The endlessly talented Frostwing created the Aleizam Dragon for Deca Games’ Desert Community Design Contest. Aleizam wowed everyone with its imaginative design and pure desert bones. So, no-one was surprised when Aleizam entered the Vale as the splendid Alayzem Dragon.
Aleizam Dragon
Alayzem Dragon
Last Edit: Jul 13, 2023 10:56:36 GMT -6 by adlerist: Added baby Light thread icon!
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1. Rate Alayzem’s animation quality
2. Rate Alayzem’s size (you may want to check how Alayzem compares to other dragons in your park; if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park)
3. Rate Alayzem’s price (12,000 Spice)
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event
5. Rate the attention to detail in Alayzem’s design
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER)
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!)
Comments / feedback for Deca
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2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park)
3. Price (12,000 Spice)
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event
5. Design details
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER)
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!)
Comments / feedback for Deca
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1. Animation 3 The sand pile just appears out of nowhere, which bugs me. I appreciate that for some of its animation, it isn't very energetic, which I would expect from an ancient dragon. The sand pile animation shouldn't be able to happen when the dragon is walking across the sun habitat's sun; it hangs over the edge and looks wrong.
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park) 3 Too large but I accept that this kind of dragon probably would be. I would be able to appreciate its size if more dragons were reasonably sized, but as it is this just feels like another dragon that's large because it is, rather than a decision made due to the concept behind the dragon.
3. Price (12,000 Spice) 1 It has horrible cloning odds so should not have been this expensive, especially given the overall prices of dragons this event. Unbreedables with horrible cloning odds should not cost more than 10k EC because there's a high chance a player won't get it for the whole event.
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event 5 The dragons this event were mostly really well related, which is great!
5. Design details 5 I personally am not a fan of skeletal designs, but its design works very well for what it's meant to be, so I can't really complain. It also stays very true to the original, which is good since the design was very cool! I'm not sure why DECA gave it a purple colour, though - it's not a bad colour, but I just don't see why they didn't stick with the original colour scheme, which worked a lot better for the concept.
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) 1.5 Um.... Huh? It gets half a point because the dragons themselves aren't impossible to get, but... why those dragons?! There was absolutely no reason to change the combo from the suggested one (yes, Bone is a Halloween dragon, but DECA has repeatedly shown that they're very happy to add dragons to new events), which was perfect, so it feels like DECA only changed it so that it didn't involve two easy-to-breed dragons. There are also a lot of long fail times which would have been avoided with Bone + Arid. Again, we don't need harder combos just for the sake of it; we have enough as it is.
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 3 Given the prices of dragons this event, Nubis and Alayzem should have been much cheaper or had better cloning odds (preferably both). This dragon's combo also isn't related at all. It is a good dragon though. Congrats to the artist!
Comments: Can DECA please not make unbreedables this expensive, especially when the limiteds start at over 14k.
Last Edit: Aug 10, 2023 15:20:46 GMT -6 by Deleted
1. 4/5 Fun animation. I like the sand burial although it’s slightly rushed. 2. 4/5 Good size. Wish the baby version was a little bigger. 3. 3/5 Too expensive for a starter dragon. 4. 5/5 A perfect fit. 5. 4/5 Great design but something’s slightly off, maybe the head’s too small or the wings too big. Love the baby. 6. 3/5 Crawler I get, Kann I don’t. At all. 7. 4/5 Like it, don’t love it.
4/5 tbh I love that you kept the burying thingy from my lore <3
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park)
5/5 big dragon with big wings, faithful to my original design
3. Rate Alayzem’s price (12,000 Spice)
2/5 too expensive with low odds bro :")
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event
5/5 i literally based it on a thing i saw in an egyptian museum in Munich
5. Rate the attention to detail in Alayzem’s design
5/5 again super faithful
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER)
2/5 listen I DO love these dragons but i am confused why they specifically? was it because Kann bullied me last year when i was trying to breed for it idk
overall: 4/5 (probably biased) it is honestly such an honor that my silly dragon design was added to one of my childhood core memory games, it still feels surreal. Thank you again <3. Also thank you all for reviewing and leaving such nice comments about my design it means the world to me
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event 5/5
5. Design details 3/5
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) 1/5
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 3/5
Comments / feedback for Deca Original wings were balanced to bone-body ... why were they increased so much? Correct elements were chosen by a player who knows the game ... why were they changed? Perfect breeding combo suggested ... why wasn't it used? i wish i was allowed to post comparison scores of Original vs In Game ... i REALLY like the Original and wish DECA didn't make so many changes to 'contest winning' creations.
