Home Is Where The Hoard Is

Controls - arrow keys to fly around, down to move through platforms.

You are a tiny dragon! Collect shiny treasures from around the house to add to your little hoard. 

This is a game created for the Github Game off 2023, a month long game jam. The game is written in JavaScript using Phaser 3.

https://github.com/BethFromAbove/tiny-dragon-game

This was mainly an exercise for me in exploring AI generated art for use in game jams. The original plan was to have many levels in different areas of the house, art for which can be found in the assets folder at the GitHub link above for anyone who wants to see it. Due to time constraints, the eventual game is just one level and more of a proof of concept.

The main learnings from this experience was that the AI tools I was using (ChatGPT 4 and Dall-E 3) can create very good one-off images (great for backgrounds), but trying to get it to create similar looking images, i.e. multiple images of the player character, is very very difficult. The tools don't understand what an animated spritesheet is and end up giving the character in different positions (standing, lying down etc), but some are often cut off at the edges and not quite the same as each other, missing limbs etc. Trying to get a new image of a character you like is almost impossible and I ended up heavily using editing tools (GIMP) to manipulate the AI art into something usable.

In the future, I will likely use AI art for backgrounds extensively and as inspiration for characters and other assets that need to move.

Music by PJ Kimber (Spotify)