🗓️ Today is the 21st anniversary of Spyro: A Hero’s Tail!

Happy Halloween!

In case you were unaware, Drew Struzan was also the creator of the cover art for Spyro: A Hero's Tail. This cover has been etched into my mind since I was a kid, and it remains an incredibly striking visual to capture the spirit of the game. May he rest in peace.

I got 100% on Spyro A Hero's Tail's RetroAchievements in a single day. I have perhaps played this game too much.

The design document for Gloomy Glacier in Spyro: A Hero's Tail pitches the level as "the sacred Dragons Graveyard, the final resting place of the huge ancient Dragons." This is not explained in the final game, but is hinted at with the skeletons lying around. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

I got a screenshot idea and immediately had to make it

The design document for Gloomy Glacier in Spyro: A Hero's Tail pitches the level as "the sacred Dragons Graveyard, the final resting place of the huge ancient Dragons." This is not explained in the final game, but is hinted at with the skeletons lying around. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

Red's Laboratory

Dark Mine

Magma Falls Bottom

Magma Falls Ball Gadget Course

Magma Falls Top

Molten Mount

Stormy Beach

Ice Citadel

Gloomy Glacier

Frostbite Village

Cloudy Domain

Sunken Ruins

Coastal Remains

Dragonfly Falls

Crocovile Swamp

Dragon Village

In the files of the demos for Spyro: A Hero's Tail, the minimaps for Crocovile Swamp and Dragonfly Falls can be found, and they show some major differences from the final game. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

This is the function in Spyro: A Hero's Tail's code that resets your health and reloads the game after a death. It's called "urghhhImDead". #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

In Spyro: A Hero's Tail, if you use glitches or hacks to swim in the air and touch an icy surface, you get some really weird interactions. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

Elder Titan in Spyro: A Hero's Tail has a strange bug with his scripting. If you're within a certain radius of him, he enters his "reacting" state. But stand at just the right distance, and he'll start flickering back and forth between reacting and not reacting. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

hey guys flame here (Flame artwork by @sirinoks.bsky.social)

didn't feel like drawing the background, but here's the children in the way i draw them. original screenshot quoted #spyro #spyrothedragon #spyrofanart #dragons #art #fanart #ember #flame

Yesterday I did a fun little project where I remade the visuals from one of Spyro A Hero's Tail's loading screens in HTML and Javascript. You can check it out here: brinchebsen.github.io

Happy pride month!

These two textures called "Test" and "Test2" are found in the file "panel.edb" in the demo builds of Spyro: A Hero's Tail. I've no clue where they are from, and reverse image searching didn't help much. If anyone knows, please let me know! #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

The Spyro model used inside the Ball Gadget in Spyro: A Hero's Tail is a slightly earlier iteration of Spyro's regular gameplay model, with much lower texture resolution. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

We're slowly uncovering new stuff from the E3 Demo of Spyro A Hero's Tail. Here's the early scrapped "Baby Mammoth" enemy, complete with its animations and behavior. And there's a lot more to see hidden in the files! #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

In Spyro: A Hero's Tail, there's a sneaky bit of foreshadowing to Ineptune's boss battle, where the top of her arena is visible through some cracks in a cave. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon

In early releases of Spyro: A Hero's Tail, a misaligned loading trigger in Dark Mine makes it easy to avoid loading the tunnel to Magma Falls, leading to a black void in its place. In this clip, the game has been modified to show the loading/unloading triggers and list the loaded maps on the left.

Fun fact, the way I found this out was by making the multiplayer mod. I had added the ability for players to independently die/despawn, and the game was randomly crashing while they or another player were breathing electric. Took a while to track down since the mod isn't easy to playtest on my own.

There is an incredibly easy way to crash Spyro: A Hero's Tail. Simply pause the game while breathing electric, and then quit to the title screen. #SpyroAHerosTail #SpyroTheDragon (Real GameCube footage by @pgsk.bsky.social)

Honk Shoo

It will never not be funny that this exists in AHT

[ Gamin' | Spyro ] Spyro a Hero's Tail has always been such a gem for me, one of my most favorite Spyro games ever! Wish they ever made a remake of it, truly deserved Ft. @flattyarchitect.bsky.social playin' with me as Ember 🔥🔥