Yeah, not likely gonna see a maori octopus myself, but I guess that is why it's a crowd sourcing project. In theory, there's someone out there who'll go, "why isn't there a [insert creature] in this game?" and the avenue for such an animal to have a card is there.

Same with the video game idea - this is a web project that is going on collective expertise. Hopefully, those with video game programming can step up at some point?

Yeah, not likely gonna see a maori octopus myself, but I guess that is why it's a crowd sourcing project. In theory, there's someone out there who'll go, "why isn't there a [insert creature] in this game?" and the avenue for such an animal to have a card is there.

Same with the video game idea - this is a web project that is going on collective expertise. Hopefully, those with video game programming can step up at some point?

It's a nice idea, but they're ten years late if they want to be succesfull with this stuff.

This is a great idea but I DO NOT see this working as a trading card game. They're outdated. The DS is a much wider medium to distribute this sort of thing.

Well you see, pokemon is more interesting than real life creatures.

ItsAPaul:
Well you see, pokemon is more interesting than real life creatures.

I'm sure one of them can shoot out lightning too...or fire from its mouth...

SO they want to ecourage kids to fight with real creatures insted of fictional ones... I can see how that could go wrong.
John:Syrian Hamster I choose you!
James:Go White-bellied Sea Eagle use wing attack
John's Syrian Hamster err "fainted" yes not dead just fainted.... ahem.

John's Mom/Mum:John,do you know where's the hamster gone?

in all Seriousness, I've seen schemes like this before tried with stuff like local policemen and it genrally does not work to well.

Back in the day I was able to name all 150 pokemon in order and what lvl they evolved. Can't do that now.

I do think this is a great idea. We as a culture need to me more interested with the outdoors and the life around us. I really hope it works well.

I, for one, absolutely adore this idea. Sure, it's going to be of interest solely to kids who are already science geeks, but rote establishment is one of the best ways to introduce a solid foundation for future learning.

Like how I memorized pi to the 30th decimal. 3.141592653589793238462643383279. I can't tell you how irksome it is when scientific calculators truncate that at a mere 10.

*submits self* Procyon lotor

Seriously, this is the right thing to do. Their logic is sound, their scope large enough and methods creative. If they can just get a good marketing team to sell this, I think it will have some feet.

I'd buy it for my soon-to-be-born son, once he's old enough to read.

This is just an other case of completely missing the point. This is just some outside onlookers seeing something that works and saying "You now i bet this could work if applied to X..."

There are a lot of reasons that Pokémon is a universally known and reconsidered by so many kids. Is was(and arguably still is) the most addictive turn based RPG for it's easy to learn hard to master and grinning up the ass(like WOW). And no trading card game will match that since the card came out of the games.

I dont think kids will be playing this the animals featured (atleast in the pictures) would never be found in a urban enviroment or even a zoo

hansari:

ItsAPaul:
Well you see, pokemon is more interesting than real life creatures.

I'm sure one of them can shoot out lightning too...or fire from its mouth...

There is that bug called the bombardier (i think) beetle that spits an extremely hot liquid.

Layz92:

hansari:

ItsAPaul:
Well you see, pokemon is more interesting than real life creatures.

I'm sure one of them can shoot out lightning too...or fire from its mouth...

There is that bug called the bombardier (i think) beetle that spits an extremely hot liquid.

The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) doesn't eject ink, but uses a bombardment of illuminating orbs to confuse predator. It has other light-based tactics. Pretty bad-ass.

Also, there are many mind-controlling parasites out there.

Flukes that control ants

Barnacles that control crabs

The protozoa Toxoplasma Gondii lives inside the brains of rats and mice and causes them to lose their incredibly hard-wired aversion of cats and becoming attracted to the smell of cats.

A lot of this behaviour control is to complete a reproduction cycle. Nature is pretty weird. I can see some pokemon based on these kind of things.