Dinosurvivor by YukimiItsuka
Save the dinosaurs? Or just delay the extinction.....
Introduction
April 1st, 65,000,000 B.C., sunny, little dinosaurs were having breakfast. Suddenly, a huge "meteor shower" fell from the sky, and millions of dinosaurs were thrown into outer space by meteorites. Some little dinosaurs who had pre-learned fireballs survived, forming an alliance to fight for protecting life on Earth! However, what they didn't know was that this meteor shower may last for a long, long time...
CONTROL the little dinosaur alliance, SHOOT fireballs to smash the falling meteorites, PROTECT the little dinosaurs and eggs on the earth, and CONTINUE the civilization of the little dinosaurs as long as possible!
How to Play
- Use A/D or ←/→ to control all little dinosaurs to move counterclockwise/clockwise
- Spacebar to shoot fireballs.
- if you want to keep shooting fireballs, you can hold down spacebar.
- Mouse clicks to control the UI.
Tips
- Aspect ratio. We recommend using a 16:9 screen for gaming, if your monitor doesn't have a suitable resolution to choose from, it may cause some display errors. You can try our web version in this case.
- Field of View. The field of view on the sides of the screen is significantly better than up and down, so let your little dinosaurs fight in these open areas!
- Meteorites hitting the Earth. There's no penalty for letting the meteor hit the Earth, but if this happens late in the game, it can have some horrific consequences.
- Breed. Be kind to your little dinosaurs, they will surprise you from time to time.
- Ranking. We have set up a ranking list and everyone is welcome to join it!
- p.s. The server is located in an unknown corner of the earth, if you can't successfully connect to the server, you can also leave a screenshot in the comments ^_^
- p.p.s. This is just a gamejam work, so please don't hack us :D
Videos
https://youtu.be/Fv8xhMi5E
(If you are not able to access youtube, click here: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1sq4y1a7n6/)
Screenshots
Enjoy our game!
Ratings
| Overall | 244th | 3.893⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 266th | 3.774⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 456th | 3.536⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 134th | 4.19⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 182th | 4.31⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 280th | 3.881⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 52🗳️ | 64🗨️ |
Nice art, game mechanics are simple but elegant.
Fx and audio fit well with the game mood but they are quite repetitive.
I would like bonus item to boost dinosaurs power :)
Great job !
I agree with the other commentors that it gets repetitive quite quickly, I was also confused that the meteors hitting earth didn't have immediate negative effects. Some more variety and level progression would make this game even more exciting :smile:
It's such so cute, I love it. Adorable.
At the end I had 1 egg left but no dinosaurs so I had to wait until it hatched to continue playing.
Maybe stop the game when only eggs are left or let them hatch immediately.
But overall great game :)
Also the highscores are a great addition for this type of game :thumbsup:
The itch.io display is veeeery big though.
On my last try I followed a strict A+Space rule, in that I just pressed A and Space constantly during all the game. In the previous games it seemed that I never can run where I needed to be anyway so I tried to just keep running and shooting. That beat my personal best and ended with me being 10th in the highscore. Not sure how to prevent this, but I just wanted to share this tactic.
It's a simple concept of gameplay, but i loved how you guys increase difficulty in the gameplay after sometime, and how easy is to understand the game systems of it.
It's easily the best game i've player from LDJam50 so far.
I really like the SFX of the gameplay, but i don't think i love so much the soundtrack. Also the sound of the main menu could be more aligned with the rest of the proposal of the game.
And the main menu cold have a little bit more color, as the earth in the game (you did such a great job with those graphics, so PLEASE use in everything you can!)
That's it. I loved it. A very very great game. Please submit your game to Newgrounds! I know that will be a huge success.
Only feedback I have for you guys is that maybe the collision detection on the meteors was a little off? Sometimes I felt like I should have hit some that I didn't.
Congrats to both of you and especially @ffffchai for your first Ludum Dare! Great job!
I really like this game though, it's cute, charming and I liked the mechanic of running around firing out to destroy the space rocks. Very fun experience!
Difficulty rampup could be a bit faster in the beginning. Also I would have loved to see the meteors coming a bit earlier, especially from up and down.
But good job on the game! Really good :)
Awesome graphics and music is very charming :)
Very nice game, simple graphics, but it is incredibly cute, and how fast the dinosaurs move their legs, I was touched and laughed at!!! The music is not intrusive but a little annoying and it's cool! The idea is great, I really like it.
Huge plus dinosaurs, I love them!🦖
There was a BADMAN entered the ranking in an improper way. u r so bad. We had to delete this data entry and slightly strengthen the server. But anyway thanks for playing. QAQ
Found a trick that, once you managed to put dinosaurs all together, you will become nearly invincible! At least I didn't feel any pressure after around 7 minutes. (F* the inevitable!)
Anyway, really well made little game! I enjoyed it a lot!
i didn't survive that long relative to other players, but that's partially because i realized after a minute that i can mostly just stand still and hold down space, and my engagement dropped a lot.
for gameplay / fun factor, i feel like it only became interesting when the big boulders that split into smaller boulders started flying in. otherwise, i just kept my dinos bunched up to make a decently wide spread, and mostly stayed in one place holding down spacebar. so i was basically really bored for the first few minutes of play.
also, for holding down space bar, it felt like a chore, since there's basically no downside to not holding it down. if there were some kind of energy meter or a bigger cool down, it would provide more incentive to be strategic about it.
at once point i got a cute pink dino that fired laser beams. that was really nice and unexpected! but i think it happens to rarely, another big improvement would be a wider variety of dinos, and having different variations more frequently. but of course, only so much you can do in a game jam.
