Thank you so much! We've had a great time developing this game, and we're really glad you enjoyed it!
We came up with the idea pretty quickly when the theme was announced. We've worked together before so we played to our strengths; I'm very comfortable with drawing dragons, and Moka enjoys stat raisers, a genre that fits the theme well. It was a lot of fun to combine our art styles and to explore a genre of game we hadn't made before. We were inspired by games like Long Live the Queen and The Yawhg.
In terms of tools, we used Github for source control and Dialogic for supporting text; everything else was original code.
Animal wellfare wasn't something we intentionally included, but considering we both care about the topic, it makes sense that it shone through in our work! We're glad you enjoyed it!
As for continuing development: while there are definitely things we are itching to improve about the game, we both have other projects to return to, so we will likely be moving on. Overall we are satisfied with how it came out and how we scoped it for the jam!
Thank you for playing and for your interest!