diff --git a/allworldideas.md b/allworldideas.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..85c44b71 --- /dev/null +++ b/allworldideas.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +# A LIST OF EVERY OCEAN IDEA PROPOSED BY VARIOUS PEOPLE +**SOURCES:** Cirrial's Untitled Shark Server (Discord), my brain (for my ideas)
+**WRITTEN BY:** Three Eels in a Jellyfish Coat (@darkmoonkraken on Discord). + +blah blah blah body text here + +## BiggestBrian's Ideas +[**The Ravenous Ocean:**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K8ub7krWady7gA1d9AKR_y5cvt38EvOLGhwJaqdX530/edit?tab=t.0) a violent planet where co-operation is rare and people are out to fill their bellies;
+[**The Drying Ocean:**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z-9j3wNZ3Km-8FRWumNJWsZJboM3yjhm6vctUkw9pZ8/edit?tab=t.0) a planet whose oceans are vanishing;
+[**The Forgotten Ocean:**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1118b-IXzeIPMy51x0-kHO0uNMaJka-FDM0-aP7Q5Ov0/edit?tab=t.0) a planet that doesn't exist outside your narrow window of attention;
+[**The Fungal Ocean:**](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xYcom9XaQvODOAYtV20NNA4Svvz4p6rkdPm8DtZ0AwI/edit?tab=t.0) a planet that has been swallowed by rotting fungus.
+*Brian stated that they've thought of an 'ocean in space' idea a lot, but scrapped it each time because 'tardigrades are too small to be seen by sharks with naked eye'.*
+*Please note that BiggestBrian has stated on the Discord server that most of their ideas are 'spur-of-the-moment'.* + +## BlazingPhonex's Ideas +A fan who proposed these on the Discord server - not a dev. DC username is @blazingphonex. These are quoted directly. + +**The Polluted/Diseased World:** *"This world is plauged by disease and polluted waters make it hard to see or swim. All production starts at .25x. All animals at the start begin to slowly die off (including already captured fish and other live recources). You can create bubbles with the help of science to store resources or producers. Create cleanup machines to help clear out the ocean and slowly increase production."* (Note by Three Eels - has the potential to be merged with Brian's Fungal.) + +## Glowkate's Ideas +Glowkate is an artist and dev for the Shark Game. She's made multiple sprites for it, and at the time of writing is developing a new rendition of the Chaotic ocean. The unnamed ocean was quoted from her. + +**Unnamed Trying-to-Talk-to-You Ocean:** *"Maybe there could be a plot of there being some mysterious force acting upon the frenzy, and the whole world has a "trying to communicate with aliens" feel to it as you try to understand that living beings can be smaller then what you can see."* (Note by Three Eels - I suggested plankton.) + +## Happerry's Ideas +Proposed by @happerry on Discord, also not a dev. Directly quoted like mine. + +**The Mangrove Ocean:** *"maybe a mangrove/swamp ocean someday, where the entire 'sea' is more inland, in shallow waters under the mangrove trees and the sharks must hide under the roots from larger creatures that stalk from the mysterious dry beyond places. And/or sea turtles, which are cool even if I can't think of a specific ocean they'd specifically fit offhand with an 'oh god why am I not in bed yet' brain."*
+**The Turtleship Ocean:** *"Random idea of the 'before I fall over and sleep' night. Dolphin space ships are actually giant turtles, ala the idea of 'island turtles', that keep oceans inside their shells that other creatures live in, and one ocean should be inside such a turtle that the dolphins abandoned when they abandoned their space empire. The sharks, of course, do not start out knowing this, but only know (or at least find out sooner then later) that the ocean they have found themselves in is old and sick and needs help and its parasites cleaned out, and may or may not be directly told that this used to be a dolphin space ship. They also may or may not have to clear out an infestation of parasite space kraken spawn or something. They may or may not actually find out this is all the dolphins fault for forgetting to turn on the anti-parasite machines on their way out as they finish up. [...] Because turtles are cool, and giant turtles that people mistake for islands (until they annoy the turtle enough into sinking and then either drown or hastily have to get back on their boat before they drown) are also cool, so therefore even gianter turtles that are space ships and living oceans are cooler."* + +## Three Eels in a Jellyfish Coat's Ideas +Directly quoted from Three Eels, hence the quotation marks. + +**The Overgrown Ocean:** *"A very dense kelp forest. The sea otters become curious of you very fast, and start collecting clams for you. Perhaps the world's machines and their base material could be made of oysters and clams?"*
