It’s about time to give you an update from the development front! 😃

EGX provided us with loads of valuable feedback. We’ve gathered everything we had learned by talking with players and our own observations and now we’re putting it to use. Unfortunately, as it usually is with development, whenever something is added to the game, some additional time is needed to address all the issues that pop up as a result. Rest assured, with our testing team aboard, we’ll prevail!



We may not be able to provide you with many truly new things, but we believe there is still a fair share of interesting things to show you. Let’s go!



When you get to the excavation site, you need to secure the area. Before, you had to hold the Space button for a while – now, you can either proceed like before or simply press a button to skip this sequence and move on to the next step.



We have polished the look of various animations you encounter during your fossil hunting. Now they look more natural. Take a look!




Other than that, we have improved rock destroying mechanic. It works similarly to how it did before, but now it’s possible to destroy rocks other than the ones you encounter on the roads. For example, you can destroy rocks that get in your way while digging for paleontological treasures!



Rock inspection has also been improved! Thanks to your feedback, Geiger’s counter role has been expanded. After finding the rock with a fossil, you’ll need to perform a visual inspection, which will allow you to find places where the fossil sticks out of the rock.



When you find and prepare your fossil for a journey back home, it’s time to move it to the car! Medium boxes come with this neat cover right here:



While you’re already familiar with most of the game’s features, there is another one that will give you some room for customization. We have added the option to change the colour of your vehicle. You can freely change the colour of any car you can control in the game. Just make sure to make this colour pleasing for the eyes. 😉



We have also been working on including controller support in the game, as we recall that it’s something that a lot of you requested in the past. 🙂

What’s left now is to get rid of those pesky bugs and at last, get the game ready for you – our players and hope that this adventure we’ve been working so hard on will make you fall in love with paleontology all over again!

As a last piece of news for today, Dinosaur Fossil Hunter was chosen as one of ten Polish games to show up at WePlay Expo in Shanghai! The Prologue version will be presented during the event, which will take place on December 11-12. While we won’t be able to be there in person due to COVID restrictions, our game will be left in WePlay organizing party's care. If you haven’t tried the updated Prologue yet and have the opportunity to drop by, please do! 🙂

If you're not on our Discord server yet, we encourage you to join the community!


Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Along with us, we bring you another update regarding our progress on the game! 🤠

Our team continues working on the game’s balance, fixing and further improving the game by adding missing features. Balancing the game requires a lot of attention and cooperation from our development and testing team. Testers play and leave invaluable feedback, which our development team uses to adjust gameplay accordingly. It’s a continuous cycle, which – little by little – allows us to bring Dinosaur Fossil Hunter closer to completion.

In the past month, our team has grown considerably bigger as new dedicated team members have joined our ranks. 💪💪💪 With their help, we gained more time, which in turn allowed us to reconsider some of your suggestions and include them in the game.

Some of the aforementioned features include:

• making your character visible at certain stages of the game,
  
• adding a possibility to draw a path on the minimap,
  
• reworked mechanics of securing an excavation site, which should now be more pleasing to watch,
  
• adding belts to hold crates on top of your car in place,
  
• improved vehicle physics.

Moreover, we have decided to do something special for our community. Our Kickstarter supporters may recall “Little Findings” listed among our stretch goals.



Unfortunately, the campaign ended with a sum just a tiny bit away from that goal and we thought we wouldn’t be able to include it in the game. However, with more people on board, Dinosaur Fossil Hunter team decided to bring this idea to life! We have already prepared over 20 unique fossils, which will make great additions to your museum displays! We are currently working on a way to transport these new fossils from an excavation site to a museum. 😉



Keep in mind that’s not all! We have many more surprises in store for you, but we don’t want to spill out everything just yet. We’d like to leave some things for you to discover. 🙂

If you’re looking for a community of paleontology enthusiasts to talk about the game, consider joining or Discord channel! Like always, we also encourage you to add Dinosaur Fossil Hunter to your Wishlist – that is, if it’s not there yet. 😄



Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Our team will be present at this year’s EGX Gaming Show! 🥳 We’ll be showing some of our currently developed games – Dinosaur Fossil Hunter and our technical survival game Occupy Mars: The Game!



