Recently we’ve been working on how your dinos behave and co-exist with each other in the park. Our first step was to design how a single dino experiences the world by itself, and now we’re throwing all the dinos together. This results in a bunch of unexpected results. Luckily, we’ve implemented a utility AI that solves many of the problems and results in cool emergent gameplay.

• “Are you my mom?”
  
• Inter-species exhibits
  
• Dino mindfulness
  
• Camera fixes and don’t forget the fun

Turns out Milo the baby Triceratops was quick to accept Daisy as his mom. In Parkasaurus you now can have unconventional family structures; a newly hatched baby dino usually latches on to the first adult dino they meet; even if a different species.


Experimentation into inter species exhibits has resulted in many questions, for example, what if the species desire different biomes? Does this mean it is possible to have 2 biomes in a single exhibit? If so how does the system decide the amounts of a biome in an exhibit when more than one exists? <brain explodes>.


Sometimes in the crazy world of running the ultimate dino best friend theme park, it's good for your sanity to take a moment when the park is closing to enjoy the beauty you've designed with your bare (digital) hands.


The two of us are furiously getting Parkasaurus ready for Early Access, and on occasion forget to have the goofs that are so important to our game (your game and mine). Therefore I like to take some time to create little exhibits and plop some accessories on our dinos, so, here’s Marvis wearing a fedora.


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Lot’s to share for this Parkasaurus Update. In addition to improvements to the game, we’re also starting to tie in all the non-gameplay tasks that are really important like translations and reaching out to people who might be interested in previewing the game. There have been a few requests for a roadmap so I’d like to get that up for everybody sometime this week. Alright, let’s get to it:

• A Little Privacy Please
  
• Late Night Dino Gazing
  
• Employee Micro-managing
  
• Seasons are back in style!

Our continuing series that dives a little deeper into a few of the mechanics in Parkasaurus this week covers the Privacy System. This is one of the mechanics we think really makes Parkasaurus unique from the other dino park simulators and allows people who love to design a chance to be really creative with both form and function.
https://youtu.be/NTuts4BOnLE

As we start to get closer to an Early Access release we’ve been going back over some of our original features to figure out which ones we want available for day 1 EA, and which ones we need to receive additional feedback from the community about. The general consensus from our Discord channel has been night lights are awesome – so we had to do a little work to get our night lights functioning again with our new shader system.


The employees in Parkasaurus automatically find appropriate tasks in the park to do based on a scoring system; this consists of distance to the tasks, dire need of the task to be done, assigned priority, etc. Sometimes though you might see an overflowing garbage can that you just need to get cleaned; so, we added the feature to directly assign tasks to your employees in the world.


Autumn is here. Well, more is the case the two of us have been fixing free cam bugs. This includes inspecting all our seasons using the free cam. My favorite season currently in the game is autumn but I must say winter is right up there.


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We are really looking forward to getting Parkasaurus into people’s hands to start receiving feedback and help. In preparation for this there has been a large focus on bug squashing and removing friction points in the game. Although there is an understanding that an Early Access game is really just the beginning of our long road together, we still want to put our best foot forward.

• Promotion Art
  
• Milky Way
  
• Winter is coming…
  
• BUG BONUS: Ghost Vegetables
  

As we get closer to Early Access (just writing that scares me) we really wanted promotional art that encompasses our vision and feels for Parkasaurus. This is the first piece of art we haven't done ourselves and think it really captures what we're trying to achieve in Parkasaurus and thrilled with it.


With the addition of a Dino cam and a Free cam meant people would eventually be able to look up at the sky. This meant needing a day sky and night sky. We'd always had an idea for how we'd do that and finally got to implement the feature using: 5 textures, 3 for the stars, 1 noise to control brightness and 1 for the clouds.


In Parkasaurus not only are there days of the week with changing weather, but you also cycle through the seasons. We recently had to go through all our season shaders to ensure they worked with the new lighting FX pass we did a few weeks ago. Here is your Parkasaurus park in the middle of winter. Research those wool-ly hats!


