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Why not keep it in the game as a metagame?

Make-a-Martian™

People seem to love making characters, so why not martians?

You could even take this a step further and have in-game progress unlock new traits (e.g. Cyclops Anger Management unlocks Eye_Count=1)

If the generator is deterministic and works on a fixed number of parameters, you could even give every martian its own ID and let people share them. Or download them as avatars off a website... 


Edit: oh and the look soooo good. You might be able to pull off talking by just animating the mouth (LucasArts style)

Cool idea. The generator is a means to an end though - to create a diverse martian population for the game's mechanics and settings. I'd do things differently if the focus was on build-a-face. Not that it couldn't work but it'd be a different game.

For the mouths, you're on point. I haven't shown it yet but each mouth has 3 versions: em/oh/eh, which is just barely enough for animating speech.