Fossil Quest

I love this little game! It reminds me of playing Fossil Fighters Frontier on my DS when I was a kid, except more chill. I wishlisted it on Steam and I really looking forward the final version!

I've been trying to 100% the demo but I just can't find the last lucky find :( are there 24 or only 23 for now?

Hi! This game is a gem and I can’t wait to play it on steam in its final version.

I still have some feedback to give: 

- The big problem is that there is a memory leak, the game went from 700 MB of RAM usage to 16,000 in one hour.

- During the excavation, it would be nice to be able to dig and move at the same time.

- I find it regrettable to have a button that allows us to assemble our fossils instantly. I know we don’t have to use it but I think it takes some charm from this part of the game. Maybe replace it with a percentage to see how precise we are (and automatically place the bones in the right places if we exceed certain thresholds like 95%).

- I think it will be cool to see the rarities of fossils when placing them.

- It would be nice to have an option not to pause the game when you are on another window.

- Obviously more fossils, upgrade and everything, but I know it’s in progress!

Hi, I played your game and made a video about it. Just wanted to let you know.

I love this game, its so cozy and nice and i'm getting along well with my museum

Although I don't really enjoy  the movement of the character in the museum, I find that its too fast and i cant get to the stations without trying multiple times. Maybe that's just me though but otherwise it's an amazing game and i'll probably play it a lot!

Love the game so cozy and relaxing - only problem is that i'm on a mac and don't have the del key so can't remove exhibits and have run out of space :( Is there a way to change controls?, all the best for future development can't wait for the full game to come out on steam!

Very fun game! I quite liked playing it. Wishlisted on Steam! (btw the primary image link leads to Flibbius McDoogle. The bullet point wishlist link leads to the right page though). Also just so you know this works on Firefox for me! Unsure what your testing is like with that, and if my various extensions are helping (though they usually hinder), but it works on my end!

This is such a lovely game. Its so calming. I was supposed to go to bed early today but I ended up playing until 1 am haha.

Hey! game is great, i love it

any way to transfer save across web to the exe version?

ty for your work!

This is a very detailed and relaxing game! It could just be me, but it couldn't find how to remove an exhibit (ex: empty display case). 

This game scratches an itch that I can't find elsewhere. I really like growing a collection and organizing it, especially with fossils. I noticed some things you will need to fix and have some ideas about where you can take the game in the future.

For the most recent update: 

Errors:

 Diplodocus is too long for the current rooms; I had to rear it on its hind legs to keep the tail from clipping. Maybe make the hall longer than the wings of the manor.  

When you are in the museum, you can sometimes open menus on top of menus.

Also,  "trilobites" is misspelled on it's fact sheet. 

Ideas:

It's be cool if you could rotate bones left and right as well as up and down so you could give the skeletons cool poses, though you would probably have to break them up into smaller pieces to make that work. 

Sometimes museums will display a skull or a single bone (like a femur) on its own. It'd be nice if you could make smaller mounts for such bones that wouldn't get a thumbs down from the visitors but still less draw than the skeletons. 

Having expansions to the left of the hall as well as the right would be more "museum like", as that is the layout most museums have. 

As you add more fossils, it would be nice to differentiate dig sites by era in each location, i.e. only Jurassic fossils in a dig site. 

I think the game should start out at a smaller scale. Maybe you have a truck instead of a plane and can only look for small fossils in the local gravel pits. A single bone, an ammonite, shells, and so on. Then you can raise funds to go to the famous dig sites with skeletons. 

All in all, I'm really enjoying making a little museum in this game and look forward to what you have in store for the future!

The W-A-S-D navigation keys are really buggy. Every time I press it, the menu pops up, I have to close it over and over again and it's very difficult to navigate. I play the Win version of the download.

Pretty good I love the mechanics 

the npc pathing could use some work I was playing browser

LOVE THIS GAME!! As someone who has a hyper fixation on dinosaurs, it truly makes my soul happy. I was playing this game while on the phone with my friend while telling her about it. I said, "Did I mention i'm an old white man in this game?" and she said it makes it even better ₍₍⚞(˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)⚟⁾⁾ 

Is there a plan to make it downloadable to Mac at some point? I love this game so much!

it's not letting me delete exhibit pieces :(

neat little game so far, though not perfect

-managing the displays requires an awkward-to-reach key (P) as opposed to something more convenient

-the placement restrictions on the displays seem arbitrary at times

-wish there was a way to know from the expedition screen whether you've got everything obtained/at a certain rarity

Really cute game! Very satisfying and cozy. The art is beautiful and I love that the fossils have information to learn more! I hope in the full version there are even more fossils, expeditions, and puzzles. I can't wait to see it.

