The developers mentioned on the development forum that they want to create new mascots for each stage.
Here you can post ideas for them, as well as pictures/3D models with them.
Some recommendations:
The mascot should at least look normal, you can’t just sketch out an ugly picture made in 5 minutes without drawing skills.
It should not be too simple in appearance (that’s why I think using LUCA as a mascot is a bad idea)
It should reflect what the game and gameplay looks like at this stage
Mascots must be on the way to ascension, so no specialized anaerobes, sessile organisms, underwater intelligent species, etc.
I have an idea for a microbe stage mascot: Eukaryotic cell with flagellum and 2-4 organelles. (Perhaps I will implement it when I improve my drawing/3D modeling skills.)
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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Are we sure we actually want a specialized microbe mascot considering how diverse can one get in that stage and considering there’s two halves to it?
We can’t represent all gameplay styles with a mascot, because that would require it to be a complete, incomprehensible chimera. For example: how can we represent both the tree gameplay style and the lancelet gameplay style with a single mascot?
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I know. I suppose we’d want the mascot to be a mixotroph?
At microscopic stage, mixotrophs are doing well on Earth. I hope to see them do well at a macroscopic level in Thrive, but on Earth, mixotrophy mostly stayed microscopic (lichen and a few rare plants being exceptions).
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AnthropocenianAge
(AnthropocenianAge Arthropleura wants to give you a hug!)
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How diverse should the mixotrophic organism be? Obviously, it can’t just have everything, right?
single thylakoid, single cytoplasm, or a single mitochondrion for prokaryote, one mitochondrion behind a nucleus for eukaryote, and the line for multicellular
