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Hefty Mammals, Bears and Seals

     So these are three distinct lines with one thing in common- All of them are technically empty right now!! I might end up cutting some or most of these, or I may combine the ‘Seals’ and ‘Hefty Mammals’ lines, but as of right now I’m not sure! They all involve some ideas I’d like to see happen. Their layouts are just general ideas right now too, not at all set in stone. If you have an idea for one of these, please let me know!!

Spooks

    On the other end of the spectrum, this line is nearly done and is also the largest tree in the dex! I realize having a succubus may seem a little inappropriate for my style but the idea of it being Love/Combat is too good to pass up! I’m looking for a family-friendly succubus design, as odd as that sounds. Unfortunately Feyursa may need to be cut if Wizards of the Coast owns the rights to ‘Owlbears’ as a concept. I need to look into that.

Ancients

     This is actually my favorite line at the moment! Monkeys and Robots and Colossi- What’s not to love? There’s a lot to be filled in though, but I’m excited to keep working on it and to see what you come up with too! I think most of these are pretty self explanatory, except for “Gamemon”, which is an old Seamer I designed in 6th grade for a Digimon inspired comic I made with my friends. I’ll take care of redesigning it for the Dex, so leave it to me! The rest here are fair game, though!

Paper Dragon

     Based solely on the Chinese New Year Dragons, this line is very small and almost done!! Maybe this is the closest we’ll get to a legendary? 

Cephalopods

     This is a line a lot of people have an interest in from what I can tell, and finally I’m going over it here on the dex! I think I want to end up with only six Seamers on this line, so I guess we’ll see what ends up being cut based on the designs that are submitted? There’s not a lot else to say about this one, except that the Moon Jelly might actually end up taking that Baby spot!

Aliens

     This is another tree that might get jumbled around a bit. The Kandinsky Seamer (which will be based on my favorite artist) might actually jump down a few rows to only evolve from the baby and not evolve further. The Sun and Moon seamers aren’t even attached to the tree yet! There’s some work to be done here, but that gives you all quite a bit of freedom with your designs for this one! 

Alright, that’s it for Part 5 of the SDCP 2.0 update!

-And the SDCP 2.0 update as a whole! 

     We’ve now covered every line currently intended for the dex. Some Seamers might seem like they’re missing, but that almost certainly means they’ve been added to a line I’ve already covered after I covered it! (For example, Icikell is now a member of the same line as Bubbley!) Some other Seamers, such as Lexitext, require certain conditions to be met to evolve into them and so they don’t fit into any one line! I’ll go over those “Bizarre Condition” Seamers more another time.

      What’s next, you ask? Well I have some things I’m considering, (Such as returning to the bi-weekly challenge format,) but I’m not certain yet, so I’ll announce what the next step is after the next Seamer Stream! 

     Like last time, I’ll announce and hold the Seamer Stream once I think I have enough submissions I want to draw in it! I’m thinking around 10 again, that worked well last time.

     I’m sorry this update took so long to come out! I wanna keep saying more but already this should’ve gone up weeks ago. I’m just going to post it now!!

Freshwater Fish

    So uh, I don’t know a lot about fish, yet. Because of that, this line is a little... Barren. That being said, it gives you a TON of freedom in terms of what you can submit for this one!

    Here’s the wikipedia page for Freshwater Fish, which is a good starting place for finding a species to base a Seamer off of!

Minerals

    So right off the bat I’ll say that the ‘Psychic Gem’ in the center is going to be a redesign of ‘Fuorsite’, though I’m not sure what direction to take that in yet. The ‘Gemstone’ slots can be any gems, so you’ve got quite a bit of freedom in terms of what you can design a Seamer around- I’m sure different gems lend themselves to different types quite well! There’s not much in this tree, so the actual shape of it is subject to change as well- This is just a rough draft.

    You might’ve noticed that the tree trails off to the right from the baby, and that’s because there’s a line of Seamers off to the side there that I’m not quite ready to reveal yet!

Hoofed

    So as you may know our trio of deer were designed before we switched over to this more web-based system of evolution, and this line was built around them somewhat. I’m unsure of exactly what to do with horses / unicorns / pegusi / zebras so that section’s kinda just a block right now. What do you think that branch of the tree should be like?

    I’m not married to anything on this tree yet, so if you have any ideas as to how we can change it, let me hear it!

Water

    I originally had this line labelled as ‘Slimes’ but the main Seamer here is Bubbley who is distinctly not a slime, so I’ve gone with ‘Water’ instead! This line is overall pretty straightforward, I think! (I know this is one a lot of people have been looking forward to seeing, too!)

    Oilurk needs to be redesigned to be a bit more complex, but otherwise this line is MOSTLY done! A stark contrast to our next line...

