The Trigamon Project

A New Type System

While Trigamon's Attribute system is basically the same as Yu-Gi-Oh! (though there are new attributes), we've had little option but to completely rework the entire type system. This is done mostly for educational reasons: it's a scientific travesty that games like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon lump fungi in with plants.

In the Trigamon PCG, monster types are (where applicable) based on biological taxonomy, or the closest fit if the cards are too alien to fit neatly into the tree of life as we know it, since Trigamon is fairly big on hypothetical biology.

We've also introduce Supertypes. Take the Plant-type in Yu-Gi-Oh! as an example. The plant-type has been broken up into five types, each representing one of the major phyla of plants:

• Flowering
• Conifer
• Fern
• Moss
• Algae

In this system, Plant is now a supertype. Some cards and effects, such as the Yu-Gi-Oh! card "Fragrance Storm" can destroy monsters with any of the aforementioned types, because they are all plants.

Another way of thinking about subtypes is with the monster types "square" and "rectangle", which ONLY exist for the purpose, and in context of this explanation. A monster with type "square" is always effected by cards that effect monsters with type "rectangle", since all squares are rectangles, but the reverse is not true, since not all rectangles are squares.

Finally, note that some Yu-Gi-Oh! types have been renamed for scientific accuracy… (or to make them shorter!)