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I said this once already in the niche discord server, but visual differences on the horn genes as Nichelings grow! Not including when Nichelings grow old but not starting out with full grown horns (I'm looking at you megaloceros horns.) Concept drawing. Plus, if put this way, babies on blind gene mode can be more interesting. Did they get horns or did they not? Gotta wait until they're a child to find out! And until a teen for what kind of horns specifically! Just noticed that Hehak mentioned something similar, last post on the second page

Birb of the day is back! This time I won't make up for missed days, it's been a few months. 19th April- Philippine dwarf kingfisher! Wins the title for looking fantastic and also silly Fun fact: there are multiple subspecies of this bird. While the southern subspecies has a more intense purple, the northern subspecies have blue spotting on their wings. (this makes me want to modify the design of my birb fursona, Lo-Fi, with inspiration from these guys (paticularly the second picture)

day whichever one it is of my toby fox game brainrot deltarune character designs yippee!! i could only be bothered to draw the main six for now though (and jevil. idk man i just really felt like drawing jevil) uhh. this angst.png this is an image i imagined alongside a really cool fanmade battle theme for ralsei that i would totally make if i knew. literally anything about music and this (the file name for this is "KRIS WHY ARE WE IN A LOW RES JPEG" and i made this because a) i figured out how to turn the image quality way down and b) i thought it'd be funny)

Playing around with layer modes once again

The original idea of this drawing was to try and draw a nicheling with the same 3d-looking effect Niche's promotional art has. Instead I stayed up all night yesterday painting this bush and now my hand hurts

It’s been a long time since I’ve arted! Anyways here’s some headshot designs for the WoF tribes. Feel free to use this as a base as long as you credit me and dont remove the watermarks/claim It as your art You can also crop them if you only want to do one Top: MudWing, SkyWing, SeaWing, IceWing Bottom: SandWing, NightWing, RainWing

hello! it's been a while so i thought i should make a new introduction. im dolan!!! i also go by the name lawrence/larry. i am an autistic hobbyist artist. i use it/it's. i've loved niche since 2016 and i originally joined the forums in 2018!!! [but i lost that account due to steam log-in breaking...] i have lots of niche ocs too!!! they are from a hypothetical future where nichelings replace humans as the dominant intelligent species i beta-tested the mobile game and i own both the steam and nintendo switch versions of the game!! i think it's safe to say that niche is my favorite game other than maaaaybe a few pokemon games... outside of niche, i love lots of media! pokemon has been my life-long special interest and gen 7 is forever my favorite. my favorite pokemon are rotom, grimmsnarl, swoobat, perrserker, alolan golem, and clefable! i also like warrior cats! my favorites are scourge, yellowfang, crowfeather, lionblaze, and bluestar. i also enjoy ginga, sonic the hedgehog, my singing monsters, wolfquest, and lots of other things. i am always willing to make new friends :v)

Two remade OC refs for Artfight + I finally made a ref for Meteorite (who I also uploaded to Artfight)

welcome to my art thread i enjoy drawing my ocs.... here is a ref i finished last night this is tdeco, he is basically me. it accidentally created a bunch of alternate universe versions of itself called the dolanverse

also beepaw and bubbles (my scugsona? that i don't think i actually ever posted)

art?? yeah ive arted :)) definitely haha there are these two that i've already posted on birb's and lox's homethreads respectively but i figured i might as well also post them here the first one is birb's scugsona and the second one a sequel to the shade lord HYDRATE.. meme?? thing??? and also realistic ralsei. may he haunt your nightmares (again with the weird text?????????)

I’M HOME!!!!

Breaking news: Birb finally gets a good picture of her grandmas other cat! Very photogenic

if anyone wants to see all my first discoveries eek react to this and i'll put you in a PM because not all of them are forum-friendly

GUYS IM GOING HOME IN EARLY APRIL!

Generated pony once more This time I couldn’t think of a name.

you ever think "yeah i will play [song] in the background while i do [thing]" and then vibe to the song so hard you forget to actually do the thing

hey y'all, i lost the motivation to post here after steam log-in broke and i couldn't get into my old account, but i've finally gotten over it and now i'm going to use this account instead. 😁 i will post my random thoughts in this thread, and use this first post as a way to show off my niche OCs. for now. here is information about me. my name is dolan. i also go by lawrence [or "larry" as a nickname]. i use it/it's but if we become friends you may use it/he/she. i am agender. i am an autistic hobbyist artist. i like niche. pokemon, warrior cats, my singing monsters, wolfquest, neopets, of montreal [the band], sonic the hedgehog, ginga. and many more things. i will update this post later on with my niche OCs. i'm on a new laptop and embarrassed of my old art though, so it'll be a while before i can get some updated art for this thread. i can explain my niche ocs briefly though! my niche OCs are from the far-future! they've basically evolved into the human equivalent of their world. they stand on two legs, talk, and have complex societies and build cities! varied genetics are still present in their modern form, but certain gangs of nichelings think that some genes are "useless" and want to rid the world of them. my story is focused on some nichelings with these "undesireable" genes and their struggles to avoid these gangs and try to appeal to the greater public and show them that everyone is worthy of acceptance.

