Niche - a genetics survival game

Niche - a genetics survival game

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If You Were A Creature What Would You Look Like?
The in-game creatures have a lot of genes that affect their appearances and traits, so what if you were plopped onto the islands as a creature? What would your traits, abilities and appearance be like? My guess for myself:

Sex: Female
Head: Cracker Jaw (Saber Fangs)
Eye Color: Green (Green)
Eyes: Short-sighted (Short-sighted) (Gotta be honest...)
Horns: Black/White Antlers (Antlers)
Mane: Brown/Brown
Body: Water Body (Water Body)
Paws: Claw and Claw
Hind Legs: Webbed Hind Legs (Webbed Hind Legs)
Tail: Swimming (Hammer)
Fur: Grey/Black
Pattern: Panda (Panda)
Blood Clotting: NBC (NBC)

As for the other genes... I don't know? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I've always liked the water so I'd be all aquatic and to keep things interesting I put my love of paleontology as recessive prehistoric genes. So what about you?

Oh, and don't include Fertility. We all know you'd just say 6. :steammocking:
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Kiabla May 5, 2017 @ 5:48pm 
Hmm, this is intereseting. You're the first person to bring this up in this community. Well, I suppose my traits would be :

Sex : Female

Head : Normal

Eye Color : Green they don't have hazel.)

Eyes : Normal with short-sighted in ressesive.

Horns : None

Mane : Blonde / Brown (Sandy-Blonde)

Body : Big Body

Paws : Claw and Running Leg

Hind Legs : Normal

Tail : Normal (Fluffy Tail)

Fur : Black / White

Pattern : Tiger Stripes

Blood Clotting : Normal

Fertillity : ........
Last edited by Kiabla; May 5, 2017 @ 5:49pm
Chaosrunepownage May 5, 2017 @ 7:04pm 
Interesting idea!

Sex : Male

Head : Cracker Jaw (LOVE ME SOME NUTS MAN)

Eye Color : Blue (If heterochromia ever gets added, right blue and left brown)

Eyes : Normal with short-sighted in the inactive/recessive slot (I have one really bad, 20/200 eye but the other one corrects it out so I have normal 20/20 vision)

Horns : Ram Horns

Horn Color: Black / Red

Mane : Brown / Brown

Body : Medium Body

Paws : Double claw (No predators are ever going to harm my pack!)

Hind Legs : Normal

Tail : Fishing Tail (Also love fish)

Fur : White / White (Yes I am that pale)

Pattern : Dots

Blood Clotting : Normal

Fertility: Double infertile (to simulate asexuality, yay!)
MerAndFrog May 6, 2017 @ 3:54am 
Originally posted by Chaosrunepownage:
Interesting idea!

Sex : Male

Head : Cracker Jaw (LOVE ME SOME NUTS MAN)

Eye Color : Blue (If heterochromia ever gets added, right blue and left brown)

Eyes : Normal with short-sighted in the inactive/recessive slot (I have one really bad, 20/200 eye but the other one corrects it out so I have normal 20/20 vision)

Horns : Ram Horns

Horn Color: Black / Red

Mane : Brown / Brown

Body : Medium Body

Paws : Double claw (No predators are ever going to harm my pack!)

Hind Legs : Normal

Tail : Fishing Tail (Also love fish)

Fur : White / White (Yes I am that pale)

Pattern : Dots

Blood Clotting : Normal

Fertility: Double infertile (to simulate asexuality, yay!)
I have the same heterochromia as you! \o/
inactive May 6, 2017 @ 7:56am 
Sex:female
Head: fangs
Eye color:blind
Eyes: blind (just to make this interesting)
Horns: pink antlers
Mane: none
Body:lean
Paws: berry paws
Hind: normal
Tail: stinky
Fur: cream
Pattern: warning dots
Blood Clotting:normal
fertility:normal
GilmarGirl May 6, 2017 @ 10:17am 
Sex:female
Head: normal snout
Eye color: brown
Eyes: short-sighted
Horns: none
Mane: none
Body:lean
Paws: double berry paw
Hind legs: normal
Tail: medium tail
Fur: gray + brown
Pattern: warning dots
Blood Clotting:normal
fertility:normal
Jojo May 6, 2017 @ 10:52am 
This is a great question to ask! :D
Sex : Female

Head : Poison or sabre fangs

Eye Color : Green or yellow

Eyes : Normal

Horns : Ram Horns (for Anameme!) (Red&Black)

Mane : Black

Body : Big Body

Paws : Claw and Running Leg

Hind Legs : Normal

Tail : Normal or Stinky

Fur : Black or blue toxic body

Pattern : Warning Dots

Blood Clotting : Normal
Last edited by Jojo; May 6, 2017 @ 10:57am
Pengu May 6, 2017 @ 10:53am 
Sex: Female

Head: Cracker Jaw (Poison Fang)

Eye Color: Blue (Violet)

Eyes: Short Sighted (Short Sighted)

Horns: Antler (Ram)

Mane: None (Cuz Im female ;>)

Body: Lean (Lean)

