DINOSAUR

Controls

All you need is your mouse, it's very easy being a dinosaur! Its head will follow your mouse around and eat whichever leaves are within reach.

THERE'S A TINY BUTTON IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER YOU CAN USE TO GO FULLSCREEN

What is "DINOSAUR"?

"DINOSAUR" is a microtoy, where the player can enjoy simple and direct interaction between their inputs and a simplified game world, with a lively dinosaur as an avatar.

What does "DINOSAUR" mean to me?

"DINOSAUR", to me, represents the living and very real form of an animal long since extinct. It is necessary to represent it in a banal light that showcases its base animal activities, rather than try to paint it in a mythological light. The aspects I most wanted to adapt into this microtoy were the innate silliness and quirkiness that come from creatures performing normal acts with strangely shaped bodies.

Goals of the project

Having at that point only just started my second year as a game design student, and now being the president of the newly founded "Microgame Association" of ICAN: this was the first game I created over the predefined period of 14 days.

To kick back into gear: I decided to develop a variety of aspects within this project, including sound design, game art and all the implementation that allowed this small and schematized universe to come to life.

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