Dragon City

Dragon City
Developer(s) Social Point
Platform(s) Facebook
iOS
Android
Release date(s)

May 2012 (Facebook/PC) April 2013 (iOS)

August 2014 (Android)
Genre(s) Social game

Dragon City is a social network game from social games developer Social Point which was launched for play on Facebook in May 2012 and for download on iOS in 2013.[1][2] In August 2014 the aforementioned developer made the game available for download on Intel Atom tablets for Android.[3] The game targets mid-core players, allowing them to raise their own dragons and create a Dragon City on floating islands. In December 2012 The Next Web ran an article announcing that Dragon City was ranked #2 in Facebook's 25 top rated games that year.[4] Dragon city connects with Facebook, and give you a special dragon and 10 gems.

About

The game currently has level 99 being the maximum level as of up to date, assumable to have 99 levels. To level up, experience points (Xp) are required. The player starts with 6 main islands. The player will then start a tutorial on simple tasks, such as breeding hybrids, collecting food from farms and clearing obstacles.

Dragons

Currently there are 532 dragons (525 according to the dragon book). Deus, the god, or ultimate dragon builder created most of the dragons. To level up a dragon you must feed it 4 amounts of food, as you level up, it takes more food to level them up. Dragons generate gold as their revenue and the amount of revenue generated depends on the level and dragon it is. You can grow food, or you can buy it for gems. To get to different levels, some need temples that work for all your dragons. There is also an ancient portal in which you can go back to a different world, grow dragons, send them to special islands, evolve them, breed them, and summon new ones (for this ancient place you can not customize). There are several events a month in which you can work hard by breeding, feeding, growing food, fighting, and collecting gold, in which you can get a rare dragon, sometimes new.

Elements and Habitats

The game has 12 normal world elements, which are, in unlock level order, Terra, Flame, Sea, Nature, Electric, Ice, Metal, Dark, Light, War, Pure and Legend. There are 7 ancient world elements as well for certain dragons, in unlock level order, which are Ancient (in which only the Ancient World breeders have), Beauty, Magic, Chaos, Happy, Dream and Soul. These dragons can be elementals (1 element), hybrids (2 elements), tribrids (3 elements) and tetra-elementals (4 elements). In total there are 19 elements in the game. Elements also indicate which habitats each dragon can be put in. Dragons can live in up to four habitats depending on how many elements the dragon contains. If they contain one element, they can only live in one habitat; if they contain two elements they can live in two habitats (with the exception of the double elementals); etc.

Dragons' Status and Attacks

The elements are what gives the dragons their status, such as their defences, offences, and attacks. The elements can be primary, secondary, tertiary or quaternary depending on what type of dragons they are. Most dragons' attacks are based on what elements they have, for example Viking Dragon is an Ice-Sea hybrid dragon, so it only has Ice and Sea attacks and Ice is its primary element. However, there are dragons which can attack without needing to have the element. Some examples are Aztec Emperor Dragon, which is Nature-Electric-Light, but can also have the Pure element's Pure light attack; and Pure Dragon, which is just Pure, but can also have the Flame element's Lava balls attack. There are 5 attacks in each element, each with different base powers. Some exceptions are the Ancient elements (except Ancient) with only 4 attacks, and Pure with only 3 attacks - all with the same base power. There are also physical attacks for when element attacks (depending on the dragon) are too weak. Every dragon has 8 attacks (4 default and 4 trainable attacks).

Categories

There are 9 categories in the game as of up to date. The categories determine the attack strength and the health of each dragon depending on their Category. Categories 1 to 5 were introduced at the time the game was initially released. Categories 6 to 9 were introduced in April 2015.

The Introduction of Rarities

The dragons are divided into five rarities (seen in their rarity medals), Common, Rare, Very Rare, Epic and Legendary. In order of increasing rarity, Common is the lowest rarity medal, the next lowest is Rare, in the middle is Very Rare, the next highest is Epic and the highest is Legendary. The rarity medals were introduced in mid 2015. The Heroic rarity was introduced in April 2016.