Paws: Nimble Fingers, Runner Leg

Hind Legs: Hind Leg (Hind Leg)

Tail: Stinky (Swimming)

Fur: Brown, Yellow

Horn Color: Red, Black

Pattern: Dots (Stripes)

Blood Clotting: NBC (NBC)
Huh, we're turning out to be quite an interesting pack! :steamhappy:
Draconiya May 6, 2017 @ 4:37pm 
I think I'm gonna have to ignore some of the actual gene dominance in favour of accuracy :P
This would be actual me as a Niche creature:

Sex: Female

Body: Normal Body, recessive Big Body

Paws: Nimble Fingers/Claw (because I always have long, kind of claw-like fingernails, but am very adept at creating stuff with my hands, f. ex. drawing)

Snout: Big Nose, recessive Normal Snout (because I'm good at smelling)

Eyes: Normal Eyes, recessive Short-sighted (Currently I've still got good eyes, but I'll probably turn short-sighted as time goes on)

Eyecolour: Brown, recessive Green, since there's no brown-green

Fur: Red/Black, mixed to get a nice chestnut brown

Hind Legs: Normal Hind Legs

Pattern: Ticked, like the cat pattern, recessive No Pattern (because my hair's got natural strands of slightly varying colours from the brown palette in it)

Horns: None

Ears: Normal Ears, recessive Big Ears (because my ears aren't unusually big, but I'm good at hearing)

Tail: Stinky Tail, recessive Normal Tail (because my hair is very long and bushy, like the Stinky Tail)

Wings: None, recessive Dragon Wings (if they ever get added, but this is just to reflect my love of Fantasy)


Seems like I'd be a decent creature for the woodlands, maybe with a few patches of jungle.



And this would be the Niche creature I'd be if I could choose:


Sex: Female

Body: Normal Body, recessive Lean Body

Paws: Runner's Leg & Claw

Horns: Antlers

Horn Colour: Brown/Black

Fur: Grey/Red, for a nice, warm Beige

Pattern: Dots, recessive Panda Dots

Snout: Poison Fangs or Big Nose

Tail: Fishing Tail, recessive Normal Tail

Ears: Big Ears

Eyes: Normal Eyes

Eyecolour: Blue, recessive Green

Blood Clotting: Normal


This one'd live in a nicer version of Oasis.
Last edited by Draconiya; May 6, 2017 @ 4:38pm
[H0N0R] HP May 6, 2017 @ 5:39pm 
Sex: Female

Head: Poison fangs

Tail: Stinky Tail

Legs: Double claw (Normal Hind Legs)

Body: Lean body

Ears: Big ears.

Pattern: Panda pattern

Fur: White

Fertility: Dude, Don't need you to know this.

Eye colour: Black

Blood Clotting: Normal

Horns: Antlers



Name: NuggetMan AKA Sikoraai
Last edited by [H0N0R] HP; May 6, 2017 @ 5:40pm
Vennyaki May 6, 2017 @ 7:01pm 
Sex: Female

Head: Normal snout

Tail: Fishing tail

Front legs: Double nimble fingers

Hind legs: Runners legs

Body type: Spiky body

Ears: Big ears

Fur color: Brown

Eyes: Shortsighted

Eye color: Black

Pattern: None

Horns: Antlers

Blood type: Normal Blood Clotting
glitchplight May 6, 2017 @ 7:03pm 
Aww this is interesting!

Sex: Either

Body: Armored Body (I just want to curl up into a ball and shut out the world sometimes)

Paws: Nimble Fingers/Runners Leg (I'm an artist and I like pacing and moving around a lot)

Snout: Digging Trunk (I've been told I have really good smelling and my nose is big) though tbh Derp Snout is incredibly likely.

Eyes: Short-sighted definitely

Eyecolour: Black through and through

Fur: Beige/Black

Pattern: Warning Dots

Hind Legs: Normal Hind Legs

Horns: Ram Horns

Ears: Normal Ears

Tail: Stinky Tail (I have trouble with hygiene which makes me very stinky.....)


Some folks here are going the all honesty route. Admirable. o7 I guess I'll mention that if I was being a little more honest my eye color would be Brown but I just really like green eyes.
Jojo May 7, 2017 @ 12:51am 
Looks like we would be really short on males though ^^
vimbry May 7, 2017 @ 7:02am 
ooh this is cute. :3


Sex: Female

Head: Cracker Jaw / (Normal Snout)

Eye Color: Blue / (Brown)

Eyes: Short-Sighted / (Normal Eyes)

Horns: Red Antlers / (Red Ram)

Mane: Red / (Red)

Body: Lean Body / (Armored Body)

Ears: Big Ears [going away from appearance, they're cute haha] / (Medium Ears)

Paws: No Paw / (Nimble Fingers)

Hind Legs: Hind Leg / (Hind Leg)

Tail: Stinky Tail [because fluff :l] / (Fluffy Tail)

Fur: Grey / (Cream)

Pattern: Warning Dots [I'm freckly :3] / (No Pattern)

Blood Clotting: Normal / (Normal)
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Date Posted: May 5, 2017 @ 5:25pm
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