designing-inkmon

Designing InkMon creatures involves answering three core questions: evolution stage (baby/mature/adult), concept description, and battle positioning (tank/physical/special/speed/balanced). The system then guides you through attribute allocation, ecology, appearance, and naming while enforcing BST ranges and stat validation, outputting a compliant JSON file automatically.

BST (Base Stat Total) defines the sum of all six stats for an InkMon, with stage-specific ranges: baby, mature, and adult stages each have distinct BST ceilings. The design workflow enforces these ranges, validates that your six stats sum correctly against the BST limit, and suggests balanced distributions to keep creatures competitively sound.

Yes, the design workflow automatically generates consistent design prompts for AI-generated concept art based on your creature's attributes, ecology, and appearance choices. These prompts are created alongside the JSON specification to guide visual generation.

The workflow validates hex color codes for visual correctness, checks all mandatory fields against the InkMon schema, verifies six stats sum to the BST limit for your stage, and confirms style anchors match the specification before saving the JSON output.

The completed InkMon JSON specification is automatically saved to data/inkmons/<name_en>.json, where <name_en> is the English name you provide during design. This standardized path makes the creature immediately accessible in your data structure.