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Comment from: The Imminent Event?!?
purplerabbits146~3Y
Oh yeah, I remember the Lingon! The ones that communicate with the eyes colours. That's a cool one for me because it is perfectly possible that aliens communicate via colours. We already have both land (chameleons) and aquatic (cuttlefish and octopuses) animals that have a form of communicating via colours. Yes the colour changing can be used for camouflage, but the primary use is to communicate amongst their species. So it's reasonable that if multiple creatures in really different environments do communicate via colour then it stands to reason that aliens can evolve a way to communicate in the same way.

It's a shame that too many alien designs are limited to bipeds because humans in makeup are the cheapest form of making someone an "alien". I'm looking at you Star Trek and Star Wars. >_>

So videogames are great in that they don't need a human in costume to mimic the movements of a creature. Subnautica does an amazing job with the life for their alien ocean. The one biped is the human player, so everything else is great with their variety of body shapes, behaviors, and sizes of creatures, landscapes, and plants. I'm not sure if you'll want to play Subnautica, because it's a game of survival with giant creatures, but the game does amazing with how they did their swimming physics, animated the creature , and created such diverse biology for their world.

Also in near the end game and DLC there are [spoiler] characters that also aligns with my hypothesis that aliens would have to be social creatures in order to be advanced enough to travel into space.
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