Choosing your founders

The founder draft introduces 6 unrelated candidates. You keep 3. Each is an adult ready to begin, but your trio must include a female and a male who can pair. Hidden genes may be present even when a gecko does not show them. Their appearance, traits and build give you different starting goals; no choice promises a particular hatchling.

On the founder draft, choose Start looking, open a candidate for a closer look, and use Pick on the geckos you want. Picked changes to Unpick if you change your mind. The tally shows your progress. Choose Keep these 3, review your trio in the confirmation dialog, and confirm. The candidates left behind do not return, so read each before committing.

A useful first path is to pick a female and male whose traits you want to explore, then use the remaining choice to broaden the program. If your picks cannot form a pair, adjust the trio before confirming. Later, the Morph Library explains the traits you see, and the section on hidden genes explains where to see what you know and what may still be hidden.

Three of these six are yours.

Take a good look at all six. The three you keep are where your whole program begins.

The three you keep are where your program begins.

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