Imagine Killing Dragons

by woiteee
co-authored: @filty
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.18
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Game about interacting with other entities, one of which is a dragon!
Cover art.png*This is fine.*

The goal is to have your hero reach level 5, by standard RPG means - killing monsters. But even in this small world, there's quite a few characters and objects. Be ware of their interactions! What all can happen here?

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Interacting is done by bumping into things. So watch out what you're holding when you're bumping into characters!

I am not going to list all the mechanics that occur in the game, but pay attention to both the Log area on the bottom and to the stats area on the left. Share your favorite or hard to find interactions in the comments!

Side-challenge: How many different losing screens can you find? The one below is one of the easiest to find, but there are many more.

Controls:

- Navigate menus with mouse
- `WASD` / `arrow-keys` to move
- `R` to rest
- `Space` to drop item (or pick it back up)
- `M` to mute sound (doesn't unmute)

game_over.png
Made with Zircon https://hexworks.org/projects/zircon/

Features own procedural music

JAR should be runnable on Win / Mac / Linux. Requires Java 8 to run.
If you get stuck on the title screen, make sure you are using Java 8+.

screenshot

Comments13

Nikita Demidov
Nikita Demidov21 Apr 2020, 10:08
It was a fun little game, but I didn't manage to win. The dragon just killed the prince! Then I bring water and make sure the prince doesn't burn to death and now he kills the dragon?!
walnoot
walnoot21 Apr 2020, 10:11
Hmm, using Java 8 on Ubuntu 16.04, I get the following stack trace . Let me know if this can be fixed, the game looks interesting!
Arcus
Arcus21 Apr 2020, 10:14
Wow - this was fun to play :smile:
Well done!
Hamzeh
Hamzeh21 Apr 2020, 10:16
Looks very interesting, definitely going to play more
woiteee
woiteeeauthor21 Apr 2020, 10:27
@walnoot Thank you for reporting a bug! It seems to be connected to sound-playing, so I have created a soundless build, which can now be found under the Linux link. Let me know if it helps.
woiteee
woiteeeauthor21 Apr 2020, 10:29
@nikita-demidov or anybody else - there are actually 2 ways of preventing the prince from killing the dragon :slight_smile:
Sprotex
Sprotex21 Apr 2020, 11:00
I like the art style and the mechanics (even though the game is very hard), they are very rogue-like (wink). Music is too simple and repetitive in my opinion. Overall, you've got a good game going here, a little polish and it would've been really great! :smile:
-banzi21 Apr 2020, 13:17
I had fun playing it. Prince was doing too much trouble .. I tried trhowing him into the well, but that apparently isn't an ending :D

I liked the art and music. The UI was a bit too simplistic, but works.
Ryano22 Apr 2020, 11:08
Really takes me back to some old dos games I used to play. Great job, I had a lot of fun playing it. Thanks for the game.
smirnov48
smirnov4823 Apr 2020, 08:20
Nice game! It's funny. Just relax bro)
Disthron
Disthron4 May 2020, 15:15
Not really a fan of the bump to interact style of roguelike but this was pretty fun. Not sure what was up with the tree in the top lefthand corner though.
woiteee
woiteeeauthor5 May 2020, 11:20
@dishtron - if you keep it watered, something happens. Watch the log to see tree status :)

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