The Ancient Time Tree by darkboulevard

The day of the extinction of the dinosaurs is here! You are a sentient T-Rex that got visited by a strange magic creature who told you there's a way to delay your death. Good luck!

Controls
WASD or Arrows to move
Spacebar or Z to attack

Objective: Go to the ancient time tree as fast as possible without getting killed and before the meteor hits the Earth. Be careful with the dinosaurs, you can avoid or fight them.
| Link | https://francocuevas444.itch.io/the-ancient-time-tree |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-ancient-time-tree |
Ratings
| Overall | 507th | 3.66⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 307th | 3.731⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 599th | 3.404⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 159th | 4.154⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 528th | 3.44⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 521th | 3.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 547th | 3.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 43🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
Although it does leave me wondering why other dinosaurs are attacking you. You'd think they'd want to delay their extinction as well haha.
I think you went a little overboard on obstacles like cacti though, and they often messed up my "tactical Weaving"
But perfectly squeezing between some rocks to escape other dinosaurs was my favorite part of the gameplay loop
good entry :)
Nicely done!
Well done!
- Graphical consistency. The dinosaurs are all top down but the other items are at 3/4 view, which is a little jarring and probably is related to my next point.
- Unclear hitboxes. Just looking at two things I had no idea if I was going to be able to walk between them or not. I also couldn't tell if swinging my tail was going to hit things in front of me from the way it looked. This made the game kind of difficult to make any risk/reward decisions.
- I don't think you could really avoid the dinosaurs. Either they were in your way or they weren't and there wasn't much you could do about it. Running past them wasn't an option (because of the hitbox problem) and I couldn't dodge their attacks, so my only option was to run right at them and just hope to kill them before I died.
-For some reason my dinosaur constantly pulled down and to the left. It made some parts very difficult because I always had to be moving.
Not trying to be overly critical! I liked the gameplay loop and the mood of the game. I played through it twice and died at almost the exact same point both times.