One of my favorite bugs from this week was our ghost veggies that wandered the park.


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Summer is upon us (well, on our side of the Earth) and we’re celebrating by avoiding the outdoors and working feverishly on Parkasaurus. We’re extending the way players can explore their park with new cameras, doing extra work on Dino breakouts, and throwing some in depth information on that YouTube in the form of an Exhibit Pane Reveal video.

• Exhibit Pane Video
  
• Dino Cam in the house
  
• Betty breaking out

In Parkasaurus the Exhibit Pane is a really valuable source of information about each exhibit, and how well the exhibit is tailored to your dino best friend. Therefor, as we get closer to Early Access we’ll be posting some videos to provide a little more information on the game systems.
https://youtu.be/SMq5adHsBUw

We love watching our dino best friends walk around their exhibit – so realized there had to be an even BETTER way than the normal park view. So, we made a Dino Cam! Now selecting a dino brings up their info pane – and you can click a little camera icon in the top left to enable Dino Cam mode, check it out.


Breakouts and dino attacks – errr – dino horse-play, is an important aspect of Parkasaurus – so we’re doing a few more iterations on how this mechanic works in game. Check out Betty as she tries to break out – she doesn’t know better, she’s just goofing around. (and causing havoc).


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Glorious is the day Parkasaurus friends, Alpha 3 was reached! This means we’ll be receiving a ton of gameplay feedback, figuring out what is fun, what isn’t that fun, and adjusting accordingly. The game at this point is Early Access feature complete – all the parts are there, we just need to get them to run smoothly.

• Employee waypoint updates
  
• Dinos just want to have fun
  
• Exhibit Lists
  
• Bonus: Park grand opening

In Parkasaurus your employees become vital once your park starts to grow, it is a great lesson in delegating out the work. We’ve been improving employee pathing; now you have 3 choices:

• random - the employee wanders the park looking for tasks to do
  
• waypoints – you assign the route for an employee to follow
  
• proximity – you assign the employee to stay tethered to a certain area

Toys! Toys! Toys! We’ve been finalizing the toy system and changing how this affects your Dino best friends. For example, some toys might improve the health of a Dino (eg. A vaccine is in the ice cube!) or sometimes toys are just for fun, and therefor increase the enrichment of your Dino.


There are many interesting systems in Parkasaurus that sometimes can be missed by players. Last week we added some much-needed info panes that we never realized were very important to have, for example, a list of Dino exhibits. It may seem intuitive to put this in but it's amazing what you just don't see when you’re in the thick of developing a best friend Dino tycoon game 😊


One of the older complaints we got from folks playing the game way back was they felt overwhelmed when people entered the park and they weren't ready...so now you can close & open the park. Guests who are in the park leave, guests en route turn around, and we stop spawning any new guests. This was a fitting point to chat about because it also feels like a celebration for Alpha3.


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Spring is upon Parkasaurus! Birds are in the air, flowers are blooming, and your Albertosaurus is causing havoc by the Sushi shop. A normal Tuesday. We've been cleaning up the last features for Alpha3, and looking forward to hearing feedback (scary) from our first internal playtesters.

Parkasaurus is purring (growling?) right along. Working on one of my favourite features for you dino park – extending operation hours by adding lights! Also since we want all our dino best friends to play Parkasaurus translations have been fully integrated. Oh, and we completely re-worked how the time portal works. Holy!

• Night Lights
  
• Translations
  
• Beam me wayyyy back Scotty
  
• Bonus : Exhibit Polish

One design aspect of Parkasaurus is incorporating enough lights at night so your guests can stay longer. Which paths do you light up to maximize the most money? Maybe you don’t care about the money, but want instead to highlight the best-looking aspects of your park? Up to you!



你好！Bonjour! Здравствуйте! Hello!
Truth be told I don’t know if any of those above translations are even correct (well, maybe the last one), but I do know that we have our translations hooked in throughout the game. Soon we’ll be asking for help in translating the words in Parkasaurus to a bunch of languages from around the world so everyone can have dino best friends. If you think you can help be sure msg us on Discord or on the Steam forums!



