Draken is the tentative title, but since "Dragons Are Good" is a pretty darn lame game title, we'll just call it Draken for now. As you may have guessed, the premise of the game is that dragons are good, or rather, dragons can be good or bad just like humans and animals and other living things. For the purposes of the game, plants are included in the above list.
My name is Celine Wu and I guess I hold the prestigious title of being the head of this endeavor and the lead developer and concept person for Draken. I started planning out the game about 2 years ago in 2008 and have been working on the concept on and off ever since. Progress is...slow, to say the least. I'm a full-time student currently adjusting to the rigors of living alone, so basically, life's gotten in the way of really working on the game. BUT I'm determined that this game will be released before I hit the age of 40 (hee hee, real tough deadline there, eh?)!
Written a while back for another site and edited to include updates:
"Players play as one of four types of mages (air, earth, water, wind). At the beginning, players fight very low-level monsters spawned/corrupted by the Evil-Being-Of-Undetermined-Name-As-Of-Yet. Players are given one house and get to choose their house. Starting town is determined based on element.
When the monsters get to be too tough to fight alone, even with weapons (weapons at shops will be limited, and more powerful weapons have stat limits to keep Low-levelers from buying high-lvl weapons and defeating the purpose of the game), players will be given a quest to explore the four elemental regions in the Dragon dimension (a small town is found at the start of the dimension for supplies and refuge) and find an egg (choose which regions to hunt in according to the type of dragon desired). Retrieve the egg, bring it back to town, hide at home (houses are locked by number combo set by player). Dragon eggs sell for a lot, so if a player is attacked, defeated, and the egg is stolen, too bad, get another--however players can opt out of p2p battles and are only attacked by monsters they click on, so there is little chance of losing the egg. The same npc who gave the quest is the Dragonsmaster of [insert town's element] (at the stables where dragons are housed and treated for wounds), who will give a quick tutorial on how to care for the egg, birth the dragon, and care for the dragon. During this time, most player activity will be in finding resources to care for the dragon, and less fighting for fighting's sake.
When the dragon is born, the player is instructed to battle low-level monsters, but the dragon will be the only one fighting until its HP is at 1/3; then the mage can step in and save his/her dragonlet. This sparks even faster growth than before. A teenage dragon is ride-able. Quick tutorial from the Dragonmaster on how to ride and fight or fight side-by-side (if mage wants to use melee). The dragon is fully playable, like a second simultaneous character, and is the mage's life partner. Repercussions of a dragon's death TBA.
The game is being developed as a Flash game at the moment, but that will not diminish the quality of the art or animation at all.
Dialogue is full of puns/humorous (see Dofus again).
Some rough feature ideas:
-Turn-based combat (comme Dofus) for now
-Video sequences w/ voice actors and more complex art
-Omni view? 3rd person view?
-2D for now
-Color scheme? (Cute and colorful? Dark and serious? Bright? Soft colors?)
**Need: Programmers, animators, modelers, concept artists, composers, script writers, ANYTHING! I'm only one person and I'm almost completely self-taught! Help!**"
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