Comments on: Unknown Pleasures 2009: Venture Dinosauria

By: Caiman

Caiman — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:21:37 +0000

The trouble with games that overlap my career is that I find it hard to enjoy them because I’m always nitpicking! Same with movies and TV shows. Hopefully they put a bit more effort into the behaviour than the Walking with Dinosaurs series (handy tip: ask animal behaviourists about dinosaur behaviour, not palaeontologists).

By: amishmonster

amishmonster — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:10:40 +0000

Oh, this announcement makes me unreasonably giddy. Could this fill the gap between DinoPark Tycoon and my dream game, the DinoRiders RTS they’ll make after whoever owns the IP realizes how amazing that would be.

Deinonycus is like a bigger velociraptor with indie cred, and thus one of my favorites. Someone already took styracosaurus, so I’ll go with my runner-up favorite, kentrosaurus. The kentro pretty much wins hand-down for pointiness.

An oft-overlooked dinosaur game is Paraworld – it’s not an especially good game, but if you go into it expecting a b-level game with dinosaurs, Vikings, and a thinly-veiled Charles Darwin riding an allosaurus, it’s pretty amazing in its own way.

By: Ben Abraham

Ben Abraham — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:52:27 +0000

Man, I’ve been reading the Michael Chriton Jurassic Park novel this week just fo’ kicks, and this has me EXTREMELY excited!

THE FIELD OF PALEONTOLOGY IS FINISHED!

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:45:50 +0000

Brontosaurus: The dinosaur Science said couldn’t exist. It’s the creationist dinosaur!

By: Radiant

Radiant — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:20:14 +0000

A. Schatz
Greatest name ever inflicted by a parent.

By: Lilliput King

Lilliput King — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:05:13 +0000

Brontosaurus (a.k.a. Apatosaurus) ARE cool.

Check this out:
“With such a large body mass, combined with a long neck, physiologists encounter problems determining how these animals managed to breathe.”

Awesome.

By: Bret

Bret — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:44:17 +0000

When I was a kid I loved Deinonycus. Small, but not so small as to be worthless, predatory, and they had switchblade toes.

The feathers thing, however, is just kinda lame. And based, from what I can find, not on fossil evidence, but the fact velociraptors had them. Which just feels like bad science.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:06:57 +0000

I used to like the brontosaurus until I learnt it wasn’t a real dinosaur (or rather it was just the same as another one).

By: Muzman

Muzman — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:06:54 +0000

So you can mix and match the theoretical characteristics and the functions of features and see what happens to the simulation?
That’s so freakin cool it hurts.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:44:33 +0000

Wow… awesome… now I have 2 new games to play immediately. I’m totally full of the nerd-love for Planet Earth, the 70’s Life on Earth, Walking with Dinosaurs, etc. Goddamn I love my doccos.

THANKS ARH PEE ESS!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:20:06 +0000

I like the Dinosaur with the huge bulb on its tail, which it would use to slam the seven hells out of T-Rex ankles.

Awesome.

By: MacBeth

MacBeth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:49:49 +0000

Wikipedia link for your (and my) spiky friend, btw.