Dino Fate

co-authored: @decosense, @kimyokage
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.35
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.57
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.28
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.59
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Your time machine crashed, and now you are stuck with the dinosaurs who are about to be extinguished by a threatening asteroid!
Try to save you and the dinosaurs and survive as long as possible by teaming up with the dinosaurs Greedy, Guac, Gizmo and Ganfred.

Rotate your thruster moving the earth with [A] and [D] and push forward with [W].
Pause the game using [SPACE].
After collecting enough space potatoes, feed new dinosaurs by clicking on the icons on the bottom and place them on planet earth. Placed astronauts as well as your engine can be further upgraded.
Press [Shift] + [R] to reset the game (and try to find the [Shift] + [???] cheat combinations...).

Comments23

LDJam user 2807555 Apr 2022, 02:50
Cool stuff! Intuitive and good pacing. Love the humorous voiceovers.
Embedder72
Embedder725 Apr 2022, 02:51
I loved this game. At first I thought, wtf. But then it grew on me until I realized how much fun I was having. The voiceover work is on-point.
Kyle Welfare5 Apr 2022, 02:57
Loved the intro scene! The gameplay was fun, and the audio was fantastic. The low res graphics made it a bit difficult to keep track of all the things on the screen at times. Great job!
Rory Soiffer5 Apr 2022, 02:57
I'm a big fan of the particle effects and sound effects, they add a ton of juice to the gameplay.
onedozenbagels5 Apr 2022, 02:58
Great theme, amazing voiceovers, and totally a blast to play.

Worthy of sharing with my friends, family, and co-workers!
GameRaws5 Apr 2022, 03:05
I love the art style, and it was fun to play. Nice job.
3LSTMsInATrenchcoat5 Apr 2022, 03:07
Nice game! The dialogue and theming is cute (albeit a bit all-over-the-place). Movement and game feel are good and the difficulty seems fair. Sometimes it was a bit unclear whether certain things were asteroids or stationary background planets, but it wasn't too much of a problem. Fun SFX. A good entry overall!
SAGIII
SAGIII5 Apr 2022, 03:08
Hello! I liked the humour on this game and the idea of the rocket earth. Also the voice lines are awesome.
ComicSans
ComicSans5 Apr 2022, 03:16
Favorite LD, evar! 4856 points! :star: Ran out of things to buy/upgrade. :money_mouth: Had me LOL. Great work!
AlekM
AlekM5 Apr 2022, 03:16
This game was the best one I've played so far. Super fun and packed with great humor. You guys did an awesome job!
Raphiell5 Apr 2022, 03:20
Amazing, exact same experience as @embedder72. Apprehensive to loving it. Really well done.

My Setup:

My final score (1068):
Alex Zahn5 Apr 2022, 06:44
Fun to play! I like the humor and lightheartedness, had me smiling. I like potato. Loved the spoken sound FX whenever you choose an upgrade, haha! Good job!

Some audio feedback: Music should be louder! The 'wabba wabba' voices during dialog got a bit repetitive - could do for a set of 4-5 voice sounds that get randomly selected. Loved the sound effects, nice work!
nyaa225 Apr 2022, 12:20
This is the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life! Guac is the cutest and greatest Dino!!!! ✨😍
Max Hyper5 Apr 2022, 20:36
Incredibly fun, I just kept adding the laser dinos which was awesome! haha.
Also the story is hilarious, love the humor and the fact that your main enemy is God
Cosmicallity
Cosmicallity6 Apr 2022, 06:09
Really funny and really fun! It's got a pretty addicting gameplay loop!
nyaa226 Apr 2022, 14:09
In fact I loved guac so much I got him tattooed! 😍
SofiGnedova
SofiGnedova6 Apr 2022, 22:06
1. Nice graphics. Made with soul. Excellent combination of raster and pixel graphics.
2. "Ba-ba-ba" the person who made this sound enjoyed it. He shared his fun with us! Music theme!
3. Good balance! + The explosion and lifting of objects are very felt.
4. The plot is funny. The characters were very satisfied :)
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To be honest, I do not know what to find fault with. A funny little story and a funny little game. Whole, cheerful and very attractive :з
You guys are great!
Tan games8 Apr 2022, 20:38
Good humor and fun game. Asteroid dodging planet stacked with laser shooting dinos, whats not to like. I am Dinomandias, look on my works ye mighty and despair.
DinoHunter699 Apr 2022, 01:13
Hey having really a lot of fun!! My Highscore is 35126 But i think i wont Beat that anymore ^^ Stil great Game!!
ZenohParadox9 Apr 2022, 18:05
I really enjoyed this game. It was a lot of fun. The visual style worked really well. The characters had personality, and the gameplay was a lot of fun!
Doot
Doot15 Apr 2022, 12:50
What a nice game!

The gameplay is quite simple at first, and then the tower defense elements add a lot of depth. You are always trying to survive long enough for the next upgrade, and the difficulty curve is really well done! The graphics were nice even if a bit unreadable after level 7 or 8.

Great job and thanks for the game I had fun 🦖🦕☄️
Junber
Junber19 Apr 2022, 14:05
Wow this game is really polished, especially for a game jam. Just so many great things: the graphics, the flesh-out upgrade system, the voices in the opening cut scene, ... The list goes on. The game is just super fun.

Here are a few nitpicks nevertheless: having to wait for the right moment to build/upgrade shield for them to be in the right position was a bit frustrating, I wish they would automatically take their position in the formation or something. The opening scene is great but it goes on for a bit too long imo. Once I got to a fully upgraded build with 5 lasers, 1 regen and 6 shields, at ~3000 points it felt like I was essentially invincible just standing still; not sure what the solution to that is though, maybe just a win condition? It could get a bit hard to read what exactly was going on at some points, maybe live, dangerous asteroids should look more different to debris?

But all of these things really didn't detract from my experience all that much. This is definitely the best game I've played this LD so far. Great job!
evgeney249 Jun 2022, 16:10
Good humor and fun game.

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