This is it.
We’ve wanted to make this game for 10 years, now is the time!
-Pledge now or forever hold your $$$-
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/the-dino-run-2-exploratory-campaign?ref=ehfbsa
RAWWWRRRRRRR!
PS - Join us for our final stream tonight (Wednesday) at 9 PM EST - https://live.kickstarter.com/pixeljam/live/the-final-countdown
We’ve made our initial Dino Run 2 Kickstarter funding goal, but there is a long way to go! Out next major milestone is the STEGOBALL minigame, which all backers, funders and patrons will get way before the final game.
Check out the project and please consider backing - only 4 days remain!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/the-dino-run-2-exploratory-campaign?ref=ehfbsa
Dino Run DX Is Pay-What-You-Want This Week!
Get the game for whatever price you want to pay, including completely free: pixeljam.itch.io/dino-run-dx
(Sale ends Feb 22nd)
All in support of the ongoing Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Campaign, currently with 1 week left and 2K to go!
Announcing the official…
Starts today, Monday, Feb 12th
Ends Monday Feb, 19th
Show us your best!
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.
GET ON IT!
Did you know? In Dino Run 2 we plan to make a number of historical eras for the dinos to run in (Yes, we have lore and a back-story for how this could possibly be.. possible) & escape the relative forms of DOOOM in each!
Emergent Gameplay
You can see in this example gif of some of the unpredictable emergent gameplay events that could occur in the game. Running in Dino Run 2 would be a different experience every time.
I think we’ve proven that it’s clear, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the world would be a better place if this was in it, and you can be part of making it real by contributing to our Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Exploratory Campaign! Give it some consideration perhaps?
Other Eras
We plan to launch with the Cretaceous and Paleolithic Eras, if our funding supports them all, and then we’ll add more later on as DLC, such as a Cyberpunk Future, Old West, Medieval Times, Mad-Max style Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland Future, racing in low gravity on Planet D & more. We’re open to suggestions too…
<3 <3 <3 Rich, Miles, Jeffrey, Mark, Rand & Will @ Pixeljam
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.
<3 Pixeljam
In support of the ongoing Dino Run 2 Kickstarter we’re having a RACE WITH THE DEVS event in the Dino Run DX Multiplayer Lobby.
Friday, February 2nd, 9PM EST.
We’re also streaming the event on Kickstarter Live: https://live.kickstarter.com/pixeljam/live/dino-run-2-race-with-the-devs-multiplayer-party
Come hang out with us, chat, race, and show your support for our massive endeavor to create the sequel to Dino Run!
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!
