Dino Crisis
Yesterday at GAMBIT I saw Clara playing a game that looked like a little yellow raptor running across a screen of hills with comets and debris raining down. It reminded me of scene in Disney’s Dinosaur where they are all fleeing the meteors. I had forgotten about the game until tonight when I saw it linked on GameSetWatch in the most recent Best of Indie Games post. It’s called Dino Run and it’s made by Pixel Jam- and it is awesome.
You are a Velociraptor and must run for your life from an encroaching wall of scalding ash and fiery balls of death hurdling towards you- all while dodging and/or eating other dinos, gathering eggs, and jumping over a plethora of pitfalls and dangers. As you go you can eventually use those salvaged eggs in order to access upgrades to your dinosaur; like increased running speed, heightened jump, or added agility. Bones you run across along the way can be used for unlocking bonus material such as wallpapers, mp3s, and icons- I am saving for a Apocalypse wallpaper myself. Small dinos you eat can even be tallied for bonuses towards your score. There are also some dinos who can help you progress, like Pterodactyls giving you a lift or quick Parasaurolophi letting you hitch a ride. And if you donate to the developers you get hats. Yes, hats for your raptor! And there’s even a multiplayer mode for racing other player raptors online.
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