spiders would be the best thing ever! There'd be some really cool jumping mechanics,
really cool customization options, it could have a sort of artistic aesthetic?

Jumping spiders take care of their young, and the spiderlings eventually help with the hunt by throwing silk over what the mother is hunting.

Spiders have a super bad reputation but I think this game that I'm imagining could help to change that.

BerryCupcakes wrote:Maybe SquirrelQuest? It just sounds very interactive and fun!

PearlyReborn wrote:I actually think a game based on jumping spiders would be the best thing ever! There'd be some really cool jumping mechanics,
really cool customization options, it could have a sort of artistic aesthetic?

Jumping spiders take care of their young, and the spiderlings eventually help with the hunt by throwing silk over what the mother is hunting.

Spiders have a super bad reputation but I think this game that I'm imagining could help to change that.

PearlyReborn wrote:I actually think a game based on jumping spiders would be the best thing ever! There'd be some really cool jumping mechanics,
really cool customization options, it could have a sort of artistic aesthetic?

Noctis_ wrote:

PearlyReborn wrote:I actually think a game based on jumping spiders would be the best thing ever! There'd be some really cool jumping mechanics,
really cool customization options, it could have a sort of artistic aesthetic?

And we'd have this, of course:

Shiranuiii wrote:

• _{I'd like a "DogQuest"
  Simply because you could implement Corgis
  and Corgis are great}

I would like to have an OceanQuest! You could play as any cetacean (bottlenose dolphins, belugas, orcas, etc.. maybe not large whales because they would be hard to control) or any type of shark. Both sharks and dolphins have many, many different species of varying shapes and sizes. I guess your goal would be to find an animal of the same species and group with them for survival. But not necessarily.. sea animals of different species are known to help each other! (Like this injured dolphin who was accepted by a pod of sperm whales.)

It would be a concept for an MMORPG, with one big server which anyone can join. It would be kind of PvP based (as in sharks v dolphins) but also co-operative (hunting and exploration) and you could just swim around the oceans and interact with other sea creatures! The underwater world is based on sound since light doesn't travel so well, and is filled with the most amazing acoustical creatures, so it would open up a world of new mechanisms, like the way dolphins use echolocation, or the shark's sensory systems. You could have all kinds of ambience in the background, like whale songs and sounds, which can carry for 10,000 miles through the ocean!

So, the game would be beautiful and exploratory by nature, but survival would still be an objective. If you were a dolphin or a killer whale, you'd have to surface to breathe, and work together to hunt. Your dolphin would have a signature whistle (its name) and that's how you would learn to identify other dolphins too. You could raise a calf and teach him how to communicate and hunt. A very cute fact is that a young dolphin's whistle resembles his mother's whistle; it's the equivalent of a human teaching a baby how to talk. (:

Calf raising would be so fun because dolphins lean more towards thought than instinct when they're hunting, which means they can pass down hunting strategies from generation to generation and as a result, different families use totally different tactics. Baby dolphins will mirror their mother and copy her behaviour, so in a dolphin game you could teach your baby how to catch fish in a way that is completely unique and exclusive to your dolphin.

Examples of dolphin strategies are:

- Mud netting
- Hydroplaning, which is practised by 8 dolphins in the world
- Wave washing used by killer whales, another type of dolphin
- Killer whales biting off a shark's fins so it can't swim. They are also known to flip sharks and stingrays upside down, which makes them lose consciousness

The game would be, above all, for awareness. Marine conservation is important because 80% of all life lives in the ocean (in fact, it's where life originated) and among those species are some of the most intelligent animals in the world after humans, i.e., the cetaceans!