O Mighty Snakedragon

O Mighty Snakedragon

dance, dragon, flying, gmtkjam, gmtkjam2021, rain, short, top-down

Control the weather as the mighty snakedragon & the rain spirit. Will you bring rain to the pious believers? Or be a benevolent God and bring rain to all? Or perhaps be an angry storm dragon and flood all the fields...


Made in 48 hours for the 2021 GMTK Jam . The theme was "Joined Together".


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Controls


  • Move with WASD or arrow keys
  • Push clouds by flying into them with your head
  • SPACE to toggle rain spirit.
  • You can only push clouds when rain spirit is not active
  • Fly close together with rain spirit for > 3 seconds near clouds to create a rain cloud
  • Game ends when less than 30 clouds remain
  • M to toggle mute


There are 5 possible endings.


Background


You can read more about how the game evolved in the game jam version . The loose goal of this game is to shepherd the clouds and make it rain. The part that was really fun for us was learning to control the majestic dragon, dancing with its rain spirit counterpart, and trying to come up with and maintain different patterns in the rain dance.


The easy way to make it rain is to rotate both dragons in a tight circle next to each other. A more fun way is to perform a entwined figure-8:


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This gives you a larger radius for your rain dance, so you can attract more clouds, and make bigger rain clouds.


There are other patterns that aren't possible to trigger rain with, but that are still fun, like drawing a heart. Perhaps it could be fun to explore more in that direction, where the goal is itself to perform these and more elaborate dances, perhaps with other players!

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