About:

Dragon Hunting is a narrative focused game with simplistic RPG elements and battles.

Taking place in a fantasy world with distant memories of wide spread destruction at the hands of “dragons”, the story is one of regret, repentance, mistakes, revenge, pride, good intentions, and a hope for the future.

 As the majority of the game is focused on storytelling and character relationships in a pseudo- visual novel manner, the gameplay has been kept decidedly simple, completely ignoring certain aspects common to traditional RPGs such as leveling up or grinding.

There are currently three endings planned and several minor branching paths. As the game heavily relies on exploration-based storytelling, there is a lot of hidden content that flesh out aspects of the world and its characters.   

 

Making of:  

For some brilliant reason, I thought it would be a great idea to make a game for my university thesis. As I’m quite the fan of many narrative-based adventure games created in RPGmaker over the years, I decided I would try to do the same.

Originally I hoped to make the entire game, but that ended up entirely unrealistic as the game grew increasingly complex as I got more invested in it. In the end, I still managed to produce what I consider a “high quality” demo through a lot of struggle and over 800 hours of work that consisted of a lot of hands-on learning and redoing. (No, seriously, I clocked this in 3-4 months)

If anything, the thing that changed the least was actually the art work. Pretty much everything else has gone through at least one separate version. The writing in particular was almost completely redone in the last few days before today’s showcase so there may be some really rough lines here and there despite having spent something like two-three months on pre-production.

Hopefully, the work shows despite the lack of polish in a lot of places.

 

Q and A:  

Q: Will the game be released to the public?
A: Potentially. The showcase demo will be released at some point to the public after more polishing.

 

Q: Will you ever finish the game?
A: I hope so! I’d probably get my ass kicked if I don’t.

 

Q: Will the finished game be free?
A: That honestly depends. I may ultimately decide to go the route of patreon with free public builds (which honestly doesn’t really work with the way I work as I often go back and revise existing things), or just develop it like normal and release once it’s done for a low price. I think it depends on how much work I end up putting into the project and whether or not I commission professional assets (such as for music). The demo, of course, will be free.

 

Q: Why are you wearing a bag on your head?
A: Why wouldn’t I wear a bag on my head?

 

Final word:

Please don’t be intimidated to ask me questions or tell me the game sucks. I love hearing feedback.

Hopefully I haven’t creeped you by probably standing behind you and taking notes on how you’re play.

Tell me to stop if it is creepy.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Youko

 

Credits:

Plugin Creators:

Archeia(Beloved Imouto) – Luna Engine, Archeia Core, A lot of on the fly small fixes

Dr. Yami –  Luna Engine, a crap ton of on the fly small fixes

Yanfly – Too many to even list. I’m considering building a shrine to honor him.

Galv  – Visual Novel Choices, Message Backgrounds, Message Busts, Character Frames, Character Animation, Choice Pause, Timer End Event, Single Actor Menu

Olivia – Meta Controls, Anti-Player Stress, Skip Cutscenes,

SumRndmDde  – Game Over Core, Wait Options, Auto Name Box, Battle Popups Customizer, State Popups, Camera Core, Auto Camera,

Hime  –  Easy Audio Looping, Equip Slots Core, Battle Weather

Victor Sant – Sfonts, Death Counter

Mog Hunter– Footsteps

Irina – Performance Upgrade

Orange  – Orange Overlay

DeadLift  – Proximity BG

Modern Algebra – Global Text Codes

Kentou – Parallax Smoothing

Tyruswoo – Follower Control

 

Music:

M-art
Ficusel
Peritune 
MaouDamashii

 

Sound Effects:

Sound Jay

Free Sound

 

Special thanks to everyone who helped playtest the game!