Heritage - A Dragon's Tale (DEMO)

It was a day like any other in the Skybound Isles when a dark mass arose from the clouds that separated the forgotten and dangerous world below from the home of the dragons above. General Mechos, a powerful military leader of the humans launched an attack on the floating islands and abducted the dragoness Crystal for reasons unknown.

Flame, a trainee knight and Crystal's best friend, travels to the forgotten kingdom of Mineria having sworn to find her and put an end to whatever plot General Mechos has planned. On his journey, Flame will face incredible dangers, discover more about the kingdom of Mineria, why the dragons were separated from the earth to live in the sky, and discover his own destiny.

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This is  a WIP game that started out as a simple project for a class, but I loved working on it so much I expanded it into what will be my first indie game! It's inspired by games such as Shovel Knight, Zelda 2, and Megaman. I recently started my first nine-to-five job and I'm the sole developer, but it's my passion project so I'm working on it regularly when I'm able ^^ I hope you all will enjoy!

KEYBOARD CONTROLS:

Jump/use/confirm - Z

Attack 1/Cancel - X

Attack 2 - C

Dodge - Space bar

Duck - Down arrow

Move - Left and right arrows

Slide - Down + Space bar

Climb/talk/read - up arrow

Pause - Enter

LEVELING UP YOUR STATS:

When you level up and want to upgrade your stats, pause the game, navigate to the exclamation icon (the info menu tab), then select the Stats option (the top choice). This opens the Stats menu. On the left-most side of the menu, navigate down to the label that says "Level Up:   Press (button)".

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1. KNOWN ISSUES:
   • Some users are experiencing issues where their game-pads are unresponsive. I am afraid I have no solutions to this at the time as the cases have so far been very few and far between and I don't have enough information to begin looking into a fix.
   • There is one sidequest in the game's data but is not available in the demo itself, as it is located in another, inaccessible region of the game's world, it nevertheless shows up in the sidequests submenu as "???????????????"
   • There's a bug with the wind sound effect where it doesn't always change when the player raises and lowers the volume from the in-game volume adjust menu. This appears to be a glitch with Game Maker Studio

• FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS AND CHANGES (Accepted, player-given suggestions)

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