Summer is upon us! (or cold cold winter for our Southern Hemisphere friends). And with that arrives the Dinosaur Tycoon Update. We have some fun features in this update, let’s get to it.

• Dinosaur Tycoon
  
• New Dinosaurs
  
• New Fences
  
• Campaign Missions now in Custom Mode
  
• Color & UI Improvements
  
• Little Rest

Dinosaur Tycoon is a new challenge mode that has been added to the game. Dinosaur Tycoon requires you to achieve a Park Appeal of 50000 and have 300 guests. The game in this mode is also much more difficult, with higher prices for supplies and the needs of your dinosaurs being more demanding. There is an achievement associated with this challenge. You can find this mode in the Customize section, under the Mode dropdown.


The Parkasaurus dino family has just become bigger! Each dino family in the game now has a new dinosaur joining the team. New dinos added to the game include:

• Diplodocus
  
• Euoplocephalus
  
• Coelophysis
  
• Pachycephalosaurus
  
• Sinoceratops
  
• Hesperosaurus

Here is the entire new family fighting for some reason:



We had always wanted to add new fences that could also serve as interesting decoration pieces within the park. This was the result; new fences!:

Rock Fence The first fence ever created by humankind! (this is likely not true)



Hedge Fence If you think a hedge can’t stop a dinosaur have you ever tried to run through one of these???



White Fence A perfect white picket fence to be smashed by your dinosaurs!



There was a real interest in having the Campaign Missions as stand-alone maps where players could mess around and just enjoy certain map layouts. Now in the Custom mode you can select Sandbox, then pick any Mission from the World Map dropdown. Play Toronto to infinite!


The saturation of the game was toned down to what we think is a much nicer look. In addition, we fixed some annoying UI issues, such as UI notices piling on top of each other. (I GET it, we’re out of food already Parkasaurus).


Friends! The two of us that form Parkasaurus are going to be working on a new exciting little project, but won’t be able to talk about it till next year. This means we will only be working on Parkasaurus bug updates for the remainder of the year. As always, we aim to be as transparent as possible with you and look forward to sharing and hanging out on the Steam forums, Discord and Twitter. 😊


Thank you for all your community suggestions, bug reports and support.
There many ways to help:

• Follow us on Twitter, hang in Discord, post about us on reddit
  
• Tell your favorite streamers to play our game
  
• Most importantly, love your animals with all your heart

Can’t stop won’t stop the Dino love.

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Hello friends! We have some exciting updates to Parkasaurus that I would love to share with you. All of these new additions to the game have been player requests! We do listen, sometimes. 😊

• Realistic Mode
  
• Undo Feature
  
• Performance
  
• Cool Walkways
  
• Bugs

Believe it or not, some players are not in love with our derpy dinos. For them – we have now added a REALISTIC toggle on the front menu to change your dinosaurs into a more “realistic” texture. (sorry, no feathers!) (This is just an OPTION, not default) Check out these good looking dinos:



And yes – if a dino has a glow as a trait we show this as embedded gems.




Did you know a lot of tycoon simulations do not have an Undo option? Well, nothing is too good for our players! (seriously, tell other people about us…). I personally find the Undo function really helpful when building fences!



This is also helpful with terrain changes:



Keep in mind that not ALL actions can be undone. For example, moving buildings cannot be undone. Sorry!


It seems that there was a lot of junk kicking under the hood of the game. We optimized, poured some potions together, and did some more optimization of our navigation mesh and animation system. What that means for you is an increase in performance – especially in larger parks.




Alright so this is not a new feature – I just wanted to share with you some cool walkway parks that have been created by our players. So. Cool.





We fixed a LARGE number of bugs. One of the most notorious bugs that we fixed was terrain “popping” when placing items. This often led to a flattening or raising of terrain when undesired. Look, now you can place your items near the edge of the park without fear of the terrain popping out (and then dinos escaping)!




