The Ruined World of 'Barren'

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Imagine a future where humanity must survive alongside mutated horrors. An exploration of Keegan Francis’s dark post-apocalyptic worldbuilding project ‘Barren.’
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‘Barren,’ a post-apocalyptic worldbuilding project by Keegan Francis, imagines an alternate history where civilization ended in nuclear conflict, and mutated animal life rapidly evolves to rule over the irradiated wastes left behind.
A retro-future that calls to mind the worldbuilding of the Fallout series, the project reveals a world where human survivors must contend with biological horrors created by their own folly. So, for this entry into the archive, we’ll travel across the wastes, creating a ‘survival guide’ of sorts to the creatures that roam this desolate world.
Now, let’s cross into an alternate timeline, and witness the broken world of Barren…
0:00 World of Barren
1:47 Mutant Biology
3:32 The Bulwark
4:43 The Bonehen
5:55 The Zadger
7:12 The Nukula
8:58 The Dillo-Pig
10:09 The Goldwing
11:13 The Rotfowl
12:28 Biophage
13:31 “Ankle Biters”
14:22 The Vespore
15:28 Not All is Lost…
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@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Wow, this is crazy to see my world. Appreciate the feature and any who come over to support and join the project.

@raegardens8339 Жыл бұрын

The art is so good!

@bustavonnutz Жыл бұрын

Really interesting premise, I wonder what kind of horrors are lurking in the lakes & rivers...

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

@@raegardens8339 thank you :) appreciate it

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

@@bustavonnutz people will find out soon :) specially patrons Get a vote on the what’s next

@michaelstevens8073 Жыл бұрын

Awesome work! Hope your project grows tremendously.

@danjaminmonster Жыл бұрын

As a British person, I can confirm that this was not a fictional alternate world, it is actually a documentary about what life is like here in the UK

@dontforgetyoursunscreen Жыл бұрын

No the UK is more wet & always raining

@TheMisterDarknight Жыл бұрын

Australia*

@GeoRich1216 Жыл бұрын

Birmingham wildlife and locals

@ghodge82 Жыл бұрын

Omg lol classic

@elijah7787 Жыл бұрын

Man bru I hate living in London fr fr

@timeshark8727 Жыл бұрын

War... War never changes This feels like a "what if the creators of Fallout read a biology book and made more than 5 animals per game"

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Haha thanks?

@timeshark8727 Жыл бұрын

@@KfrancisArt like, old fallout.. not current bioware

@thegreygoblin5165 Жыл бұрын

@@timeshark8727 *Bethesda

@timeshark8727 Жыл бұрын

@@thegreygoblin5165 that's the one... I get all the "once good, now crap" developers mixed up

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Yep haha

@CLCasual Жыл бұрын

I just want to point out RE: Zadgers, their precursor, the badger, is NOT a harmless animal, they can be vicious little bastards

@paleoleft Жыл бұрын

i mean theyre aggressive but not really dangerous

@jonathancapehart4669 Жыл бұрын

Badger killed my pa.

@binarybug5997 Жыл бұрын

Badger killed me pops

@FatManWithNoPlans Жыл бұрын

As a person living in the Badger State, I can inform you that they're running a state-wide protection racket, and have infiltrated the US government enough that a blind eye is turned to their actions.

@Tanooki_Leaf. Жыл бұрын

Badger killed my future

@darongw Жыл бұрын

There really needs to be a mutated house cat that stalks the forests and fields of the UK in Barren. It would be fitting since people in the UK in real life claim to see large wild cats :)

@NetMoverSitan Жыл бұрын

It'd be even more amusing, if they evolve into Felis Sapiens.

@FeedMeSalt Жыл бұрын

It would be MORE fitting because cats in the UK are the single most responsible invasive species responsible for the extinction of 98% of native life. The UK is ecologically dead, and outdoor cats are ILLIGAL and kill on sight because of this. Over a thousand species of birds and small mammals entirely gone from the country. Over a billion birds and another billion small mammals, "nobody has studied reptiles yet" are killed by cats in the US every single year. They also recently have exploded with STDs and a few sexually transmitted genetic illnesses like cancer. Yes, cancer spread through sex. Canada is facing similar problems near urban areas. Since domestic cats kill for fun far more then for food, and they don't only target rats and pests. Infact they prefer birds over any other prey. Anyway, a massive mutant domestic house cat eating everything and killing for fun fits perfectly. Because they already do.

@tammywillmott7592 Жыл бұрын

@@NetMoverSitan just a regular cat that can speak with a british accent

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Imma add that idea to my book haha, I love it :)

@lepusistlich6930 Жыл бұрын

We have wildcats in Scotland.

@Schlumpsha Жыл бұрын

Dang, now I want a survival horror game setting in Barren! At least the upcoming Fallout London mod will somewhat quench that thirst for a radioactive GB.