Ponies I loved Rarity when I liked the show as a little kid but I could never draw her mane and tail style. Look at me now able to draw her hair And Pinkie Pie. I, like many other people, enjoy the chonky Pinkie Pie headcanon

It would be cool if you could also export/import different nichelings. Like, have a button on each nicheling to copy a code, and then be able to paste that code into the sandbox mode nicheling creator. Also, to expand a bit on Cabinet's idea, maybe the random cosmetic variations could get numbers? The variations could still be random, but you would be able to put your desired variation into sandbox mode, maybe via a dropdown box or hoverbox. Little concept with the poison body gene, since the variations on it are random. As an example, maybe variation 1 is green, while variation 2 is purple, and so on.

I also did this Flight Rising (I’ve been getting back into it!) thing, it’s Pacific, one of the dragons I own

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Here are some ideas based on a conversation I had with Coco a long time ago. They're also heavily inspired by similar systems in WolfQuest Acquired disabilities, or injuries. So basically when a nicheling gets hurt, there's a chance that they get injured and get a penalty depending on what the injury is. For example, a leg injury would give a speed or collecting penalty. A nicheling could also be blinded this way. Depending on the severity of the injuries, they could be temporary or permanent. So even if you don't have the genes for certain disabilities in your population, it's not impossible to get them. Not all disabilities are genetic, after all, and life in nature is tough! On a similar note, many disabilities like blindness in real life are caused by ageing, so perhaps similar effects could happen as nichelings age. I don't think elderly nichelings should be useless though, so giving them perks of some sort would be a nice offset. I sadly don't have any ideas for this right now This would obviously make the game harder, and I imagine not everyone would want that, so an option to change the chances of injuries would be nice.

hi i uh. i drew your little skrunkly for no reason in particular i experimented with the style a bit, they were really fun to draw :))

Y’all look at these adorable cats!

I tried a challenge where I set my settings to greyscale and I tried drawing Foxleaf I got this

WHAT im not sure if this tops batzillaphishzillaphishzillaphishzillaphishzillaph but this is hilarious

I always used to love drawing abominations made by the rangen species generator. I revisited it, created the Gert. Fully generated result: The Gert Appearance A medium, familiar, hexapedal mammal with a camel head with a fleshy crest on its head, goat ears, no visible nose, and a shark-like jaw. It has a goose neck, and its shoulders are rounded. It has a rat torso with a thick waist. It has six medium-length, rhino legs and a fish tail. The Gert's whole body is covered in bristles, except its tail which is covered in hair. Most of its body is mahogany, while the rest of its body is cream. Gert Stats Average Height: 5 feet / 1.5 meters Average Lifespan: 116 years Maturity: 30 years Breeding age: 17 years No. of young: 7 every 34 years Population: Over-population Temperament: Aggressive Diet: Fish, Amphibians, and Animal skin Family life Gert males mate for life, but females are secretly promiscuous. Competition between males is often deadly; the winning male earns breeding rights; the loser often dies from his wounds. The Gert lives in massive family groups led by the eldest female, and young females normally leave their families and live in big groups when they are mature. General - They are exceptionally good at climbing trees. - They have extremely high levels of endurance. - Their call can be heard more than 49 miles / 78.9 kilometers away.

