Dino Run

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Dino Run
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Developer(s) PixelJAM Games
ReleaseApril 30, 2008
Genre(s) Side-scroller
Mode(s) Single-player, Multi-player (formerly)

Dino Run is a Flash game created by PixelJAM and XGen Studios, released on April 30, 2008. The player steers a Velociraptor through increasingly dangerous side-scrolling landscapes to escape an impending "wall of doom". The game uses simple pixel art and 8-bit sound to replicate the style of 1980s arcade games. [1] [2] Dino Run was conceived by PixelJAM co-founder Richard Grillotti while he was sketching dinosaurs. [3]

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Expanded and improved versions of the game were later released for Macintosh, PC, and Linux under the titles Dino Run SE (2011) [4] [5] and Dino Run DX (2015). [6] [7]

Reception

Sequels

Two additional games, Dino Run: Marathon of Doom (2011) [8] and Dino Run: Enter Planet D (2013), [9] were released as stand-alone titles.

In November 2013, PixelJam launched a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to finance development of Dino Run 2. The game would introduce new dinosaurs, [10] [11] including Triceratops , Parasaurolophus , Pachycephalosaurus , and Archaeopteryx . [12] The fundraiser sought $175,000, [13] [14] but ended a month later, raising only $83,476. [15] [16] Another Kickstarter campaign succeeded in being funded in 2018, with a projected release date in November 2019. [17] [18] As of October 2024, the sequel remains unreleased.

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