@SuspectStew Жыл бұрын

Nice pfp

@crowickedone4037 Жыл бұрын

Nah a game always dimishes the setting

@nothingclever7582 Жыл бұрын

Metro and stalker may help you. But also I'd prefer barren to be made more like metro due to how hostile the world is.

@emberandfriendsanimations2454 Жыл бұрын

That would be so cool

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Haha that would be a dream come true, In meantime may develop a world to be played in DND + info and a book

@androidmk5987 Жыл бұрын

I can't help but laugh at the mental idea there's just some random reptile or crustacean that hasn't changed at all. Like a crocodile or a horseshoe crab that's just exactly the same.

@astranix0198 11 ай бұрын

Well, if it ain't broke...

@QueenPentax 11 ай бұрын

It’ll be the horseshoe crab lol

@ItsMeVenusaur Ай бұрын

Crocodiles and sharks have kept the same body shape for millions of years so it could be plausible 🗿

@cevatkokbudak6414 3 күн бұрын

lmao

@darylpowell401 Жыл бұрын

As an american, it's strange to hear badgers called "harmless"

@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Жыл бұрын

Especially when they're so closely related to Wolverines.

@kelekona5459 Жыл бұрын

Oh, British badgers aren’t harmless, they’re vicious bastards who will often try to attack and bite people. They won’t kill you, but they’ll fuck your shins up and give you horrible infections

@EllesGhost13 Жыл бұрын

They're not harmless at all, they do keep to themselves but can be real mean like any other

@FSmith-kv4fj Жыл бұрын

As someone on Tumblr once said, “a badger is what happens when evolution wants a crocodile, but all it has to work with is a weasel.”

@williamverhagen5210 2 ай бұрын

Europeanen baggers can still fuck you up with their strong tunneling claws but no where near as dangerous american honey baggers

@aidanshea5942 Жыл бұрын

"Yet the green landscapes of old have been replaced by a grim wasteland of silent decay" Wow, things must gotten *really* bad *after* the nukes

@Whalefire2 Жыл бұрын

Dunno you ever been to Doncaster

@JudgeNicodemus Жыл бұрын

Or the singularity of human misery known as... Slough...

@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 Жыл бұрын

@@JudgeNicodemus 🤮 Slough

@inspirednamehere6166 Жыл бұрын

yeah tbh "a grim wasteland of silent decay" already accurately describes a lot of britain

@Cadian-8th-4676 Жыл бұрын

You have entered cumbria

@ukrainiansturgeon8561 Жыл бұрын

“The harmless badger” I know you already addressed this problem, but I have to say even large cats are afraid of it. I gotta say though I like this world building project is amazing.

@David_Fellner Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I laughed at that phrase too. Badgers are anything but harmless, and a good basis for a radioactive monstrosity.

@sirensong237 Жыл бұрын

@@David_Fellner honey badgers throw hands with god. European badgers make you tea and cookies and ask about your day.

@cevatkokbudak6414 3 күн бұрын

@@David_FellnerMe too

@blushblush32 Жыл бұрын

It’d be really cool to see you cover Dogs of the Spires. It’s basically post-apocalyptic fantasy with quite a bit of spec-evo and cosmic horror sorta stuff in the later books Edit: I think you can get the series in some bookstores but you can probably find it online. Not normally a fan of xenofiction but the worldbuilding was more than enough to get me interested

@im.not.typical91 Жыл бұрын

Where can I learn more about Dogs of the Spire. I searched it on KZfaq and only got furry amvs

@DavidtinSongulous9856 Жыл бұрын

@@im.not.typical91 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptObZtegncm-p5s.html I assume this is the one. It's definitely post-apocalyptic.

@thecatbrat42 Жыл бұрын

@@im.not.typical91 I am also wondering

@dyno6614 Жыл бұрын

cosmic horror? you have me interested.

@Rum-Runner Жыл бұрын

Interesting concept, though wouldn’t it be more likely that these mutated animals would simply be referred to as their predecessors? For example, I think it would be far more likely that “bone-hens” would just be called “chickens” by the inhabitants of this alternate reality, considering that these are all recognized animals that would have mutated in such a short timeframe; within what could essentially be one person’s lifetime.