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Full Release Notes:
Version 1.20
-Realistic alternate dinosaurs
-Undo system implemented with Ctrl+Z(Not all actions are undoable)
-MASSIVE performance upgrade affecting all areas of the game
-Many localization fixes
-Better looking long grass
-Fixed Made picking up employees easier along with a button on the employee pane for quick picking up
-Fixed Walkways in exhibit were not walkable in fps mode
-Fixed some items causing the terrain to flatting next to it
-Fixed If your entire park is being seen as an exhibit because it's closed off from the entrance, you can place an info or science building to fix this
-Fixed Overhaul on performance of overview window and sorting
-Fixed tooltips being cut off
-Fixed ground tiles showing up black
-Fixed made some images language agnostic
-Fixed deleting info booth leaving UI on screen
-Fixed Missions will now count dinobook retroactively
-Fixed Guests pay at night upgrade was not always working
-Fixed Resetting ship parts did not reset the free eggs upgrades
-Fixed Inconsistent portal info about digging stats when loading a game
-Fixed Employee View button would open up on guests
-Fixed Auto Assign button would sometimes not show up in overview screen
-Fixed Snow appearance

Holidays have arrived! (For some of us, others still have to work. ☹ )

A reminder: this Holiday season might be tougher than usual for people; so please take the effort to reach out to friends and family through email, txts, video calls, anything! We all can do a bit more caring & empathy and a lot less anger.

The two of us at Washbear have had a crazy year (who hasn’t?) with the launch of Parkasaurus. We have some surprises planned with the game and company for 2021. Exciting.
With that said, we added a little holiday cheer for this most recent update.

• Holidays Toys
  
• Holidays Store Items
  
• Language Fixes

And you thought it was a problem when that cat got to the Christmas Tree? How about a little back scratcher for your dino best friend.



The best part about getting your dino a present is that they’re happy with just an empty box!



Although sometimes when you’re just a small fry it is easier to just push:



So Rufus helped volunteer at the mall as Santa’s little elf…



Even dinos need a little eye protection on the ski slopes.



For various boring reasons, a few of our languages were very poorly translated. In this patch, there should be major improvements for Chinese (simplified), French, and Japanese! Thanks for your understanding.

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But you may say “Hey Taky, how are dinosaurs relaxing”. And I would answer “because they’re your best friends!”

Oh, and managing a sweet park that brings in the major $$$ is ULTRA relaxing.

Joking aside, from the two of us, thanks for your vote! 😊

Also, check out some of the amazing community parks below.

Happy Halloween! This is one of our favorite holidays and sadly trick o’ treating might be a little different this year. I just want to introduce new players (and a few old) to some of our in-game Halloweeny features.

• Ghouly Guests
  
• Pumpkin Toy
  
• Halloween Hats

Check out the Gem Store at night to buy your own Scary Pumpkin to invite an entire new crowd; Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts. Here’s the thing, Zombies love balloons, and Ghosts love dinosaur gazing. Who knew?


Smashing pumpkins in real life is a such a mess, how about you let your dinos smash for you? Toy balls are out, pumpkin tossing is in.


We all know the true meaning of Halloween is dressing up in scary, hilarious, and weird costumes. Your dinosaurs want in on the fun – so check out the range of Halloween hats you can find in the Hat Store at night. Let your dino best friends pretend to be a witch, or maybe a space-dino.

Try and have a fun Halloween, and tweet / discord post @ us any pets or kiddos in dino costumes; we'd love to see them!

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On occasion we become so busy that we forget to fully explain a new feature that has gone into the game – today we’re chatting Exhibit Themes.

You will notice the Exhibit Pane has a new tab called Theme. Here you choose from a variety of Themes described below. Themes are separate from an exhibit Biome so there are a lot of different exhibit combinations that can be created. Each theme has a list of specific requirements in order to activate the theme’s bonuses.


Each Theme has a cool in game effect! For example, in the building video below of an Eden Theme your exhibit receives a standing rainbow!



We remove any viewable fences as required by the Eden Theme and build the final Eden Tree. Hello rainbow!



Keep in mind the main feature of each exhibit is the Theme Item which is usually expensive. Here is a list of all the themes:

• Prehistoric
  
• Secure
  
• Organic
  
• Eden
  
• Spooky
  
• Magical

Check them out below!