Amphibians

    You might notice that there are no finished Seamers here, and that’s very unfortunate! Somehow we’ve avoided drawing ANY sort of frogs so far, and that needs to change! What I’ve listed above are my general ideas for the Amphibian Seamers but really everything is a free-for-all with this line as things stand. Frogs are fun to draw, too! Let’s get on this!

Alright, that’s it for Part 3 of the SDCP 2.0 update!

As with last time, your challenge is to design any of the missing Seamers from these lines, or any of the lines we covered last week! The last stream was a HUGE success and I’m excited to see what more designs are submitted this time!

Speaking of Seamer streams…

The next SDCP LiveStream will be on Sunday the 25th at 3pm EST!

I’ll be drawing more Seamers and organizing more charts, and I hope to see you all there! Let’s try to beat last stream’s high-score of 8 Seamers drawn! ^_^

The ‘dex’ page is being updated to list these lines shortly after this post goes live!

As with last time, you can come submit your designs and talk Seamers with other designers over on the Hetrea Discord Server:

The Starter Line

     Now this is a line that you’re likely to be familiar with if you’ve been following the SDCP for a while! Thus, it’s a perfect example of how the new Evolutionary Tree Charts look and are read!

     As you can see, only one space is empty here, (the lighter blue) which will be the Baby of this line, evolving into Kinler. I already know that this Baby will be based on Metly, a Seamer who appeared in my old game Seamer World 2 and who has existed as a Seamer since 2002. 

Metly will be renamed ‘Medly’ as a nod to the variety of types it can end up evolving into, and will have a more humanoid shape. I’ll take care of this design on my own, and then this evolutionary tree will be done! 

Early Birds

     Here’s a slightly more complex line! Let’s start at the bottom and make our way up.

     First up is this line’s Baby, which is a small yet unnamed bird. It can evolve into four Seamers, being Skyjay and Scarlinal under normal conditions, a Hummingbird in tropical areas and a Pigeon (Working name Pibin) in urban areas.  

The Pigeon is Love type and does not evolve further. Such a dependency on humans for food ends this Seamer’s growth. 

The Hummingbird is Air/Plant and has two evolutions, an Air/Plant Peacock and an Air/Sound Parrot. Neither has been designed yet. 

     You may notice the Parrot’s box is hollow- That’s because its home Evolutionary Tree is not this one, but rather a later Bird three, where it can also evolve from Seasail. Seamers appearing on a chart that is not their home chart are represented with hollow boxes, as seen above.

Skyjay and Scarlinal both evolve into a Hawk Seamer, who in turn can evolve into two types of Eagles. It took me a long time to decide on this, but I have ultimately scrapped Ceruliu and Nalidae for the time being. SkyJay and Scarlinal work much better as alternatives to one another, both filling the same evolutionary role for a little variety!

You’re welcome to submit any designs for the four Seamers missing from this chart!

EARLY BUGS

Lo and behold, this is our first finished chart! It’s entirely possible that more may be added on in the future, but as it stands I’m SO happy about how this one has come out. I am unsure of what to do with Rhinuto, as it does not fit the rest of this chart despite also being a Beetle. I’ll continue thinking about that. It will likely end up in a different tree altogether!

Rodents

Another line that’s finished, kinda!

I’m considering changing the color of either the mouse Baby or Sciurpal. (Whom also may be renamed Scuripal?) 

As of right now, this line and the two preceding it each are planned to have exactly 9 Seamers in it, and I’m totally in love with how well that worked out! I think they’re a great example of how the same number of Seamers can be arranged in a variety of different ways!

Now you might be thinking that this first part of the SDCP 2.0 update leaves you with little to do! Worry not, because the final evolutionary tree in this update is far from finished!

Plants

Here’s what I have currently for the Plants line. It is not organized in any order, as I have so few plant Seamers to work with that I don’t know how the chart will look yet! This is just a list of ideas that I’d like to work into Seamer designs in some way. Maybe the Cherry Blossom is very small and round, or maybe it’s humanoid? I just don’t know yet!

I have some loose ideas, such as the Coconut evolving into the Palm tree, but ultimately this is something of a wishlist. I also would like to split this into two, maybe even three Evolutionary Webs but until I see the Seamers in front of me I don’t know how to split these up!

THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN! 

Your ‘challenge’ this week is to submit as many designs as you’d like based on these plants or any other plant life you’d like to make a Seamer out of! (Also submitting birds from the earlier chart is helpful too.)

Feel free to flood me with plant ideas, even drawing up a full three-part evolution if you so choose to! 

You have a little over a week, until Sunday, May 28th at 3pm EST to do so, because that’s when I’m hosting my first entirely-SDCP Live Stream to draw up plant Seamer designs and put together this Plant Evolutionary Tree with all of your help in the chat!

After that stream I’ll post part two of the SDCP 2.0 update, detailing more family lines! 

Once again, the stream is Sunday, May 28th at 3pm EST!