Do not let peasants or knights steal your gold. Release space bar to eat a peasant. Or you can release mouse button. Hold and release space bar exactly when eyes turn yellow to breathe fire. To make it harder, play 2x speed: press Shift+2. To make it normal again, play 1x speed: press Shift+1.
Post-compo: Peasants twice as tough. Fire burns one. Double score. To make it insane, play 4x speed: press Shift+3.
Interesting one-button game. However, it's not particularly difficult- it was easy to just continuously breathe fire with a little timing practice. The mechanic, however, is sound. With improvement and polish, it could make a really cool game- fitting for a mobile platform or the like.
@JoeProgram and @Ashkin, yeah a perfectly timed fireball (bright yellow) does 3 damage and dominates other actions. If I continue to develop, I had in mind to add a couple of new units, tuning to timing and damage, and advanced scenarios in which spamming fireball loses. If you have other ideas or feelings around that, I'd listen to those also.
I agree with Ashkin. Maybe a minion could occasionally arrive to pick up dropped gold and return it to the back of your cave? He would be immune to being eaten, but as cookable as the others. :)
First one button game I see in this compo! Oddly I find these hard to pull off, but this one works rather well.
A point I'd like to remark on: Especially at the beginning, there's so much pause between the peasents. I don't want them to MOVE faster (with Shift+2), just more frequently at the beginning.
Multiple attacks might be interesting? Or maybe actually multiple keys, if you are not too attached to the one-button approach. Right now, fireball is rather easy to use and seems to kill most attackers rather easily.
(The spiked food is a really nice touch! I only found out about it by reading the comments though, for I rarely use bite.)
Hi! Nice game, it would be nice if you cast 2 or more bones with random speeds instead of those. I like the way the dragon is lying trying to take a nap :D. good luck!
Reminds me a little bit of the board game "Don't Wake the Dragon" from the dragon's point of view. The fireball made it a bit too easy, but roasting the peasants was fun!
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I agree with Ashkin. Maybe a minion could occasionally arrive to pick up dropped gold and return it to the back of your cave? He would be immune to being eaten, but as cookable as the others. :)
I like the dimensions of your game, it was different.
It works and the fun is there !
nice
A point I'd like to remark on: Especially at the beginning, there's so much pause between the peasents. I don't want them to MOVE faster (with Shift+2), just more frequently at the beginning.
Multiple attacks might be interesting? Or maybe actually multiple keys, if you are not too attached to the one-button approach. Right now, fireball is rather easy to use and seems to kill most attackers rather easily.
(The spiked food is a really nice touch! I only found out about it by reading the comments though, for I rarely use bite.)
All in all, a job well done.
Nice game, it would be nice if you cast 2 or more bones with random speeds instead of those.
I like the way the dragon is lying trying to take a nap :D. good luck!