Dragoslay

Genres: Arcade / RPG

Development Environment: Game Maker 8.2 (22.07.2023)

Development stage: Extremely early prototype-concept

Release: unknown

Inspiration: Dragon Slayer (PC-88, 1984, Nihon Falcom)

Initial development preparations: April 2024

First development build: December 30-31, 2024

First playable build: none (12/31/2024)

Dragoslay is arcade game with role-playing elements wheres your goal is to slay the dragon and bring back 4 crowns. But this task wouldn't be easy one.

What's done:

- Picked up almost all the graphics. (Thanks to Jason Perry a.k.a finalbossblues)

- Picked up almost all the soundtrack (sounds, music). (quasi88 with official soundtrack and gamerip from Falcom Classics for Sega Saturn)

- Basic functionality (movement, collisions with walls).

What's to be done:

- Basic functionality (level scrolling, binding numerical stats to the
character, spawning and monsters rotation, victory and defeat conditions,
taking and dropping items, work with sprite layers to make them
overlap correctly).

- Transition from one musical theme to another at the beginning of the level.

- The rest (menus, multiplayer/co-op, save function, sound pitch tones when moving).

Plans:

- Using the current development environment to bring the project to the most playable state that it allows.

- Content from the original: first 1.1, then 2.0 with the implementation of separate rules of the game.

- Save function (several types: at any moment, exit with saving the current state).

- Launch of individual levels and their sets from separate files.

- Built-in or separate map editor.

- Multiplayer/co-op for two players at one screen. Theory mockup presented in screenshots section.

Development and porting plans:

— After or during implementation in the current development environment to try do similar content and functionality on other engines and environments:

- Godot

- Unity

- Unreal Engine (3, 4, 5)

- Game Maker Studio

- Game Maker Studio 2

- Pixel Game Maker

- Multimedia Fusion

- Game Maker (4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

<list to be expanded over time>

— Ports to other systems:

- DOS

- Windows 3.x

- Windows 9x (95, 98)

- Macintosh (7, 8, 9)

- Nintendo 64

- GameCube

- Wii

- Wii U

- Saturn

- Dreamcast

- PS1

- PS2

- PS3

- PS4

- Xbox

- Xbox 360

- PSP

- PS Vita

- Gameboy Advance

- Nintendo DS

- Nintendo 3DS

- Switch

Ideas for the future:

- Three types of view: classic/original (10x10), default (9x9 framed), widescreen (19x11). Theory mockups presented in screenshots section.

- Multiplayer for 16-32 players over LAN and internet.

- Large-scale maps.

- Random map generator.

- Different classes/characters/heroes with their own features.

- More tilesets for levels (for variety).

- Big Box and documentation set for self-printing. The sizes is roughly in line with that of the of the game's inspiration ones.

- Alternative monster sprites: from the original game which inspared, as well as their adaptation for modern pixel-art (2010s).