The game was one of the first on the PlayStation to utilize shifting levels of detail among rendered objects, thanks to a panoramic engine developed by Alex Hastings which allowed the game's open-ended nature to be fully realized. Taking inspiration from the film Dragonheart, the game started out as a more mature title with a dark and realistic approach, but the direction was shifted to have a more whimsical and light-hearted tone to appeal to a wider market of consumers. Artist Craig Stitt suggested a game about a dragon, and work began on a new game. Spyro the Dragon started development following the release of Insomniac's debut game, Disruptor, which sold poorly but was generally praised by critics, impressing Universal Interactive enough to encourage them to make a second game. Spyro's abilities as a dragon include fire breath, a head-on charging attack, and a mid-air glide which he can use to scale large distances, all of which must be used strategically to find items and defeat enemies. Spyro the Dragon is an open-ended 3D platformer, featuring large, sprawling levels in which the player must locate collectable items, among which are gemstones, crystallized dragons, and stolen dragon eggs. The first game in the Spyro series, it stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro, and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, who must journey across the Dragon Kingdom to defeat Gnasty Gnorc, who has overtaken the 5 dragon Homeworlds by trapping the other dragons in crystal and turning their hoard of gems into an army of minions.

However it requires careful control and a brave heart to prevent a Purple Dragon from being consumed by the darkness.Spyro the Dragon is a 1998 action adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. A prime example of this trait is Spyro learning to tame the dark magic within him to become Dark Spyro, a black-scaled dragon, and using this dark side to fight for good. If a Purple Dragon learns to master the darkness seeking to control them, they can harness it and combine its power with their own. Unfortunately this power can leave Purple Dragons vulnerable to the influence of dark magic, which can cause them to become corrupted by it. Because of this, Purple Dragons are associated with element of Magic, which is the most essential of all other Elements. In the Skylanders universe, they can harness all the elements from Skylands. Purple Dragons share the same qualities as their Legend of Spyro counterpart, holding the ability to harness the power of more than one Element. Spyro and Malefor are currently the only Purple Dragons shown in the series. Purple Dragons are a rare and magical species of Dragon in the Skylanders series that came from a faraway land few have ever traveled. Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure Skylanders: Return of the Dragon King

Spyro the dragon skylanders