Experience a story
Discover the fate of dragons as you wage a campaign against the Skull Queen and her army of skeleton warriors.
News
Dragon Banner, the combination of real-time strategy and base-building, is now available for Windows PC! Discover the fate of dragons and start the resistance against the Skull Queen and her army of skeleton warriors!
The crowd-funding campaign was a success!
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This new update greatly improves the graphics of Dragon Banner, adding shadows and new shading effects! Buildings and terrain now cast shadows! This has a big effect on the look of the game, really improving the quality of every level.
Shadows can be turned off or on in the Options menu. If you find your computer has trouble running the game at a steady frame rate, try turning off shadows to improve performance.
Characters and Equipment in the game are now rendered with an enhanced cell shading technique, helping the visuals pop with more detailed shading and contrast.
Pre-release Update is Live
Hi! Thanks for following Dragon Banner. The full game release is coming on May 8th! But in the meantime, development continues, work on new features and improvements for you, the players!
The first update includes a tutorial, a graphics improvement, and new options to support a range of computers with different graphics powers. I want everyone to be able to play the game at a decent frame rate.
Release Notes:
- Introducing a new Tutorial option from the main menu. This allows you to learn broad aspects of the game within a single quest, whereas the story introduces gameplay elements more slowly.
- This update includes a community requested feature. The default draw distance has been increased, meaning you see more of the map on the screen. The options now include configuration for the draw distance. This allows people with less-capable PC's to adjust to a lower draw distance if necessary in order to run the game at a higher framerate, if they are experiencing slowness.
- Another addition is the option to toggle fog in the game. This is a graphic technique that causes distant objects to appear foggy. Note that toggling this feature requires reload of the game in order for the new setting to take effect. If you have performance problems running the game, you may find that turning off fog could improve performance.
- Add a save prompt after each completed quest, after reaching Bannertown.
About Dragon Banner
Dragon Banner is a video game of strategy and building. It is built from the love of building blocks and real-time strategy games. Dragon Banner is created by one person over the course of eight years, working on it part time. Representing an original game engine, artificial intelligence, 3D graphics, an original sound-track and sound effects, and interesting dynamic game-play, Dragon Banner is a rare achievement created by one person.
In Dragon Banner you take on the role of a commander. You hire villagers to gather or generate resources, build defenses to protect them, and hire an army to fight alongside you. You will customize a town as your headquarters, where you take on quests and purchase equipment to alter your command style.
The Skull Queen controls all the land, but her skeleton army is full of bullies. Play as Arc and recruit villagers and warriors, uniting under the dragon banner. Arc shares an unusual bond with a dragon spirit. Discover what became of dragons! If you show strength, the people will rise up with you. Build a town as your base of operations. Embark on a campaign to overthrow the Skull Queen, gaining new allies and tools along the way.
Released May 8, 2020 for Windows PC!
Dragon Banner is © 2020 David G. Fuller, Soulnata. All rights reserved.
Game Features
Take command
Form the dragon banner and start the resistance! Take direct control of Arc, the commander. Collect resources, build, and fight! But you don't have to do it on your own. Hire workers and warriors to carry out your strategy for you!
Collect material
Mine for material or hire miners to collect it for you!
Grow an economy
Villagers bring in coins. You need these to build fortifications, new tech, and to hire warriors.
Start a town
Create a town as your headquarters. As you progress through the story, you unlock new town blueprints to build. Your town will grow and bring in recruits and merchants.
Choose your strategy
Hire Knights to patrol the land, or take a defensive approach and build walls and hire archers to defend your villagers. Unit types with their own behaviors provide strategic variety. Choose the warriors that fit your battle strategy.
Build
Unlock blueprints to build room frames, walls, doors, and more! Combine them to make unique creations. Build Tech to upgrade and assist your army.
Equip your commander
In the course of the story, recruit merchants. Place their shop in your town and buy new equipment for your commander. Not only does it change your appearance, equipment affects your command style by offering bonuses to you or your entire army.
Keyboard Only Mode
Ever want to play a game in a cafe and not want to drag your mouse around with you? Toggle to Keyboard Only mode in the game options and then you can use p/l/;/' keys to control the camera and menus, replacing the mouse.
Videos and Screenshots
Dragon Banner Press Kit
Note: This page is for journalists. If you are looking for general information on Dragon Banner, see About the Game.
Welcome to the press kit for Dragon Banner! If you need any additional information or need it provided in a different format, please send your request to the press contact below.
Developer: Soulnata
Release Date: May 8, 2020
Platform: Windows PC
Website: dragonbanner.net
Price: $19.99
Language: English
File Size: 500 MB
Press Contact: media@soulnata.com
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Company Website: soulnata.com
Description
Dragon Banner is born out of the love of building blocks and the strategic depth of strategy games. It is a new mix of strategy and base-building.
You take on the role of a commander and embark on a campaign with specific objectives. You hire warriors with various behaviors, like defensive or offensive, to battle for you, or workers to get resources for you. You will customize a town as your headquarters, where you take on quests and purchase equipment to alter your command style.
The Skull Queen controls all the land, but her skeleton army is full of bullies. Play as Arc and recruit villagers and warriors, uniting under the dragon banner. Arc shares an unusual bond with a dragon spirit. Discover what became of dragons! If you show strength, the people will rise up with you. Build a town as your base of operations. Embark on a campaign to overthrow the Skull Queen, gaining new allies and tools along the way.
Features
- Experience a story. Discover the fate of dragons as you wage a campaign against the Skull Queen and her army of skeleton warriors.
- Take direct control of your commander. Choose to collect resources, hire workers, hire soldiers, build defenses, or to take part in battle directly.
- Grow an Economy. Hire miners and villagers to grow your resources.
- Start a town. Create a town as your headquarters. As you progress through the story, you unlock new town blueprints to build. Your town will grow and bring in recruits and merchants.
- Choose your strategy. Hire Knights to patrol the land, or take a defensive approach and build walls and hire archers to defend your villagers. Unit types with their own behaviors provide strategic variety.
- Build. Unlock blueprints to build room frames, walls, doors, and more. Combine them to make unique creations. Build Tech to upgrade and assist your army.
- Equip your commander. Buy and mix and match equipment to customize your command style. It can have effects on your entire army.
- Keyboard Only Mode. Ever want to play a game in a cafe and not want to drag your mouse around with you? Toggle to Keyboard Only mode in the game options and then you can use p/l/;/' keys to control the camera and menus, replacing the mouse.
- 10+ hours of quests. Quests can be redone to earn more Command Points, required to unlock all equipment options in Town.
- Skirmish Mode. Use the map creator to battle on randomly created maps.
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Company Bio
Soulnata is a one-man studio started in 2016 by David G. Fuller. By day, he works as a software engineer and, in his free time, as a game designer. He enjoys a variety of games. His work is especially influenced by Japanese role-playing games and strategy games, or any game that requires thinking and tactics to persevere.
He started by developing a few games through the Xbox Indie platform, including FatSheep (Xbox 360), PelletStack (Xbox 360), and Pellets Quadrastack (Windows Phone).
Dragon Banner represents a new level of ambition. That is why, he spent the past seven years working on it. David created the artwork, animation, music, sound effects, and the programming of Dragon Banner, including building an original game engine. David has a Bachelor's of Art degree in Art and a Masters of Science in Computer Science.
Credits
Created by David G. Fuller II
Dragon Banner is © 2020 David G. Fuller, Soulnata. All rights reserved.