Dragon City

Genre: Breeding
Publisher: Social Point

Dragon City is a new exciting game where you breed your own dragons and create a fantastic world of magical islands! You can also combat against your friends with you team of dragons! Join the fairytale fun and hatch a dragon egg!

Overview

The basic of Dragon City breeding is taught during tutorial. You will first have to level up your dragon via feeding to at least level 4. Build a building ground such as Breeding Mountain or Breeding Tree, then you can select which of the dragon that you would like to breed. It will take some time for the dragons to create the eggs and even more time for the eggs to hatch. The types of offspring is dependent on the parents. In addition, there is some sort of luck involved in breeding that you may not get the dragon you are looking for 100% of the time.

Game Play 

Cycle System

Gather gold a number of ways; one being income from your dragon collection. The dragon rarity and level determine the income value. 

Use you gold to buy new habitats, eggs, expand, upgrade, etc.

Bread new dragons.

And repeat.

Dragons

All dragons start off as itty-bitty level ONE dracs. Dragons level up when you feed them four times, the higher a dragon's level, the more food they require per feeding. They grow up so fast. And the higher the level the more income they generate. Needless to say you will do well to build as many food farms as possible.

Breeding:
Basics - 1st Generation

To start breeding the dragons, you must first have these basic building blocks. You must purchase these dragons from eggs because you do not have the parents to generate and mate for these basic dragons.

Plant Dragon
Fire Dragon
Earth Dragon
Water Dragon
Electric Dragon
Ice Dragon
Metal Dragon
Dark Dragon

1st Generation Hybrids

Earth Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Earth + Fire = Flaming Rock or Volcano.
Earth + Plant = Tropical or Cactus.
Earth + Water = Mud or Waterfall.
Earth + Electric = Star.
Earth + Ice = Alpine.
Earth + Metal = Armadillo.
Earth + Dark = Hedgehog.

Fire Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Fire + Earth = Flaming Rock or Volcano.
Fire + Water = Cloud or Blizzard.
Fire + Plant = Firebird.
Fire + Electric = Laser.
Fire + Metal = Medieval.
Fire + Dark = Vampire.

Water Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Water + Earth = Mud.
Water + Fire = Cloud or Blizzard.
Water + Plant = Nenufar or Coral.
Water + Electric = Lantern Fish or Storm.
Water + Ice = Icecube.
Water + Metal = Mercury.

Plant Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Plant + Earth = Tropical.
Plant + Fire = Firebird.
Plant + Water = Nenufar or Coral.
Plant + Ice = Dandelion.
Plant + Metal = Jade.
Plant + Dark = Carnivore Plant or Rattle Snake.

Electric Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Electric + Earth = Star.
Electric + Fire = Laser.
Electric + Water = Lantern Fish or Storm.
Electric + Metal = Golden Or Battery.
Electric + Dark = Neon.

Ice Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Ice + Earth = Alpine.
Ice + Water = Icecube.
Ice + Plant = Dandelion.

Metal Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Metal + Fire = Medieval.
Metal + Water = Mercury.
Metal + Plant = Jade.
Metal + Electric = Golden or Battery.
Metal + Dark = Zombie.

Dark Dragon Hybrid Generation 1

Dark + Earth = Hedgehog.
Dark + Fire = Vampire.
Dark + Plant = Carnivore Plant Or Rattle Snake.
Dark + Electric = Neon.
Dark + Ice = Penguin.
Dark + Metal = Zombie.
Dark + Mud = Poo.

2nd Generation Hybrids (Rare)

Mud (Earth + Water) + Dark = Poo.

Medieval (Fire + Metal) + Alpine (Ice + Earth) = Cool Fire Or Soccer Or Pearl Or Armadillo Or Flaming Rock

Neon (Dark + Electric) + Nenufar (Water + Plant) = Pirate.
Zombie + Mud (Earth + Water) = Petroleum.
Laser (Fire + Electric) + Dandelion (Plant + Ice) = Gummy or Fluorescent or Laser.

3rd Generation Hybrids (Legendary)

Legendary Dragon – Hybrid Rare + Hybrid Rare.
Crystal Dragon – Coolfire + Soccer
Mirror Dragon – Hybrid Rare + Hybrid Rare.
Wind Dragon – Hybrid Rare + Hybrid Rare.

Structures

The Shelter is where your dragons live, laugh and play, fire elements live in fire habitats, water elements live in water elements and a hybrids like Mud Dragons (Earth + Water) can live in either earth or water habitats, simple enough.

The Breeding Mountain/Tree is where you can send dragons to make eggs and new dragons, the breeding process takes time but it's worth the wait.

The Hatchery is where your eggs are sent to hatch, the hatching can take longer than the breeding process so upgrade the buildings as fast as possible in order to raise more Dragons simultaneously.

The Food Farm is where you grow crops for your dragons so they can grow big and strong one day. Dragons eat lots of food so grow as much food as you can (or else they might eat someone).

The Recruitment Tavern is where you are offered special bonuses and dragon eggs in exchange for inviting new players to Dragon City. 