@friend_trilobot Жыл бұрын

That's a good point, but I think it happening quickly makes it more likely they'd change the name bc people would be aware of the "classic" chicken still to compare it to. When you introduce a new thing quickly, people will invent new terms to describe it and this is different than the slower version of language change which is usually sound changes or the gradual shifting of lexical meanings, e.t.c. In English people don't pronounce the k or gh in 'knight' bc of slow gradual changes in pronunciation, and they use it to mean a mounted warrior (or a special title bestowed by royalty that is descended from this mounted warrior tradition) when its literal meaning in pre-Germanic is something like "boy" or "servant." Of course the chicken of today is genetically and visually different than the ones in the past (if only size and breed) even when people use the exact same word, but I would argue this happens specifically bc the change is so gradual and hard to notice - sometimes language changes slowly even if everything's the same, and sometimes things change and the language doesn't. But that's over long periods of time. In contrast we began using the word "smart phone" almost right away after they were introduced. BUT on the other hand, many nowadays call it just a phone, except to distinguish it from other types of phones (which still exist). So it could be both or they'll use the old word. But i still think it happening fast makes it more likely they'd produce a new term, not less likely.

@fabriziobiancucci7702 Жыл бұрын

Probably because the post-apocalyptic people still remember the old world. Probably the names of the new animals was given in the first years after the nukes explodes, because survivors want distinguish them from the actual chickens or cows. And after generations the names remains

@Rum-Runner Жыл бұрын

@@friend_trilobot That is something to consider. Well said.

@baneofbanes Жыл бұрын

Language can change rapidly.

@MrJero85 Жыл бұрын

Look at all those chickens!

@freakishuproar1168 Жыл бұрын

Whilst I do appreciate a post-apocalyptic reimagining of my country, I feel like I may have been spoilt by the many _many MANY_ speculative biology projects you've covered on this awesome channel. Barren feels a little generic, if I'm being brutally honest.

@nataliebell6760 Жыл бұрын

I think part of the problem is that the creators of Barren have gone for the standard apocalypse-induced desertification landscape, and it shows. The rot-and-decay aesthetic they've picked out for the animals doesn't do them any favours either, but they'd _feel_ less generic set against a lush landscape rich with autotrophic life. It wouldn't even need to be plants, really. You could have the landscape become dominated by exclusively radiotrophic fungi, and it'd feel less generic.

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

I get that, was a great video but not fully accurate as barren is far less focused on just speculative biology And the landscape in parts will be far greener and less simple decay as I want barren to show life can go on I’d say the video is more Curious archives interpretation to an extent Appreciate the actual constructive criticism tho :)

@LetsConquerTheUniverseTogether Жыл бұрын

@@KfrancisArt It's all a matter of preference, really.

@atimetraveler4910 Жыл бұрын

I prefer completely different alien worlds with there evolved creatures and plants

@michaelsimpson1224 Жыл бұрын

@@KfrancisArt I honestly appreciate how grungy and “grounded” this aesthetic is in the current market. I think “bright and vibrant alien/post-apocalyptic/alt-biology world” is getting a little oversaturated, and I always prefer a healthy balance of options. You've also found a lot of animals to nine that Fallout hasn't, and done so in pretty creative ways!

@samuellima6193 Жыл бұрын

Man, this is a really dark project, but it is really good!

@germanomagnone Жыл бұрын

I agree

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Thanks I appreciate that

@jaysonklein6018 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes dark helps to pump the gas, ya know?

@Ashannon888 Жыл бұрын

This kind of a setting can do wonders for world building with a bit of mythology. Imagine common dog breeds like german sheperds or labs turning into giant black furred wolflike monsters. Now you have packs of Black Schucks running around. How many English towns and villages have legends of those demonic black hounds haunting the countryside?

@edwardrhoades6957 Жыл бұрын

My boy, you have... the GRIM!! 🔮

@thomasfoster4370 Жыл бұрын

well, shucks literally

@violetlight1548 Жыл бұрын

Nice to see this kind of post-apocalypse fiction that actually puts some thought into the effect that environment would have on life, instead of just making radioactive monsters out to get people. Thank you for sharing!

@l0u13__3 Жыл бұрын

I had an idea for a story like this set in a post apocalyptic Britain, more specifically the Mercia region. Areas are run like castles, ruled by lords and false kings. Factions like chavs and The Knights of The realm, even Viking factions controlling towns located near York But I couldn’t figure out what kind of animals

@____________838 Жыл бұрын

Maybe focus on what caused this departure from the standard timeline?

@Matheus-wg5nq Жыл бұрын

That sounds promising.

@foxpro3002 Жыл бұрын

Use barren as inspiration, or fallout. Honestly I would love to see your project it sounds interesting.

@lotguballa7839 Жыл бұрын

Bizzare medievel painting of animals for inspiration

@Matheus-wg5nq Жыл бұрын

@@lotguballa7839 i know a guy who is making a game about this.

@noahjester8471 Жыл бұрын

The feeling I get when hearing about this world is interesting; despite all the horrific monsters, desolation, and struggle, I like that humanity continued to exist, as if to spite the wastelands they inhabit. I'd set out some table scraps for the 'Dillos, some eggs for the Bonehens, and I'm just sitting on my front porch, cleaning a shotgun and basking in the silence of a dead world...

