Better With Dragons

@betterwithdragons.bsky.social

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I make queer fantasy games with the help of cool artists 🐲 🌈 (yep, with dragons) | Working on a romantic adventure VN and a non-violent 3D adventure-RPG! Ran by @drad.bsky.social | Banner & pfp @halybs.bsky.social

Better With Dragons logotype, made of a white dragon with open wings, and a night sky visible on the inside of one of the left wing.
The Better With Dragons logotype
Digital artwork. We see the size comparison between an anthropomorphic silhouette and a horned monster. The anthro is running away from the monster.
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.
Picture of one of my Better With Dragons business cards. Below the logotype, it reads "independent video game studio crafting queer fantasy adventures".
Picture of Game Camp 2025 entrance
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screenshot of a Discord message reading "Here's the BWD Weekly Recap N°69"
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.
Screenshot of the Ko-Fi goal gauge reaching 100%. Small ornage hearts have been added next to it.
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."
Screenshot of Monster Hunter Wilds with a hunte rin armor hugging his Seikret's head snuggling in his neck.
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.
Disappointed Black Guy meme with the first, happy line reading "Monster" and the second, disappointed line reading "Hunter"
Digital artwork. We see a black dragon with orange stripes from behind carving symbols in a stone plate wih his claws.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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. 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.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1 085 173, Better With Dragons ‪@betterwithdragons.bsky.social‬, joined on 19 sept. 2023"
GIF of early prototype footage of an in-development test build for The Dragon Grasp Project. On a tactical grid with trees, 3 characters and a large western dragon move in a turn-based order. All assets are placeholders, often colorless models.
Screenshot of a visual novel scene in a clouded forest, a badly cut PNG of a wolf and a text box reading "Rudan: Urgh..."
Picture of five people around a table playing a table-top role-playing game prototype.
Picture of a physical business card for Better With Dragons. It says under the logo "independent video game studio crafting queer fantasy adventures"
A group made of an eolu, lorgkrator and zlatel are hiding in a forest, observing the encounter between a sylvan drake and a boargon. The sylvan drake circles around the boargon, who defensively stands in front of their nest. In the nest, four young boargon cubs are shown eating a melon-like fruit.
A snippet of the concept artwork released for Appreciate A Dragon Day 2024, focusing here on the taïgorokin hero, laying against Ukurendal with their transformed right arm visible
Screenshot of early prototype footage. We see a placeholder 3D character move on a tiled map with 3D, grayblock environment.
Early concept artworks of two anthropomorphic lupines (eolu) sitting together, one of them braiding the long fur of the other.
Digital concept illustration by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project. The artwork depicts a Lorgkrator exercising and seemingly annoyed by a cheeky Sylvan Drake, a Kerotondreko and a Korphedyn playing cards, two Eolu cooking, and a Taïgorokin with a scaly hand resting, laying against a High Dragon who’s chatting with another Taïgorokin. They’re camping together under a starry sky, all settled around a large cauldron under which burns a warm fire.
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Halybs. A dark western dragon, seen from above, flies and propels themselves in an explosive fashion: tough-looking, spiky, jet-like openings on the back of their shoulders and wings burst with blue flames.
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project by Halybs. A western dragon stands before a flat rock, carving mysterious symbols in the stone with one of their orange-glowing claws. Copper-colored lines shine and run across the dragon's toughest, sharpest features, in contrast with their black, matte body.
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp by Halybs. A western dragon stands on their four legs atop a cliff. Their silver body is covered with a shining, metallic armor on their tail, wings, chest, spiky shoulders, nape and horned head. Their wings slightly open, they’re looking down at the viewer in silence.
Screenshot of a Discord visiocall with Bakanoë, Milk and Drad
Screenshot of Baldur's Gate 3 with Volothamp Geddarm saying "My friend, every story benefits from a dragon."
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project. The artwork depicts a large theropodian creature with boar-like features: a short brown fur, a pig snout and tusks. They are shown uprooting and lifting a whole tree in the air with their horned head and powerful neck muscles.
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp Project, made by Halybs. A large, ferocious, bulky drake covered with brown scales, white natural armor over their tail, limbs and claws, and patches of grass-like fur is standing ready for combat, roaring at the viewer. A flowing mane of wild grass goes from their nape down their spine. They sport large, white and brown, trunk-like formations over their shoulders and several branch-like horns around their skull. Blinding light flashes from their front-facing horns, illuminating their surroundings.
The logo of Better With Dragons. On the left, a dark blue sigil depicts a stylized dragon silhouette opening their wings in the middle of flight. The interior of their left wing is filled with stars, as if they were embracing a night sky. On the right, the name "Better With Dragons" is written in dark blue, in a column aligned against the sigil.
Digital concept artwork by Halybs for The Dragon Grasp Project, developed by Better With Dragons. The artwork depicts two hulking, bipedal crocodilian creatures, a dark green and a beige, facing each other and circling each other, frowning and mouth open. They seem to have a heated conversation. The dark green is pointing at the ground with a hand and far away with their other hand. The beige one is making a hand sign with two claws out.
Digital concept artwork for The Dragon Grasp by Halybs. A western dragon, seen from above, flies and propels themselves in an explosive fashion: tough-looking, spiky, jet-like openings on the back of their shoulders and wings burst with blue flames, in contrast with their dark body.