Animated trailer of Dragon Season App showing an animated cutscene followed by gameplay.

Dragon Season

animation design illustration

I’ll level with you, this project is OLD. I am including it on my site as I have a soft spot for it. One of the first things I made outside of University, this was a steep learning curve that ultimately turned out to be a successful mobile game launch.

Our goal was to create an ‘endless runner’ crossed with ‘crazy taxi’. Many iterations were made but we settled on a cute dragon who gives lifts to village characters and earns bonuses by performing tasks they give along the way.

While my eye for design has improved dramatically since this project, I am very proud of how efficient this game was. Built as cut-out style puppets in 3D and textured by polygons, this game ran extremely smoothly, even on some of the slowest budget friendly devices at the time. As a result it was a big hit in China and made it onto many featured app store lists.

Role

Character Design, Game Design, Illustration & Animation

Credits

Ghostbox Games

Dragon season app store banner featuring logo on a autumn coloured background and the game characters flying through the air with the dragon.

An example of the game illustration changing though out the game as a the seasons pass.

8 colourful character icons and 8 pick-up/store icons.

Behind the scenes screen capture of a character model in 3D software showing the polygon lines and colouring.

4 illustrated characters from the game: Frog prince with trumpet and feather cap, Cow, Yeti with beanie and the King with crown, big belly and a drinking horn.