The Digimon Breeding Game
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| Digimon Breeding Game | |
| Developer: | Jared Levine |
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| Latest release: | 6.54 |
| Use: | Breeding/Simulation/V-Pet |
| License: | Freeware |
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The Digimon Breeding Game is a Digimon fangame created by Jared Levine. It features several species of digimon that evolve over time. It first debuted on February 07, 2007, 07:46:05 PM, on a website called With the Will. It is open to the public, free of charge, and updates at least once a week. It was created on Gamemaker and uses sprites from The Happy Galgomon Giffactory.
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[edit] Origins
The original DBG appeared on Wednesday, Jul 26 2006, 06:03 PM. The game was valued for a while, but the idea was eventually scrapped due to lack of ideas. Later, however, developer Jared Levine found the old file, and decided to remake it. The remade file is now the current one, while the original was renamed DBG: Genesis. Genesis can be found on the same site as the current file.
DBG truly originated on the Game Maker Community forum as a WIP, a work in progress. It received mixed reviews, though few reviews were actually posted. The game file was lost on Aug 3 2006, 10:34 AM, when the hard-drive containing it was wiped clean. The file was later found on a portable hard-drive, and re-uploaded.
[edit] Development
Aside from developer, Jared Levine, there have been three people who have contributed to it, mostly with ideas, sprites, and information. These three people go by screenames, as their real names are unknown. These three are now also the moderators of Digital Nights Forum.
Taisuru, the first of the three, has contributed the most. He made many images later featured in the game, and was the first Beta Tester.
Stryke107 was the second to contribute, and was a Beta Tester as well. He pointed out most of the game's bugs, though he has contributed little elsewhere.
CloneWarrior is the last of the three, and is the most mature of them. He too was a Beta Tester, and has provided information such as Digivolution Lines that make the game as canon as possible.
[edit] Gameplay
Playing DBG is very simple, and it makes a good time-killer. The player starts out with Fresh digimon, the weakest level. As time goes by, the digimon evolve to In-Training, then to Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, and finally Mega. The player mostly interacts with the game by clicking and dragging around digimon into different areas, or using items with the mouse.
A box in the top-left corner of the screen allows digimon to breed. To breed, a player must place two digimon in the box, and if they collide, they will come out of the box with a new, baby level digimon. The digimon that can breed are determined by species, and level. Incompatible digimon will just sit there.
DNA Digivolving, also known as Jogress, involves combining two digimon, and performed the same way breeding is. Two digimon are placed in the top-left box. If they can Jogress, they will dissapear and a new, higher level digimon will come out of the box.
There are also a few items used in DBG to help the player out:
| Item | Effect |
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| Skull | Sells digimon for points |
| Purple "P" | Stands for Potluck. Spawns a random baby digimon for 50 points. |
| Blue "A" | Stands for Armor. Spawns a random armor digiegg for 100 points. |
| Red "D" | Stands for DNA. Spawns a random DNA item for 100 points. |
[edit] Criticism
When posted on With the Will, DBG was at first accepted with open arms. Soon, however, one of the Admins, God of Chaos, thought that the thread should only be posted on when a new version of the game was out, and threatened to lock the thread. To this day, Jared believes he made a mistake. This, however, brought about the Digital Nights Forum.
When first confronted by GoC, many users backed him up, perhaps due to him being an administrator, or for other reasons, but still, Jared was under pressure. He yelled back at the Administrators and Moderators, daring them to do the things they threatened. This tactic may have been what saved the thread, though it is inactive at this point.
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