Is Dominant Species on the iPad smart enough to survive?
If you’re not hip to Dominant Species, the superlative boardgame from GMT, you probably can’t tell what you’re looking at in that screenshot of the iPad version. Allow me to explain.
Carnivorous spiders have taken over the world, thriving in its oceans. They started out feeding on grubs, but as the impending ice age forced them out of their jungles and forests into the oceans inhabited by insects and amphibians, they adapted to eating meat. The spiders were so competitive they forced other species into lesser biomes. Even the mammals that were higher on the food chain and better suited to this world’s teeming oceans were forced into the desert. No one could compete with the ruthlessly effective meat-eating sea spiders!
Darwin will never explain this because his ancestors have been eaten. Game over, indeed.
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