@bitchassmoththing Жыл бұрын

we really are the most stubborn species to exist

@thomasfoster4370 Жыл бұрын

not really, most of us Englishmen don't own porches, rather we would sit in an armchair in our front room, polishing our pipe-launcher and drinking a mug of New-Yorkshire tea.

@saturn_in_blue Жыл бұрын

It makes no sense they have radiation burns, etc. The background radiation level would be pretty low at this point. The animals would grow up healthy and normal looking, just with weird features and designs that came out of their mutations. This is one very unrealistic thing that annoys me both about fallout and other post apocalyptic worlds. After a few decades and especially centuries the post-apocalyptic world would be be lush and green, just very different in terms of types of life and with hidden dangers (like irradiated zones that could quickly kill a normal human but look almost the same as non-irradiated zones). Look at the area around Chernobyl.

@David_Fellner Жыл бұрын

True. Radioactive mutations are a fun way to explain fantastical animals, but it's tricky to use that to justify realism.

@David_Fellner Жыл бұрын

@@Corndog_Enthusiast It's just someone's opinion. There's no need to get upset.

@carno.5911 Жыл бұрын

I found not much foundation for this claim that most of the Radioactivity would decline so fast. Experts only say that there are Nukes that produce very low amounts of fallout, but this dont means that they would be used mostly for nuclear warfare, cuz it would be to less of a treath.

@hedgehog3180 Жыл бұрын

@@Corndog_Enthusiast Well people are criticizing it after those standards because this channel is usually about plausibly realistic spec evo.

@____Carnage____ Жыл бұрын

@@hedgehog3180 codex inversus and rust and humus

@Kamarovsky_KCM Жыл бұрын

This project looks really promising, and I sincerely hope that the creator will receive lots of support through his Patreon so that he can continue creating it. I, however am nothing but a Rotfowl, and just like them live by scavenging, thus sadly not being able to support.

@Trees... Жыл бұрын

Same. Just remember we play an important role in ecosystem. :)

@melvinfranco2142 Жыл бұрын

Funny. Thou art a Rotfowl. That meant thou canst rid the project of decaying plot lines, like how Rotfowl feed on decaying bodies.

@ghodge82 Жыл бұрын

Bruh lol

@purplehaze2358 Жыл бұрын

I'm actually surprised Biophage wasn't involved in phage treatment. It'd make sense given their name, logo, supposed medical ties, and could provide an explanation as to how nukrosis came about.

@hedgehog3180 Жыл бұрын

Tbf it seems pretty obvious that that's gonna be the big reveal, it's just being kept purposefully vague right now.

@michaelchaney2336 11 ай бұрын

Technically ankle biters exist now.

@marxtheenigma873 Жыл бұрын

You need to look at an old ps2 game called Scaler. I love it for the detailed environments. There's even a plant on one level mimicking a big scary predator.

@sherman1376 Жыл бұрын

The way he pronounced Yorkshire took 20 years off my life.

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Haha seems lots of people say it that way for some reason

@personman2346 Жыл бұрын

Isn't that how its pronounced?

@handleisntfkinavailable Жыл бұрын

@@personman2346 they say it as 'yorksheer'

@tyddlup Жыл бұрын

Whenever I hear anyone pronounce any "shire" counties like that, it makes me wince.

@tyddlup Жыл бұрын

@@personman2346 Nope. We pronounce it as "sheer" or sometimes "shur" (depends where in the UK someone's from, I guess). Place names with "shire" at the end are never pronounced "shy-er" here, and the only times we'd pronounce that word like that is when talking of the shire horse breed or shire counties.

@Wired_User Жыл бұрын

:30 I mean Godzilla is *literally* Japan’s way of dealing with the trauma of dropping two nuclear bombs on them. So much art from Japanese citizens has a motif of the sheer horror of nuclear devestation.

@VoidVagabond Жыл бұрын

Yeah Godzilla's thick hide was inspired by keloid scars.

@lepusistlich6930 Жыл бұрын

So... in Japanese media the radiation creates monsters and in western media it creates heroes?

@chasewormwood9638 Жыл бұрын

Hello sir I was hoping you could check a game called Rain World. It is set in a world where a super advanced race of ancients have all died out, leaving behind all their structures to be reclaimed by nature. Much time has passed, and the ancients were masters of genetic tech. The purposed animals they created to perform various tasks roam the world and have evolved to the new environment, but the are also many bio-mechanical creatures still around from the time of the ancients, leading to many unique animals. I think you would find it quite interesting

@0x1337feed Жыл бұрын

you've been served :)

@KnightmarePhoenix_official Жыл бұрын

Badgers have long, sharp claws, sharp teeth, and a vicious demeanor. Those critters are anything but harmless, they may be small but they can still screw you up.

