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How to Date a Dragon
How to Date a Dragon
Founder and Producer
Founder and Producer
How to Date a Dragon is a casual card collecting dating-sim game where the player has to appeal to four different dragons on an island getaway. In order to appeal to these dashing dragons, you as the player must change your boring appearance with collectable cards to match your dates aesthetic. To change your aesthetic, you'll have to interact in fun and strategic card collecting game play!
How to Date a Dragon is a casual card collecting dating-sim game where the player has to appeal to four different dragons on an island getaway. In order to appeal to these dashing dragons, you as the player must change your boring appearance with collectable cards to match your dates aesthetic. To change your aesthetic, you'll have to interact in fun and strategic card collecting game play!
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Created Jira workflows to allow easy access for team members.
- Developed monthly sprints to focus on project milestones.
- Lead biweekly stand ups to make sure everyone is on track and any questions get answered.
- Followed up with team members and facilitated one on ones to ensure everyone was on track and was personally enjoying their time working on the project.
- Designed game improvements, enhanced the card system and approved designs for the new art and UI for the game.
- Designed and created online content on itch.io.
- Wrote Dev Journals to be released for our re-release announcement.
- Prepped marketing materials and learning how to publish on steam.
- Represented and gathered live feedback at conventions.
Project Information
Project Information
- Released Project: Original Release December 2022
- Demo Release: Early November 2025
- Duration: 6 Months (On going)
- Source Control: Github
- Engine: Unity
- Platforms: Windows, Mac, Itch.io
- Software: Jira, Excel, Google Drive
Project Post-Mortem
Project Post-Mortem
- Starting a project online is not easy and people's lives will get in the way. I have taken away how it is important to be accommodating but realistic. So I created a team charter to set expectations and everyone agreed to the flow of communication and work.
- Bringing new software to a team that has never used it can be difficult. The team may not adapt or use the software. I have grown my ability to be flexible and created a new task tracking solution that my team felt more comfortable using.
- Redesigning and making final decisions is a task that felt intimidating at first. I knew what needed to be fixed and I brought it up with my team. I was intimidated to make the final calls but my team supported my choices and agreed with me. This grew my confidence as a leader and as a teammate.
Our Indie Origin
Our Indie Origin
My team fell in love with this game when we made it in our early college career. We received so much love in person but we had more prototypes to make and my team and I thought this project was done. To our surprise after 3 years of no updates, no posts and bugs still not addressed our game was still receiving clicks and plays. Our current game's analytics sit at over 4,000 page views, over 2,400 plays and has been added to over 100 collections. The game still averages 2 - 3 views to this day.
My team fell in love with this game when we made it in our early college career. We received so much love in person but we had more prototypes to make and my team and I thought this project was done. To our surprise after 3 years of no updates, no posts and bugs still not addressed our game was still receiving clicks and plays. Our current game's analytics sit at over 4,000 page views, over 2,400 plays and has been added to over 100 collections. The game still averages 2 - 3 views to this day.
It was extremely hard for us to ignore the potential for this game and it was hard for us to ignore our love for the Dragons waiting to be dated. After settling into post grad I formed the original team with a little extra help and established the Dragonerds! We are a team of 9 extremely excited to bring a new and improved version of How to Date a Dragon to its current and future dragonerds!
It was extremely hard for us to ignore the potential for this game and it was hard for us to ignore our love for the Dragons waiting to be dated. After settling into post grad I formed the original team with a little extra help and established the Dragonerds! We are a team of 9 extremely excited to bring a new and improved version of How to Date a Dragon to its current and future dragonerds!
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