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DRAGLUTTONY

By reality-blind

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1953.82107
Fun3673.52104
Innovation1923.66106
Theme4683.54105
Graphics614.49110
Audio1383.81101
Humor1523.75105
Mood2073.74103

Comments

skigfx 2017-12-05 00:36

totally awesome!

exezin 2017-12-05 00:58

Download links vanished :(

reality-blind 2017-12-05 01:09

Download link is coming, sorry for that :)

fskr 2017-12-05 01:23

damn, visuals already look amazing. hopefully the link will be back soon. can't wait to play it!

billeclipse 2017-12-05 02:13

Yeah can't wait to play too ;D

reality-blind 2017-12-05 02:15

Almost here ! Prepare your gamepads ! :video_game: :video_game:

primitive-concept 2017-12-05 02:17

Eagerly waiting... sounds like an interesting concept, and dig the screenshots.

kirill-venzhin 2017-12-05 02:33

good graphics!

cortexdeveloper 2017-12-05 02:36

waiting for links. Good luck

qszhu 2017-12-05 02:36

graphics look awesome, cant wait to play!

reality-blind 2017-12-05 02:41

Available now ! We did it ! https://realityblind.itch.io/dragluttony

billeclipse 2017-12-05 02:43

Yey its finally out :D And its awesome really great work. The graphics looks amazing and this pvp gameplay its great and unique!

derek-brouwer 2017-12-05 04:05

I wish I had a player 2. Game looks great! Since I can't really get a good idea of the full game, I assume the theme is in when your own Dragon gets fed he gets bigger making him a easier target. Don't know why you wouldn't want to feed your own Dragon though, he is adorable.

reality-blind 2017-12-05 04:12

You can try to feed him yourself and see... 😀

lifehack 2017-12-05 05:03

2 Player feature always welcome! My wife and I enjoyed this game! Thanks!

casper 2017-12-05 07:07

Very silly and funny game. Keep it up!

devmax 2017-12-05 08:06

Nicely done! really cute art style and game works well and fun. A portable option would've probably been ideal but the game is worth it. As far as feedback I think maybe having more items aside from freezing would have varied it up more :)

chyme 2017-12-05 09:21

I absolutely LOVE the theme and art style of this!! It doesn't look like a game that was made in 48 hours at all, and that's a great accomplishment! Seriously rad, awesome work!!

imod 2017-12-05 16:40

Art style is very good and fun animation. Good game for a company of people.

gerardb 2017-12-05 19:31

Oh man this is a fun lovely game. Me and my bro had a blast playing it. And props on the art too!

dan-colman 2017-12-05 19:42

Great graphics, and super funny. Good connection to theme.

bartosz 2017-12-05 19:51

Great artstyle and music, you even get points in humour part :)

But few things was a bit awakward for me: - msi installer and no webplayer version - it's kinda hard to throw sth with this short stick :D - game didn't go fullscreen for me (there was edges of my desktop sticking out) - resolution 1920x1200 - no exit button and no GUI - this one is really bad!!

Overall it's really great and fun entry! :)

reality-blind 2017-12-05 20:02

@bartosz Thanks for the feedback, we were not sure about having the exit button on the in-game window, and didn't pay attention on greater resolutions than 1920 * 1080.

This will change for future versions :)

bartosz 2017-12-05 20:04

@reality-blind what game engine did you use? It would be great if you had only exe file without installer :)

reality-blind 2017-12-05 20:16

@bartosz We are using GameMaker Studio, I'm not really a programmer so I have a lot of things to learn :) I changed some options on the project and it should launch in fullscreen now, could you test it when it will be online ? Again, thanks for your feedback :)

EDIT : I found how to export just the .exe, the exit button is now located in the room and the new build is online

nivbeth 2017-12-05 20:59

My friend and me enjoyed it so much! But we've stopped playing after the 3rd round, because he was winning too often >_> Love the graphics, music and gameplay! Such a great job! Keep up the good work :3

reality-blind 2017-12-05 21:03

@nivbeth Thanks a lot, we already can't wait for Ludum Dare 41 :3 I think we will continue developping Dragluttony with waaay more content in the future :)

wowa 2017-12-05 21:19

We had fun with this entry! Thanks!

