Game concepts + poll

Recently I have been wanting to make a game set in a variety of different locations, each with very interesting animals and landscapes. I eventually came down to three separate faunal assemblages, each with some of my favourite animals inside. I will list each of them below, with the pros and cons to each, plus the animals you would expect to see and the landscape.



Sokolki faunal assemblage

Animals:
- Inostrancevia alexandri / latrifrons (large carnivore, top predator, solitary)
- Scutosaurus karpinskii (large herbivore, solitary or in small groups)
- Vivaxosaurus trautscholdi (large herbivore, communal, found in large herds)
- Sauroctonus progressus (small to medium sized carnivore, found in small packs)
- Annatherapsidus petri (small to medium sized carnivore, solitary)
- Dvinia prima (small carnivore / insectivore, lives in burrows)
- Obirkovia gladiator (medium sized herbivore, lives in pairs)
- Kotlassia prima (medium sized carnivore, semi - aquatic reptilimorph)
- Croniosuchus licharevi (small carnivore / fish eater, semi aquatic reptilimorph)
- Dvinosaurus primus (small carnivore, aquatic Temnospondyl)
- Paleoniscum (small fish)

Landscape:
Semi arid environment, with rivers and trees rarely. (Xeric)

Pros:

• Period is hardly ever shown in an accurate way, and never in a game
• Teach the public about a time before the dinosaurs
• Contains some awesome animals
• Arid environment provides for a tougher experience, and chance for game mode set in surviving mass extinction.

Cons:

• Not much scientific information on area
• Not as many animals as other formations
• Animals aren't as big as you may think (though you probably won't notice while playing as them)

Kimmeridge clay

Animals:
-Pliosaurus macromerus: (large carnivore, Pliosaur in the open ocean)
-Opthalmosaurus icenicus: (Medium to Large fish eater, Icthyosaur from the deep seas and open ocean) 
-Kimmerosaurus langhami: (Medium to large fish eater, Plesiosaur from the shallow seas and open ocean)
-Dakosaurus maximus: (medium sized carnivore, Crocodylimorph from the shallow seas and open ocean)
-Brachypterygius extremus: (Small to Medium sized fish eater, Icthyosaur in the deep sea and open ocean)
-Nannopterygius enthekiodon: (Medium sized fish eater, Icthyosaur from the shallow seas and open ocean)
-Juratyrant langhami: (Small to Medium sized carnivore, Theropod from the archipelago and beachy areas)
-Hybodus obtusus: (Medium sized carnivore, Shark from the shallow seas)
-Rhamphorynchus etchesi: (Small fish eater, Pterosaur from the archipelago, explores shallow seas)
-Germanodactylus cristatus: (Small fish eater, Pterosaur from the beach and archipelago)
-Cuspicephalus scarfi: (Small fish eater, Pterosaur from the archipelago)
(I excluded fish and Ammonites, as there are too many to name here, as well as the sauropod and stegosaur of the formation)

Landscape:
Open ocean and deep sea, as well as archipelago and beautiful scenery.

Pros:

• Beautiful landscapes
  
• Playing as an animal in water
• Experience of a formation rarely shown in media accurately
• Chance to roam freely and hunt in unique ways

Cons:

• Not that much information on area (more than Sokolki)
• Some animals may not be able to interact with full ecosystem as adult (notably Pliosaurus)
• Constantly having to come up for air (though this could be considered as positive for some in terms of difficulty)

Wessex formation

Animals:
-Neovenator salerii: (Large carnivore, solitary)
-Baryonyx walkerii: (Large carnivore / fish eater, solitary)
-Iguanodon bernissartensis: (Large herbivore, lives in large herds)
-Unnamed Rebbachisaurid: (Large herbivore, lives in small herds)
-Polacanthus foxii: (Medium sized herbivore, solitary)
-Eotyrannus lengi: (Medium sized carnivore, solitary)
-Hypsilophodon foxii: (Small herbivore, lives in burrows with it's partner)
-Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis: (Medium to Large herbivore, lives in herds)
-Valdosaurus canaliculatus: (Small herbivore, small herds)
-unnamed large Velociraptaurine: (Medium sized carnivore, formed of loose groups)
-unnamed large Brachiosaurid "Angloposeidon": (Very large herbivore, solitary)
-Caulkicephalus trimicrodon: (Large Pterosaur, fish eater, migrationary)
-Istiodactylus latidens: (Large Pterosaur, carrion eater)
-Unnamed Neoazdharchid: (Small Pterosaur, fish eater)
-Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi: (Medium sized carnviore, goniopholid)
-Leptocleidus superstes: (Small fish eater, Plesiosaur)

Landscape:
Forested areas, floodplain, beach and plains.

Pros: 

• Most information of the formation than the other three
• Most amount of creatures
• Beautiful landscapes
• Chance to interact with all the ecosystem

Cons:

• Another dinosaur game
• May take the longest out of the three to make 
• Specimens may be reclassified with more evidence meaning constant change