Curious Dinos by RafaSKB
Your spaceship crashed on Earth during the Jurassic Era. You need the dinosaurs help to get your ship fixed. Use basic ship functions such as alert lights to interact with their emotions and return home.
--- Credits ---
Pixeler: Brian Shepard - @starlightzone_
Sound Engineer: Stephen D. Gibson - @r9cast
Coffee Coder: Rafa Skoberg - @rafaskoberg
--- Instructions ---
Download the appropriate file according to your operating system, decompress the zip and execute the main file (e.g. Curious Dinos.exe and Curious Dinos.app).
Use the mouse to play.
--- Updates ---
Version 1.1 - August 30th, 2016:
- Fixed a couple of game breaking bugs.
- Fixed some serious performance issues.
Version 1.2 - September 15th, 2016:
- Added new dinosaur types.
- Added a new ship action.
- Rebalanced the effect of ship actions.
- Added an intro cutscene explaining the story.
- Added an ending cutscene.
- Added more music and sound effects.
- Added beautiful visual effects.
- Implemented day and night cycle.
- Fixed many glitches with sounds and particles.
- Greatly reduced the application size.
- Other minor changes and fixes.
--- Credits ---
Pixeler: Brian Shepard - @starlightzone_
Sound Engineer: Stephen D. Gibson - @r9cast
Coffee Coder: Rafa Skoberg - @rafaskoberg
--- Instructions ---
Download the appropriate file according to your operating system, decompress the zip and execute the main file (e.g. Curious Dinos.exe and Curious Dinos.app).
Use the mouse to play.
--- Updates ---
Version 1.1 - August 30th, 2016:
- Fixed a couple of game breaking bugs.
- Fixed some serious performance issues.
Version 1.2 - September 15th, 2016:
- Added new dinosaur types.
- Added a new ship action.
- Rebalanced the effect of ship actions.
- Added an intro cutscene explaining the story.
- Added an ending cutscene.
- Added more music and sound effects.
- Added beautiful visual effects.
- Implemented day and night cycle.
- Fixed many glitches with sounds and particles.
- Greatly reduced the application size.
- Other minor changes and fixes.
| Download from itch.io | https://rafaskb.itch.io/curious-dinos |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=90983 |
Wasn't that much fun though.
Great art and sound though, and the mystery is quite nice. You see it as the dinos do perhaps? The art style is almost hyper light drifter esque. I enjoyed my time playing.
Nice short experience!
I beat it but I just randomly clicked the buttons a lot =D.
I would have liked it more if I had some feedback loop helping me understand what to do as well as a potential failure condition. I never felt like my choices were affecting the outcome.
The atmosphere created through the music and sound design, coupled with the beautifully stylized visuals made the game almost mesmerizing.
The black box of the mechanics simply added to this. It truly created a sense of mystery, progress, and almost instilled a sense of awe.
The one major missing piece is fullscreen. That would have just made the immersion of it much better, especially with the small window size.
Other than that, fantastic work.
In any case though, a spaceship powered by dino-love is pretty amazing technology.
Fun: It was kind of cool and interesting to try and woo over the cute dinosaurs, but in the end I think mechanics needed to be a little more straightforward/obvious for me to have more fun.
Theme: Haha, this one is a stretch but I can kind of see it!
Graphics: Very well done! Nothing mindblowing, but all of the art was very clean and fit the style of the game very well. Great job!
Audio: The audio all fit just fine, but I'm curious as to what it might be like if you added additional layers of instrumentation to the background music for each ship part that you collect, as a sort of build-up.
Humor: N/A
Mood: Altogether this was a very quiet and pleasing experience, which I liked.
Overall: Pretty awesome, but I feel like the gameplay itself had some issues which I would have liked to see addressed. Nevertheless I think the presentation and concept are pretty excellent, so this was still enjoyable. :)
Congratulations on another successful LD! I'd really appreciate it if you could leave me some feedback for my game as well. You can find it at: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=7285.