TIGSource: Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs

Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs

Derek Yu — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:15:00 +0000

1up review of Flashbang Studio’s Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, featuring Mr. Scott Sharkey and Mr. Cesar Quintero. Gotta love how aggro (i.e. drunk) Scott is!

Testing the long-necked, small-brained physics for Flashbang’s next game, Jetpack Brontosaurus. Be sure to check out the new concept art on the site, as well!

Dinowaurs – 2d dino on dino combat. Wear helmets, fire rockets, and command helpless cavemen to do your bidding (or kill them)! Coming soon.

And finally, Dino Run, a new single and multiplayer online platformer from the creators of Gamma Bros.!

Proof positive that, though dinosaurs may not rule the Earth any more, they still rule… our hearts. Now if only the mainstream game industry follow suit and make a new Primal Rage game! (Dead serious here.)

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by curezen

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:52:57 +0000

ummm has anyone gotten dino run to download.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Melly

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:09:47 +0000

You shall not tarnish the Owl’s holiness with a measly suit!

Thou shalt build a massive totem in its glory and strap it on the backs of thy dinosaurs.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by aeiowu

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:07:30 +0000

@biphenyl - Hey what’s up Matt, this is Greg. Long-time no GDC. And yes, we’ve taken an oath and have no choice but to serve our reptilian lizard-kings.

@PHeMoX - Monocle acquired. Another eyeball adornment includes the Clockwork Orange eyelashes. Also, we’re thinking about the Fez hat and other indie game shout-outs for accessory ideas. Owl suit?

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Eclipse

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:49:25 +0000

just look at those shots! http://www.mobygames.com/game/carnivores-2

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Eclipse

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:46:00 +0000

Trespasser was awesome, only above it’s own time… it had realistic physics, an an innovative way of playing, but in that years fps were only shooters.

Anyway the BEST series of games featuring dinos is Carnivores http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivores_(series) is a cool game were you hunt dinosaurs, those games had all a fantastic gameplay

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by torncanvas

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:16:33 +0000

@shaktool: Woah! Never heard of that one. Haha, yeah no relation. Good thing we didn’t go with that name…we considered it, but it wasn’t cheesy enough. :P

The age of dinosaurs *is* at hand. It’s really a dream come true to see all these coming out at roughly the same time!

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Steve Swink

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:26:55 +0000

@PHeMoX: He does and agreed.

@Stwelin: That BrontoBrew isn’t going to drink itself…

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Stwelin

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:24:51 +0000

Hmmm… looks more like hangover brontosaurus than jetpack brontosaurus.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by PHeMoX

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16:51 +0000

How about monocle’d dinosaurs? Any word on that?

I think the driver character in Off-Road Velociraptor Safari has one, but we definitely need more.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Victo

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:19:36 +0000

Trespasser has it’s fun, it just fails as a game … I still play :D Just for the hell of smashing a raptor in the face with random objects.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by biphenyl

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:32:45 +0000

Mike and Greg from Intuition, Rich from Pixeljam, and I were having a discussion about our mutual love for dinosaurs (and our respective dinosaur projects) at GDC. The consensus was that there’s a fundamental disparity between how awesome dinosaurs are and the number of awesome dinosaur games out there – we’re all just doing our civic duties to close that gap!

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Dusty Spur

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:36:02 +0000

How about monocle’d dinosaurs? Any word on that?

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Jared

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:03:26 +0000

Dino Run and Dinowaurs both look like they’ll be excellent.

The recent Turok release was a decent dinosaur game as well.

Jurassic Park: Trespasser was an interesting failure.

And, in my opinion the champion of dino games, the Dino Crisis series was an epic win.

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by DR

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:36:07 +0000

hey all, is there a way to host Dino Run somewhere other than Blogspot? the country in which I’m living blocks Blogspot, and I’d sure like to play it, as I loved Gamma Bros.!

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by Susan

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:42:37 +0000

aha awesome stuff! :D

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by shaktool

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:07:47 +0000

I imagine Dinowaurs has no connection to Dinowarz?

"Age of the (Fucking) Dinosaurs" by ChevyRay

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:12:18 +0000

Watching that dinosaur physics video was the best thing that happened to me all week.