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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #741 | 3.390 | 3.390 |
| Overall | #1178 | 3.268 | 3.268 |
| Presentation | #1238 | 3.415 | 3.415 |
| Originality | #1841 | 3.171 | 3.171 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game features both an out of control Dinosaur and a lack of control once it gathers enough speed
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Love the game idea! It's pretty out of control. The art is great! And it's made in 48h??? Great game!
Maybe I didn't manage to trample enough people, but for me there wasn't that much out of control going on. I wish the people would run away and there were other things the t-rex could destroy when he loses control. And park rangers that try to stop the dino could be great, escalating up to tanks and the army if the player survives the waves. Nice pixel dinosaur though!
I've had feedback asking for more people and faster speed so it is something I am working on along with fixing the Dino's hitbox, and I ran out of time during the Jam before I could implement people running away.
I've had a lot of discussion regarding the obstacles you could face in the game and it is something I will work on the future, thanks for your feedback!
Yeah, keep working on it! I think it could really add some more depth to the gameplay if there are obstacles that you need more speed for to crash through. So you can keep the player in a smaller area first until they 'learned' how to use the abilities of the t-rex properly. But that's just some random idea :)
Good luck
I loved the increasing speed. At first it felt like i was just wandering around, and by the end it really felt like a rampage, particularly as you find clusters of people (it'd be cool if there were more of those). Nice job.
Really love the animations on this really nice pixel art work! Greatly executed idea! Really fun to play, great job! :D
Very simple game mechanic implemented in a very tidy way. Nice work!
Simple idea, Great out put. Loved it, and had fun with it :P
Simple idea, really effective execution! I feel like my dino could reach people it wasn't supposed to reach due to weird hitboxes, but it's nothing that took me away from the fun I had. Rated!
Very cool game, the music is perfect, it makes it so thrilling. I really appreciate that you gave the dino 8 directions - as the star of the game that is a good choice in my eyes. The dino speeding up is what made the game actually fun i think. The players competence in controlling grows, so this puts it to use well and keeps a challenge, while also giving a feeling of much improved "player performance". Chomped 405 guys :D
Really cool game, one of the few that are actually really fun to play :D
Thanks a lot! The 8 Directions Animations really took me a lot of time and energy and I still had to rush through it, I'd like to improve it further in the future.
I also want to focus even more on the speeding up mechanic, it was a simple tweak I made a few hours before the end of the jam, but I've had a lot of people wanting to go even faster, with even more people to eat and bigger maps! I will also fix the Dino's hitbox to make it easier to eat people without just going through them, and I had someone give me the idea of having security guards shoot sleeping darts that slow you down, which I think would make the whole experience more enticing than a timer.
Excellent points! Bigger hitbox sounds good, missed a few guys i expected to eat. The timer is fine for the jam, but i agree that it could be improved - after all you have little time to watch the timer, thus it builds little tension. So a in-map solution to end the game would be good. Also, jumping down from ledges :D
It could also be interesting to have someone (like a jeep with the sleeping dart boys) chase you and you using your big legs to jump on the ledge, where the jeep will not be able to follow thus making some time for you. Though i am sure it is difficult to balance and make feel right.
Really fun well made! I love how the dinasour moves faster with each human you eat (or crush I can't tell which is happening exactly)
Technically eating them, I'll make an animation to show it happening once the Jam is done!
Loving the art, I'm getting a zoo tycoon vibe on that XD
This game is pretty cool! I really enjoyed its main mechanic, keep working on it, i think it will became an Amazing game! good job! rated! please check out my game too :D
I really enjoyed the mechanic and the direction you are taking the game, I think if you flesh it out and add more obstacles for the player to fiddle with it would make the game alot more entertaining and fun to play :D overall I enjoyed eating humans..... (jk)
Good fun game with good audio and graphics. Battling the timer by trampling the people with an out of control T-Rex fits the theme nice. I thought game and graphics looked great too. Would be cool to see this with the people trying to run away but come back to shoot you with the dart gun to slow you down and/or decrease the timer. Nice work for 48hrs on your own and your 1st jam.
Thanks a lot! Means a lot to me, I really wanted to implement the running away mechanic but ran out of time, can't wait to improve this game and make a better one next year!
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This is a nice game to play ^^ good job ^^ the music is good for setting the feeling and the art looks really nice ^^ I also liked the GMTK pixel art or tile art or world art ^^ what do they call that ^^ nice easter egg ^^
The art was lovely and had a nice vibe to it! There was great deal of out of control in the dinosaur and the feedback made things really satisfying!
This is a good one. :D I liked how the dino became faster after eating the humans, and also the fact that speed doesn't always result in a more ideal gameplay. Good old Carmageddon wibes. :)
Thanks, that really was a late decision that helped the fun aspect of the game, and I've had some feedback asking for even more people to eat, have the madness go even further beyond :D
The art and animation is really cool.
First of all, the gameplay is really addicting :D you could make it way more fun if there was more things to eat(not only people). but the idea is cool, and i love the art. Well done :D
It is definitely on my bucket list of things to add in the future, thanks!
cool! :D
nice game it was very fun and satisfying