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Riders

Riders is an arena warfare fighting game that players control a dragon. Take to the skies with 3 unique attacks for your chosen dragon and choose to fight an enemy controlled dragon. Can you master the skies with your dragon?

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September 28, 2024
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Riders is an arena warfare fighting game that players control a dragon. While graphics within the game are low-polygon to enable performance, models of characters, environment, and physics enable an easy to use simulation for the testing of lock on, dumb fire, and automatic weapon system within a simulated environment including gravity, wind, radar noise, and more. Take to the skies with 3 unique attacks for your chosen dragon and choose to fight an enemy controlled dragon. Do you wish to just look at the landscape? Riders allows characters to enter a cruise mode in which players can refine their movements and skills. If you want to test your abilities completely, enter hoard mode to see how long you can last. Can you master the skies with your dragon?

Riders is a single player fighting game in which a player is placed in an arena with an AI computer to fight. Riders consist of fights between a player controller dragon and an AI controlled dragon with the ability to choose from a selection of 5 different dragon types. Each Dragon has a unique flight, attack, and passive abilities and animation. Dragons are typed basis which leads to certain bonuses / buffs when fighting different dragon types. Riders consist of 3 game modes:

• Arena: 1v1 Battle where you choses your and the enemy dragon with an AI difficulty level
• Free mode: Open map where you can fly and test out different dragons
• Survival: Survival system when you fight against waves of dragons for a defined AI difficulty level