The event will take place in London from October 7 to October 10, so if you have the chance, we would be happy if you dropped by! 🙂 It’s a great opportunity for us, as we can see firsthand if you’re enjoying the game at its current stage and gather some invaluable feedback.

On the other hand, you can try out these games for yourself and experience some of the new features we could only show you in devlogs so far. Come and see your favourite game up close! If you just want to say hi, that’s fine too!

We’ll be waiting for you! 😊

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Some of you have reported that due to Steam issue our stream wasn't visible on the Steam Festival Upcoming events list so you missed our official Live Stream. But don't worry! We're now launching a re-stream so you can watch it again over the course of the week.

You can read more about the event in the previous post:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/864700/announcements/detail/2855835579605655004

P.S. if you are interested in Scientific games - make sure to also follow our other projects:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/864680/Rover_Mechanic_Simulator/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1120220/Soyuz_Constructors/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/758690/Occupy_Mars_The_Game/

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

About the demo version:

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Demo is a story telling simulator where you play as a paleontologist, exploring different lands and searching for dinosaur fossils.

The demo version for the Steam Next Fest 2021 is an upgraded version of the previous demo, including all the content that has recently been presented in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue version! Check it out and see what full version will have in store for you!


You can download the demo from the Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Steam store page. If you encounter any issues, please contact us on our Discord server.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/864700/Dinosaur_Fossil_Hunter/

During the event, you can expect a live stream and chat with developers. We will give you more details in a few days – until then, stay tuned! We hope you'll have fun with the demo!

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Our friends from Duality Games have just released the full version of their game Accident. It is now out of Early Access, updated with some new scenario, great video cut-scenes and a lot of other fixes. Go check it out and buy with a 30% launch discount!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/852220

In Accident you become a journalist discovering some past road accidents. Despite a lot of fun, the game has a strong educational value – you can learn how to act on the site of the road accident, what to do in case of emergency, how to perform a CPR and a lot more!

Exciting news, Fossil Hunters!

We have more surprises for you today! As it turns out, Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is featured at Camp PAX West Seattle 2021! 🥳 To celebrate, we're unveiling the major Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Demo & Prologue update we have been working on alongside the full version of the game! It means that we’ve brought many of the long-awaited new features to Prologue and you can try them out today!

Here is the list of changes:

• translations added, available languages: English, Italian, Polish, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, French
  
• redesigned tutorial system [new screens, additional descriptions, waypoints etc.]
  
• redesigned UI screens [except tablet UI, WIP]
  
• upgraded map functionality [selecting and navigating to specific points]
  
• reworked exposure design system
  
• upgraded exploration workflow (new tool)
  
• upgraded excavation workflow [new steps and tools]
  
• improved fossil cleaning system [added possibility to highlight uncleaned areas, smoother tool work]
  
• improved vehicle camera
  
• improved models look & quality
  
• improved tools and tent animations
  
• improved skeleton assembling system [faster bone movement, added ability to put down]
  
• added drone for environmental screenshots
  
• visual polish & optimization
  
• many bugs reported by players have been fixed

Have fun, explore and when you're done, make sure to share your feedback with us! We'd like to make use of this opportunity to gather your suggestions and make Dinosaur Fossil Hunter as good as possible! Let us know what you like and what may require more attention from us. It will help us greatly during further development. 😊

We’ll be awaiting your feedback on Steam forums and our Discord server while – of course – continuously working on Dinosaur Fossil Hunter! 💪

Make sure to add it to your Wishlist so you don’t miss any announcements! With that, the only thing that’s left is to wish you all a good time with the Prologue!
Best Regards,

Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

https://store.steampowered.com/app/864700/Dinosaur_Fossil_Hunter/

It’s been a while since our last devlog, but development definitely hasn’t slowed down! We’ve been working on various things – while some of them are more on the technical side and are difficult to illustrate, there are some additions we would like to show you today! 🙂




We have added even more decorations you can use to breathe life into your museum displays! There are over 40 new objects and even more will be added! New decorations include potted plants, benches and fountains. There will also be more variety among pictures, which you can hang on museum walls.

