Thursday, December 29, 2022

Ceratrollsaurus

How did you manage to do that?? I'm guessing the ragdolling when tranquilized caused the Tsintaosaurus to partially clip through the fence? I mean, fair enough, don't slump a drugged prey animal against a fence that has holes in it with a predator directly on the other side, but I didn't expect that to apply in a game where small dinos need to break a fence to escape even though they could easily fit between the bars.

Strangely majestic

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

2022 art summary

Another year full of gay raptors.
I decided not to use a template separated into months for the image, as I didn't make new things at a very regular pace this year.

Raptor AU has gotten to a pretty comfortable point in said raptors' lives. The two packs are happily merged into one inextricably, and my precious baby Skye, who pretty much started the whole AU, is a fully grown raptor lady with a beautiful wife and two babies of their own.

A big portion of my more scientifically accurate raptors, too, have been JP/W-related, as I've had a lot of fun playing JWE, for which I don't currently know how to make all the mods I'd like to use. But I can dream of a park full of toothy groundhawks, and draw it. (I know how to mod TS2, though, and the more anthropomorphized versions of raptor AU raptors have also been fun to put together and play house with.)

One bigger project is still in progress, and will be until sometime next year. It involves dinofiguresculptings, but more on that later. :)

Sunday, December 25, 2022

Big and small saurischians

Diplodocus: What are you guys pointing at? I'm right here!
Humans: Dale a tu cuerpo alegría Macarena... 🎶

My Edmontosaurus seem to have finally succeeded at their summoning ritual. What horror have they unleashed?!

Diplos and Ceratos living together, mass hysteria! There's a fence between them, but I still have the cheapest fence replaced with an invisible one, and this is a new challenge mode game.

In other news, say hello to the newest smol critter on the block!

Monday, December 19, 2022

Theropod lookbook

It's a goth Indominus rex!

Not a moment too soon, considering I just finished herding a pack of Troodons back into their enclosure for the third time within a single storm. :D

(They had the comfort gene and everything, but just as I'd moved all but the last one of them into their enclosure, a storm started, and their comfort level was lowered by missing their friend in addition to the storm.)

Friday, December 16, 2022

Hydrophobic semiaquatics?

More screenshots from my ongoing attempt at Isla Nublar challenge mode on Jurassic difficulty in JWE.

A romantic walk in the rain for the Ceratos.
A guest area surrounded by dino enclosures with a gyrosphere tour looping through them, accessible only by monorail.

Driving into an enclosure housing two rabid Spinosaurus, yeah that sounds like a good idea. Though to be fair, if you get bitten by a rabid 8-ton theropod, it's probably not contracting the rabies that will kill you.

In the game it's just an easily treatable dino disease among all the others, but knowing what actual nightmare fuel rabies is in real life, wouldn't any of my animals having caught it, even if they were cured, be grounds for park closure and quarantine? My two Baryonyx also got it at the same time, and it would make sense for two species of spinosaurid to both be susceptible to the same illnesses, it's just that they were at the exact opposite edges of the park...

Where did the dinos catch it? Is there a rabid wild animal freely roaming my theme park full of people (who should be even more susceptible to this mammal disease than the stem-birds kept here are)??

Thank you for visiting Jurassic World, complimentary post-exposure prophylaxis for everyone currently present on the island.

Monday, December 12, 2022

It's all part of the tour

"Must be a safe twister, otherwise they wouldn't let us keep using the rides. Right?"

Sunday, December 11, 2022

Brachio and Cerato antics

No no no, I just put those wires there thinking it would be fine for them to go over an enclosure!

Yeah, that seems safe.
Too heavy to get picked up by the twister.
"Keep watch for me while I sleep?"
This lady is living the dream.

Friday, December 9, 2022

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

A Ranger's Nightmare

I used the sandbox in JWE to make myself a little obstacle course (/excuse to take spooky screenshots).

I'm just a humble park ranger at a dinosaur zoo that houses several kinds of Velociraptors, all of which have been set loose by unfortunate circumstances, of course. Some of the dinos' movement has been restricted by fences left intact (and a bit of invisible fence so I don't meet too soon the fun surprise also roaming the park), but they should be pretty free to run into our team in the dark of night, after a storm tore through a bunch of fences and some malfunction, perhaps even sabotage, left open gates that shouldn't be left open. We also can't close any gates we open along the way. Everything will be resolved somehow once I get to the Innovation Center (maybe that's where they keep the push to close button that will put us back in business), but it's at the other side of the park, and vehicle aggression is on. Good luck.

Well, that's not a good sign...

Thursday, December 1, 2022