Love the pixel art. The UI and font choice reminds me of the old Rugrat games for the PS1, which is a plus in my book. It was pretty hectic and a bit overwhelming and at one point there were so many people on the screen that it lagged a little. But the concept was unique and the game loop/progression seems pretty solid. Well done!
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Park Of Dinosaurs With Very Short Lifespans's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of the Limitation | #15 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Concept | #16 | 3.765 | 3.765 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Presentation | #33 | 3.471 | 3.471 |
| Enjoyment | #41 | 3.176 | 3.176 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Just me (Rundevourer)
Software used
Godot for the game, pixilart for the sprites, jsfxr for some of the sound effects and pixabay along ith audiomass for the rest of the sound effects.
Use of the limitation
The player needs to use a starting budget of 50 to buy dinosaurs to reach the goal of 1000000. The main gameplay loop also stems from the fact that the dinosaurs in the player's park have very short lifespans because the company made some budget cuts in the genetic research department.
Cookies eaten
A few, along with some ice cream and a few glasses of Lipton.
Comments
123 days ago(+1)
Thanks for checking the game out!
The bones actually do have a purpose: you can drag them to research sites (the white squares on the left side of the screen) after you buy them to get research points which you can then use in the shop to buy upgrades.
Thanks!
The 'magnifying glass stuff' are research points and you can get them by purchasing research sites (the white squares on the left side of the screen) and dragging the bones of dead dinos to them (the game explains this to you once you buy the first research site).
As for the visitors just disappearing, did you check whether your popularity (the number out of five next to the star icon) was at zero when this happened, as the rate at which you get visitors depends on that number? If that wasn't the case, then the bug where the visitors stop spawning in is still in the game and my fix didn't work.
123 days ago (+1)
The idea is that you use the dinosaurs to bring in visitors/guests and than throw them in the grinder to regain half of the money you spent on them, which is necessary to outweigh the costs of the dinos, but you can stop doing it or at least do it less once you get the upgrade that increases their lifespans, though that will reduce your profit and you will still need to keep the carnivores fed by using herbivores or other carnivores (or visitors).
Buuuuttt... they're canonically made in a lab and die in a matter of seconds no matter what, so you're technically not cutting their lives that short.
Thanks for checking the game out!
I just did some bug fixing and managed to solve the issue with the archaelogy/research sites. However, I was incapable of replicating the bug with the grinder (the blender thing) or the bug with the guests/visitors not arriving anymore. I did make some changes that will hopefully stop the problem with the guests from happening again, yet I can't be 100% sure (so for anyone reading this comment, feel free to inform me if you encounter this bug).
125 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing!
There actualy is a $250 dino. It's in the carnivores/second tab of the shop.
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