The Kanogys game is a Inspired similar game like Pokemon where a character will have to "create" the monster instead of capture them. There is going to be some differences of course, I don't plan to make a copypaste of Pokemon but just make something more... mature so here is the plot:

This is a post apocaliptic world, after a war using heavy weapons and such, the war became so violent and so complex that the goverment were forced to use anti matter weapons, something that is not tested 100% and may bring extintion to human race, but something different happened, the power of those weapons were so powerful in so small areas that it created a crack on the fabric of space and time, in other words it brought another universe that had different rules than ours, This brought the first monsters, I dont know their name yet, I dont plan to call the Kanogys, I may think in something different. Anyways a huge amount of them entered the real world and the scientist made some test with some of those discovering the incredible potential they had to create elements and how their "essences" can rebuild the world far different than we ever had. And thus, a new world was made, the organization Called RTW or Rebuilding the World which is a new version of the United Nations first tried to contain the monsters but they were many of them and also not all of them were hostile and some hide in secluded areas, but after the proposal of a group of scientists the organization then encourage the people the reproduction of those monsters as they proved to be very useful in many functions.

But hundreds of years later, the world built an universal culture dedicated to the monsters just like the one you see with Pokemon, and it also this culture is product of the scientific, social, religious and political impact the fact that we are not alone after all and how many scientific theories were debunked or confirmed after this revelation. However the crack has begining to behave strangely, by now a research laboratory was built around that crack in order to study, it has starting to increase in size and begining to absorb everything on its path, but at a very slow rate, but the scientist community thinks that in no time the crack will be extremly big and it will be as powerful as a black hole, luckly the scientist build one of a kind experimental machine that can close the crack, many scientists oposed the use of that machine but never expected that the crack would become a black hole slowly. They decided to use other machines to slow the growing rate and just do that, but something else happened, the crack is now very big, the other machines contained the absorbtion power but then a huge monster emerged from the crack and the soldiers tried to defeat the monster and use other domesticated monster to defeat the beast but at the end they were able only to contain it in a huge storage area in lower floor. 

No worries! Everything will be explained on its time in the game, at first it will show a scientist, Proffesor Julianna, giving you a basic speech about the monsters in the world of Kanogys and it will ask you for your gender now listen, instead of the traditional boy or girl choice, my game will have THREE genders: Male, Female and Non Binary. And another difference is that... they are not going to be children dreaming to become pokemon masters that's... well I respect the idea, the protagonist in the Kanogys game are going to be people in their 20's and instead of being just regular kids they will be biologists well, students of "Kanogys" Biology who have to do their research to raise and understand the behaviour of the monsters to get their Biologist title.

And of course during the game you are going to be involved to resolve the closing of the crack and to do that you have to defeat certain people, not gym trainers but politicians, people from the Elite in order to get a key (not a badge) and those keys will be used to activate the machine that will finally close the crack and you can imagine who is going to be the final boss waiting for you in the lower floors of the research laboratory.

About the types and categories of monsters I made their Types and abilities:

Life - Like Virus, healing, mutation and such
Mind - Like Telekinesis, Telepathy, ESP
Cut - Attacks such as blades, claws, and everything that has a cut damage
Dreams - Involve hypnosis, sleep, nightmares, song of charm

Fire - Self explanatory, ember, flames and fire thrower attacks
Water- Is water, Ice and steam attacks
Lightning - Self explanatory, lightning based attacks
Death - Curses, necromancy, instant death and Ghost based attaks

Strenght - Basic attacks like punches, kicks, suplex and more
Earth - Rocks, sand, and ground attack
Wind - Flying attack, tornados and hurricanes
Metal - Metallic attacks blunt and cut

Plants - Plant based attacks
Time - Timed attacks that increase speed, decrease enemy speed, regeneration
Dimension - teleportation, transform, shapeshift, Force attack, pocket dimensions
Heat - Freeze or heat based attacks 

Light - Energy attacks, flash, lasers and rays
Darkness - Shadow attacks, invisibility, dark based attacks
Poison- Poison attacks, acid, sludge
Sound - Loud attacks, silence fields, charming songs, noise increase

So the game's star mechanics is not "gotta catch em' all" type of thing, Instead of pokeballs they are going to be flasks by several types that you can purchase, change or actually build to extract Essences, you get from battle, each flask is different and you need at least one of each of them to go to a Center and create your new monster, you need:
Essence of Form: This determine the body of the Kanogys
Essence of Color: The main color of the body
Essence of Power: The hardest to get, and is a secondary color that define type
Essence of Gender: there are 2 Male and female
Essence of Personality: choose the mood, changes stats and other perks
Essence of Inteligence: they develop different types of powers

