When we started thinking about the bugs in ‘Insection’ we knew we wanted a bug that would make up the vast majority of the bug army. The bug would be the main fodder for our team of space adventurers and it had to be identifiable as the ‘bug from Insection’. So we got to work with some early concepts. We referenced movies like ‘Alien’and ‘Starship Troopers’, comics and books as well as other games and real life of course – mainly focusing on the Beetle and Arachnid insect classes.
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