@SkyWKing Жыл бұрын

I dislike the stereotypical postapocalyptic wasteland filled with highly aggressive and active predators "because of mutation". The postapocalyptic biosphere will more resemble a tundra. Most animals will be herbivores grazing mosses and lichen, while predators tend to be small and nimble like cats and foxes. However, most carnivores will simply be scavengers instead, because the caloric expenditure for hunting is way too high in a nutrition-poor world. Majority of the animals will be burrowers and only go out to the radioactive atmosphere for getting food. The environment is simply too hostile for large caloric-intensive animals like cattle. Whatever "mutated" humans that are banished by the survivors will likely not attack humans at all, because being an intelligent species, they fully understand the danger of attacking humans with firearm. They will likely be cave-dwelling hunter-gatherers and develop some sort of unique artisanship that will produce them tradable goods to exchange medicine or food with humans.

@nataliebell6760 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't be so sure. Chernobyl, which is the only example we have of a radioactive ecosystem, is quite lush and supports populations of deer, wolves, and bears. Nagasaki and Hiroshima, our primary examples of the effects of nuclear war, are still inhabited and by all accounts no worse off environmentally then any other city. Basically, apocalypse-induced desertification has no evidence for its existence.

@zack-ronald259 Жыл бұрын

@@nataliebell6760 I think OP is talking about a world under a full nuclear winter

@AdamWhistle1 Жыл бұрын

@@nataliebell6760 Because Chernobly was abandoned by humans and has minimal human activity. That is the primary reason why Chernobly became an almost lush place compared to neighboring environments. The area was abandoned to prevent any radiation-induced sickness, not because it was certain mutation-death. Yeah, animals probably died from radiation poisoning but the damage was nothing compared to what normal human civilization has on the ecosphere.

@kordellswoffer1520 Жыл бұрын

@@zack-ronald259 assuming sure but nuclear winter is purely a theory and a heavily debatable one at that.

@cxireen2193 Жыл бұрын

You should do some writing 🙂 Or at least be hired by some group of writers 😊

@germanomagnone Жыл бұрын

with the "fashion" of the apocalyptic end as in "walking dead" that here makes us glimpse, for me it is quite terrifying. 3:52 the Bulwark (ex-cow) looks a lot like the Reek from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. or rather a hybrid between a dicynodon and a ceratopside (a placecias and a monoclonius)

@Emsworth377 Жыл бұрын

"Farmers raise bulwarks on the fertile fields of an area called New York-SHIRE"....I'm pretty sure the locals don't call it that!

@danijelovskikanal7017 Жыл бұрын

reminds me of the video game Metro 2033 it's one of my all time favorite games,together with Stalker,which is also a similar,(kinda) post apocalyptic game. the former is based of a book (actually a series of books) and i highly recommend it to anybody who likes post apocalyptic stuff.

@ASlickNamedPimpback Жыл бұрын

They’re both based off of books, but stalker also takes inspiration from the stalker movie. Always scratches the realism itch that fallout doesn’t

@danijelovskikanal7017 Жыл бұрын

@@ASlickNamedPimpback yep,it's called roadside picnic.

@deadlydingus1138 Жыл бұрын

Nuke + Dracula = Nukula How has no one thought of this before now?

@thomasfoster4370 Жыл бұрын

because noone has made nuclear vampires before

@deadlydingus1138 Жыл бұрын

@@thomasfoster4370 I know, but Nukula just sounds like nucular if said with the right accent. I mean, it’s right there.

@RSWE550 3 ай бұрын

@@thomasfoster4370 The Bloodsuckers from S.T.A.L.K.E.R come to mind

@lorcanmcloughlin3686 Жыл бұрын

This video was..just wow love your channel I have been watching you for a while your channel has good things ahead of it

@improvcomedy14 Жыл бұрын

Speaking of post-apocalypse, why don’t you cover the Fallout universe? It’s got plenty of interesting creature designs and you’ve already shown a willingness to cover video games. I’d be all for it.

@guromenst4416 Жыл бұрын

Truee

@Erykthebat 4 ай бұрын

this was fallout with the serial numbers filed off

@arturosandovalsaito2704 Жыл бұрын

This project reminded me of a story I was working on. It’s about a man who has to go to a military stronghold without getting himself killed by aliens, cannibals, and highly evolved versions of modern animals. It’s pretty much like a post apocalyptic adventure story, but it takes place in the same setting as “the future is wild” or “after man: a zoology of the future”.

@Digitaaliklosetti Жыл бұрын

Wow what a bad story, I hate it a lot

@jonahulichny9874 Жыл бұрын

Why so?

@The_Raydinator_2008 Жыл бұрын

In a nuclear fallout scenario, I’d be most like likely that in that following years that Cancer, Mange, and Necrosis would be the most prominent problems, along with viruses, and maybe a slight chance of mutations, but it would probably lead to Cancer

@tanyanikolaevagizdova6571 Жыл бұрын

Cancer is itself caused by mutations.

