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How Spry Fox used (human) guinea pigs to evolve Free-Range Dragons overnight
If you played Spry Fox's Free-Range Dragons at PAX Prime earlier this month, you may have a vastly different impression of the game than players who returned to the team's booth during the show's final hours. This isn't just a matter of taste, either. Spry Fox actively updated its PAX Prime demo of Free-Range Dragons throughout the expo weekend, making sweeping changes in response to player behavior and feedback. The experiment was a valuable learning experience for Spry Fox, and produced results that will likely inform the project's future direction.
Spry Fox explores the joy of flight in Free-Range Dragons
After challenging players with the uncompromising high-stakes roguelike Road Not Taken, Spry Fox is taking on more lighthearted fare with Free-Range Dragons, an action-oriented game in which players pilot flying dragons across fanciful 2D worlds. There's a hardcore streak underneath Free-Range Dragons' cheery surface, however. Citing inspiration from Capcom's Monster Hunter series, Free-Range Dragons features high-flying battles in which you'll hunt down dangerous creatures and drag them back to your home base to recruit them. Free-Range Dragons is flexible enough to support multiple playstyles, and it's up to the player to decide how far they want to push themselves during their quest.
Spry Fox serves up Free-Range Dragons teaser
Free-Range Dragons is the next organic creation from developer Spry Fox, the studio behind complex puzzler Road Not Taken. A less mentally taxing game, the action of Free-Range Dragons is about "the joy of movement" and the team previously described it as "2D Monster Hunter." "You have a flaming dash maneuver that can be used as both an attack and a tool for altering your trajectory," noted the company blog post of the game's teaser reveal. "We're still experimenting with a variety of additional attacks and powerups, like fireballs, flame breath, lassoing, and more." If you're attending PAX Prime this weekend, go ahead and check out Free-Range Dragons at booth 135. Also ask for the foam bat so you can whack the devs a couple times for that part in Road Not Taken you're stuck on.