Last Edit: Jul 13, 2023 20:15:48 GMT -6 by peribee
Animation: 3/5 Although I do enjoy how it hides in the sand, the wings are badly done. I am bothered by the fact that the wings do not actually 'flap'.
Size: 4/5 It's a bit big, although it has to be big in order to see the detail.
Price: 1/5 Although not as pricey as Oasian, it is still quite a bit. The poor co-op odds make it a burden as well, so most players will have to spend a week's worth of EC (but not me, I bred a twin).
Theme: 5/5 It was designed with the theme in mind.
Design: 5/5 I enjoy the fact that you did not stray too much from the original design.
Combo: 2/5 Although the parents are not the most painful to breed, I do not understand the point behind them. Crawler I understand the teeniest bit as it has some bones sticking out but kann is a whole mess of confusion. Both dragons were also released last year, which makes a lot of players have to breed them first.
On top of that, the combo is highly illogical considering the biology of the dragon. Crawler is a flightless dragon that lives in the depths of the ocean. Kann is a giant serpent, and albeit having a pair of wings, are so small that it cannot fly. BUT, when you breed these dragons together, they create an offspring that has wings BIGGER THAN ITSELF? It just doesn't seem right for two flightless dragons to produce such big wings.
Preference: 5/5 All the fan-inspired dragons are great additions, and some of the best I have seen.
Extra notes: Recently, the breeding combo selection on dragons has been absurdly painful, with most of them requiring parents which are evolution dragons, released last year, or have a long/difficult breeding chain. Many of the specific combinations recently have not fit the dragon either, which makes me think that breeding combos are selected by entering dragon names into a system and selecting them at random (although I am sure that they aren't).
I will just recommend to make combos less difficult and more fitting to the dragon to pertain to. New players, and sometimes veteran players like myself, may find it very difficult to breed a new release because of the difficult breeding combo.
Of the recent incidents, Somnig has to be the worst culprit. With a breeding combo of SNOOZ + FAE, there were many reasons why this disgusted the community.
Both the parents are difficult to breed due to being Dream element dragons, which naturally have absurdly low breeding odds
Fae was relatively new
Both parents have a rather long breeding chain.
The combo contributes all elements to the breeding pool
Somnig was the second limited, so players did not have a lot of time to breed the parents prior to Somnig's release
Despite both parents being Dream Dragons, Somnig is a RARE DRAGON. For the effort put into breeding it, Somnig should have been the dream element, but no. It was just a plain ol' rare dragon.
1. Animation: 3/5 2. Size: 4/5 3. Price (12,000 Spice): 5/5 4. Theme: 5/5 5. Design details: 4/5 6. Breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER): 3/5 7. How much do you like Alayzem: 5/5
Comments:
I've got to say, I'm so pleased Deca barely changed this design. The original was perfect as is and it was nice to see Deca recognize that. The wings are just gorgeous! I'm also glad Deca added a body for the flights and didn't just hide it permanently behind the wings. I find overall he's a bit too flat though. I think it's the large, flat wings, but the body angle also puts the head and skeleton into more of a profile position, which doubles down on the 2Dness. The baby is cute. Those tiny wings and little stubby horns. D'aww.
His movements make him look especially two dimensional, unfortunately. The flapping could have had the wings open out, but it didn't. The pendulum movement is very well done, but I don't understand why he does it. When the sand dune drops away, it's far too 2D. It looks like the cardboard cutout image of a sand dune fell over. He's soo big! Which is great! Except his giant wings cover up my other dragons haha. It's fine. Not sure what I think of the breeding combo. I feel like the parents were used solely for their body types, and Kann specifically for its Sun element. We have another shorter timer though! Love that!
