Monster of the Week

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Throughout the development of Monster Crown, new monster designs and descriptions were regularly revealed on social media - namely Reddit, Twitter, and the official game forums - in the format of "Monster of the Week" posts, often abbreviated as "MotW". A handful of very early MotW posts were occasionally referred to as "Creature of the Week" or "Beast of the Week", instead. Despite the name, MotW were not a strictly weekly format, occasionally the schedule was adjusted due to outside factors.

As MotW posts covered a five-year span of development, some of the featured monsters underwent design changes, or were cut from the final game. Some early monsters were repeated in later years, especially important ones like starters or those who underwent significant updates.

2016[edit]

The earliest MotW posts were primarily featured on Reddit and Twitter, utilizing game sprites by devotedtoneurosis and/or artwork by Onion_MU. Later, starting with Ambigu, they began to appear on the official forums as well, and devotedtoneurosis began to draw the majority of the artwork himself.

2017[edit]

2018[edit]

In 2018, the MotW image layout was changed to reflect the game's name change from "Crowns" to "Monster Crown". Some monster transformations began to be featured, as well.

2019[edit]

Starting with Golabeest in mid-2019, the MotW images began to forgo the artwork to focus on the game sprites.

2020[edit]

  • Jan 03 2020 - Agoribus
  • Jan 16 2020 - Lazsuit (referred to as "A Chimera" or question marks, no name given at this point)
  • Jan 30 2020 - Staglus
  • Mar 18 2020 - Kiryin
  • Apr 16 2020 - Harveskin
  • May 08 2020 - Jungro
  • May 14 2020 - Duserp
  • May 28 2020 - Myedin
  • Jun 04 2020 - Gallante
  • Jul 02 2020 - Glossum (replaced the 2017 MotW forum post for Scursa, as Glossum was a complete design overhaul)

2022[edit]

MotW posts returned to Twitter after a two year hiatus, now featuring monster artwork by Ahab alongside a new notebook numbering system.