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Better With Dragons
@betterwithdragons.bsky.social
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Indie studio crafting queer fantasy games 🐲 🌈 (yes you may romance dragons) | Working on a FVN and a 3D aventure-RPG! | Ran by @drad.bsky.social | Banner & pfp by @halybs.bsky.social

Support us on Ko-fi! Our socials: https://linktr.ee/betterwithdragons
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Ever onward.

Early concept artwork for the korphedyn kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🦌🌺
Digital artwork. An anthropomorphic, slender creature made of branches, covered in leaves and red flower bits, with a head shaped like a dear skull and long ears, explores a cave. A ball of light lits its way.
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A new addition to the "everything truly is better with dragons" folder
Moving van with a dragon on it breathing fire on the renting company logo
July 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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One of my Game Camp highlights is fellow game professionals coming to me saying "omg I love the name of your studio" or "omg do you make games with dragons" and me going like "YES DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT" and them being like "YES PLEASE"

I love you all, thank you for your support! 🥰✨
Picture of one of my Better With Dragons business cards. Below the logotype, it reads "independent video game studio crafting queer fantasy adventures".
June 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Back from Game Camp! I was able to present our projects to several people to get enthusiastic feedback, chat about funding options and share exciting words about dragon games 🐉💫
Picture of Game Camp 2025 entrance
June 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Doing what must be done.

Early concept artwork for the zlatel kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🐦⚡️
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a game developed by Better With Dragons. An anthro, blue and yellow bird-like creature with winged arm leaps into the air and prepares a plasma ball between his hands.
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Digging up the past.

Early concept artwork for the keroton kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🦏🔨
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a game developed by Better With Dragons. Anthro pachyderm-like creatures, covered with bits of natural armor, are working in a desertic camp with palm trees. One in the foreground has found a golden gem and is looking at it shine under the sunlight.
June 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Self-care.

Early concept artwork for the taïgorokin kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🐯💎
Digital concent artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a game in development at Better With Dragons. A creature akin to an anthro saber-tooth tiger is sitting against a rock while preening the tip of their tail with a tool. It looks like a desert rose made of green gem.
May 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Testing the waters.

More early concept artworks for the lorgkrator kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🐊
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a game developed by Better With Dragons. A large blue and orange crocodilian creature swims in blue waters.
May 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Conflict management.

Early concept artworks for the lorgkrator kind by @halybs.bsky.social 🐊
Digital conceot artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a game developed by Better With Dragons. Two hulking, bipedal crocodilian creatures, one dark green and one beige and blue, are facing each other frowning and mouth open, in a heated conversation. The dark green is pointing at the ground with a claw and far away with their other hand. The beige one is making a hand sign with two claws out.
May 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Nice
Screenshot of a Discord message reading "Here's the BWD Weekly Recap N°69"
May 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Honor among heroes. 🐺

Early concept artworks for the eolu kind by @halybs.bsky.social !
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Halybs. We see three silhouette of anthropomorphic wolves long long fur. Three silhouette are black and white, three busts are colored: one gray and white, one blue and white, one orange and cream. Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Halybs. We see a nude eolu from behind, surrounded by a swirl of wind, their fur ruffled and tail swishing. They open their hands like they're harnessing its elemental power.
May 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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We reached a new goal on Ko-Fi last week! 🎉 Thank you to all of our Supporters for their very valuable help 💗

You can support us to help fund Project 2's prep-production, get exclusive updates, private chatroom in our Discord, and have a chance to test our prototypes! 🐲⤵️

ko-fi.com/thedragongrasp
Screenshot of the Ko-Fi goal gauge reaching 100%. Small ornage hearts have been added next to it.
April 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Thinking about this moment... Peak Monster Monster

#MonsterHunter #MHWilds
Screenshot of Monster Hunter Wilds. We see Alma, Nata and Gemma looking at the Hunter and his palico walking toward the light. Alma says "This is what hunters do."
March 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Glad that even though we spend our time hunting lots of monsters "for balance", the team knows we love our creatures and chooses to grant us small moments like these

#MonsterHunter #MHWilds #Seikret
Screenshot of Monster Hunter Wilds with a hunte rin armor hugging his Seikret's head snuggling in his neck.
March 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gotta love #MonsterHunter Wilds' monster introduction cutscenes... Goofy or godlike, they're the stars in their environment, with your avatar only able to behold their power.