+**The Predatory Ocean:** *"MY MAGNUM OPUS; MY GRAND MASTERPIECE. My idea of including literally every frenzy member in here to fight the orcas, however, will probably not last. The orcas and the war are a keep, and the machines are replaced by weapons. The gateway is guarded by the orcas, and once you dethrone their emperor, they're still entrusted by them for protection."*
+**The Remora Ocean:** *"I remember the fun facts saying that remoras were banished from the oceans long ago. What if they went to an ocean of their own? Perhaps you could arrive in that ocean, and you’d be either feared, hated, or welcomed by the remoras for being the first shark in their waters."*
+**The River Ocean:** *"The title is... an oxymoron. But you and the frenzy are stuck in a river, accompanied by perhaps river dolphins, crocodiles, or anacondas. I should note, this is a jungle river."*
+**The Serene Ocean:** *"A silent, peaceful ocean that might just possibly drive you insane. It's populated by very simple-minded creatures, such as starfish, slugs, and jellyfish. Machines are a bit of a wonky idea here, considering the inhabitants, but this is a fresh idea at most."*
+**The Shore Ocean:** *"A sandy, low-slung world ravaged by a sandstorm on one side, and barred by a high wall of sand on the other. The other two sides are fine, though! This is actually being worked on in my GitHub repo."*
+**UNNAMED MAGIC SEAGRASS OCEAN:** *"Exactly what the title says. I found the sudden 'oh, this seagrass is magic' thing in Tempestuous fascinating, and I think it should be expanded on. There's already a link between Marine and Abandoned, so why not this? The machine material would be derived from said seagrass."* + +## Umbra Animo's Ideas +Umbra Animo is a fan on the Discord server whose username is @umbraanimo. These ideas are quoted directly. + +**The Gas World:** *"a twist of the perspective of what is a "sea" this sea is a gas giant with the fish being adapted to flying through the thick gas like swimming in water."*
+**The Lifeless Ocean:** *"a world where nearly all organic life is gone. getting fish and buying frenzy members is much harder so breeders and needed but non organic materials and unique finds are everywhere."*
+**The Machine Ocean:** *"a world where the shark machines have progressed to far. styled similar to the terminator series, you have to carefully develop your frenzy because to much activity will attract the Deadly ai's attention needing to counter by developing fighters and taking down the machine infostructure. could add some very advanced tech as you go."*
+**The Disconnected Ocean:** *"the gravity of this world is strange, instead of one solid ocean multiple ocean spheres float around the core, all in different sizes. the challenge here is the player has only so much space and has to bridge the gaps between ocean spheres to gain more space."*
+**The Haunted Ocean:** *"styled similar to the lifeless Ocean but with a heavier leaning to Ghosts and supernatural. can't recruit living frenzy members or at least much harder to do so but can construct undead versions of them so less fish catching more bone collecting."* + +## Merged Ideas +Separate similar deas I sort of fused together into one - the conceptor of each part is credited by their Discord username. + +**The Primal Ocean:** a prehistoric ocean with megalodons (as first proposed by @umbraanimo) and Helicoprion (proposed by @herrodere), perhaps that could be swapped out for trilobites (I think as proposed by @atheistcanuck) - maybe all three core frenzy members could be swapped out to make room for these three. Perhaps Meg = Shark, Heli = Ray, and Trilo = Crab. There's an idea by spencers145 (@a_guy_and_he_does_stuff) for an ocean in which you dig in underground caves with the chimaeras to the centre of the earth - but he approved of the idea to merge it with an ancient ocean...
+**The Ancient Ocean:** I had to split the 'prehistoric ocean' in two because there's so many ideas for it. The thing that separates Ancient from Primal is its subterranean setting - an idea by both spencers145 (as mentioned before) and @happerry. @happerry also proposed eurypterid sea scorpions, livyatan whales, nautiluses (nautiluses? nautilii? nautilodes?), and frilled sharks. The *timeline difference* between these species, though, is kinda hard to explain... However, after reading this compilation, Happerry stated that "[my] first suggestion would be that, as you dig down deeper into the world, you're also digging down deeper into time/history/the past". diff --git a/contributors.html b/contributors.html index ec31af02..06e411dc 100644 --- a/contributors.html +++ b/contributors.html @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@

SHARK GAME: NEW FRONTIERS

Adr Playtester, Code contributor + + Three Eels in a Jellyfish Coat + Fan, Shore Ocean Developer +