Customizing

In dragon city, there are 6 main islands, and once you get really far in the game you can unlock 3 more islands. You have to buy each island for gems and money, if you have a certain amount of friends you can buy that island, or part of an island for a cheap amount of gold, if you do not have enough friends you have to pay with gems. You can clear rocks, plants, and trees out of the way with gold, even if you have not bought the island yet. These plants, rocks, and trees do not appear back. There are 6 towers, 1 for each main island that you have to unlock a mission. Once doing this you will have a power for every time the timer counts down. Island 1 dragon gives you gold bonus for an hour, Island 2 dragon gives you 1 gem a day. Island 3 dragon gives a skip on food production. Island 4 Dragon gives you a battle boost. Island 6 gives you a skip on breeding. Island 6 dragon gives you a skip on training. Island 7 gives the power to collect resources instantly. There is another breeding island where you can breed special dragons. There is an ancient portal that sends you to a different realm, and allows you to evolve dragons, breed them, find new ones and put them in habitats. The dragons from these are very powerful, and rare. In the shop you can go to the shop, dragons, habitats, decorations, and buildings, each where you can buy things. Once you place these on your islands, you can move them around.

Events

In Dragon City, around 1 - 3 times a month there is an event where you have to get items by winning league battles, winning a customized battle, feeding your dragons and collecting gold. Once you finish all of what it asks you to do, you can earn a rare and special dragon. These events are not rare. Once to twice a month there is a major event that lasts around 20 days, however there are smaller ones, some are half's and last 4 days. There are also really small events that last a day, like if you feed your dragon, collect enough gold, spend enough money, spend enough gold, and more, you can earn gems, and rare dragons. There are also events in which you can buy a rare new dragon, and the event last an amount of units.

Battles

There are event battles, that help get you a dragon. There are also tournament matches, where you have to win 10 battles (with the exception to the first two matches - 8 for the first match, 9 for the second match, numbers variable for limited time matches), and you get a free dragon for each battle match completed. There are also league battles. These are the hardest and progress with level. Once you beat it you get several rewards, food, gold and gems. There are 7 battles to win (in most leagues), and you can only do 3 at a time.

Dragons Based on Music Celebrities, Mythology and Real Life events

There are several dragons that are referenced from real life, such as Umbrella Dragon, (Rihanna), Believer Dragon (Justin Bieber), Wrecking Dragon (Miley Cyrus) and Lady dragon (Lady Gaga). These dragons appear in the Dragon Idol Island. (February 2016).

From mythology one of the main characters in Dragon City, Deus, is based on the Greek God Zeus. There are other specimens such as Hades Dragon, Atlas Dragon and Poseidon Dragon, from the Olympus Island. Other mythological dragons include Cerberus Dragon from Dungeon Island (1st generation) and Hydra Dragon. There are dragons from real life events, example of which are Columbus Dragon, Independence Day dragon, Mother's Day dragon and Father's Day dragon. There are 532 dragons, some are new ones from small events, medium events, large events and regular updates. There are 550 dragons, if including the ancient world game appendix (the 18 Ancient World breeder dragons).

References

  1. ↑ Scott Reyburn (2013-05-30). "Social Point’s Andrés Bou on Dragon City’s success on mobile, sticking with the Facebook platform and plans for 2013 | SocialTimes". Insidemobileapps.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  2. ↑ "How We Made Dragon City Mobile. | Social Point". Socialpoint.es. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  3. ↑ "Dragon City Game by Social Point Reaches Broadest User Base Yet through Optimization for Intel® Atom™ Tablets for Android* - Yahoo Finance". Finance.yahoo.com. 2014-08-04. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  4. ↑ Robin Wauters (2012-12-05). "Facebook Unveils The Top Rated Games Of 2012". Thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2015-06-04.

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