Fishbertus's Contest Entry

Skeloris (Devs can change name if they want)
These creatures are small and quick. They provide a bit of light and can bite (or poke if it has horns) for a small amount of damage. They can evolve to have many abilities and different AI depending on variation.

Variants: These critters are on almost any planet with much life and all look very different. The variants I sprited are (from top left to top right, then bottom left to bottom right) Cupcake Skeloris (Candy/Cake Planet), Chameleon Skeloris (Jungle/Swamp Planet), Magma Skeloris (Lava Planet), Frostfur Skeloris (Ice/Snow Planet), Moose Skeloris (Forest Planet) and Template. There are also rare variants, like a Reindeer Skeloris instead of a Forstfur Skeloris being on a snow planet, or a Golden Skeloris on any planet. There could also be eater egg variants, dressed up like the Developer Team's characters.

Some variants have horns, which do slightly more damage than biting. Some variants can also have special effects, like the bite of a Lava Planet variant catching most things on fire.

Pet-ability: You can easily catch one of these little monsters as a pet and train them. They will help you by providing a small light (which can be trained/biomorphed to be better/brighter), doing a little damage to your enemies, and some other things with certain variants.



Actions/Abilities: Skelorisezeses (plural) can always have a light source, a mouth to bite with and some fast legs. Certain variants can fly (maybe a bee variant for a grasslands planet), swim (water planet variant), jump hight (frog variant), poke with horns/spikes (some/around 50% of variants) and much more!

Normal Abilities:
All Skelorisezeses have access to these abiilities:

- Glowing Tail
The Skeloris' tail glows brightly, lighting up a small area around it. The Skeloris turns it off while sleeping, or when it wants to hide from a powerful enemy (if you deal a certain amount of damage to it within a small time, it will get scared)
- Hexaleggies
The Skeloris' legs are small but it has many and this allows it to run very fast. It can even run sideways up walls, but will fall if it tries to hang on the ceiling unless that variant has claws on it's legs. They can fold up into it's hard body when sleeping or scared.
- Bite
All Skelorisezeses can bite their enemies for small damage. Certain Skelorisezeses can even have special debuffs with their bite. Since the Skeloris has a hard skin on it's body, as long as it's hit anywhere but the tail it will usually be shielded and be able to counterattack after, with a special bite where it will jump onto it's enemy and grip their neck/place that allows them to breath and stay alive, and will not let go without a fight, draining your health very quickly.
- Hard Skin
All Skelorisezeses have hard skin on their main body, which protects them with a shield it they are hit everywhere except the tail. This allows them to perform a very powerfull special attack as a counter attack.

More Abilities:
Only some variants have access to these abilities:

- Wingie Wings
This Skeloris has wings, and can fly for a short amount of time.

- Flappy Flaps
This Skeloris has fins, and can swim very well. It will swim quite fast because it can bend it's body into a dart shape, with the tail straight back and the legs in it's body.

- Sharp Claws
This Skeloris has sharp claws, which allows it to hang from ceilings and attack you with them, which do more damage than bites but can not do counter attacks.

- Horny Horns (Eews!)
This Skeloris is a little horny and can use them horns to poke it's enemies! This does much more damage than claws or bites, but can only be used as a counter attack and is quite slow, and medium-easiness to dodge.

- Dangerous Gooe
This Skeloris has a much bigger tail light, which is filled with dangerous explosive goo. Upon death it will explode and damage almost everything in a small area.

- Colony
These Skelorisezeses have formed a Colony and live in, similar to an ant colony or one of those cool beetle hills. They have large females who will produce more male larvae, which turn into the normal males who defend.


Please suggest a name for these cute critters!

Also, I really want to win. *oh yeah*
You guys: ''No, REALLY?'' *sarcasm*
Ok. *okay face*

 

They look like some sort of scorpion cats.

 

I still don't know what to call it.
Any help?

EDIT: I think for now they'll be named Sceloris, which is taken from the name of the Spiny Lizard.

EDIT: I am going to sprite TONS of variants, but the Devs should make their own if they want, I'll allow permission.

 

Nice job man! These guys look great!

 

Nice, that's a good submision =)
I'm looking forward to seeing these in-game *wink wink*

 

Seems you took the same route I did- SIMPLICITY! I make some stuff with Game Maker every now and then, and simplicity can sometimes be your best friend with creatures. Especially with something like StarBound that'll clearly have all kinds of creatures running about; complex creatures are nice, but it's the simplistic ones that help add a lot of variety to a world. Just like the bunnies of Terraria. =P Good job though.

 

Why do you think slimes are so oftenly used in many games. They're simple but can vary a lot. Really a lot!

 

Best submission I've seen so far. Simple, unique, well executed.

 

I like it. It looks like something from Legends of Yore.

 

I like

 

Thanks so much guys, I didn't expect this.

 

Jellyfish + Cat + Scorpion
Nice

 

Actually, I would call it:

Chameleon + Scorpion + Firefly + Jellyfish + Fishbertus (Why do you THINK they're so stylish?) + Bunny + Cat + Lizard + Ant + Explosion + Imagination.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

Wow that looks really cool!

 

Thanks bro. I see you posted your thread, good job.
Everybody go look at his thread NOW!

 

This is a really clever and simple idea, i like that there would be so many variations, kinda like the penguins they mentioned in the blog.

Also, Kitten-scorpion? genius.
Good luck!

 

Yeah, and at school I thought maybe the flying variants could sometimes have the glowy tail going under instead of over.

 

That sounds great. Make a picture so we can see it.

Also totally want a frostfur one as a pet.

 

Damnit I wish we had 48 hour days, I never have time to do anything.

 

I will be able to make multiple variants in around 20 hours.