2017-12-05 23:56

Art is fantastic! Music goes really well, and it sounds clean. My main complaint is how hard it is to get food in to the opposing player’s dragon. It’s not even so much that the other player is defending, it’s that the angle and flame just seem to clash more often than not. You end up with a lot of food just right next to the enemy dragon. After 2 players not landing any shot, it starts feeling a little ridiculous without progress.

If there was a way to better aim or interact with projectiles, this would be awesome! It’s like air hockey, but with food :).

lhouyez 2017-12-06 00:08

An amazing game , really cool for your first LD , i really like magicians' sound (special mention for " ocupocus") , your caracters are really cute , love this .

Ps: Belgium Strong , ( i come from Lille ) =)

tobiasnl 2017-12-06 00:09

Game looks really great! Haven't had the chance (yet) to play this with a controller, but the keyboard controls did feel a little awkward to play. Not sure if the player instantly resetting to its former position is something I have to learn, because it made it harder to ideally flip the food towards the dragon. I do see a great potential for a couch multiplayer game!

elfapo 2017-12-06 00:16

Outstanding artstyle, graphics and animations! Feels very, very juicy. The soundtrack was also nice.

xclementx 2017-12-06 00:27

J'adore les phrases en Français ! Très beau jeu messieurs! Félicitation pour votre premier LD !

arnochux 2017-12-06 00:37

Nice game !

esper000 2017-12-06 01:18

A very important subject to be acknowledge, we should all unite and fight dragon obesity! Great art! <3

timestop 2017-12-06 02:02

This was a brilliant design for something like this. It was easy to understand, and challenging to play. Great job making this in such little time!

asellio 2017-12-06 04:13

very well made

reality-blind 2017-12-06 09:13

@dat-man-lu @tobiasnl Keyboard controls are not as good as controller's one, that's sure. The problem was to find some keys in common between AZERTY and QWERTY to allow two players on the same keyboard. The rotation keys are the main problem I think, if you have any suggestions don't hesitate to submit them :) @lhouyez Ahah, le Hocus Pocus est mon préféré aussi, on a enregistré tous ces sons quelques heures avant la fin de la deadline et on s'est bien marrés :D @xclementx Merci beaucoup, les dragons et les sorciers viennent d'une madame par contre (ma copine) :D

For all the others : thanks again supporting us !

peppersalt 2017-12-06 11:34

Interesting concept, but it's really difficult to keep things on the flying brooms that spawn.

sundaefactory 2017-12-06 12:39

Nice art, music and concept. But hard to play, it's easier to feed our dragon than the other one ^^

gimbalock 2017-12-06 15:00

Beautiful! Best visuals I've seen this LD. Great sfx too. Good job!

sepjani 2017-12-06 15:03

really love the visual art style and animation which is easy to understand. Maybe you need to add the timer to the fire, cz the game is endless. If food will have different physics params it will be more fun :)

reality-blind 2017-12-06 15:28

@sepjani Thanks, what do you mean by adding a timer to the fire ? Food had different physics at first, but we ended up globalizing depending on the size (little or big), but retrospectively I also feel it's missing that little randomness :) @peppersalt I fixed that, the brooms now spawn with a little rotation (as it was the case before but was scrapped for an obscure reason), allowing the food to travel through the screen, particularly hilarious when you spawn a freeze potion that travels to your opponent :D

sepjani 2017-12-06 15:36

@reality-blind timer like in fighting games, every round has, for example, 3 minutes. And when the timer is closer to 0 sec - the fire become bigger and bigger. If the game ended with a draw - fire eats all player.

reality-blind 2017-12-06 15:40

@sepjani That's a good idea, it could make its way into a post-LD build :)

spierek 2017-12-06 17:27

Lovely visuals, but gameplay-wise it didn't really click with me. The fact that your broom snaps back immediately as soon as you release the rotation keys makes it really hard to reliably send snacks towards your opponent and ends up feeling weird.

