Dinosauria (Prototype)
A downloadable game for Windows
Note: This game is built with higher end computers in mind.
Place different dinosaur species on an island to form a simulated ecosystem. Each species will eat different food sources at different life stages, and predators will need prey to hunt. Remember to place animals of both sexes if you want them to reproduce. The island has fresh water ponds, which you should place animals near since they cannot drink from the ocean; large grown animals can go longer without drinking.
Controls:
A,S,W,D: move camera
Middle Mouse: Rotate camera
Mouse Scroll: Zoom camera
Left Mouse: Select/Place dino
Right Mouse: Deselect dino
Space: pause game
Esc: menu
H: hide the UI.
The animal limit can be controlled in game, and there is an FPS counter to help determine a good animal limit for your computer.
You can load custom music by placing a folder named "Music" under "DinosariaAlpha1Win_Data\StreamingAssets" folder and then add music files of types .wav or .ogg.
Planned Dinosaurs:
Ankylosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Baryonx, Brachiosaurus, Carnotaurus, Compsognathus, Deinynochus, Dilophosaurus, Gallimimus, Iguanodon ,Kentrosaurus, Ouranosuarus ,Oviraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Protoceratops, Spinosaurus, Stegosaurus, Styracosaurus, Triceratops, Troodon, Tyrannosaurus Rex
The AI is currently simple enough for it to meet basic needs.
The save system is not yet finished.
The dinosaurs do not yet have sounds.
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Why does the game pause on lost focus? This seems like the kind of game that should run even when the game window isn't in focus.
Would love to see an option to move the camera up and down... This seems to be missing for some reason. Also wish you could zoom in a lot closer when tracking a dinosaur... A dynonichus is really small on my screen when I'm tracking it (I have a 2K screen, although I can't change the game to use my entire screen--at least not in windowed mode).
I would love for this game to be shown some love. It has some serious potential.Maybe if it gets on steam more ppl would play it.
i mean, save is broken, most dinos can't mate, lead dev clearly left the game........ It had potentional
hey what are the pescivores?
hey the rar is broken on alpha 2
this game has a lot of potential- but I do hope that it either gets picked up by someone else or that the creator can come back and continue this-
Since it looks as if you aren't going to be developing this game any further or for a while may I take over development?
a Game with Potential but hard to find, just downloaded itch.io for this game to play. Maybe more people would play it if the game were on Steam. saddly i cant safe the game and my dinos dont mate someone have any ideas how to fix it :/. maybe controlable natural desasters like flods, the choice of 2-3 maps or a herd or territory system could make the game even more interessting. hope this game will get more support in the future :)
Why wont my protoceratops just MATE
AI is very buggy, and gets broken easily
Is anything fixed?
It's so sad this cool concept for a game is ded would be like jpog if it only site b
Hey I am going to get this very soon are you still updating the game
No I am currently working on a different project.
Will you return to this in the future at any time or is it 100% just abandoned?
It will probably be a few years before I can come back to this, so it is basically %100 abandoned, because I would probably start from scratch on the idea next time
Hello I am a game designer and developer myself and I would like to take over development of dinosauria
Awesome Game! One problem though - it seemed to run way to slowly. Any ideas on why this is?
From a performance standpoint everything that is not the ground, water, or sky is a real time active entity using CPU time, and the map is bigger than it should be. Additionally I need to do more optimization work.
Going forward I am going to be making a smaller map, which should run better.
I actually really enjoyed this game! I can't wait for more dinos, features and save option
I keep getting a "Failed to load mono" notification and can't open the game, any way to fix this?
That error is specifically the Unity engine failing to start, because it cannot find the mono.dll that is inside the Mono directory.
One possibility is that you could have the exe file located in a different directory from the associated Mono directory. Always make sure to copy all of the files from the archive to the same directory on your machine.
Alternatively it could be something strange in the path to where the game is stored. For reference: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1413411/fail-to-load-mono-on-a-built-project...
If you had it installed via the itch client, then I'll have to do more investigating.
Sorry for the late reply. I've downloaded the game off of Itch.io, and have everything in one folder: Mono(folder), DinosauriaAlpha2Win_Data(folder), the Dinosauria application to run the game, the Unity crash handler, and the unity player. Is there something I need to move/change? That's how it came downloaded.
It is supposed to just work so long as all of the files are in the same folder an a computer, and that computer meets the minimum requirements to run Unity: https://unity3d.com/unity/system-requirements.
Alternatively you can install the itch.io client, and download/play Dinosauria with the itch.io client.
I am not familiar enough with the error to remotely troubleshoot.
whenever i try to play it says "put it next to the excutable." can you help?
It is the executable that is giving an error message stating: "put it next to the excutable.".
It might be that you are trying to run it from the archive, which it cannot; here is a video I found demonstrating this:
still needs some improvments but its the first itch.io game that i played for almost an hour it has alot of potential
Super late reply. Yes this needs lots of work, and for the longest time it maybe got 5 view a day, so I considered it a failure and moved on. I re-watched like every dinosaur documentary I had in the past from Walking with Dinosaurs to Planet Dinosaur, and wondered if I could make a game that felt like simulating those documentaries, and this is what I came up with.