Be safe friends and try to be kind to each other!
Taky & Smashlore

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First off – the two of us at Washbear just wishing our friends all the best who are caught up in the terrible wildfires. ☹

This update touches on a few exciting tidbits of information:

• PAX Indie Showcase
  
• Key Bindings
  
• Patch Notes

Hurray! Parkasaurus was selected as one of the PAX Indie Showcase finalists. That is pretty cool, especially since we have always loved going to PAX as attendees! We can’t thank the community enough for their continued support in getting Parkasaurus to where it is today! Check out their site:
https://online.paxsite.com/indie

I had mentioned this in a previous update but just wanted to give a little more detail about how to change the key bindings for Parkasaurus. First, go find this file:

C:\\Users\\”user”\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Washbear\\Parkasaurus\\Keys.ini

The “user” is usually the name of your profile on the computer. From there you can open the Keys.ini and see the current game bindings. Feel free to change these as you please!

Note:

• Ensure a key binding exists for only 1 control otherwise the game might get confused
  
• If you leave a binding blank, ie. "" the controls will revert to the game default

-Fixed some modded dinos from looking like melted chocolate
-Fixed crashes for some computers
-Fixed 5 star achievement not being awarded
-Fixed error in some quest messages
-Walkways can now be used to view exhibits
-Fixed Wishing well quest can now be completed
-Added 2 walkway T sections in the stairs tab
-Fixed dinos attacking fences in the morning even though they were happy the day before
-Fixed for garbage issue in Beach mission
-Fixed people should buy more food
-Finance Chart now shows missing expense info
-Fixed DinoBook collection issue in quest fixed
-Fixed prevent UI Scaling from breaking UI when set too high
-Fixed houses in Toronto will not message up exhibit calculations
-Language updates
-Fix for biodiversity graph not filling
-Possible fix for tutorial not progressing on portal open
-Fixed for being able to duplicate items by equipping them on the dino
-Fixed sometimes you could mate dinos of different species

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Hello friends! This last week since we released Parkasaurus 1.0 has been very hectic! Here is a summary of our week 1 features and fixes that were put in during the week and ARE ALL LIVE:

Do you have an extra-wide monitor? Could it function as a serving platter? If that answer is “yes”, well we support this now!


Who are we to tell you that moving the camera up is “W”? You deserve freedom! Now you can rebind the main game controls. Find the rebind .ini file in your game directory, usually around:

C:\\Users\user\\AppData\\LocalLow\\Washbear\\Parkasaurus\\Keys.ini

Oh, we didn’t catch all the bugs for the final release. Thanks to all of you who have sent in bugs via the in-game bug reporter! Helps so much! Some notable fixes:

• Fixed Huayangosaurus disappearing
  
• Fixed Teamwork ability not working properly
  
• Fixed Being able to delete rocket in final level
  
• Fixed Being able to hold down shift to drop multiple eggs
  
• Fixed Achelousaurus info in dinopedia
  
• Fixed being able to remove the path at the entrance of the park with the path tool
  
• Fixed terrain color not being correct when you load a mission
  
• Fixed issues where employees may reset back to the entrance
  
• Fixed tiles at the front of park, they should adapt the color of the nearest tiles after you load the game
  
• Fixed Debris naming issue
  
• Fixed some dinosaur eyes
  
• Balance Toronto Par time made easier
  
• Fix for biodiversity graph not filling
  
• Possible fix for tutorial not progressing on portal open
  
• Language Updates
  
• Fixed for being able to duplicate items by equipping them on the dino
  
• Fixed sometimes you could mate dinos of different species

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Friends! After 2 ½ years, 20+ updates, a million park guests eaten, and fantastic feedback & bug reports from our community – I’m proud to announce Parkasaurus is officially released. Watch our video!



…And if you have been on the fence, Parkasaurus is currently discounted, a great time to get in!



A message to our community from both Mayuran and me:

It has been an incredible journey to get here and this was only possible with early support from you. Your feedback and encouragement pushed us along the entire way. Thank you!



More detailed updates to come but briefly what is new for 1.0:

• Full campaign: Return Home
  
• Challenge par times for all campaign levels
  
• Difficulty modes
  
• Major visual updates & performance enhancements
  
• 6 new dinosaurs

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Watch our Launch Trailer:


We are insanely excited to be leaving Early Access and releasing Parkasurus 1.0 to the wider community! Parkasaurus goes live on the 13th of August; including more dinos, a full campaign, new modes, enhanced exhibit design features, and more! Details to follow...

We will be launching with a discount so if you have been on the fence be sure to pick up the game then! And if you already own a copy of Parkasaurus perhaps tell your friends about us. 😊