Dragon Rangers

A Pokémon Ranger inspired game where you draw magical loops to trap and defeat forest creatures. Collect their pearl to unlock powerful abilities and grow stronger with every battle.

Dragon Rangers was made during GMTK Game Jam 2025.


How to Play

  • Hold and drag to draw with your stylus.
  • Draw a loop around an enemy to deal damage.
    • Your rope is limited in length. Try to stay close!
    • Draw consecutive loops when the enemy is stunned.
    • Defeat the enemy and obtain their pearl as a reward!
  • In the level select screen, you can:
    • Draw a loop around the level you want to play.
    • Draw a loop around the pearl icon to visit the pearl inventory and swap out your active ability.
    • See which pearl an enemy holds in their level icon.
    • Take on multiple challenges at the same time!
  • Using pearl abilities:
    • You automatically equip a pearl when you first obtain it.
    • The currently equipped pearl's special ability is described in the pearl inventory.
    • Draw another loop around your active ability to unequip it.
    • The pearl also changes your drawing color and sound.
  • Play on a touch device or with a tablet for a smoother experience! Trackpad is not recommended.

Team

  • Golen (code & art)
  • LuxxArt (art)
  • MatoCookies (music & juice)
  • Nightlightlumie (monster)
  • almost.everywhere (music)
  • ArcticFqx (code)
  • Dreeda (code)
  • Wilon (art)

Soundtrack is available here!

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StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorsGolen, ArcticFqx, LuxxArt, Mato
GenreAction
Made withGIMP, Phaser, Clip Studio Paint, FL Studio
Tags2D, Cute, Dragons, Fast-Paced, Furry, loop, Mouse only, Singleplayer, Touch-Friendly
Average sessionA few seconds
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse, Touchscreen
LinksGitHub, Soundtrack

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loop-2025-windows.zip 20 MB
Version 88
loop-2025-mac.dmg 26 MB
Version 86
loop-2025-linux.zip 21 MB
Version 85

Comments

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It’s fun, but my main problem with it is that the frazzle fight could be impossible. The snowballs and snowplows can spawn in the lower-left corner, giving me 20 damage without any chance to fix it.

Love the ranger games. Hard to play without the stylus.

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Hi! Played this game on my stream and figured I'd drop the segment focused on your game here for feedback and qa stuff. Game was a lot of fun, interesting way to do the concept. Looking forward to what you make next!
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Very good mechanics, sound and art! My favourite encounter is snake, and snake pearl seems to be strongest for me) Dunno how to defeat a frassle through

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Hella cute, love the art, and love the pokemon ranger gimmick ^w^


It would be nice to have some health bars or something in the future, just so that the goal is a little clearer.  But love the concept ^^  Very loopy

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That jester is a real prick lemme tell ya

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Big fan of the Pokemon ranger games. The drawing felt smooth. I like that you can loop multiple enemies on the select screen to do them all at once. Nice work

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Cute creatures plus pokemon ranger like gameplay, love it! ❤️
It took me a while to know if I was doing it right because I lack some more feedback about enemy life. I also started with the snake and it might have not been a great idea xD.

I hope you update this game post jam, it's already good and with some quality of life improvements it would be absolute perfection!

The art and illustrations are pretty cute, I also appreciate details like how the rope/string thing breaks, pretty satisfying effect!

Thank you for your lovely comment! We will definitely be adding some more content and finish up all the pearl abilities.

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0/10 has badger slander, would grab my pen and circle around the game devs repeatedly

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10/10 will turn you into a boss in my next game too.

the art is fantastic, but not clear how much does it take to kill the monster

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Love the art, wish it would tell us more about how to play it properly.

Absolutely love the art style and the atmosphere! Great job!

Really cool game! Love the art! ^^

Good game! but  it is quite difficult to defeat enemies

THE DAMN SNAIL 🤬🤬🤬

I LOVE POKEMON RANGERS I LOVE THIS GAME !!!!! <333

neat concept! tho the snake seems like it's not working very well, and I reckon that if I pulled out my drawing tablet, this wouldn't be much of a game.

oh wait, it's a placeholder. Guess we'll have to see where it goes then. Best of luck.