Some of you may have noticed a new screenshot on our Steam page. This is the one:



We continue experimenting with various poses and checking how well they work with available museum decorations. We’re also consulting them with experienced paleontologists to make sure we keep them as realistic as possible. You can see one of the results here – this lovely screenshot featuring T-Rex posing among greenery. While we’re at it, you can also see how some of the previously shown decorations work on a display!

We are also including more tools for you to use during your adventure! You have most likely seen at least one of them if you’ve been following our other social media profiles.

One of the additions is a trowel and along with it, there is yet another step to fulfill before you can distinguish an ordinary rock from paleontological treasure. That’s where the trowel comes in! Once you find some interesting rocks, all you need to do is use this simple tool to take off the muck covering them.



In order to help you with the process of moving your fossils around, we have also added a transportation drone! It’s not available from the get-go, but once you unlock it, it will be a great help during your trips. You can call it by interacting with your laptop and it will carry your treasures where needed.



We continue polishing game mechanics, as well as the game’s UI. We’re making sure certain parts of the game, like assembling and cleaning, progress more smoothly. We’ve also been working on optimization. We hope to show you more in the next devlog.

If you’d like to talk about the game, we’re waiting for you on our Discord server. Feel free to join our little community of paleontology enthusiasts!



If you’ve had your eyes on Dinosaur Fossil Hunter for some time, make sure you have it on your Wishlist – that way you’ll know as soon as new devlog or any other announcements come in. 🎁

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Now that we have finished working on gameplay mechanics that will be included in the game, we are now focused on improvements. That includes thorough testing, gathering feedback, making tweaks and balancing the gameplay and also making improvements in terms of performance.

At the same time, we have also taken our time analyzing feedback from Steam, our Discord channel and other sources that you have provided us since the last prologue update. Based on that, we've picked out some gameplay elements that could be improved or added and we are also taking them into account while developing the game further.

Here are some things we have been working on recently:



Thanks to our team members who have done thorough research and paleontologists who provided us with invaluable feedback, we have significantly improved the quality of our in-game dinosaur skeletons!



They are now much more detailed and anatomically close to real skeletons. Now, we are working on improving existing poses.



As we have already mentioned, while we're working on balancing the gameplay progression, the QA team is handling the internal testing and providing us the feedback necessary for further improvements.

Now a little fun fact: some of us had the opportunity to gain field experience by participating in paleontological research ourselves! 😃





We're also preparing an update for the Prologue version of the game – we have added many new gameplay mechanics that will be also included in the full version of the game. This update will come with an expanded tutorial, which will explain newly added mechanics. We hope that will make it much easier for you to jump right into the full game and start your adventure. 😉

Thank you for your interest in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter! Your feedback is a great help to us and we hope to write even more about changes made in the upcoming devlog!

If you have something to share with us, we invite you to join our Discord channel.



Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Here comes another update regarding our development progress! We have a few things to show you. 🙂

First of all, we’re working on a new UI. While adding some highly demanded features, it was also necessary to design UI for certain menus. We’ve been considering many possibilities and we came to the conclusion that it’s a good time to take a good look at the entire UI again and make sure it’s intuitive, while also making sure that every element blends in nicely together.

Here are shots of some WIP menus, namely – Skill tree, Travel, Map and Inbox.



We are also about to wrap up our work on new decorations, ready to grace your expositions. 🌴✨ We have prepared over 120 new objects!





We have also acquired many new references and helpful materials on various dinosaurs’ anatomy and we’re putting this knowledge to use by polishing and fixing our skeleton models – all to make them as realistic as possible and bring joy to you, dinosaur enthusiasts. 🦖




We’ll definitely be working on all these things during upcoming weeks. Of course, we’ll keep you updated on the progress, be it via our social media or another devlog. Stay tuned!

Like always, we encourage you to join our Discord server! If you’re only now finding out about this game and it piqued your interest, make sure to add it to your Wishlist! 🎁



Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team