I would argue that the most interesting and fun part of designing monsters like this is evolution. They grow and transform into something else which gives you the opportunity to iterate and build upon a  theme, while still attempting to tie it visually to its predecessor.

Catcher Mall's biggest hook, however, is blending. A number of monster training games have dabbled in the idea of fusion - taking two monsters and merging them together with the resulting creature retaining attributes of both - but no game so far has worked exclusively with fusion.

That's were Catcher Mall comes in! Monsters in this series can only transform by being blended with another monster and the new monster will be a combination of its parts either by feature, colour or theme.

By using a literal blender to mix monsters, I can present the combination in the form of recipe cards which, I believe, are accurately sized!

This works best with a few limitations:

• Only two monsters can be blended at a time
• Each recipe is completely exclusive. A blend can only be achieved by a specific two monsters, and those two monsters will only make that specific blend.
• Monsters are divided into ranks. Primary monsters are the most basic. Two primary monsters will blend into one secondary monster, two secondary monsters will blend into one tertiary monster and occasionally two tertiary monsters will blend into one legendary.
• There are only 25 basic primary monsters from which all other monsters are created, offering roughly 300 secondaries and thousands of tertiaries in possibilities!
• Cross-rank blending (primary + secondary etc.) is possible but rare. Every primary monster has one single blend they can achieve with a specific secondary (except for Rarebit, who is a special case.)
• Another rare occurence is when two monsters blend and create two monsters. These always have some some sort of inner narrative to explain the phenomenon (ie, Gretzel's knife cuts off Stufkin's foot. She merges with the foot to become Quidzin the good luck witch, while he becomes a one-legged, bad luck rabbit.)

The benefits of this project are that it allows to me to contiuously design new characters (probably my favourite part of being an artsit) without them having to be serving a purpose. When I'm making characters for another project, I can complete the cast when it is right to do so, and any leftover creative jucies can be expended here!

Another unexpected benefit has been that Catcher Mall is the perfect place to delve into my artistic past for inspiration. All the old characters and ideas that I don't use anymore, were one-offs or completely forgotten can be revived and retooled into a new monster design.

At Catcher Mall, no idea is turned away!

I currently have over two hundred monsters designed but sadly this website does not offer the proper tools to present them. A wiki would be ideal, but instead I can only group them in a few specific ways.

Please visit the Primary Monsters page to follow the best route through the blending process, or jump straight to the other ranks if you prefer!