DRACOMATON

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• Announcements·19 Jul 2026Official

  "Beat, Heart, Beat: The Prologue" - Out Now!

  Hey everyone, this is Benji. I was the Art Lead on Dracomaton, and am currently working as the Art Lead for a new rhythm gamed called Beat, Heart, Beat! I want to talk to you about our newly released demo, and I also made some more Eclipse art for y'all, you can check it at the end :] Made by many of the same people who worked on Dracomaton, BHB is action platformer rhythm game with a grungy alt-rock soundtrack, about chasing your heart! If you like how Dracomaton feels to play, I think you'll really enjoy the way BHB feels too as we've only gotten better at juicing up our games. We also have been designing it around both people who are new to rhythm games and veterans, so even if it's not a genre you'd normally play, give the demo a shot! We just released the Prologue for our game, which is free to play on Steam now! You can see from the art above, but we're planning on telling a pretty wild and fun story with a diverse cast of little freaks, taking place in a wide range of sick environments. We also are planning our early access release on October 9th, which will include the Level Editor and the first chapter of the Story Mode! Look forward to it, and I hope you have fun with the game! Check out the demo and wishlist here: You can also join the BHB discord here: https://discord.gg/26WeEntfbQ ecips
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• Patch Notes·29 Sept 2025Official

  DRACOMATON 1.4: The Goliath Update

  Messages from the Team:\ Hey y’all, Benji from the GUN JUMPERS here to talk to you about our newest update! When we first decided to do the free weekend, we weren’t planning on making another update, because most of us are working on different projects now. We just wanted more people to see and enjoy the game, but we never anticipated how massive the outcry of love would be from the players who like it. That feeling spurred us on to come back together to make the Goliath update! It features 3 new and innovative forms, a new boss, a Hard mode, as well as a bunch of new achievements. The specifics for the update, as well as the Key Art will be down below! I also have some other stuff I wanted to mention.\ Hey everyone! I'm Nik, one of the lead designers on DRACOMATON. I've been absolutely blown away with the recent reception to the game, and I'm so glad people enjoy creating weirdo form combos and dunking on Regulus by mashing tennis secondary. As someone who adores indie games, it is so humbling to see y'all engage with something we made and put so much of ourselves into. On that note, I'm very excited to announce that aside from my current projects, I snuck back into Gun Jumpers HQ to design three new Forms, each offering something new and hopefully leading to even more nonsense. If you enjoy the update or DRACOMATON in general, I would absolutely love for you all to check out my new game Beat, Heart, Beat - a rhythm-platformer about reclaiming your lost heart. It's a weird and personal passion project of mine, and I'm so lucky to have many of the Gun Jumpers to be working on this new project, including many of the same team members behind the art, animation and music. If you like our work, there is a demo out NOW with new content coming very shortly!stay wacy fellasWe have an official Ko-fi! If you want to support our team in our future endeavors and had a really fun time with our game, you can do so on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/gunjumpers\ We have a wiki! Shoutouts...
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• Patch Notes·31 Aug 2025Official

  DRACOMATON 1.3.3 - The Smoothie Update

  Hi y'all! It's Calex and Annie; a bit of a shorter one this time but we wanted to push out a quick update with some bug fixes and for QOL.As always, it's been overwhelmingly amazing to see your support for the game! Your energy is infectious; we may not have been working on the game very much before, but this has given us a little boost this past month.For you all who have stuck with us so far... thank you! We have so many thanks to give, and in the meantime, those thanks have taken on many forms. This empty, abandoned factory, and the smothered night sky may yet still have more secrets to share.See you all in a month.Patch Notes:ModifiersAdded two new modifiersBolt Room chance modifier: Modifies the chance for bolt reward rooms.Mod EXP modifier: A multiplier on the amount of XP that gets funneled into your mods.MiscImproved room boundary collision (the smoothening)Minor enemy balance changesA Gun Jumpers Ko-Fi link has been added to the main menu.Bug FixesFixes to bolt spawn ratesFixes to Flame Form Evo 2: Oil LeakFixed a bug with room turrets not firingMiscellaneous bug fixes and optimizations
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• Patch Notes·15 Aug 2025Official

  DRACOMATON Bugfix and Optimization Patch / Merch Store

  Hey everyone, this is Benji from the GUN JUMPERS. Thank you so much for support the last couple weeks, it’s been so wonderful to see everyone enjoying the game. I made a piece of LUNR and Eclipse as a thanks, you can take a look at it at the end of the post. We’ve been listening to all of your feedback and reviews of the game, and we have an update for you! Some of our team has been working really hard to make the game run better for everyone, and to fix all of the bugs that have been reported in both the forums and the discord. The game has been optimized a ton, so if you were having performance issues before that made it difficult for you to enjoy the game, give it another shot! Glitch form has also had a lot of fixes to it, so I’d recommend trying that out as well! The patch notes are listed below. I’ve also been asked if there was a place where people could buy merch for the game, so I made a merch store! If you like my art and would like to support me, or if you just like some of the characters from the game, feel free to check it out! I’m still in the process of uploading some stuff there, so if there’s anything in particular you’d be interested in, like stickers of a certain form or something, feel free to let me know in the comments. (wip of a sticker I'm working on) https://avianben-shop.fourthwall.com/ Also, if you haven’t joined the discord and would like to here’s the link. I'll update it as I post more stuff to the shop. The community is wonderful, would definitely recommend joining if you like the game: https://discord.gg/N3gSCaSX3P PATCH NOTES: 1.3.2: The Performance and Debug PatchHuge FPS gains across the boardNew Features: Particle Density slider to control how noisy certain problematic visuals are Various visuals tweaked Death animation and shopkeeper animation implemented.Specific bugs fixed: Hitless no longer has heals or hp ups available in the shop. Mod slots are no longer "cancellable" by pressing escape too quickly. The next Mod slot to add ...
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• Announcements·3 Aug 2025Official

  Gun Jumpers (DRACOMATON) Discord

  Hey everyone, this is Benji, art lead for DRACOMATON. Thank you for all your support this weekend, the amount of people who have now seen and played the game is outstanding to the team, and it means a lot to see so many people play and care about a game that is so meaningful to us. Some people requested we make a discord to talk about the game and show future projects that the team is currently working on, so we did! You can check out the link here: https://discord.gg/sgTmZUBc47 also below is a Spider form piece I made as a thank you for playing the game, hope you like it! If you do, I'm the art lead of another game that has a style very similar to it, its called Beat, Heart Beat, and you can check the free demo for it here: Spider form has always been one of my favorite designs, and I've never done a dedicated piece to it so I thought now would be a nice time :]
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