The camera should be zooming outwards once you reach a certain speed so you can see what obstacles are in your path ! It does reset to a zoomed-in state when you slow down though.
As for using the islands to go faster, you basically check two things before you can actually try doing the boost:
- You have to be in the "flying" state (if the dragon is flying forwards by itself that means you're doing it right!)
- You have to be above "ground" terrain (basically sand or grass), doesn't work above the ocean ^^
Once these two conditions are met, you can press [S] + [Spacebar] at the same time (without holding any other direction keys) and you should be able to boost yourself off of the terrain below you !
I really need to clean up the explanations even more ! The fact that you're struggling with them definitely means i wasn't clear enough >:(
Hope you enjoyed the game still ! Thanks for playing <3