@Laxhoop Жыл бұрын

This is definitely the biggest “what if” I’ve seen on this channel, so far. An alternate history where amphibians became the dominant life form? Might’ve been plausible. An alien planet that has skyscraper sized titans, being taken down by hostile living needles that launch themselves out of the dirt? Sure. An alternate history where intense radiation exposure just speeds up evolution, rather than causing all life it touches to begin to rot before it dies? That’s a bit of a stretch, not gonna lie.

@pifilixxiv3192 Жыл бұрын

I mean, the skyscraper titans is straight up the the settings for xeno blade games

@grayelephant3050 Жыл бұрын

Hi man, i Just want to say that your vids are the best and hope your channel thrives and prospers like flowers!

@murplesman Жыл бұрын

Great video, I hope there'll be more to come on this project.

@darkblade6896 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for introducing me to this project I'm truly fascinated by the art and lore, I cant wait to see new additions and lore

@mysterioussoup3393 Жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a biology of Skyrim or Fallout. They've got some very good worldbuilding and creatures I them like the Yorkers from Skyrim or Ghouls from Fallout.

@mysterioussoup3393 Жыл бұрын

*Hoarker not Yorker

@oaktree149 Жыл бұрын

@@mysterioussoup3393 Oh You Know what He Meant. Also it’s Horker*

@David_Fellner Жыл бұрын

@@oaktree149 It's always funny when somebody does a *spelling correction and then misspells the same word.

@memomorph5375 Жыл бұрын

The “dillo-pig” made me smile. Fun fact, Guinea pigs only have 2 babies at a time but they’re born eyes open and ready to run!

@ythegameritaisthebest Жыл бұрын

If there Is any can you cover some desert planets? Like One with Life only living at the poles? Would be cool

@adamreynolds3863 Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love these videos!! You make these stories so fascinating! keep up the great work

@PK-we6vk Жыл бұрын

Dude, I literally subscribed an hour ago and was watching your videos when this poped up.

@kayleighwukovich8318 Жыл бұрын

Welcome! It's an epic channel

@maxleroux Жыл бұрын

I love it when you explore alien ecosystems in a nature documentary-style format. It would be cool to see the speculative evolution of The Eternal Cylinder or Pikmin 3 on your channel.

@wefhen7708 Жыл бұрын

Honestly I wanna see an post apocalyptic game that isn't the most generic trope and it's actually lush and bright

@jessegauthier6985 Жыл бұрын

There are a few but they're all shit

@ohiologist9256 Жыл бұрын

I have a thing with friends that is post apocalyptic after a nuclear war and it's lush and bright with mutated insects and stuff

@StillStupidStillDumb2834 Жыл бұрын

Imagine a fallout game set in Australia thousands of years in the future. You are implied to be to the last human searching fruitlessly for signs of humanity after being woken up from the last functioning life pod in Australia. One day you give up, only to find a fallout 4 mongrel alongside a pack of future dingoes running away from a giant lion-like cat descended from invasive cats. implying to you that colonization has happened somewhere else on the giant island.

@minhducnguyen9276 Жыл бұрын

@@StillStupidStillDumb2834 Any tropical regions will have the radioactive dust washed away very quickly due to monsoon rain. But hotspots in low lands where the dust accumulate can be expected. The abundant of sunlight and biomass also allows wildlife to quickly recover. I can imagine the southern American States like Louisiana will still have abundant life with little mutation on the land but the closer you move to the swamps where the dust is accumulated the more exotic animals are presented.

@thesharkormoriantm274 Жыл бұрын

Many worldbuilders make the mistake of filling an ecosystem with apex predators and very few prey animals. As well too much attention is put on the fauna in worldbuilding projects, ¿what flora has survived?. It would also be cool to dig into the culture of the people living there ¿what is their society like? ¿Has their language evolved? Interesting project overall.

@minhducnguyen9276 2 ай бұрын

Another flaw I have seen here is the assumption that scales provide better protection than feathers especially in the setting of a post apocalyptic Britain where it's cold. If feathers don't provide an evolutionary advantage terrestrial birds wouldn't have them.

@DragonMG2 Жыл бұрын

Love your vids, you have such a calming voice

@suggiethames9870 Жыл бұрын

I like it better when these videos focus on more plausible scenarios

@mikeemous1410 Жыл бұрын

Man I love this video it just makes me want you to do the whole fallout series it covers most of the us and there are a lot of creatures in all nieches not just the super popular scary predator types I believe it does have a reasonable ecosystem even without all the human presence

@yormomshouse Жыл бұрын

i have been a sub since the beginning of this channel keep up the good work curious

@aquaticathedragon7645 Жыл бұрын

I used to watch this on summer break and I Love your videos keep uploading🎉

@neutronstar6379 Жыл бұрын

Great as always

@binuuls5747 Жыл бұрын

I love your videos I’m sure this one will be good too

@kayleighwukovich8318 Жыл бұрын

The old film trim for the Old World was a great idea and good touch

@roboninjasaur6729 Жыл бұрын

Might I recommend the Planica project for the Archive? its a wonderful project set in a 2-Dimensional world and I would love to see you cover it!

