re: Indie Dev Moment: The Glory of Thunder Lizards, Speed, and Extinction

Roto13 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:23:45 GMT

You know, this post reminded me of X-Men 2 for Genesis. As soon as you turned the game on, you were plopped down in a snowfield with a bullet flying at your head. That was kind of cool.

re: Indie Dev Moment: The Glory of Thunder Lizards, Speed, and Extinction

Amber Ahlborn — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:35:52 GMT

Great, another game to devour my time. I love it.

re: Indie Dev Moment: The Glory of Thunder Lizards, Speed, and Extinction

Demaar — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:09:39 GMT

I've been playing this a lot more than I've played any other flash game before. It's definitely a lot of fun. I think what really enhances the game is that there is NO DEATH AT ALL unless you slow down too much. Run into a lava pit? Temporary loss of speed. Fall down really really far? Temporary loss of speed. Meteor lands on you? Temporary loss of speed.

I wish more games took this idea and ran with it (having just one thing that can kill you I mean, not necessarily the whole escaping something thing). I bet you any money some boardroom nitwit would see this game and completely get the wrong idea if he was told it was good. I imagine the first thought would be "Oh, so dinosaurs are cool again?".

To tie in with Retronauts' discussion this week I'm gonna talk about Sonic. Sonic games have definitely been downhill, but I think Sonic Rush was most definitely a step in the right direction. The only problem the game had was that it was pretty intent on killing you now and then with bottomless pits. I really wish this is something Sega would just do away with in Sonic games. There can be other obstacles in a game beyond death. A Sonic game with only one thing that could kill you (and it wasn't a bottomless pit) would probably be totally sweet. Just don't ask me what that "one thing that could kill you" is though.