Fluffy prince

Having played Niche as a teen when it was still in its early developmental stages and having since gone on to study biology, it's super special to me and I would love to see it expanded or a sequel! I'm a bit late to this post and stumbled across it by accident, but many of the following ideas have lived in my mind since forever and saw some of them had already been brought up. I saw some mention of seasons, I think it would be really nice to also include hibernation as a survival tactic for the winter months. I would love to see the underwater scene expanded more! I've been missing water based predators. There were already some suggestions on underwater "islands" or biomes and thought this could even go as far as making a deep sea location with limited/no light and a bunch of traits to adapt to this (bioluminescence, angler fish light to attract prey, tentacles for detection instead of vision, water filtering for food like baleen whales, mollusc body to deal with the pressure etc.). One thing I was missing a lot in water Nichelings was electro receptors. Many underwater species make use of these (including platypus) and for that to allow underwater detection of fish outside of sight range or to detect the digging spots for platypus would be great. Or even an extra sense being added to water body, as the lateral line in fish can detect water movement and this would allow for muddy water to exist with limited sight visibility. Since the addition of birds and them being able to sit in trees, I thought arboreal traits would have gone real well as an alternative to getting your Nichelings take to the trees. The bugs and seeds of trees can now only be exploited by birds and having a prehensile tail or climbing paw/hindlegs would be a great addition to expanding this mechanic. On the opposite end I would also love to see a (semi) fossorial system included, it's quite a common tactic in animals and to be able to make burrows to escape predators would be great! I believe there was already some mention of dens. I could imagine it as premade burrowing spots that your Nicheling needs digging trait to make a burrow, or even fallen logs or tree hollows. What would be really cool but maybe more difficult to implement would be to allow Nichelings to create burrows and expand them to any tile and make several entrances (could be restricted to meadow or sand tiles). I couldn't have agreed more with the posts about traits evolving on a scale, this would be super exciting! It could even go as far as to have intermediate stages between wing development from paws or even hip morphology changes to allow for an upright stance, to mimic the main evolutionary pathways that we see in paleontological/evolutionary studies. Ideally the intermediate stages would already have some advantage, as otherwise they wouldn't stay in the population for long enough to progress. The 50% mutation rate that the player can implement for two genes in the current Niche makes it a bit too easy in my opinion. Ideally this could be adjustable by the player depending on how easy or difficult they want to make it to themselves. Useful mutations are quite rare in nature and most of the mutations occurring tend to be detrimental. Although theoretically one mutation in one gene can do the trick, often an accumulation of a bunch of mutations is necessary to really create a phenotypic change. I'm not sure how this could be implemented in underlying game mechanics, but to see a more realistic approach to the genes and mutating traits would be really cool. Although the idea of having a photosynthesising Nicheling also gets me quite excited, but it's a bit further from realistic systems. Last point I'll bring up for now, would be to implement herbivores, omnivores and carnivores (etc.), Nichelings being able or unable to digest certain foods would be really interesting. As example omnivores could be able to eat everything but get less nutrients out of both, whilst the more specialised diets would allow maximum nutrient uptake. Overall I would generally like to see a lot more variety and widespread traits, genes and survival tactics, so that there is more to discover and explore. There are is so much inspiration to take from all the different species out there! But of course this would make the game a lot bigger, which also comes with a developmental cost. I think even the current Niche still has a lot of space for new cool traits and interactable creatures to be added. I still had a few more trait ideas, but this has become lengthy enough already

another dolanverse ref yippeeeeee this is slice aka scourge from warrior cats if he sucked

Yay

hey gang made some more drawings jelli my bestie i drew this for my art class homework idk what this guys name is tako had me draw him for her birthday so ask her and my coworker asked me to draw him a fire truck so i did 🎉 also idk if anyone cares about this but i actually animated something and hopefully i will upload it today when i get home so get hyped 🔥💪🤯

The moor would have peat tiles which would have a chance to randomly set a fire every day which would spread to the other peat tiles (maybe this could be after a potential lightning storm ignites a peat vein. Peat fires are persistent)

Btw I took pictures of clouds on the plane

why did i have a dream last night where i played roblox in the middle of an exam at school... 😀

rw patch note from yesterday

First the WoF stuff Lynxfall! Did I post this? I have no idea! Flame! A little doodle I did because I was trying to get out of art block Peril and Sky! Featuring some design experimentation for both

This is the daughter of one of my two gods. I gave her a more hadrosaur-esque stance because she can both run on her hind legs and walk with her digging paw. She has poison fangs, but you can't see them, because real venomous snakes can "retract" their fangs, since they are pretty fragile. I also just gave her a more snake-like head to go with the poison fangs. She also doesn't have a name, would be nice to get some suggestions.

yesterday i killed someone with a golf club

I poured cereal and milk in a sock, left it there overnight and then ate it all It this post gets 10 likes I will do it again

two in a day heeheeheh

more small!!! Every time I see peacocks I am reminded of the peacock man

I love how offended they get

bob velseb my beloved /j one of my sillies in my sys- i hate him /pos TW KNIFE

"What if I give Rainbow Dash a gun?-"

unhinged players never fail to entertain

Thinking about how maybe there could be a "death roll" in the last days in the lifespan (this wouldn't be influenced by damage, it'd be something like 20-25 days old so if a nicheling has less than 5 days left because of damage the death roll wouldn't happen unless it's already in its twenties) with the chance heightening each day. So low chance to die "early", medium chance to die in the middle and high change to die late Could be modified in sandbox mode