@olavomacedovasconcellos1593 Жыл бұрын

The Zadgers might be based on the Honey Badgers from Wasteland 2 and 3, that have mutated into apex predators after the nuclear war.

@blueorange965 Жыл бұрын

You should cover Jay Eaton's Runaway to the Stars. It's sort of post apocalyptic, but humans are still surviving, just mostly not on Earth. It's really interesting and the Speculative Biology in it is really nicely done.

@ZexyObserver Жыл бұрын

This is so bad ass. Exactly what I wanted this channel to do.

@wendylacey2745 Жыл бұрын

Amazing video as always! Do you think you will be able to make a video explaining the biology of the creatures of The Eternal Cylinder?

@aarav_sharma Жыл бұрын

it's fkd up and really fascinating at the same time

@thecandlemaker1329 Жыл бұрын

To witness the green landscapes of old Britain getting replaced by a grim wasteland of silent decay in real time, just drive from Exeter to Newcastle.

@Finn-xo3wu Жыл бұрын

its kinda crazy i have loved every single vid that i have watched of yours

@rogersnick17 Жыл бұрын

I love your channel so much

@gamemacatron7512 Жыл бұрын

You should do an archive video about Pandora, I really like the one you did for tatooine I think there’s enough footage of the wildlife of Pandora it make it easy to make a video about it

@alexhilton9634 Жыл бұрын

was just watching another one of your vids, and then I see this

@vapertainment5313 Жыл бұрын

"Harmless" is an interesting take on those ambulatory walking death carpets.

@AJScraps Жыл бұрын

Amazing content as always! 👀

@radudancoroian5169 Жыл бұрын

An insect world? This will be intresting

@rickcharlespersonal Жыл бұрын

Here's what I want: an open-world survival simulator reminiscent of Ark: Survival Evolved, but the storyline is that your characters have access to inter-universal technology and can travel to different worlds in different universes. Infinite possibilities. Each map/DLC is a world from a different speculative evolution project like this.

@troycoley-cn5bb 11 ай бұрын

Incredible Work!!!

@shogun2215 Жыл бұрын

Quite frankly the most unrealistic thing about this is that the UK continues to exist after the war. It would be more likely to splinter into its component factions; Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man, Cornwall and Greater England.

@ExtremeMadnessX Жыл бұрын

You mean Ireland, Scotland and Wales become independent countries?

@hysterical5408 Жыл бұрын

@@ExtremeMadnessX I mean, Ireland already is.

@ExtremeMadnessX Жыл бұрын

@@hysterical5408 There is still Northern Ireland. Also, according to Star Trek, Ireland will unite in 2024.

@thomasfoster4370 Жыл бұрын

@@ExtremeMadnessX yeah, I can see that happening on schedule

@onion_terra4921 Жыл бұрын

yo nice vid man

@dollocaris_ingens_7747 Жыл бұрын

you haven't even seen the video yet

@fionagibson7529 Жыл бұрын

I really wish there was some kind of “this is going to be super unsettling and creepy” warning because it’s night where I am and there’s no way in heck that I’m going to be able to fall asleep now.

@Gorbz Жыл бұрын

As a resident of the UK, we commonly pronounce it as "Yorksha" rather than "York Shire"

@thomasfoster4370 Жыл бұрын

I just treat the e as silent

@stormwallwarrior6095 Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video (series) about the ecosystem of dnd, There's just so many creatures and planes that I feel like it would be a very interesting topic

@rizaleliasmosquera5114 Жыл бұрын

And if I could suggest Curious Archive to look into the manga "Made in Abyss" by Akihito Tsukushi. It even has an anime, currently at season 2. It would be thrilling to watch the Abyss, its curse, and its various flora and fauna discussed in this channel.

@F0XX7 Жыл бұрын

The giant grasshopper footage was rather hilarious.

@ashsmash666 Жыл бұрын

Love this you have to cover more!

@user-mh2hm8er3t Жыл бұрын

Very cool video, I'm wondering if, for example, there will be an analysis of the fauna of the Tabletop Game Degenesis? ma quite a large amount of post-apocalyptic fauna and maybe you will be interested in this as material for the video

@Ditchhead Жыл бұрын

"[the Bonehens] have changed much from their tame predecessors" I can tell from that statement you've never raised chickens. I'd argue that because they have visible dorsal spikes you'd know where the danger is coming from, which would be easier to deal with than our current chickens.