I'm not sure why this one is a Sun dragon. It hid under sand for eons and hasn't seen the light of day in an eternity. Earth and dark, surely! But no. It has all of Kann's hidden traits. Including plant and water... Can't some parent traits NOT be passed down to their offspring? Soon enough everything is going to be a pseudo if Deca keeps using the previous year's newbies AND hidden traits aren't lost in translation more often. Personally, I think "Heat Wave Apocalypse dragon" would have been particularly fitting this month, just sayin'. I know the fans bemoaned the lack of Dream dragons back when, but really, not every dragon during the Sun/Treasure event has to be Sun or Treasure. It's just got to make sense. Apocalypse Heat Wave dragon would still have gotten a 5/5 for theme from me.
The egg reminds me too much of Divi's. I wish it had part of the wing in it instead.
Congrats again to Frostwing! Lovely design! So happy the name is basically the same too!
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park) 5
3. Price (12,000 Spice) 3
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event 5
5. Design details 5 love the design looks exactly the way it “should” for such an ancient dragon
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) 5 As long as I have the needed dragons I really don’t think much about this aspect, I would undoubtedly think about it more if I had to breed the combo before going for the event dragon, and with the odds of successfully breeding that many dragons in one week I might opt not to play the game in a “serious” way.
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 5
Comments / feedback for Deca
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4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event : 5
5. Design details : 5
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) : 2
7. How much do you like Alayzem : 4
Comments / feedback for Deca : I like how Alayzem ‘crawls’ using his wings like a bat and being buried in sand fits the lore well. He looks like a very ancient dragon and the wings are fantastic. Another great fan inspired dragon, which fits the theme perfectly. The original design was changed very little by Deca – really just adding some animation. The breeding combo seems unnecessarily complicated and uses two dragons, that also have a locked breeding combo, that were only released last year. Makes it very hard for newer players to have the required dragons to be able to try and breed it. Although Bone is a Halloween dragon, it would have been a perfect parent for Alayzem. Or Alayzem could have been held over for Halloween – it looks scary enough (even if it a friendly dragon.
Congratulations to Frostwing on an awesome design and having their Aleizam dragon included in the game. 😊
Post by rcooldude1224 on Jul 19, 2023 0:17:58 GMT -6
1. Animation 5/5
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park) 5/5
3. Price (12,000 Spice) 2/5
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event 5/5
5. Design details 5/5
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) 1/5, legitimately what is this combo, sand x arid and the original submission's combo (that being bone x arid) were right there!
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 4/5, I'm happy it was virtually unchanged from the original submission to in game, super close to being 5/5 tho! Just change the combo to something more fitting and we're good
Comments / feedback for Deca I'm super happy to see the addition of new sun dragons, the sun element in my opinion has been overshadowed a lot by the moon element, so I'm glad that we're getting more, and with a swagon at that! Bonus!
Post by jengrqkH#4979 on Jul 19, 2023 8:00:46 GMT -6
ALAYZEM DRAGON
1. Animation-5 I like the sand pile
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park)-5
3. Price (12,000 Spice)-5
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event-5 excellent fit, so far I feel most of these dragons fit well
5. Design details-5. I’d give it more if I could. DECA stayed true to the original design which I feel they don’t do often. Usually I prefer the original design to DECAS version so I’m really happy not to see this here.
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER)- 2 agree that the KANN component isn’t right.
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!)-5
2. Size (if you don’t own Alayzem, please check a friend’s park) 4/5. maybe a little large? but that's moreso due to the length of the dragon
3. Price (12,000 Spice) 1/5. too much for a starter
4. How well does Alayzem fit the theme of the event 5/5. another very fitting dragon
5. Design details 2/5. a pretty massive downgrade from the original art. it looks a lot less bony and more generically spooky now. the name change wasn't really necessary either.
6. How would you rate Alayzem’s breeding combo (KANN + CRAWLER) 3/5. a little rough.
7. How much do you like Alayzem (1 = I hate it, 5 = I love it!) 3/5. the downgrade from the original art really sours me on the dragon, but the other factors are pretty good overall, especially the animation.
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