Off-Road Velociraptor Safari Will Teach Raptors a Damn Lesson

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:29:00 GMT

Raptor Safari

This picture is worth more words than have been spoken or will ever be spoken, in any language, by any person, in the entire lifespan of the Universe.

Raptorsafari.com. You have been warned.

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  1. Klut said 42 minutes later:

    What

    No

    No wait, YES

  2. Chris P said about 1 hour later:

    The open letter on the front page is MADE OF PURE WIN.

  3. GameDick studio said about 1 hour later:

    Looks good, but Zoo Race is way better!

  4. Stwelin said about 1 hour later:

    Is that a working, reflective rear-view mirror there? Now that’s attention to detail.

  5. RichCI said about 2 hours later:

    Raptor + jeep = awesome Raptor + jeep + spiked ball and chain = astounding

  6. Bobjim said about 2 hours later:

    When is this game gonna be released?!

  7. Smithy said about 2 hours later:

    “Flashbang Studios, LLC, located in sunny Tempe, AZ, is a five-person independent video game developer. Founded in 2003 to independently develop video games, Flashbang strives to fan the flames of scientific curiosity in gamers with such historically-accurate simulations as Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus.”

    WIN!!!

  8. Matthew said about 2 hours later:

    We’re planning on releasing this week. Unity, the tech we use, has a version update for their web player due on Monday. We may wait for that, depending…

    Either way, it’s soon!

  9. Movius said about 3 hours later:

    ‘Jetpack Brontosaurus?’

    Apatosaurus would be rolling in it’s fossilised grave.

  10. Mayor McCheese said about 5 hours later:

    This looks great, Matthew.

  11. Gr.Viper said about 7 hours later:

    I wonder, if someone’ll shoot another Jurassic Park based aroud this jeep…

  12. Eclipse said about 8 hours later:

    Off-Road Velociraptor Safari Will Teach Raptors a Damn Lesson, but someone needs to teach the game 3d artist that Velociraptors weren’t like this… and don’t have plumes

  13. Will Vale said about 9 hours later:

    Yet more evidence that B games are the new A games.

    Also, jetpacks could explain how Apata/Brontosaurians are able to support their huge weight - swamp-dwelling be damned! Possibly the jetpacks didn’t make it into the fossil record because they were stolen by small furry mammals?

  14. !CE-9 said about 9 hours later:

    astoundingness to the damn cube! the music is just too good.

    however those crates feel too fucken sturdy, pls fix, and then I give you all my monies.

  15. rndll said about 9 hours later:

    A Mononcle. Hm.

  16. Gr.Viper said about 10 hours later:

    Blimey!

  17. Lopin said about 12 hours later:

    lol wheres the sense of humour, ive seen a lot of this, Nice nice :D reminds me of Carmageddon someway (The tail! carmageddon had an powerup like that) but the game is bizzarely interesting

    Thumbs up

  18. Kemo said about 12 hours later:

    “but someone needs to teach the game 3d artist that Velociraptors weren’t like this… and don’t have plumes”

    You talk like you’ve ever seen a raptor. Now, i dare you, go find a chicken skeleton somewhere and try proving to me that chickens have feathers, using only skeleton. Not to mention that feathers and scales arent that different in the first place.

  19. PHeMoX said about 13 hours later:

    They do not just find bones… sometimes you’ll find fossil imprints which give away clues about feathers, scales and skin… Raptors probably did have some feathers at certain parts of their body, but definitely not like this… they are not dodo birds. ;)

  20. Big Bully said about 13 hours later:

    stuffs Eclipse and PHeMoX into a locker

    RAPTOR SAFARI RULES!

  21. Groogokk said about 14 hours later:

    I don’t want to spoil the fun, but I think this will be the kind of game that you enjoy playing for like ten minutes, but that you never touch again after that.

  22. raigan said about 14 hours later:

    i thought everyone knew about dinosaur feathers! scales are sooooo 80s-dinosaur.

  23. Wrestlevania said about 15 hours later:

    How do you make Carmageddon, the bestest game everer, even better? Add dinosaurs!

    Really looking forward to playing this one – only a week to go, too, supposedly.

  24. Bobjim said about 15 hours later:

    OH MAN! I can’t wait to play the hell out of this game and laugh my ass off.

  25. fish said about 16 hours later:

    more games should be built around stupid-awesome ideas like that.

    we need more velociraptor safaris and metal wolf chaos. and volcanos. sapient volcanos.

  26. Matthew said about 16 hours later:

    We very clearly addressed the feather controversy–read the press release on the website…

  27. Pixel Mort said about 18 hours later:

    That’s AWESOME

  28. wormguy said about 20 hours later:

    DO WANT

  29. Tantan said about 22 hours later:

    Raptor Fun Fact #21 - If you tie a bow around a raptor’s neck, it might cause Christmas. Spontaneously.

    Dear Lord, I lol’d.

  30. Not Sure said about 24 hours later:

    I suck.

    http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Jetpack+Brontosaurus&word2=Off-Road+Velociraptor+Safari

  31. Responsible Pyromaniac said 1 day later:

    Holy god, this game looks awesome. I cant wait for release. I will hold my breathe untill then. Even if I pass out.

  32. X_Sheep said 1 day later:

    Respect for Flashbang Studios +99

  33. qnp said 1 day later:

    Actually it’s a well known fact that Raptors did in fact need monocles. Their eyesight was too poor, to reed their newspapers without, the poor sods.

    As for the feathers, again, read any Wikipedia entry and you shall find that one strain did in fact evolve to sprout feathers instead of scales. This evolution mainly took place to camouflage them somewhat better in their pimped Cretaceous jeeps.

    LOL, oh shit, turns out there did used to be feathered Velociraptors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Velociraptor_BW.jpg looks over to Eclipse you were saying… :D

  34. PHeMoX said 1 day later:

    We very clearly addressed the feather controversy–read the press release on the website…

    Did you take a look at the pictures where they compare the ulna of a velociraptor with those of a turkey? There’s a massive difference and in my opinion the quill knobs on the velociraptor bones aren’t even visible … Hence why by far not all scientists agree with this, the actual consensus is that they might have had feathers… this socalled proof is rather controversial itself.

    ( http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070920145402.htm )

  35. PHeMoX said 1 day later:

    What they really found by the way, were indentations, not knobs…

  36. Pip said 4 days later:

    PHeMox, stop being such an indentation.

  37. PHeMoX said 4 days later:

    I was born a moron, I can’t really help it. ;)

  38. Carlz0r said 4 days later:

    Watch Discovery Channel moar!

    They’ve been saying for at least like 5 years now, that some dinos MAY have had feather-like things on their bodies.

  39. Bobjim said 4 days later:

    Close to being a week!

  40. PHeMoX said 5 days later:

    Watch Discovery Channel moar!

    I really should watch it less actually, it’s driving me insane how many times they dare to repeat shows and documentaries. However interesting just about all of them are.

    They’ve been saying for at least like 5 years now, that some dinos MAY have had feather-like things on their bodies.

    Yes, which is just about the exact current consensus about the whole thing. That my friend was my point. :)

    I just said I was a moron, because I felt like I was complaining just to make a point that doesn’t really matter thát much anyways when it comes to the game. I mean, who really cares if their Velociraptors do have feathers, right??

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