Here is an initial experiment with 2 important aspects of Dino Run 2:
1) Smoothly flowing foliage - as you run by trees, bushes and grass in the game, they need to react to force of your dino and the general chaos around you.
2) They always need to be "pixel-pure" - meaning we never rotate pixel art in a way that results in...
2018-01-15 22:29:09 +0000 UTC View PostIs all about 3 things:
1) Create new "ambient dinos" for various terrain chunks. These dinos don't run, but casually do their thing while you rush past them. Do they know they are about to die? Probably not...
We have the first draft of our Kickstarter campaign copy done and it's SO LONG that it makes no sense to paste it here. So head on over to our discord server and check out the patrons-only channel (dino_run_2_patrons) where all the text is available to read, and let us know what you think!
Brutally honest feedback is appreciated - we need t...
2018-01-09 20:34:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe just got the latest payment from all our patrons and officially put it in the Dino Run 2 campaign:
https://twitter.com/pixeljamgames/status/950771038874492929
Thanks again for the continued support - new development news coming up ve...
2018-01-09 16:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back after a much needed holiday break. Here is what's in store for the next month:
On the dev/coding side...
Check it: http://www.dinorun2.com
It's bare bones to start, we'll be improving it over time, but consider this the main place to get weekly (or daily?) updates on our progress making the game.
We'll still post Patron-only dev updates here. The DinoStream is more of ...
2017-12-19 21:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
And it's something that we're very excited about.
We've been working on a little piece of technology that's going to make it very easy for us to convey our progress on the game. We could use some other microblogging service, but none of them did *exactly* what we needed, and we're very picky!
The DinoStream wil...
2017-12-08 17:14:18 +0000 UTC View Post
We just received our first payout from Patreon, and put the amount in the TOTAL FUNDS RAISED on pixeljam.com/dinorun that we are using to make DINO RUN 2.
Current total is $4657, which is almost halfway to Milestone #1!
If you feel like sha...
2017-12-01 21:45:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we have the first evidence that we're actually doing something with your support - neat huh?
This simple camera test is in Unity, using Pro Camera 2D. I'm moving the camera left and right with the arrow keys.
There are about 15 separate layers in this scene, all created in 2013 for our original Kickstarter video. A lot o...
2017-11-28 19:07:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It seems fitting that we start out very first post with a sketch made by Rich Grillotti (one half of the founding members) on a road trip in 2006. Little did we know what the game would become in the next 10 years.
It started as a simple flash game, then became Dino Run SE, then DX, and as of yesterday, Dino Run 2!