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Post: Dino The Dinosaur Game

Dino The Dinosaur Game. This game is a modern take on the classic Dino dinosaur game, an endless runner where your goal is to survive as long as possible by avoiding obstacles. Set in a cartoonish desert landscape, you control a friendly-looking dinosaur that must jump over cacti and rocks. The game is simple, engaging, and designed to be enjoyable for players of all ages. As time progresses, the game’s speed increases, making it more challenging and fun. Your score increases the longer you survive, encouraging you to beat your own high scores.

How to Play – Dino The Dinosaur Game

  • Objective: Avoid obstacles by jumping over them to achieve the highest possible score.
  • Controls: The game is controlled with a single action:
    • Jump: Press the Spacebar key to make the dinosaur jump over obstacles. The timing of your jumps is crucial to avoid crashing into the obstacles and ending the game.
  • Game Over: The game ends when you collide with an obstacle. You can restart the game to try again and improve your score.

Tips – Dino The Dinosaur Game

  • Start jumping early: Anticipate obstacles and jump early to avoid them.
  • Practice timing: As the game speeds up, practice your timing to improve your ability to avoid obstacles.
  • Stay focused: The longer you play, the faster the game gets. Stay focused to maintain a high score.

Enjoy playing the game and aim for a new high score every time you play!

If you look from within you will find the way….

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Dinosaur Game

Dinosaur Game
Developer(s) Google
Designer(s) Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, Edward Jung
Platform(s) Google Chrome
Release 2014
Genre(s) Endless running game

Theย Dinosaur Game[1]ย (also known as theย Chrome Dino)[2]ย is aย browser gameย developed byย Googleย and built into theย Google Chromeย web browser. The player guides aย pixelatedย Tyrannosaurus rexย across aย side-scrollingย landscape, avoiding obstacles to achieve a higher score. The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014.

Gameplay

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Nighttime graphics in the game

When a user attempts to navigate to aย web pageย on Google Chrome while being offline, the browser notifies the user that they are not connected to the Internet, with an illustration of aย pixelatedย Tyrannosaurus rexย shown on the page.[3]ย The game can then be launched either by pressingย spaceย orย โ†‘ย on desktop, or by tapping the dinosaur onย Androidย orย iOSย mobile devices. Additionally, the game can be accessed by inputtingย chrome://dinoย orย chrome://network-error/-106ย into theย Omnibox.[4]

During the game, the dinosaurย continuously moves from left to rightย across a black-and-white desert landscape, with the player attempting to avoid oncoming obstacles such asย cactiย andย pterosaursย by jumping or ducking.[5]ย Pressingย space,ย โ†‘, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile devices will cause the dinosaur to “leap”, while pressing theย โ†“ย key will cause the dinosaur to “crouch”. As the game progresses, the speed of play gradually increases until the user hits anย obstacleย or a pterosaur, prompting an instantย game over.

Once the player reaches around 700 points, the game switches from dark gray graphics on a white background to pale gray graphics on a black background, representing a shift from day to night, with daytime sky graphics also becoming nighttime sky graphics.[a]ย The color scheme then alternates as the game progresses.[6][7]ย The game was designed to reach its maximum score after approximately 17ย million years of playtime, in reference to how long the T-Rex existed before it wentย extinctย during theย Cretaceousโ€“Paleogene extinction event.[8]

If aย network administratorย disables theย Dinosaur Game, an error message appears when attempting to play the game, which features an image ofย a meteorย heading towards the player character.[9]

Development

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Theย game overย header and restart button after the player runs into aย cactus

The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014, which consisted of Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung.[10]ย Gabriel designed the player character, named the “Lonely T-Rex”.[3]ย During development, the game was given theย codenameย “Project Bolan”, in reference toย Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the bandย T. Rex. The developers chose the dinosaur theme as a reference to the game’s function, a joke that not having an internet connection is equivalent to living in the “prehistoric ages“. The game was released in September 2014; initially, it did not work on older devices, so the code was updated and re-released in December of the same year.[11]ย The pterosaurs were added as obstacles with a browser update in 2015.[12]

In September 2018, anย Easter eggย was added to the game in celebration of Chrome’s 10th birthday and the game’s fourth birthday, with aย birthday cakeย appearing in the desert and aย birthday hatย appearing on the Lonely T-Rex if the cake is “eaten”.[13]ย In November of the same year, Google introduced a feature to save the player’sย high score.[14]ย The game’sย source codeย is available on theย Chromiumย site.[15]