We changed how players use the time portal to go back in time and find cool dino eggs. Skulls, footprints and gems now influence the type of eggs you can find; but are not mandatory. Also dino digging was transitioned into the final task to find your dino eggs. And did we mention you’ll be sending back your employees for the task? Choose how many and who to send.



Lot’s of bugs for Alpha3 are being fixed – this was a cute / sad one. At the end of the day balloons being held by guests were supposed to disappear, instead, I found in them in the morning of the next day slowly floating in to the sky. Keeping that one.



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Hi there Parkasaurus best friends.

When the two of us started Parkasaurus a promise was made to ourselves to never release our game into Early Access before we felt it was ready. Too many times we’ve personally supported Kickstarters, and Early Access games that have release broken, and then disappear into the night. I understand all too well how hard it is to make games – but I also know that gamers who amazingly buy Early Access to support me, who give me money saying “we believe in this product and YOU”, deserve a tight working game experience.

We know that you are all excited for the game and we can't wait to let you get your hands on Parkasaurus and to see what parks and exhibits you create for your dino best friends.

Unfortunately during our evaluation process we feel that, whilst progressing at lightning speed, the game isn't yet early access ready in a way that you deserve, and we do not want to rush something out just to meet our forecast Spring window. Many people have told us it is crazy to not release very soon – that from a business perspective this is suicide. We don’t care – what we care about most is an Early Access game we can be proud of, and a game we can develop together with you, early supporters, to eventually release the best Parkasaurus can be.

Pushing our early access release by a few months means that we are able to refine what we already have and introduce some other, as yet unannounced, features to the game. We have a crystal clear roadmap to bring Parkasaurus to Early Access and then far far beyond, to a 1.0 release, and then much more. Come with us on the ride!

Our regular updates continue as usual and we will continue to be active in the Discord server and other social channels, bringing polls, providing idea submission forms and asking for feedback on features as they are implemented.

Let's grow this together.

Howdy there Parkasaurus Warriors! Turns out we should be arriving at Alpha3 this week, a bit behind schedule but not too bad. We also have evaluated the project and our roadmap and excited to provide a schedule update later this week.

Over the last week we have made a lot of progress with the game adding some of the required nuts and bolts that aren’t always the most exciting aspects of a game to show off, but definitely vital to shipping a successful Early Access. . This includes translations, menu screens, option screens, and simple UI improvements to making a smooth gaming experience. Although, we ALSO finished our first pass on one of the funniest parts of the game: dinosaur breakouts

• Chaos
  
• Loading & Menu Screens
  
• UI Improvements
  
• Bonus : Exhibit Polish

We had a fun time implementing dinosaur breakouts, and you’ll have a fun time trying to contain them. A lot of chaos happens when a dino breaks a hole in their exhibit. Some dinos are fairly chill and only want a hamburger, other dinos are less…chill, and have a taste for meat alright.  Question is have you hired enough park rangers to contain? Enough engineers to fix the damage? We’ll see.



Option menu, main menu, loading menu : done done and done. Menus can often take a long time to implement but luckily these were not too painful. Check out our little loading screen – we had a good suggestion from our Discord that the dinosaur running on the globe should be randomly chosen, I think we’ll try to implement that.


UI improvements are interesting because often they are only noticed when missing! I’m sure though all the Parkasaurus players will notice every detail we put in though because they’re the best. An example of a recent UI improvement is the destruction confirmation tool – if you’re destroying an expensive item in your park we’ll be sure to check in with you. Also don’t worry, destroying you dino with a tool is not possible.


Even during all these new additions to the game we had time to do a little terrain polishing. Check it out. (this is a slightly older pic, things look even better now!)



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Hi there Parkasaurus Warriors! The next update has arrived. The game is tightening up; a few big features (that are hilarious to see in game) and more graphics updates. At Washbear we hope to be as transparent as possible, and want to let you know that we’re trying very hard to get you an Early Access date update. Thanks for understanding! Parkasaurus Update #009 : Party Hats

A very large update to the Parkasaurus privacy mechanic has been implemented over the last week. Now there are more options for deciding how to design your exhibit. As always the focus is on your dino best friends so a few more dino accessories were made thanks to our Discord vote. Oh, and of course more food refilling options and dino poop!

