Scaling Up by dalbinblue

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made by dalbinblue for LD 42 (COMPO)

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Congratulations dragon, you've been nominated for best horde by Better Crypts and Caverns; the only problem is, you don't have much of a horde, and well as much as you'd like to have one, you're running out of space. But let's be a sensible dragon here; If you can't stuff more stuff in your horde, try swapping out some items for better ones at the local monster swap meet. Better hurry though, you only have 5 days before the editors will be here to judge your horde.

The gameplay is pretty simple, you need to swap items with other monsters by exploiting their likes an dislikes. Some things are obvious (demons like cursed items), but others are less obvious. You can talk to monsters to learn more about that monster and others. Additionally, you are a magic creature and can get a perk each day to help you with swapping or to magically enhance what you have.

Controls: Directional buttons or digital pad on controller to move around menus Space or A Button on controller to select the currently highlighted option or to advance text.

Constructive Criticize is always encouraged, and if you complete the game, let me know your final score. The theoretical Max is 1,650,000.

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Ratings

Given 5🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

rodel77
13. Aug 2018 · 04:52 UTC
Its just amazing, the soundtrack is beautiful, the art and the story is pretty cute :smile:

Just one minor perfectionist detail: I would recommend you leave a little space between lines on the dialogs, some times is a bit hard to read
BloodJohn
13. Aug 2018 · 04:52 UTC
Wow. Funny dragons! Nice graph, but to many text with poor font - hard to read.
I love changing things. Very pleased with the mechanics.
Beatiful quest! :)
winnie33
13. Aug 2018 · 05:01 UTC
Wow... just, _awesome_ game. The entire time I was playing it almost felt like a fully released game.

The graphics are on point, such nice detail it's almost unbelievable. The music really fits the mood as well. And unlike some other developers it didn't feel like you sacrificed gameplay and mechanics for this. In fact, the trade mechanic alone might be worked out more than some other games in their entirety.

I played the entire game, managed to get a score of 129,030 coins. No idea if that is a lot, but it was fun! The voice lines are great as well. "I can pull better stuff out of my hat" had me laughing :)

So, since this game is amazing, I only have a few minor nitpicks to give:

The text has a good font and size, but it felt the lines were glued together. Perhaps give a bit of space between every line so it is easier to distinguish every line. The slime was very fun as well but in my head all slimes are green :)

Overall a very great game, I'm interested to see what you make next!
Firebelley
13. Aug 2018 · 18:36 UTC
Excellent game. Gorgeous visuals, great sound, and fun gameplay.
🎤 dalbinblue
14. Aug 2018 · 00:42 UTC
@rodel77 @bloodjohn @winnie33 You are correct about font. I've corrected the issue for readability.
Tekugare
15. Aug 2018 · 00:58 UTC
First off, big props on that humor, spot on! The skeleton and ghosts had some real winners. I got a score of 137000 on my second play through thanks to the price evaluation perk, which turns the game into "get the biggest number." But i genuinely had a fun time! I just wish the ui was done a little differently, I did enjoy the style of everything, but found it hard to remember what everybody was selling, or what exactly i had. This made it difficult to make any plans for who I was going to sell what to. Overall I had a good time, thank you!
p.s. nice touch with how the kobolds treat dragons ;)
Andrei9
03. Sep 2018 · 16:04 UTC
Nice game ! cool :thumbsup: