Designing Mons off of Engineering 

The mention of Ventaworm got me thinking: A creature that is the enemy of Ventaworm and has a science of Pigment/Color focus could be a very fun nod to the Stewart Semple/Anish Kapoor rivalry.

Is it just me, or did the section on inclined planes 4:51 just give us a sneak peek into the development of the game? That certainly looks like a playable character we’d be walking around as…

every day that nortist uploads is a good day!

I don't know if you're going to see this as it's quite late but the first creature to come to my mind for a trebuchet was a grasshopper, with the elastic forces they use to launch themselves

As for how a Trebuchet Mon could work, the first idea I had was a pair of duo Mon of an Eagle and Tortoise whose main ability works in tandem with eachother similar to Dondozo and Tatsugiri. With it being a subversion of how Eagles drop Tortoises from high altitudes to break their shell, only the Eagle Mon is using the Tortoise Mon as ammo to break down a much larger target.

I'll take this as my graduation gift. I'm graduating today. :)

For an electrical mon you can have a resistor that has a split evo into a capacitor or an inductor

We love The Trongle :D

Can't wait till my major Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering gets its own design. Keep up the great work.

This is the coolest scorpion fakemon I think I've ever seen. Namely that final stage.

Not sure if you've used this concept yet, but for the clockwise/ counterclockwise mon, I would definitely look into chirality in organic chem. Essentially, properties of molecules with the same structure differ based on if they're arranged clockwise or counterclockwise. Could definitely be an interesting addition to your region

0:03 machination is not just a fancy word for machine

oh boy I love how the new video is here after I'm out of school

Process engineering uses a lot of thermodynamics, and a creature based on the refrigerant cycle would be so interesting. It could be like a heat pump with fire and ice typing, representing how heat is never “created”, but is transferred from one place to another. Love this series, keep up the great work!

I really appreciate your voice and sense of humor, they bring a certain vibe to these videos that really brings them together.

Axes are one of my favorite things. Nice to see where engineering crosses over with my passion for armaments of antiquity LOL

5:14 And there you peak my interest again. Be it Robot Wars or Battlebots, heavy or ant weight, there is something about these machines that are so facinating to watch.

I know this isn't the focus of the video, but I love the Paper Mario-esque design and animation of the player avatar, I hope that stays in the final product

You're literally better than my stem teacher

Here's an idea for how you can incorporate the clockwise/counterclockwise thing for Scrupion: it should have a Clockwise Form with higher attacking stats and a Counter-Clockwise Form with higher defensive stats, and it switches between the two when it uses its signature move. Basically Aegislash lol, but it makes sense!

A trebuchet elephant using it's trunk could be a fun idea

i think it would be really cool to see another 3-stage mon based on the first three simple machines. or maybe a 3-stage based on the three types of levers, and a 2-stage based on the pulley and the wheel and axel

Every week I forget that you post on fridays, so it always is a nice surprise

Wow, finally i comprehend this topic!!!. Thanks nortist, now i master physics !!!!

GRAHHHHH I LOVE ENGINEERING!!!!! I LOVE COMBINDING MATH AND SCIENCE TO SOLVE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS!!!

You could possibly do something cool with daphnia and a trebuchet. I remember seeing a video about reversibility in movement and how daphnia is able to move in water the way it does specifically because its motion isn't 'reversible' so it doesn't essentially undo the movement it just gained by flicking its arm. The movement seems similar to a trebuchet. The video was "The strange fluid dynamics of microscopic animals and other daphnia facts" by Steven Mould

5:29 - I can imagine a group of those ramplings forming some kind of long bridge/ramp to reach fruit at the top of a tree and share it with the nest.

no way id be evolving my dopeass axe scorpion into the funny looking rolling droid from star wars

(going off the bases that the ramp example is from your game and changing direction is implemented like shown) You should use the XYZ concordant plane + mathematical flipping/mirroring/up or down-scaling on the plane to make a fakemon where is bilaterally split so only one side is viable until it turns, each side can be different, maybe a good and bad side. Also the clockwise/counter-cloakwise fakemon sounds like a really fun idea.

loving this design a lot

Bro this is super good and I love it And I love learning about this and just cool off and just learn and always love the music

Need a dispenser Here

Question: Is it okay if you make a Leucochloridium inspired design for Stema?

We most definitely need an H-Bridge Fakemon. Starts as a button, then becomes an H-Bridge Centipede, and finally, some type of electrical circuit that leads to a trotoscope (dumb idea bc of a coding project I did a while ago involving code and building a trotoscope with a motor, breadboard, and circuit board.)

Ooh, I see you already have character running in unity. Looks nice

when you think about it a chainsaw is a weaponized version of a pulley system.

My project has type advantages divided across types and archetypes Each creature has an archetype which has its own advantages with types dictating smaller, more intricate advantages and interactions An archetype chart would be something like Angel > Demon > Human > Angel Then you'd have your regular Pokemon type charts Water > Fire > Grass > Water Because my RPG is inspired by TCGs, instead of an Item system the player will have a deck of 50 cards. At the start of the battle the deck will be shuffled and the player will draw a hand of 5, every subsequent turn they draw 1. Each turn they may play 1 card and select 1 move. It will be interesting to see how these changes will effect how interactions happen in battle. The thought of Stem subjects working as archetypes popped into my head when you showed that list is what intrigued me.

Great video

Why did I imagine a vineboom when he said here’s the thing

love the scrupion defenetly i will like to have one !

Tinkaton for the lever is quite interesting 😅

I feel like the screw evo stage should keep some of the sharp shape design of the wedge stage. They look much less threatening with all those round shapes compared to its previous stage.

maybe for a trebuchet, make it a beetle?

cant wait for the civil engineer monster

I really like the designs showed off in this video! Though I wish the last stage was less humanoid and is thus my least favorite of the three

Stema could also be turned into steam so I think it would be cool if you did some art stuff to 👀

Not the NoRtist VSauce arc

Only just started watching these (they're great, btw,) and you mentioned making a 'mon that has to be clockwise or counter-clockwise at 7:05. Is there already a 'mon or two for chem/biochem chirality? Maybe one version is different type, and shares a reversed silhouette? If not, that could be cool.

*If you REALLY simplify the definition of trebuchet, Passimian could count as representing it in that it uses its arms to launch larger objects.* *tho a Steel/Fighting or Geo/Fighting typed mon which combines a trebuchet with something like a crab could work*

You could make one based off of other math topics such as percentages

Great vid and mons, but the final is a bit too similar to the spider monkey

I don't remember whether you had one already, but you could base some around popular computer viruses, like a worm or trojan horse! Maybe you can link it to something else as well...

rip in pepperonis bug type

What about an "Eevee" style mon that had different evolutions based on what type of simple machine you introduced it to?

Love engineering. I'm trying to be the best one, meaning about 13,000 patents, which'll be very fun!

I think it STEAM would be more fitting S cience T echnology E ngineering A rt M ath Because these creature collector project is a masterpiece 👌

Based Battle Bots reference.

Helped with homework😂

they are going in my team

this reminds me of skylanders typings

Is this the pseudo of the game? 3 stages and late evolutions made me think

I REALLY want to play STEMA.

An idea for having the clockwise / counter-clockwise matter, just have a male / female variant, male is clockwise etc..

0:38 *insert vsauce music *

BATTLEBOT!!

Ah heck yeah I love battlebots

the TRONGLE

Hmm, yes, the trongle

is that a game seak peak i see?

Woo early

yee

"trangle"

chirality doesnt exist in norts pokemon

trongle

Trongle.

This mon looks kinda like a pseudo

i absolutely adore your videos, your designs are incredibly charming

Grab your "I watched n0Rt struggle drawing Haxorus" tickets here (BTW very good video man, keep the great work) 👇🎟️