• Party Hats
  
• What type of manager are you?
  
• Privacy is Happy – but for who
  
• Somebody has to clean it up…

Are accessories for your dino best friends the most important feature we should be working on? The answer is DEFINITELEY YES. Our Discord channel recently voted on what dino accessories they wanted to see more in Parkasaurus, and recent winners were Unicorn Hat (+2 enrichment), Cone of Shame (+1 health) and Hotdog Hat (+1 bonus to eating). Earn those science points to be sure you too can have a full assortment of accessories.



Your dino best friends are going to be really hungry, and we mean HUNGRY. Keeping your feeders refilled is a demanding task in Parkasaurus. The question is do you refill the feeders yourself by items from you inventory bag, or do you have your veterinarians do the work? Or a combination of both? Choices choices.



Your privacy heatmap allows fine tuning of your dino exhibits to be a balance between what is best for your dinos, and what keeps your guests paying money! Obviously your dino best friends are paramount – so be sure to use tall grass, wisely shape your exhibits, and mindfully place your guest paths along the fences in such a way as to maintain a decent amount of privacy.



Sadly our dinosaurs lost the ability to poop – but luckily that was fixed! Part of raising your baby dinos into full adulthood is ensuring their exhibits are clean. Be sure to hire a veterinarian and a janitor to help out.



The two of us are trying our hardest to get the Parkasaurus word out to the world, and we see all of you helping out! Keep it up! Tell your neighbour to Wishlist us, get your boyfriend to follow us on Twitter or get your boss to post about us on reddit or your company forums. Being a Parkasaurus Warrior is such a big help to us. Thanks. xoxo
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Hi there Parkasaurus Warriors! The next update has arrived. The game is tightening up; a few big features (that are hilarious to see in game) and more graphics updates. At Washbear we hope to be as transparent as possible, and want to let you know that we’re trying very hard to get you an Early Access date update. Thanks for understanding! Parkasaurus Update #009 : Party Hats

A very large update to the Parkasaurus privacy mechanic has been implemented over the last week. Now there are more options for deciding how to design your exhibit. As always the focus is on your dino best friends so a few more dino accessories were made thanks to our Discord vote. Oh, and of course more food refilling options and dino poop!

• Party Hats
  
• What type of manager are you?
  
• Privacy is Happy – but for who
  
• Somebody has to clean it up…

Are accessories for your dino best friends the most important feature we should be working on? The answer is DEFINITELEY YES. Our Discord channel recently voted on what dino accessories they wanted to see more in Parkasaurus, and recent winners were Unicorn Hat (+2 enrichment), Cone of Shame (+1 health) and Hotdog Hat (+1 bonus to eating). Earn those science points to be sure you too can have a full assortment of accessories.



Your dino best friends are going to be really hungry, and we mean HUNGRY. Keeping your feeders refilled is a demanding task in Parkasaurus. The question is do you refill the feeders yourself by items from you inventory bag, or do you have your veterinarians do the work? Or a combination of both? Choices choices.



Your privacy heatmap allows fine tuning of your dino exhibits to be a balance between what is best for your dinos, and what keeps your guests paying money! Obviously your dino best friends are paramount – so be sure to use tall grass, wisely shape your exhibits, and mindfully place your guest paths along the fences in such a way as to maintain a decent amount of privacy.



Sadly our dinosaurs lost the ability to poop – but luckily that was fixed! Part of raising your baby dinos into full adulthood is ensuring their exhibits are clean. Be sure to hire a veterinarian and a janitor to help out.



The two of us are trying our hardest to get the Parkasaurus word out to the world, and we see all of you helping out! Keep it up! Tell your neighbour to Wishlist us, get your boyfriend to follow us on Twitter or get your boss to post about us on reddit or your company forums. Being a Parkasaurus Warrior is such a big help to us. Thanks. xoxo
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