reality-blind 2017-12-06 17:42

@spierek No problem, we wanted to work more on that but ended up having no time to fix this, so it stayed the way it is now, but that clearly will be fixed in the future

aeveis 2017-12-06 18:14

Very nice art and animations! It's pretty hard to hit the food towards the other dragon, but if you can get that feeling better I think this would be a fun party game. Good job!

reality-blind 2017-12-06 18:22

@aeveis Have you played with a controller ? Keyboard controls are really harder to get but with a controller and a little practice it's pretty easy to reach the other dragon :)

pablo-abraham 2017-12-06 19:18

I just loved this game, very cool!

szekeres-szabolcs 2017-12-06 19:26

I tried to stream your game but something happend that i never seen before. The stream was able to see the game but for me everything was only black. I heard the music i was able to click on the language selection but i seen nothing. Maybe your game does not like 2 monitor setups. Try to add a windowed mode next time. Thank you and sorry

reality-blind 2017-12-06 19:38

@szekeres-szabolcs That's really strange, we check this issue as soon as possible (and maybe had a windowed mode). Thank you for your feedback !

oceanosaurus 2017-12-06 19:51

Very impressive entry, visually wise is absolutely fantastic for a LDJam entry: coherent, colorful, funny, well animated and with lots of personality. Really dig the art. Fun experience too for 2 players and clever interpretation of the theme. Maybe adding a basic AI wouldn't be that hard, I'd love to see a complete version of the game! Congrats in making this, I really enjoyed it.

rontz 2017-12-06 20:13

Nice idea and funny game! In the beginning i got a similar problem as @szekeres-szabolcs when i started the game (also 2 monitors), but some tabbing in and out fixed it. I like the art a lot, it is really consistent and gives a great atmosphere. Well done!

gaming-night 2017-12-06 20:18

Wow, super cool ! Le design est parfait, les sons aussi : "Hocus pocus !"

Le niveau de finition est assez ouf ... Vus n'avez pas du beaucoup dormir :)

Félicitation à toute l'équipe !!

malero 2017-12-06 20:39

Awesome game! The graphics or simple and absolutely beautiful.

reality-blind 2017-12-06 21:12

@gaming-night Pas beaucoup du tout même x) Merci beaucoup pour le feedback ça fait extrêmement plaisir :D

goudcode 2017-12-06 22:22

Awesome game, I really dig the way the game looks and feels. It would be awesome to have an AI to play against when you can't find a player 2.

moski 2017-12-06 22:36

It's a shame that it's only multiplayer, since I didn't have anyone around to check it out. Regardless, the art style is fantastic, and the mechanics looked very fun for a game night session with more people.

Yeah, there's not much I can add to it that hasn't been said. Game does look polished and a lot of fun, and that it can be played with a controller is a big bonus. It feels just right, even though I can't enjoy it to its full extent. I'm sure that my team would have a blast if we could sit down around to play it. Anyhow, keep up the good work! :whale:

reality-blind 2017-12-06 23:12

@goudcode @moski Thanks a lot, sorry I couldn't implement an AI, that's only the second game I code, and have a loooot of things to learn :D But we will surely continue developping it :)

blizary 2017-12-07 14:55

Realy freaking funny guys =P and yes u do have realy cool dragons...all your art is realy cool great job =D

reality-blind 2017-12-07 15:02

@blizary Our dragons thanked you ! I guess that's what their growlings meant...

bonelazy 2017-12-07 18:08

Very good graphics, presentation and audio, but the gameplay needs much more tuning. The rotation of the witches should be made faster and throwing food at enemy needs to feel much more like a "shooting" a ball. Faster movements and better physics would make this game a great two player "sports" game :)

reality-blind 2017-12-07 18:25

@bonelazy Really nice suggestion ! Thank you for your great feedback ! :)

sheepking 2017-12-07 19:41

Had a really fun time playing this with a friend, although it crashed the first time I launched it (when i clicked the in-game cross in the top right corner) and froze my computer for a good 10 min. Anyway, one of the best entry i've seen so far. Awesome graphics, fun idea of overfeeding dragon, need some dexterity to play. Great job.