@porakiyadraekojin3390 Жыл бұрын

this was an awsome watch. pretty bone chilling with some of the man made experiments. I'm actually wondering how octopi and other cephelapods would have changed in this alternate timeline, especially since octopi can actively modify their own DNA (which is good for learning and survival, but makes passing new mutations down to offspring very difficult), and even more so because of how the babies look. I'd personally imagine that they'd become semi-amorphous monstrosities with the ability to rapidly transform their eight limbs as needs for a variety of tasks......and that their limbs can be torn off and become little monstrosities of their own, as each arm has a sort of pseudo-brain.

@bencook1068 4 ай бұрын

What I find interesting is a map we see briefly, as it looks like there was a major tectonic shift. Norway has been wedged into Scotland, the Jutland peninsula has gone, and what I think is Greenland appears to have moved to just west of Ireland.

@yurysharov4499 Жыл бұрын

Cool. I wonder if there is a channel like Curious Archive but about fantasy projects? That would be sick

@MonkeSeeMonkeLaugh Жыл бұрын

The thing about nature is it will eventually find an equilibrium to prosper given few centuries or a millennia. None of these post-apocalyptic stories venture much farther than the point of collapse to show the new balance of nature.

@michaellyczak9337 Жыл бұрын

I've sometimes imagined what all the dogs, cats, and other critters I see would look like if they didn't have fur or feathers. This is very similar.

@purplemosasaurus5987 Жыл бұрын

I loves this! This was horrifyingly good!

@Sharpthingy Жыл бұрын

I honestly think it would be awesome if you did a video on the creatures and ecosystems of fallout!

@asparagusstaging430 Жыл бұрын

"I am sure that at the end of the world in the last millisecond of the Earth's existence the last human will see what we saw." It's so cute they thought the entire Earth would end with humans.

@carlosandleon Жыл бұрын

Earth mat as well not exist if there's no consciousness like ours to observe it. Remember when you die, the world may as well not exist anymore since you're not there to observe it. The world ends with you.

@asparagusstaging430 Жыл бұрын

@@carlosandleon Your sense of self importance hurts my head. The Earth and life on it existed long before humans and long after. When you die and decompose back into soil and are long forgotten by the ages; sure you no longer exist as if you never did. But Earth will still be here.

@carlosandleon Жыл бұрын

@@asparagusstaging430 But your point of consciousness is your own. You only perceive the signals your brain interprets. Reality is only manifested in observation. It's not about my self importance, what about yours? I could be just a figment of what your brain perceives right now. Are you familiar with the double slit experiment?

@carlosandleon Жыл бұрын

@@asparagusstaging430 is soil really soil or what you perceive as soil?

@Aettaro Жыл бұрын

This feels like a more well developed Fallout and I like it.

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

Hey I’ll take that as a complement

@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 Жыл бұрын

@@KfrancisArt this project is very interesting lad, good stuff.

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

@@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 much appreciated mate

@Aettaro Жыл бұрын

@@KfrancisArt you should. This world is fascinating.

@KfrancisArt Жыл бұрын

@@Aettaro much appreciated 💛

@nobrainrat1354 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, I would like a part 2 very much, I turned on notis :)

@taylorgreysoon737 Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised if the narrator of curious archive makes a speculative biology project

@lettuce7378 Жыл бұрын

My personal head canon for the unbroken kingdom is that the ruler is still the Queen, and that she is protected from the Necrosis by advanced cybernetics

@Violet_iris Жыл бұрын

This is so cool, it’s like fallout meats after man

@japanesecat188 Жыл бұрын

I never get bored of these videos

@rizaleliasmosquera5114 Жыл бұрын

Nice and Interesting Concept. I imagine that there is more to the Biophage mystery.

@JoeMaMa-lz3rd Жыл бұрын

Awesome vid

@JoeMaMa-lz3rd Жыл бұрын

kind of fallout esque

@joratto2833 Жыл бұрын

You haven’t even watched it

@JoeMaMa-lz3rd Жыл бұрын

@@joratto2833 you caught me

@joratto2833 Жыл бұрын

@@JoeMaMa-lz3rd Joe MaMa

@JoeMaMa-lz3rd Жыл бұрын

@@joratto2833 😯😯😯😯😯😯

@enclavecomms.officer5219 Жыл бұрын

Oh hell yeah nuclear armageddon

@A_Shrubbery1901 Жыл бұрын

"Yet the green landscapes of old have been replaced by a grim wasteland of silent decay" That's just London

@kuitaranheatmorus9932 Жыл бұрын

Saw this on Twitter and I really wasn't disappointed,cause your videos are just so good and very creative/informative Also I really wish y'all are having a good day