Ant Follow Up

Hey guys, I wanted to follow up on the ANT thread from last month. Why is your favorite DEV taking a detour into getting this down? Well FIRST off the RED ants have won the poll. Our upcoming red ant MINI faction will look like this:

At least their standard / starting roster will. You might notice an addition on the left there, the POINTING / BUSTY ant. She is an ANT CAPTAIN.

So, why ANTS? Well, when making a video game, or any piece of big complicated digital art, the real challenge is to have something exist FIRST, so you can make it better later. The ANTS represent an undiplomatic group of monsters in the game world, with an underground territory that could act as a fast travel system. They are just seemed like the easiest group that could be mostly captured and added to the game world in a single swoop.

Back to the leftmost ant. She, is a LEADER monster. What is a "leader" monster? Well, its not quite an enemy trainer, but its close. Picture this:

Your exploring the ant caves: Using it to fast travel between distant points you get caught out by one of the ant patrol monsters. Your team is mostly centered around an X grapple strategy, fortunately, with this monster girl tribe, there IS an answer: The monster LEADER can be grappled and bred, instantly winning you the battle. And getting you a cute ANT EGG, as well as some genetic points.

A monster leader is essentially the first take on ENEMY TRAINERS, however they won't BE ENEMY TRAINERS. EGGOMON has always planned to be a game where you catch both monster girls, and girls (for your monsters). You won't collect or command an ANT CAPTAIN, she basically just exists to be the weak point, and potential temporary breeding partner, of your monsters. Impregnate her, and you get the battle victory, some monster loyalty, and a special ANT EGG.