Sleeping Dragon by ethankennerly

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made by ethankennerly for LD25 (COMPO)
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.

Ratings

Coolness 63% 3
Overall 2.64 563
Audio 2.30 403
Fun 2.82 379
Graphics 2.85 394
Humor 2.55 359
Innovation 2.67 449
Mood 2.45 539
Theme 3.55 210

Feedback

Falkreon
17. Dec 2012 路 03:16 UTC
Cute little game. Took very little time to pick up and figure out, and in no time I was roasting all my peasants with fire breath.
JoeProgram
17. Dec 2012 路 03:20 UTC
The fireball is a bit too easy to spam, but I really like that the adventurers have to take the gold back out of your cave - that's a pretty fun idea!
prettymuchbryce
17. Dec 2012 路 03:22 UTC
Pretty cool. Like a little 1D tower defense game.
Ashkin
17. Dec 2012 路 03:40 UTC
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.
馃帳 ethankennerly
17. Dec 2012 路 04:39 UTC
@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.
ilo
17. Dec 2012 路 05:46 UTC
Nice and simple.

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. :)
goerp
17. Dec 2012 路 11:37 UTC
haha, that was funny. I liked the spiked food. Got me by surprise!
I like the dimensions of your game, it was different.
馃帳 ethankennerly
17. Dec 2012 路 19:32 UTC
@ilo A minion that returns your gold and gets toasted by fire. What a hot idea!
bigbadwofl
19. Dec 2012 路 06:44 UTC
Fun concept and fun to play. Well done.
lotusgame
19. Dec 2012 路 11:52 UTC
Thx for this game.
It works and the fun is there !
nice
Spotlightor Gao
19. Dec 2012 路 12:33 UTC
I found x1 speed is a little slow for me, x2 is much more fun!
Tobias Wehrum
22. Dec 2012 路 15:15 UTC
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.)

All in all, a job well done.
Bullseye8841
23. Dec 2012 路 21:11 UTC
This was very well done! I love the simplicity of the concept.
Mesene
23. Dec 2012 路 23:11 UTC
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!
barigorokarl
25. Dec 2012 路 10:06 UTC
Nice little game. First run I was beeing overrun just a vew seconds before end and I had only one gold left. Good balance, I would say ;-)
Sestren
28. Dec 2012 路 01:56 UTC
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!
chrismwaite
07. Jan 2013 路 19:27 UTC
Fun little game. Like the concept. I found it a little easy.