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Baby Dragon by dmtroy

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made by dmtroy for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

Raise and care for your very own baby dragon in this virtual pet / on-rails flight game.

Feed your dragon gold and gems, clean up after his messes, and teach him to fly every day! The more gold and gems you feed him, the longer you'll be able to stay airborne the next day. Collect treasure from the sky with each flight, and make it to higher altitudes with each attempt.

CONTROLS:

At home: click on an object or button to interact with it.

In flight: control the dragon with the cursor. Increase speed with LMB. Increase lift with RMB.

Thanks so much for playing our gut-wrenchingly cute jam submission. There's lots we would've liked to add (more dragon interactions, extra flight mechanics, any audio whatsover xD) but such is the way of Ludum Dare! At any rate, we hope the cute baby dragon brings a smile to your face.

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Youtube https://dmtroy.itch.io/baby-dragon
Youtube https://dmtroy.itch.io/baby-dragon
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/baby-dragon

Ratings

Overall 1559th 3.348⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1849th 3⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1620th 3.087⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1733th 3.413⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 28th 4.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 700th 3.31⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 817th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 52🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

Jirushi
21. Apr 2020 · 13:52 UTC
I found a few bugs, and the flying part was a bit hard for me, but for the most part the game felt great, and looks gorgeous.
JanGamesDev
21. Apr 2020 · 20:13 UTC
The game is really pretty, I'm not sure if there is any kind of progresion or its just keeping it alive.
The flying minigame is hard to play if you speedup.
MacDoom
22. Apr 2020 · 01:29 UTC
Lovely graphics! Picked up some poops hiding behind the buttons. Great impelentation of 2d and 3d graphics. How do you prevent the dragon from falling? Great work!
No Grapes Games
22. Apr 2020 · 09:46 UTC
Wow, very lovely looking game! The flying part was a bit funky and hard to control for me. Great entry though!
KayaCarlton
22. Apr 2020 · 20:05 UTC
So very cute <3
BlakeGameDev
23. Apr 2020 · 11:13 UTC
This was one of the most unique games I've played. Visually, it's gorgeous. The dragon is adorable. Some good gameplay variety too, with very simple controls. A pleasure to play.
Enya454
24. Apr 2020 · 05:42 UTC
The visuals were adorable. The mix of 2d and 3d was brilliant. The controls could be shown in game, but that's my only real feedback for the game, everything else is practically perfect.
nsadie
24. Apr 2020 · 06:21 UTC
Super cute! I really liked the visuals!

The flight controls feel a bit sluggish, and sometimes poops are in areas that trigger transitions to the next screen or behind buttons. I would love to see this fleshed out a bit!

Think my 5 year old dragon obsessed minion would really love this, will get him to try it a bit later today!
codyhansen
24. Apr 2020 · 07:13 UTC
Oh my this game was cute. I loved everything about the way things moved and interacted. This is the kind of game you could merchandise.

The flying can be a little confusing, as the game feels like there isn't any progression, but once I started getting the "Tamagatchi-esque" aspect, the idea made a lot more sense to me. And also when the dragon sat at the table with it's mouth open, this game lost all ability to do anything wrong.

Wonderful!
lexusinator
24. Apr 2020 · 11:19 UTC
Really pretty. The cuteness of the dragon when he wants food is almost too much :) But I could not for the life of me figure out the flying mechanics and since I failed from the beginning, there was no way to improve, since you only get better if you actually manage to collect gems and stuff (right?). Regardless, I liked the idea and felt the need to protect that dragon
anoushcat
24. Apr 2020 · 18:19 UTC
Really nice game! The graphics are cute and the whole thing is polished (well, except for the lack of audio :P), I loved it. It reminds me of pet raising web games I used to play when I was little! I guess nowadays it would be a great mobile game, with these two gameplay being truly addictive.
ROBOWARRIOR1982
25. Apr 2020 · 21:23 UTC
I love the graphics it really perfect for this type of game, The flying phase is too difficult to play you need to make it easier, i think it's perfect mobile game for child so make this phase more accessible ! Good work ! (and it lack of sounds ;) )
Junber
07. May 2020 · 19:01 UTC
Damn this is one seriously cute game. Collecting poop in corners was a bit annoying because it would always turn your view but looking at my cute dragon more than made up for that. How to be good at flying was a bit confusing to me but maybe it was also confusing to the dragon so that's very immersive ;) Great job! (Really can't get over the cuteness of this.)
yxmx_rsx
09. May 2020 · 04:06 UTC
The animation is really good, such a cute game. I think that the control for flying could be a bit more polish though. Overall, well done.
Katrin
12. May 2020 · 20:24 UTC
Very cute game! I like this graphics and main character Baby Dragon:) It's very well to combine two types of game. It makes the gameplay more interesting. I like the "flight" mode but I can't collect a lot of treasure from the sky. I wish your project good luck!