You need to collect those 6 flasks to create a new monster, when a wild creature is weak you can use the flask and that will defeat them but you will extract one essence, but there is not going to be a "pc feature" yet that we can think of right now, so if you create a new monster you have to have space for now

So lets think about the in-game mechanics shall we?
Yes there are battle tournaments but these are not a big feature
There are beauty contest yes
This is going to be a dark humor and satire but will have some deep moments

We are going to include 3 type of evolutions so you know how much is going to be and the size of the game and the work we need to do. But wait! The flasks are not always for Kanogys creation! they can be used for other things!
-Use the Power Flask to make meat for consumption or sell it in restaurants! Good for you and your friend!

-You can also use it to make perfumes and sell it to perfume stores, it can be also used to your monster to enhance its perks like attack, defence and such
-Use the color one for designers to make colorful things
-Use the Inteligence one for medicines

Now the money you earn is related of what you normally purchase in the pokemon games: potions, power ups, rare candies and such, the story wise is pretty much a rabbithole, from point a to point b and from point b to point d only to have access to point c  and e and so on

I love food! So we can describe each flavor of each type of meat as well as all other features:

Type/Color/Meat type/Perfume

Life / Blood Red / Flavorful meat// Aromatic Fragance
Mind / Pink / Umami meat// Relaxing Fragance
Cut / Gray / Greasy meat// Floral Fragance
Dreams / Purple / Sweet meat// Dreamy Fragance 
Fire / Orange / Spicy meat// Spiced Fragance
Water / Turquoise / Fishy meat// Tropical Fragance
Lightning / Yellow / Tender meat// Citric Fragance
Death / Green / Flavorless meat // Neutral Fragance
Strenght / Cream / Hard meat// Intense Fragance
Earth / Brown / Crumbly meat//  Natural Fragance
Wind / Lime Green / Fresh meat// Fruity Fragance
Metal / Silver / Juicy meat// Fancy Fragance
Plants / Olive / spiced meat// Herbal Fragance
Time / Blue / Dry meat// Ancient Fragance
Dimension / Light Blue / Salty meat// Mixed Fragance
Heat / Dark Blue / Smoked meat// two scented Fragance
Light / White / Minced meat// Morning Fragance
Darkness / Black / Bitter meat// Nocturne Fragance
Poison / Dark Pink / Sour meat// Sweet Fragance
Sound / Gold / Shredded meat// Lovely Fragance

We will add more uses, plus the monsters will have 2 dresses:
Black Trenchcoat (if we can add more we can add colored trenchcoat with the color based flasks is just an idea)

Armored: Is basically a leotard like armor

Am going to use RPG Maker MZ to make the game so the monsters will be characters that you can modify, and the battles are not going to be static, they are going to have animations and Final Fantasy like battles, I will remove the trainer (or student in this case) and place only battles with the monsters and also as you can see they will fight at the same time instead one by one

and if you are familiar with RPG Maker they are going to follow you everywhere in game and yes, am aware is going to be an insane amount of images to make all these variations, lets do the math shall we?

10 forms of monsters x 2 genders x 20 powers (secondary color) x 20 colors x 3 evolutions x 2 clothings (The Trenchcoat and the armor): 48,000 different variations! and if they are not using clothing we still have 24,000 variants of monsters that you can create, feel creative! 

Sounds crazy but... actually it doesnt, I only have to worry about making the 10 forms, and 3 evolutions, the 2 gender variations and their sprite and battle animations and the rest is going to be just recolors

That is pretty much what I have so far, I still have to develop a couple of things, am planning to make a weekly update of the game and see how far I can get, I personally would like to be viral and make people do fan art and fan fictions and all that things that games like Pokemon gets, I know my game is very far away to be even compared to that franchise I grew up with but hey! Why not try? Am aware that I may get both fans and haters, it is unavoidable. No famous person will tell you they dont have haters, everyone do and am aware this project may be greatly praised and a bit hated or greatly hated and a bit praised. Whatever is the result, the most important thing is never leave anyone indifferent. If nobody likes it at least I will have something to entertain myself, and dont get me wrong am not going to say oh my work is going to be bad, nah, I will put all my effort to make it the way I like and if you think is the greatest game ever or the biggest pile of junk ever I respect your opinion, I'll just do it for fun and for experiment!

Also one last thing, if you want to ask me what Kanogys mean... I don't really know I just combined letters to make it sound funny, I may change the title for something more serious I dunno. you can always leave comments, or dont and just watch