The Dino Game

Halfway Point

Inspiration

Google's classic dinosaur game.

What it does

You play as a dinosaur that is running through the wilderness, in either the story mode or endless mode. In either one, the only movement you control is ducking and jumping. You have to dodge dangerous obstacles in order to make it to the end in story mode or to a new highscore in endless mode.

How we built it

Using Godot 4.3 as our game engine, we were able to put everything together quite easily. We collaborated using GitHub, made art with Aseprite, and got the font through searching online. The music was made through samples online and then those samples were mixed.

Challenges we ran into

We ended up having a major issue where a commit was pushed to main that cause the entire game to break. This resulted in us losing about and hour's worth of progress and having to rebuild what we had lost.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to get the core gameplay of both routes of the game done even though some of the features such as the pause menu and main menu are a little bare bones.

What we learned

The dinosaur game is actually pretty hard to make. Also, tweening kinda sucks.

What's next for The Dino Game

There isn't much planned for the future of The Dino Game, but if we were to do more, the visuals and less developed parts of the game would definitely be our focus.