In 2021, Google introduced aย widgetย in March forย iOS 14ย which led players toย chrome://dino;[16]ย a similar widget was introduced toย Androidย later that year.[17]ย In July, anย Olympic torchย Easter egg for theย 2020 Tokyo Olympicsย simulating variousย Olympic activitiesย was added.[18]ย Upon reaching the torch, the dino transforms into variousย Olympic gamesย such as swimming, running, and many others. Instead of the usual cacti and pterosaur obstacles, the dino now encounters challenges related to the Olympics.[19]

Reception

The game received widespread recognition, with the creators revealing in September 2018 that approximately 270ย million games were played monthly.[8]

In popular culture

The Dinosaur Game is referenced in the “couch gag” opening segment of theย season 34ย premiere ofย The Simpsons, “Habeas Tortoise“.[20][21][22]

Related media

In May 2020, aย Microsoft Edgeย update addedย Surf, a game where players control a surfer attempting to evade obstacles and collect powerups. Like theย Dinosaur Game, it is accessible from an error page when the browser is offline. The game allows for character customization and multiple control schemes.[23]

In August 2020,ย MSCHFย andย 100 Thievesย partnered to create aย modified version of the gameย titledย Dino Swords, which featured a smallย arsenalย of weapons and time-slowing pills; when mismanaged, the weapons could backfire and harm the dinosaur.[24]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ย Using a device inย dark modeย will start the game with the same nighttime graphics.

References

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  3. ^ย Jump up to:aย bย Tumblison, Craig (March 7, 2014).ย “Interview with Sebastien Gabriel, a Google Chrome Visual Designer”.ย OMG! Chrome!.ย Archivedย from the original on March 26, 2015. Retrievedย October 11,ย 2020.
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  7. ^ย Matos, Clinton (May 20, 2016).ย “Google Chrome’s offline “Dinosaur Game” now has a day-night cycle”.ย HTXT.ย Archivedย from the original on May 21, 2016. Retrievedย June 7,ย 2016.
  8. ^ย Jump up to:aย bย “As the Chrome dino runs, we caught up with the Googlers who built it”.ย The Keyword. September 6, 2018.ย Archivedย from the original on September 8, 2018. Retrievedย June 18,ย 2021.
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  17. ^ย Bradshaw, Kyle (July 19, 2021).ย “Android is getting a homescreen widget for Chrome’s famous ‘Dino Run’ game”.ย 9to5Google.ย Archivedย from the original on July 19, 2021. Retrievedย April 22,ย 2022.
  18. ^ย Bradshaw, Kyle (July 21, 2021).ย “Chrome’s Dino Run game gains in-depth Tokyo Olympics easter egg”.ย 9to5Google.ย Archivedย from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrievedย July 23,ย 2021.
  19. ^ย Finn, John (July 22, 2021).ย “How To Find & Play Chrome’s ‘Dino Run’ Olympics Easter Egg Game”.ย Screen Rant.ย Archivedย from the original on October 23, 2022. Retrievedย March 31,ย 2023.
  20. ^ย Wang, Jules (September 26, 2022).ย “The Simpsons run Chrome’s offline desert gauntlet in latest couch gag”.ย Android Police. Retrievedย September 26,ย 2022.
  21. ^ย Li, Abner (September 26, 2022).ย “‘The Simpsons’ ‘couch gag’ pays tribute to Chrome Dino game”.ย 9to5Google. Retrievedย September 26,ย 2022.
  22. ^ย Reichert, Corinne (September 26, 2022).ย “The Simpsons Season 34 Opening Couch Gag Pays Homage to Chrome’s T-Rex Game”.ย CNET.ย Archivedย from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrievedย September 27,ย 2022.
  23. ^ย Warren, Tom (February 26, 2020).ย “Microsoft is adding a secret SkiFree-like surfing game into its Edge browser”.ย The Verge.ย Archivedย from the original on April 14, 2022. Retrievedย March 25,ย 2022.
  24. ^ย Alexander, Julia (August 24, 2020).ย “Google’s Dinosaur browser game gets a dope mod that includes double swords”.ย The Verge.ย Archivedย from the original on August 24, 2020. Retrievedย January 20,ย 2021.

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