Sparky going to be in the cooking contest? Creme bru’le coming up!
@God_Of_Demonz Hahaha! Cooking contest, I love it. Sparky isn’t the cook though, even if he might be really useful for cooking. That’s a great idea, having another cooking scene. In fact a Cooking contest to try and win Rose/Ross’s love, since they’re a baker and using your dragon to try and assist would be crazy fun. Two of the dragons would be useful at helping and the other three would be complete disasters.
Let me guess, Swampy, well we all how that would go. Sparky would be a good insta-oven. Aqua helps out when you make her a cake. Chime would try to stop you from using birds. And Lilac, whats wrong with the healer dragon? Clumsy? Of course I don’t know anything about the grey one… A dragon of Light and Darkness?
P.S. Um… Looking over things your dragons appear to be able to eat anything. Even if it isn’t food. And how did we get this oil and perfume? Does our aunt have a very deep and mysterious closet?
Will the dragons be smart like in Eragon?
Swampy loves baking! Baking does not love Swampy though.
Sparky would burn things on purpose but he may just work as a way of toasting meringue and making creme brulee. He probably wouldn’t be amused though unless you bribed him.
Aqua would definitely help out, as would Lilac as long as it wasn’t too scary.
Chime would get the Goose to try and assist. The Goose is as good a cook as you are. And with the two of them ‘helping’ out it really would be a case of too many cooks.
I can see Rose/Ross holding a contest to find the palace’s next great baker, or something like that tv show, and the main character thinking it would be a good way to prove themselves. I’ll definitely be including this, just need to find a way to make it work.
Sparky eats candles, he likes eating flammable things, and meat.
Yes, your Aunt has left stuff in the house. I do need to include a scene of finding some of her things. That should be added to the to-do list. There should be a chance to look around, uncover some trace of her, find out a little bit more about her. I do want to add more depth.
The grey dragon’s there in case I decide to try and implement the dragon being transformed by what it eats and how you treat it. So it’s more a potential path just now. Grey isn’t a dragon in their own right, it’s just generic. Unless I get the time or inclination to work on it.
So, wait, is Rose/Ross the only romance option? Or just another ‘romance’ option? Is it possible they were really taken away by magic? Else I wouldn’t particularly care to romance them when they ran off on me with someone else in the first place…
@Babisko There’s currently four romance options. I’m hoping to get scenes containing all four finished today so they can at least be introduced. Of course there’s also the option to have no romance.
Rose/Ross is definitely not the only one. At the moment they’re more of an archetype than an actual person which is deliberate. They’re the generic fantasy love interest, the beautiful, sweet, kind, caring, perfect person, who ran off the week before your wedding with a Prince.
However there is unfinished business there which you need to speak to them about and find out why they left and if there’s any way to win them back, or get revenge or just find closure. That’s all part of the plot. Or just move on.
Some of that’s being highlighted in the scene I’m currently writing.
What, no dragon romance?
I think FGF doesn’t intend for the dragon to reach pubescence in this game. So dragon breeding doesn’t seem to be on the list of the list of things to do.
@ADNox Not with the baby dragons, no. 
For a dragon to be romanceable it would need to be older, and capable of shapeshifting into a more convenient form. Like say a human.
The dragon that hatches is a baby, so no match-making in this game. Maybe if I do continue on to a teenage dragon. But then they’d likely be finding inappropriate partners and you’d need to be setting curfews, grounding them, and saying they don’t get to go out unless their grades pick up. And maybe you’d find some nice, respectable dragon for them, and they’d be so unappreciative.
…And you would need a special scene where you must comfort poor Swampy when he can’t find a willing date to take to prom. A tub of Ben & Jerry’s may not be enough.
@Eriedanna Yeah, you’d need to raid the whole Ben&Jerry’s factory for poor Swampy. But I’m sure he’ll eventually find a blind dragon with no sense of smell who’d appreciate him for his winning personality.
I meant match-making, not anatomy-defying human-dragon relations. Dragons live a long time, but mature and grow rapidly in some lores (Naomi Novik included!). The relation comedy is within your grasp!
If Dragonlance can have Dragon-Human relations then so can I. Or was it dragon-elf? I can’t remember. But there will definitely be no relations with the baby dragons. They’re much too young and you’re their parent. But maybe, eventually in Scales&Tales: The Teenage Years. Although by then you’ll likely be ancient yourself.
I never did care much for shapeshifting dragons… I always felt they were animals, and at most should have voices.
Sparky’s like a cat.
I usually prefer stories with dragons as very intelligent creatures, but not sentient. But variation in fantasy settings is nice too, so I don’t mind the talking/shapeshifting ones too much.
A compromise could have dragons being born with very smart animal levels of intelligence, and they could develop human-like (or greater?) intelligence and speech into adulthood. Then this game could be like a pet-care sim and the possible sequel more of a romance thing or something.
@Eriedanna
@Caddmus
That’s the plan. The dragons, just now, are about animal smart. They’re all babies and they’re going to stay that way. For these ones there’ll never be any talking, shapeshifting or growing up. Dragons take far longer to mature than people. So they stay as the sort of creatures raised in a pet-raising sim.
There are also shapeshifting dragons though, but those dragons are much older, and they don’t really see the baby dragons as the same species. Most tend to consider them much more like we do monkeys.
@Trollhunterthethird
A really ugly, smelly cat.
Nice! Do all dragons eventually grow up to be able to shapeshift, or does that depend on the type of dragon and the other types just grow into bigger dragons?
It depends. All dragons do grow up to be big, but how they’re raised, what sort of diet they have, what they learn etc will depend on if they grow up to be sentient, or if they end up big stupid animal-esque dragons that like snacking on villagers. The dragons that are sentient tend to look down on those who aren’t. And even of the sentient dragons, not all of them can shapeshift, and many consider humans as lesser beings and severely frown on those who actually want to mingle.
Ooh, it’ll be interesting to see how that works out in-game.
Don’t you worry, Swampy! I’ll raise you right and one day you’ll shapeshift yourself pretty!