reality-blind 2017-12-07 20:26

@sheepking Sorry for the inconvenience, the only code the cross has is to quit the game, that freeze is really strange

noa-calice 2017-12-07 20:41

I love that art ! The background, with the castle... truly enchanting ! The game is also very interesting and the story satisfying and fun :) ! Cheers !

pepri 2017-12-08 00:46

Awesome mood and graphics! I found the controls a bit unprecise though. It was really hard to actually aim where you throw the food.

reality-blind 2017-12-08 08:03

@pepri Have you played with a keyboard or with 360 controllers ? We are aware that the keyboard controls are not good at the moment, but with controllers it must be much better :)

weeping-rupee 2017-12-08 23:42

I'm getting just a black screen when I launch the app, anyone else?

reality-blind 2017-12-08 23:51

@weeping-rupee Even when relaunched ?

weeping-rupee 2017-12-08 23:52

Yeah, I relaunched several times :(

weeping-rupee 2017-12-08 23:53

Let me try re-downloading and installing again

weeping-rupee 2017-12-09 00:02

Yeah I don't know it launches to a black screen with no sound and just sits there. I wish I could give more info but thats all I can get it to do. I tried running as admin and the same.

@Reality Blind

reality-blind 2017-12-09 00:09

@weeping-rupee I'm on it, I was working on a bug fix update, try alt-tabing it, if that does not work just wait a little the update should not take too much time to come.

weeping-rupee 2017-12-09 01:30

@Reality-Blind

I'll check back later tonight :) The art looks amazing, really makes me wanna try it

reality-blind 2017-12-09 01:51

@weeping-rupee Thanks a lot for your patience, I tried the build on itch and had no problem launching it, that's strange. The next build will not launch on fullscreen by default, I hope it will solve your problem !

weeping-rupee 2017-12-09 01:55

@Reality-Blind Come to think of it, it very well could be that its launching in full screen -- I have had issues with game maker launching in full screen so maybe its something with my graphics card or my computer and not just with game maker. Thanks for the quick responses, I'll keep an eye out for that build.

reality-blind 2017-12-09 02:21

@weeping-rupee Yeah, GameMaker often act strangely with fullscreen for me too. The last build is online, with no fullscreen launch, if you need one try Alt + Enter. Thanks for your interest, I hope you will like the game :)

joski 2017-12-09 03:03

Very cool game! Good job.

iferit 2017-12-09 04:15

This was a lot of fun! I love how the dragons grow as you feed them XD

justin-toyo 2017-12-09 05:17

Really cool game, just wished I had a 2nd Player with me or a single-player mode. But I love this concept and the art is fantastic!

diptoman 2017-12-09 08:43

Those dragons growing up with feeding was fantastic, and it was a very neat idea! The art is pretty awesome too, while the sound does its job. Great entry overall!

gwolf86 2017-12-09 10:05

Cool concept. It's was a little difficult to get the hang of but once I had the controls down it was good fun. I really like the artwork and the audio was spot on.

tobia88 2017-12-09 10:36

The concept is nice, i love the graphic and humor sense from your game! I can't wait to see from more incoming features such as power-up items, and more particle effect to improve the game experience, well done!

lexi 2017-12-09 11:00

Great game. Amazing graphics, sound and just all around feel.

I especially liked the introduction screen where you were still able to try out the controls.

Initially, neither of us got how to "throw" the food and we started just putting the food on the brooms. After finding out the throwing trick it was a blast though!

reality-blind 2017-12-09 11:59

@tobia88 We have really cool ideas for new potions, mostly inspired by bugs we experimented while bug fixing x) @lexi We wanted controls to act how you would play a flipper table, we tried different things but what we came up with was finally a good way to do it I think :)

Thanks all for all the love in the comments :heart:

weeping-rupee 2017-12-09 17:43

Hey so I finally got it working late last night, but had to wait until this morning to give it a proper go with my girlfriend.

