super cute little game! i really love the kobold and dragon sprites. really simple but fun gameplay too! the comments from the dragon are a really nice touch and made me laugh. i think i would have just had a “good” and “bad” sound effect and not thought to have word balloons. i really like your interpretation of the theme too. i would have never thought to make a dragon treasure sorting game even though my game also involves a dragon and treasure.
some thoughts/small nitpicks:
- it took me a little bit to figure out the rules because i immediately moved to pick up treasure and they disappeared. it wasn’t totally intuitive to me that i needed to move back over near the dragon’s head to see them again. i think it would have been better to just make that always visible rather than hiding it (our game suffers from a similar issue with the HUD actually lol).
- i feel like sometimes i got roasted for not doing anything. i guess maybe i took too long? i did notice the dragon starts to look angry and says “quick” but it felt like there wasn’t much warning before he breathed fire. i wonder if more feedback on that could help. maybe some screenshake or a little smoke coming out of his nose could help to warn the player. actually, because i’m not generally looking at the dragon most of the time, a sound effect might be best to signal to the player that it’s getting impatient.
- i would like the kobold to move just a little faster. it felt like just moving back and forth took too long. it did add a lot of tension when i feel like he’s moving really slow and the dragon is yelling to speed up!
- picking up a specific item was pretty tricky when they start stacking up on each other. i guess this is part of the game’s design though, so despite being frustrating to me as a player it makes sense.
- the music is nice and catchy but gets a little repetitive. another possibility to give the player more feedback on how they’re doing would be to have a subtle shift in the music each time they lose a heart. so it could get a little angrier and less happy sounding. i’m not much of a musician, so i don’t know how i’d go about doing that but it could be cool lol.
really nice game. well done!