The Dragon Market is where you can trade your dragons with your friends.

The Stadium is where you take your dragons once they are big and strong from all the 'big breed dragon chow' they've been eating. Win and earn rewards and glory.

The Temples will raise the level cap for you in Dragon City:

Magic Temple at level 20 can raise the level cap of Dragons to 15. 

The Noble temple at level 25 can raise the level cap of your Dragons to level 20.

Strategy

Get more Gold and Level Up Faster

 Complete Quests in the early stages of Dragon City, providing helpful guidance, information and rewards.

Gather gold efficiently by focusing your efforts on dragons that have the highest income rate, which can be viewed by clicking on the dragon screen and view their stats. A rule of thumb: if at level one a dragon earns more than another, the first dragon will earn more comparatively in the higher levels as well.

Level up your Island by preforming tasks like fighting, clearing brush, farming, etc. As you level up new content will become available, such as upgrading structures which is very important.

Level up your Dragons will make them better in combat and earn more income. The best way to raise your Dragons' levels is food, grow plenty of food. The 30 second harvest gives the most food for the time required but you need to be vigilant.

Friends exchange gifts with friends, help each other out in your islands and share your knowledge.

Screenshots

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Monster's Planet

Genre: Breeding
Publisher: Plinga

A cute DNA breeding game from Plinga, collect DNA samples and engineer new species and color type eggs. Breed a variety of cute monsters, working your way up from insects to mammals, fishes, and/or birds and go on a journey to discover new species and color variants as you redefine your own unique planet.Be a god! ;)

From hatching, to growing up, the extraction all the way to collection. Raise your planet of monsters through they're entire lives whether it be as little as five minutes or as long as five months.

Game Play

Monster's Planet is a friendly Breeding game where you start off on a planet with simple insect DNA and progress by gathering experience and coin mostly by combining DNA of different monsters and each species has seven colors so there are different ways to obtain new species'.

New Monsters

In the beginning, players have just two strands of DNA, and must breed new creatures, obtained by breeding and buying available eggs in the shop. The insect roaming grounds is for raising insect monsters, when players reach required levels, new creatures such as mammals, fish, birds, etc become available and they all have their own roaming grounds. 

Breeding is achieved by combining two strands of DNA in the Synthesis Lab, eggs are produced and then hatched in roaming fields.

Friends

Players are encouraged to add friends for a number of game benefits, such as; 

• helping to harvest DNA
• loaning miners
• gifts
• game rewards
• etc

Having friends grants players availability to some extra exp & cash. Also, friends can harvest DNA from each others monsters if the monsters owner is away, but friends cannot identify or collect anyone else monsters. 

Some other points to mention: combination hints refresh every 60 minutes, so stuck players can get some in game hints, ability to upgrade roaming grounds by collecting various items expands grounds for more monster room. And the leveling system in a nice feature, slow level climbing stats but further down we will share some helpful strategies.

Analysis

All and all Monster's Planet is rather enjoyable, however we suspect it to be a major time thief, through many many little events that seem to be part of the bigger picture but are actually insignificant to the game, lots of time has flown by. There is a massive amount of monsters to discover, 1,175 Monsters by our count and it is expected to go up.Getting down to the bare facts, even for a player that is vigilantly managing their monster planet and has unlimited game resources, it would take an enormous amount of time  to discover most of the monsters. Not to mention that from what we've seen, the time requirement to breed eggs and harvest increases drastically. 

However this could be appealing or unappealing to different people. For someone who wants a game that is not at all competitive and is looking for simple fun, Monster's Planet could fit the bill. And if you are someone who is driven by competition and victory, Monster's Planet might not be what you're looking for.

Strategy

Experience Farming

As I mentioned earlier, gaining levels can serve as a major road block in your planets development. So being more efficient in gathering experience can serve to give players more enjoyment out of the time invested. 

I. Buying Eggs

The simplest way to gain constant experience points is to buy eggs from the shop, hatch, extract and collect. Eggs are not expensive and return a portion of the initial investment (about 40%). This strategy involves more clicking but its simple and efficient.

Note: Switch to another roaming ground, this will refresh the farmed roaming ground and expose previously none visible extractions/collections, the quicker you go through monsters the fast you can gain experience.

II. Multicolor Breeding

The second experience farming method is to breed multicolor monsters, this is a more complex method but requires less attention to time. This method becomes more effective as you unlock more synthesis tables because it requires you to breed up from common colored monsters to the multicolor, which themselves give much more experience/coins than their single colored counterparts.

Tips & Tricks

The count down features on Monster's Planet is very buggy, more often than I could believe countdowns all over the system drop unexpectedly from a few hours to Completed. So take a few extra seconds to check on your different activities and it could pay off and save you hours.

If an achievement or something random event transpires and you dont receive any notification, changing screens to a different island or feature then back will always refresh the notifications so you don't sit around waiting for the bus thats already left, or in this case something less mundane. 

**Please share your tips, strategies, comments for others to benefit from.

Images

 

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