Pros: - The look, obviously - The conjuring of different foods is a nice touch - Good set of instructions and xbox controller support - wonderful animations and character designs

Cons/Suggestions/Observations: - I wish the spin move was more impactful so I could like lacrosse toss my food at the other baby dragon. Maybe have the player rotate the stick so they could wind up and really slam that food across the screen OR do it with finesse and shoot it up and over like a basketball. - Being higher up than your opponent seems to always be an advantage. - What is that thing that's freezing me when I conjure it? It seems to happen randomly.

Overall this is AMAZING for a first entry, excellent job guys.

reality-blind 2017-12-09 19:10

@weeping-rupee - Thanks for the feedback, the spin move could fasten up the longer you press the key, that's not a bad idea :) We had some tests where the food got an impulse from touching the broom, we should maybe reimplement it.

The thing that froze you is a Freeze Potion, it has a 10% chance (or 15 I don't remember) to replace a food item when you use your spell. More potions are planned, and they will be easier to see !

ethan-kennerly 2017-12-10 21:26

When I saw the cute wizards and dragons, and heard the light beat and owl hoots, I felt amazed and enchanted! If you continue to develop this, when there wasn't a bot to play against, I didn't take the opportunity to seek out a second player. Playing by myself, I didn't succeed in getting a piece of meat to the opposing dragon.

joe-sycalik 2017-12-10 22:02

This was a really cute and fun game! I absolutely love the visuals and audio; it looks and feels so clean! It can feel a bit strange at times, with food sometimes falling right through the broom and with the lower boundary feeling so restrictive. Great entry overall though! My girlfriend and I had some real laughs while playing! =)

reality-blind 2017-12-11 13:52

@ethan-kennerly Moving while rotating is really important to throw your food, thanks for your feedback :)

@joe-sycalik Yup, falling food through the brooms happened with our last bug fix, as we changed physics properties and rotation speed of the players sometimes collisions shapes don't really collide, it will be fixed. Did it happen often ?

For post-LD version I will start again from scratch, and the player will have two separate collision shapes, one for the broom, and one for the wizard so the broom will stop changing the position of the player when rotating against boundaries :)

thefunattic 2017-12-11 14:29

This was incredible ! So much fun to be had with this game, the mechanics are intuitive and innovative, of course the game sounds and looks beautiful... This is great work ! Congrats :)

Check out my game if you've got the time : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/technologis

reality-blind 2017-12-11 14:54

@thefunattic Thanks for the feedback and your link, I added it to my To Play list for today :smiley:

EDIT : I did check your game, and encourage people trying it too it's really cool ! :smiley:

hayzar 2017-12-11 17:42

I had fun trying this out with my little brother, he loved it! The art looks too good, the idea was brilliant as well. I'm inspired, Keep it up!

joe-sycalik 2017-12-11 18:47

@Reality-blind Yeah it happened fairly frequently. It did make things fairly awkward at times but we still had a good time playing!

reality-blind 2017-12-12 12:21

@joe-sycalik Ok, I will take a look to fix that :)

jay-valencia 2017-12-12 12:50

Beautiful art, gameplay very good, good control support and very good mechanic, it is very charming game

noxbuds 2017-12-15 19:13

Very fun. The owl sound effects really work well with the background, and the music is nice to listen to. It did feel a bit easy to prevent my opponent from feeding my dragon though, and somewhat difficult to launch food to the other side.

franklins-ghost 2017-12-17 08:28

The art in this is fantastic. Loved the way the dragons would grow as you fed them. Was nicely done with really smooth transitions. Liked the uniqueness of the two player gameplay also thought it was well done and an interesting take on the theme.

frmartins 2017-12-18 20:22

As everyone is saying, the visuals are stunning! Even with that morbid obesity running wild I still want to feed my dragons, they deserve it since they're so cute! You guys did an amazing job!

robert-newman 2017-12-21 16:31

The art style is brilliant and the game play has all the makings of a sweet game with some tweaks. by adding a super food that gives extra would be a cool addition