Demo 0.1.0 - IS OUT!
WHOOOOO!! After many, many months and recent 13+ hour days, this Windows demo is finally available. This EXPANDS on the original jam game concept (sadly no longer available), by having Kora save eggs instead of eating them. She's saving them because a volcano is about to erupt and engulf the land in lava!
She's going around helping other dinosaurs gather their eggs (because they aren't so quick and nimble), which gives the context for the clock and time focused game play, as she's on the way to grab her own. Kora doesn't gain new abilities or use power ups (except in FRENZY MODE!) as she's racing to collect eggs, but the environments around her provide fresh challenges that will slow her down, never killing her, increasing her finishing time.
"What doesn't kill you, knocks you on the tail and tanks your time" - the classic saying.
This demo features the first 6 levels of the first 3 areas. Area 1, the Grazing Grasslands, are basically a long tutorial to get you used to Kora's movements and how the levels offer multiple routes which can affect your final time depending on which routes you decide to take and how cleanly you execute your jumps.
After the Grazing Grasslands, you'll move into the Bracken Bog, a swamp filled with poisonous plants and biting bugs! These will stun Kora and knock her out for a few seconds (tanking your time!) but she'll get back up and be ready to keep going. These add a timing puzzle element to the game play and keep you on your toes as you have to change routes on the fly (no pun intended!).
Finally, you'll enter the Crumbling Canyon to help Paxton save his eggs before his wife comes back and realizes he's lost ALL of them! The Canyon features falling platforms and quicksand. These two will alter your routes and force you to plan your path even more strategically. Hazards will continue to stack upon each other as you progress in the game which means that once they are introduced, you may encounter them at any time in the future!
This game is all about flow, finding the most efficient routes and getting the best times possible to collect Ambers that will unlock the next areas. There's an instant restart button that allows you to reset the level at any point and test new routes or restart after you've gotten bit, poisoned or stuck in quicksand! Despite only having 18 levels in the demo, there are multiple types of collectibles and if you manage to get enough, you'll unlock a new mode, FRENZY MODE!
You'll need to collect all the Golden Eggs in an area to unlock it, but then you'll experience the arcade style chaos that has you trying to collect 40 eggs within a minute! You'll use power ups to help you reach your goal, a total of 8 for the demo. This mode flips the normal, "be precise with your routes" to making decisions on the fly - "Should I go for this power up or this set of clustered eggs?!" - It's a whole new way to play on the levels you've already (hopefully!) mastered.
After you've completed all the Escape mode levels, you'll be rewarded with Speed Run Mode. You'll get the chance to move through all 18 Escape mode levels in a single "run" and get your name and total time on the leaderboard! This is why it's so important to learn your routes and get the fastest times possible in the Escape mode because this is the "boss" of Jurassic Parkour! This game basically teaches you to become a speedrunner, it will test your precision jumping, your timing and how quickly you can think on your feet.
So give it a play, meet the characters and become a speedrunning champion! This is the dinosaur game you didn't know you needed! It's on it's way to Steam for you to wishlist and download from there. There will be Steam achievements in the Steam demo when we release it, so if you love getting those dopamine POPS! then make sure to download it and grab them!
PLEASE give us your feedback and let us know if you encounter any bugs - we've worked really hard to squash as many as we can, but there always some remaining.
Looking forward to the next step of this journey, come and join us - follow us on YouTube for devlogs and progress videos (plus some more!), we're on the majority of the common social media platforms, too!
Thanks, I hope you enjoy,
LionJeff
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Jurassic Parkour
A tricky raptor parkour, egg collection game!
Status | In development |
Author | Fox and Lion Games |
Genre | Platformer |
Tags | 2D, Arcade, Cute, Dinosaurs, GameMaker, jumping, one-button, Parkour, Pixel Art, Short |
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