<p>My friends and I are starting a game like Pokemon and we wanted to know how will we add monsters to the game?  We're using VisualBasic because my friend's brother said it would be easier.</p>

<p>So far we can put pictures of the monsters on the screen and you can click to attack and stuff.</p>

<p>Right now when we want to add a monster we have to make a new window.  This will take us a long time to make all the windows for each type of monster.  Is there a tool or something to make this go faster?  How do game companies do this?</p>

I'd suggest making a list of all the attributes you would need for each monster and store all of that in a database like
MySQL
. This way you don't need to make windows for each monster, only each time a monster appears (in which case you'd just get the necessary info from the database).
If you're not familiar with any database, check out the
MySQL tutorial
to get up and going.