If you're counting days while waiting for Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Beta tests to start, we have a little remedy for you! Today at 8 PM CET a special 3-hour long stream will be made available on the game's store page. You'll be able to see a much more polished Beta gameplay along with improved game mechanics and watch as our guest Jimmy sets out on his great fossil hunt!



Jimmy is a paleontology expert and an important member of Dinosaurs Will Always Be Awesome (DWABA for short) – group of individuals, whose mission is to share their enthusiasm and passion for paleontology and dinosaurs with the world! You can find Jimmy and his group on various social media, including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, as well as on their very own DWABA website!

We hope you'll drop by and set out on this journey with us!

Remember to sign up for playtests if you haven't done so already! Just go to Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Steam store page and click on the Request Access button!



You'll find more information about playtests here – press the banner to go to the article about playtests:



Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter

The title says it all – we believe that Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is finally ready for playtests! This is why we’re opening registration!

If you’d like to be our tester, go to Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Steam page and press Request Access button right here:


Once you’re signed up, all that remains is to wait until the registration is closed – this is when you’ll receive an email with an invitation!

Once you’re done playing, make sure fill out THIS FORM.
Your invaluable feedback will help us improve the game for the release!

Thanks for your time!

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

Before we do that, though, we’d like to apologize for not publishing anything in December – due to Christmas time and New Year’s Eve it was difficult to squeeze in a devlog during that time. We know some of you have been used to a monthly pace and the delay made you confused. We’d like to make it clear that the game is constantly being worked on. It’s a bit late now, but we’d also like to wish you a Happy New Year! 🙂

Now, let’s move to the part you’re all interested in.


We are happy to let you know that the majority of mechanics and content has been included in the game. We are intensively working on wrapping up development and preparing for the game’s launch.



We have now moved to the testing phase – many of our testers are involved along with the QA team of our publisher. They play the game and give us their feedback while we provide them with new builds and polish the game according to their suggestions. It’s a very intense time as we hand over at least one new build each day.



Main mechanics and gameplay loop have been completed and all 3D content has been included in the game. Locations have been finished as well. Prologue’s content has been successfully merged with the full game’s content and the story has been expanded. Most of the less important mechanics work well, although they require a bit more testing and polishing. We’re also adding remaining 2D graphics.



Fortunately, new workflow related to excavating big fossils received positive feedback from the entire publisher’s testing team, which means we can focus on improvements and adding missing elements to the game.



To be specific, other than obligatory fixes, we’re working on:

• 2D graphics, such as icons, screenshots and Achievements graphics
  
• Music
  
• Improving some of the game’s interface
  
• Translating new text content
  
• Gameplay balance
  
• Analyzing and improving optimization
  
• Completing remaining minor mechanics

As the end note, we’d like to show you one of the most advanced systems we have developed for Dinosaur Fossil Hunter – rocks excavation system. It was a great challenge to get it right, but we’re very happy with the results.



This system evaluates whether it is possible or not to dig out the rock based on the terrains’ shape.

That would be it for this devlog! We can’t say how long testing will take as it’s a constant loop of creating a build, gathering feedback, improving, creating another build and so on. It takes time, but thanks to the efforts of our testers, we can eliminate a lot of bugs and possible issues you could face. Once this phase is over, we can start preparing for the launch.

Just a bit longer – stay tuned!

Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team

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Pyramid Games Team

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!

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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!