You can still support the game and get some sweet dino loot on pixeljam.com/dinorun as we work towards our first major goal - the Stegoball minigame.
You can also keep up with development on dinorun2.com.
The adventure is just beginning…
It’s Monday, Feb. 19th, the last day to enter our Dino Run 2 Fan Art contest!
We’re getting some amazing entries. Show us yours! We’ll start the judging tomorrow.
All entrants get a prize! (choice of 1 Pixeljam game) Winners get… better prizes! (T-shirts, etc).
- Make any kind of art related to Dino Run (1 or 2, or 3, 4, 5???)
Enter in 1 of 2 ways:
1) Email to jeffrey@pixeljam.com
2) Better yet: post it to Twitter and tag it with #dinorun2 and @pixeljamgames
- All entrants get choice of 1 existing Pixeljam game
- Top 5 get “The Full Stego” reward from our Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Exploratory Campaign.
- Top 3 also get “The Pixeljam Collection” reward.
- #1 gets a Dino Run T-shirt, mailed anywhere in the world.
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Here’s another concept art by Jeffrey Nielson of the Hazardous Cenozoic Era in Dino Run 2.
It’s a regular Ice Age going on here and we’ve got some exciting (and slippery) ice-berg physics in store for it. Also… Magalodons to wreck your day.
Don’t be Megalodon food! And keep running cause the super-avalanche is still on your tail.
Here’s some new excellent concept art for Dino Run 2′s Cenozoic Era by Jeffrey Nielson.
Avalanche is a new type of Doom to run from, while avoiding hazards such as wooly mammoths, sabretooth tigers, hostile cave humans & more!
Only 2 days left to get in on this action in the Dino Run 2 Kickstarter! We’ve successfully reached our goal, but the more we raise now, the sooner we can make this all happen. :)
<3 The Pixeljam Team
Ever wonder what it would be like to roll up like a stegosaurus (fact), roll down hills & take jumps?
It would kinda be like this!
Do YOU want to roll up like a stego and help the whole world to roll up like a stego too? Visit the Dino Run 2 Exploratory Kickstarter to help make it real!
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Oh my. How do you think this is going to turn out??
If Dino Run 2 can make its development funding goal, we will all be one giant step closer to finding out…
And even if you’re not interested in backing Dino Run 2, It may be of interest that we’re trying something different, highly responsible and transparent with our funding efforts that may be worth seeing.
We’re so glad to be moving the needle towards responsible, well estimated, realistic crowd-fund raising for video game projects. The industry needs some help & refinement, we’ve got some ideas & are trying them out on our own projects.
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Behold the (historically accurate) Stego Ball in action. This incredible defensive/downhill traversal method used by Stegosaurus’ is captured here in this rare pixel art image by Jeffrey Nielson, the brilliant lead artist on Dino Run 2.
If YOU might like to roll into a stego ball some day (and, well, who wouldn’t), check out our Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Exploratory Campaign to help us to make this a reality, along with 8 other Dinosaur classes to play as as well.
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For the launch of Dino Run 2, we plan to have 9 excellent playable dino types:
Each dino class will have its own strengths and weaknesses. We will likely have class races, sensible groupings of dinosaurs that are well balanced to race against one another.
Ideally, we would be able to allow all dino types to compete in the same races, but this may prove impossible while maintaining some degree of realism to the relative speeds of the dino types.
Beyond launch of the game, we eventually would love to add more and more playable dinosaur types ( and are happy to accept requests. :)
If this all sounds good & exciting to you, head on over to the Kickstarter Exploratory campaign to be part of the making of Dino Run 2!!
<3 The Pixeljam Team
The original Dino Run is famous for its dino customizations - a huge variety of hats and masks for the original playable Velociraptor.
For Dino Run 2, each class of dinosaur and pterosaur will have a unique feature that will be customizable. In the case of the Pterosaur class, changing your look will effectively change the Ptero type you’re playing with, and nature provides a great amount of variety for us to work with.
Here are a few examples of the sorts of Pterosaur customizations we pan to include. Squawwwwwk!
And head on over to the Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Exploratory campaign if you like to be part of making this real!
Here’s an illustrated breakdown of our multi-tiered path to the funding, development and release of Dino Run 2.
Read more about it on our official campaign page at pixeljam.com/dinorun.
Also, check out a great article at hardcoregamer.com by James Cunningham, who seems to really grok our approach to making this happen.