What better way to showcase the stakes you are facing and make you go "oh damn"?
Monster Hunter Wilds screenshot. A hunter in the foreground faces a Uth Duna, a large monster inspired by a dragon and an arapaïma. The two have their face at the same level.
March 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Happy Monstering everyone!! 🎉

We got this 👍

(You can thank @crokmitaine.bsky.social for blessing our Discord with this one 🧡)
Disappointed Black Guy meme with the first, happy line reading "Monster" and the second, disappointed line reading "Hunter"
February 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Our Discord is now REALLY open! ✨

Come hang out with us to chat about cool games and media featuring cool dragons 🐲 or discuss about the games we're working on and give us feedback on what we’re crafting!

Join here: discord.gg/NKYBcypenz
Digital artwork. We see a black dragon with orange stripes from behind carving symbols in a stone plate wih his claws.
January 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Who knows what lies deep underground…?

Here are new monster concept artworks for The Dragon Grasp Project 🐲💎

🎨 by the great @halybs.bsky.social !

Happy #AppreciateADragonDay 🎉
Digital artwork. A big dragon-like monster is shown in an expansive cave lit by blue crystals and glowing water. The creature has a long, thick tail, six legs, with their two front arms bigger than the others, and a pair of wing-like members above their shoulders. Their dark body is covered with blue crystals. Digital artwork. We see the big dragon-like monster on the side, standing on four legs. There are two versions: one with their crystals colored in a gradient of blue, and one with their crystals colored in a gradient of orange, with a plume of smoke escaping their snout. In the background, there is a black and white sketch of the monster seen from behind, raising its two front arms, roaring and swaying their tail.
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“What feels like a good size difference?” is a very important question I’m happy to ask myself often now

Here’s what we recently settled on for Ukurendal, the main dragon character of The Dragon Grasp Project! Player-character for scale 🐯

🎨 by @halybs.bsky.social !

Happy #AppreciateADragonDay 🐲✨
Digital artwork. Reference sheet of Ukurendal, a large black and silver western dragon, shown right next to the player-character. They're posed on a grid, seen from 3/4 above, to simulate the view in-game.
January 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Look at that! Appreciate A Dragon Day is TOMORROW! 🐲✨

Like every year, expect a few reveals from us. For this 2025 edition, look forward to new concept artworks: more from Ukurendal's ref sheet (snippet attached), and 💎 a whole new monster 💎

Happy to celebrate dragons and appreciate them all 🐉
Digital artwork by Haybs for Better With Dragons. Snippet of a bigger artwork, centered on a western black dragon's face: we see their silver lower jaw, blue eyes and magma-clored stripes over their armore spine.
January 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Ukurendal appreciation time
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, a video game developed by Better With Dragons. It's a headshot of Ukurendal, a black and gray western dragon, with orange stripes and blue eyes, smiling proudly and putting a paw on their puffed chest.
November 26, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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A couple people ALSO wished to see their paws and tail, so here are more snippets✨

Wanna see the full files (including the very important size difference) or join our supporter-only Discord? You can get access to all of that by supporting us on Ko-fi! ⤵️
ko-fi.com/thedragongrasp
Digital artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Ned Halybs. Snippet of a dragon's tail, with a gray top and black bottom, ending in a full-black tip. Digital artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Ned Halybs. We see gray, four-fingered dragon paws, with black claws and paws interior.
November 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Our NEW dragon companion ref sheet is up on our Ko-fi for Monthly Supporters! 🐉☄️

Such working documents are made possible thanks to your financial support 🙏

And you know what? We all need dragons in these trying times, so here's a full headshot as a public teaser.
Digital artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Ned Halybs. Headshot of a western dragon with have a black upper face and nape and silver lower jaw and throat. They have yellow and orange stripes on their black, naturally armored nape, blue eyes, and a blue mouth interior. Small holes are running alongside their neck, on a line separating the black and gray parts.
November 8, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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A follower suggested to post our early prototyping development footage as a video instead of a GIF, so here's an ATTEMPT (with the footage of August 26)
October 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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Every day telling people why we're on Bluesky has been worth it tbh
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1 085 173, Better With Dragons ‪@betterwithdragons.bsky.social‬, joined on 19 sept. 2023"
September 23, 2024 at 7:58 PM