Comments on: What’s Up With Dinosauria?

By: Thomas Boren

Thomas Boren — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:12:51 +0000

Dear Mr. Andy Schatz,
Hello my name is Thomas Boren I’m 16 years old and I love dinosaurs and your game Venture Africa, and I know that you don’t always see alot of video games with dinosaurs now a days. My future career after high school and college is going to be a video game designer and make a game where you can control dinosaurs through a story mode campaign. So I was wondering if you could tell me what the problem(s) is with Dinosauria. Maybe I could probably help in any way I can because you sound frustrated. I just to lend a helping hand.
Sincerely, Thomas Boren

By: Dreamly

Dreamly — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:16:32 +0000

Hey guys! Is it still being released? I can’t wait! I’ve been checking everyday, I loved Venture Africa, and I hope this one comes soon!

By: Drew

Drew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:58:48 +0000

I think to make a dinosaur eco sim game fun you need lots of dinosaur species to keep it fresh maybe have a limited amount of species for the map but the player can choose some of the species for the maps before starting their game

just an idea

By: Moe Morrissette

Moe Morrissette — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:13:25 +0000

kudos to you on staying with Dinosauria! I’ve long enjoyed both Arctic and Africa and am looking forward to being able to play with dinosaurs! it looks a lot like Venture Africa and that is a good thing. the Africa game was extremely well done. The graphics and actions were much nicer to watch than in Arctic.(Seemed cleaner and brighter? )The game mechanics were also better I thought in V. Africa than V. Arctic. Nice and simple, allowing one to watch the animal interactions without having to constantly keypunch to keep things moving along. A terrific game for use in teaching ecosystem interactions to kids! I hope Dinosauria continues this biological realness. one thing I found myself wanting in VentureAfrica was maybe a larger gameworld and more diversity in plant types. most animals specialize in a type of feeding source, sometimes a specific plant species!
many animals in the real world co-exist together because they use different resources in the same habitat, or even use the same resource differently (i.e. different bird species feeding in different zones in the same tree). this was nicely done in V. Africa and it would be nice to see more of it in Dinosauria. I also really enjoyed that you kept the games realistically balanced predator/prey species-wise. (few top predators,lots of prey species). most dinosaur interactions are thought to have been very similar to modern day ecosystems. Just bigger critters! ever thought of introducing disease as a population controller?
I expect to be wowed by this new one if its anything like V.Africa. looks very impressive already.

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By: Kristy

Kristy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:10:30 +0000

FINALLY up update. I’m glad that Venture Dinosauria is still gonna be made.

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By: Hermes888

Hermes888 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:32:41 +0000

Happy New Year! Maybe we can see a release date soon? :)

By: Andy Schatz

Andy Schatz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:10:54 +0000

Hi Hermes! I’m really excited about it to! I can’t give you any good answers right now, but when I have a better sense for this stuff, I will let the community know!

By: Hermes888

Hermes888 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:17:36 +0000

You should be back by now, where are your responses?