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How to feed your dragon by Evgeniya Zapolnova

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made by Evgeniya Zapolnova for LD 43 (JAM)

Sacrifice princesses to keep your dragon happy!

To grow a real princess you will need a cake, a dress and a crown to be delivered directly into the Castle. Use coins from the royal treasury to produce wheat and fabric on the Farms, and gold bars in the Mines. Cakes are made from wheat in the Bakery (but sometimes these peasants cook a loaf instead). Crowns can be ordered from the Blacksmith (unfortunately, this lazy bastard may produce tools or bombs instead). We also have a top-notch atelier in the town, who can quickly sew perfect dress from a fabric.

Beware of the Y chromosome though! Sometimes you get a prince instead of princess, and that is not healthy food for your lovely pet! Kill him with cannon (you will need bombs, of course).

Gameplay video:

https://youtu.be/uDfD7vCquDg

Screenshots:

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HTML5 (web) https://myxa42.github.io/ldjam43_sacrifice/
Android https://myxa42.github.io/ldjam43_sacrifice/Android.apk
Source code https://github.com/myxa42/ldjam43_sacrifice
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/how-to-feed-your-dragon

Ratings

Overall 424th 3.532⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Fun 198th 3.691⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 297th 3.447⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Theme 244th 3.872⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 668th 3.213⭐ 49🧑‍⚖️
Audio 257th 3.522⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Humor 95th 3.867⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Mood 495th 3.341⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Given 107🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

Arcus
03. Dec 2018 · 21:30 UTC
The music seems to have started about 10 seconds into the gameplay, and in that time, you cannot do anything...
Cool game!
DreamlessHero
03. Dec 2018 · 21:33 UTC
Love the music and sounds
Norb
03. Dec 2018 · 21:34 UTC
Loved the art and the music. It's simple but made me laugh.
Jeremy Ryan
03. Dec 2018 · 21:46 UTC
Funny concept! It got easy after a while, since the only lose condition is killing a prince. It would probably be more fun with a little bit of time pressure.

Graphics and audio are pretty simple, but add a lot to the hilarity of the game. I appreciate the cannon mechanic.
KirLosev
03. Dec 2018 · 21:58 UTC
that's an interesting entry.
i've enjoyed figuring out the ways to spend stuff on the rolling thing.
there's some kind of humor to it too i like which is supported by art.

a bit of a progression curve would make the game better i think. so you don't stress out at the beginning not knowing what to do. although there's something about that, if you know that you don't loose by not picking up coins :v:

gg
Hadryel
03. Dec 2018 · 22:02 UTC
Very clever. The gameplay is pretty addictive. The music is good and the voice acting is top notch! :)

Don't know if it's intended, but I accidentally double clicked the cannon and it shot 2 balls pretty fast, but only one of the princes died XD

Fun run!

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DKMK100
04. Dec 2018 · 21:13 UTC
it gets very repetitive and there are many games of this type already. The graphics are nice as are the sound
Luca1152
04. Dec 2018 · 21:17 UTC
:)) Pretty funny game, I liked it!
Sam Reid
04. Dec 2018 · 21:17 UTC
I liked how w it was random what you got from most of the shops
Rattaspi
04. Dec 2018 · 21:23 UTC
I love your dragon hahahahah 10/10
BloodJohn
04. Dec 2018 · 21:27 UTC
Fun sorting gameplay. Attractive..
But i'm not understand about prince - IT'S NOT FUNNY :(
recyx
04. Dec 2018 · 21:41 UTC
Your game is pretty fun!

I loved the sacrifice animation and the screams with it :D. The sound that plays when you build a prince/princess is hilarious.

I also liked that if you stock up on everything except dresses you can mass produce royalties. Only killing all the princes is quite the challenge with a maximum of 3 bullets next to the cannon!

Overall I really enjoyed myself playing your game! Thanks!
Flying Dog Fish
04. Dec 2018 · 22:50 UTC
Fun and funny. I'm not sure why a dragon would choke on a prince and not on a princess.
MetalFox Dioxymore
04. Dec 2018 · 23:00 UTC
Pretty nice ! That was funnier than I expected ! I would love having more challenges, a better difficulty curve, or just having to do something to generate coins (like clicking on a house ?) with a cooldown, and more uses to coins. I feel that this game just need a bit more depth and polish to be an interesting decision-making/management game. But hey, in three days, that's already amazing =) !

Good job !
freakoftheyear
05. Dec 2018 · 14:05 UTC
Nice game! Only thing that it needs more is a challenge - increasing difficulty. Maybe the dragon would need to eat more princesses in less time. The sounds were quite funny. Especially the prince that got crushed. Overall it was really simple and amusing.
dk5000p
05. Dec 2018 · 14:55 UTC
I liked that you had a tutorial video because it was not clear to me just from the game UI. It made sense after a bit but the tutorial helped a lot. I also liked that I could mute sounds, they were nice in the beginning but became too much for me. The fact that as long as you keep enough cannonballs around keeps you from losing means you can play the game forever, which I am not sure if that is good or bad. Seems like this would play well on a phone, dragging and dropping with a mouse can be tedious and despite there being no consequences, it still felt bad watching items go by.
Sashbros
05. Dec 2018 · 15:37 UTC
Cool Gameplay and nice concept ... really liked your way for generating one thing to another and finally the princess...Really cool DRAGON .. And the music was also cool..Great work!!
Codesity
05. Dec 2018 · 16:49 UTC
Making a princess by assemble the raw resources is really funny. And the Sounds too ^^ Good Work!
Fernando Tonon de Rossi
05. Dec 2018 · 16:58 UTC
:laughing: Poor dragon! Died from eating the prince :(

Very funny graphics and SFX! What I liked most was the reactions of the dragon!

I didn't found a use for the shovel, does the prince work on the camp?
gamebuilder
05. Dec 2018 · 19:48 UTC
I had a blast playing this game. Nice-looking princess, yet sacrificing her was satisfying in an odd sort of way. Overall I love the graphics and sound effects.
wdelvi
05. Dec 2018 · 19:57 UTC
What a silly little game! I think it could really use some tutorialization, but otherwise I did manage to figure it out.
Eddie Li
06. Dec 2018 · 01:45 UTC
A tutorial would've been appreciated but besides that it was quite interesting. Good job on your game!
Pecc0r
06. Dec 2018 · 08:33 UTC
Wow, that wes addictive and got really intense in the end. Nice entry.
🎤 Evgeniya Zapolnova
06. Dec 2018 · 22:02 UTC
@bloodjohn @flying-dog-fish I think that dragon prefers princesses because woman's body contains more fat (in a good meaning). Trust me, I am a doctor. Also prince is usually a trained man and, as a result, has more tough meat. In addition, normally dragons hunted princesses and their digestive system has adapted to digest princesses only. Maybe that's the reason they are extinct nowadays.
DeadlyAlive
06. Dec 2018 · 22:51 UTC
What a lovely sounds you got there.

Very funny graphics and sounds, self-challenging gameplay. Good job.
Rodrigo Denúbila
07. Dec 2018 · 21:31 UTC
It's simple but really fun to play. Excellent take on the theme. I also loved the music and sfx. Good job!
MaximBegunov
09. Dec 2018 · 07:39 UTC
It's a very funny game, especially animations and sounds. And the conveyor keeps you engaged all of the time.
Firesplash Entertainment
12. Dec 2018 · 19:41 UTC
HEy thanks foir submitting! Liked to play it!
mmason
14. Dec 2018 · 20:18 UTC
Fun little game, it wasn't obvious that I had to use the cannon to kill the prince, a bar above it showing bombs as input would help. Good Job