I did run into one issue. When a majority of the fossils were in the first room and I was skipping digs, visitors would get stuck at the entrance. Unsure of what was the cause but it caused the income to dip immensely. Not all customers would get stuck, but maybe 5/9 would be stuck on top of each other at the entrance. 

it says I have all the bones for the triceratops but I am missing the mandible and right foot? edit: it was just saying I had 100% when I didnt ! I got it now

Really fun game. I hope it gets more updates soon! (perhaps adding more expeditions? I got the upgrade, but it doesn't seem to do anything.)

 Super creative and well made, I would rate it 5 stars! :) 

question: have you decided how much the game will cost on Steam?

CANNOT WAIT FOR IT TO BE ON STEAM!

So cute!  I love how you actually put the exhibits together and see the different fossils, it's not just a "collecting" game, but little legit sim gameplay moments. When I realized I could actually read the entries in the exhibits, I GASPED. Love it! Creative and fun, now I want my own dinosaur museum.

Played in browser on version 0.1.8

1) I'm surprised by the nice graphics! It immediately drew me into the world and everything fit in beautifully

2) UI and controls are very unintuitive. For example, right at the beginning I would at least draw arrows and an interaction button on the ground so that people know how to play right away, because I started playing with arrows instead of WSAD. Also, it would be good to display that you should interact with Space, for example with a small inscription (space)

3) A large part of the game, you will definitely spend digging, so you need to make it as fun as possible. Now it's actually terribly boring because there's nothing to it, I just wait 2 minutes before digging each square, uninteresting. I would put some kind of timer there (for example, before the authorities or locals come to you) so that people can change their mind about what to do. Also add some danger. In my opinion, the point should be that I'm looking for a certain part of the skeleton and I'll go get it quickly and ignore the other bones for the sake of time.

4) Radar, another unexplained thing how it works (and that it looks for bones at all). Too strong for me at the beginning of the game. Significantly limit its power at the beginning of the game. For example, cooldown after use, shorter range, random beam in a specified section. Or for example, set the radar to a specific bone I'm looking for.

5) I looked at the upgrades that can be purchased and it looks terribly uninteresting and boring. Nobody wants to play to unlock "10% faster digging". It is necessary to come up with "game changing" improvements, such as the aforementioned radar, a dog that digs with you or looks for a specific bone.

6) Cleaning bones is a very interesting mechanic and it surprised me very much!! I can imagine that cleaning would take place only in the base (again, the possibility of a whole range of upgrades for cleaning, such as various rinsing tubs, brushes, helpers ..). If cleaning was done at home, it would be possible to bring home, for example, garbage (by mistake of course) and only find out at home that it is not a bone.

7) I can imagine that small bones can be dug up and cleaned on the spot, but larger ones will be more like "clay balls" that could be extracted, for example, by helicopter and cleaned properly at the base.

8) Building a skeleton at the base.. well.. the graphics are nice, but actually kind of unnecessary in the gameplay. It would be more interesting to have the bone and not know what kind of dinosaur it is or what part it is from, so that the player would be happy that he is building a dinosaur from the "pile of bones", there would be some goal there, rather than just drag and drop.

9) Visitors to the museum.. well.. again such an unnecessary and long delay. It is not clear at first glance how it works and what it will bring to the player other than just clicking a button and waiting, it is not a game.

10) The graphics were a bit annoying when digging, when the individual cubes sometimes had a small gap between them and the background was glowing.

11) When building a clearing, the controls were confusing again, when it had to be ended with backspace, add an icon

12) When digging, I was very annoyed by holding the left mouse button to dig, when it then kicked in the air. It would be much more pleasant for me to A) dig using a key than hold the mouse in your hand. B) when I hold the dig and move, then proceed straight in a line, not stop every time, move and start digging again, it's frustrating.

13) In conclusion, I think that with a lot of tuning, the game could be a real success!! But you need to focus on what makes the game fun, what are the main fun mechanisms, what is the gameplay loop and really focus on it.

I cant get rid of exhibits on Chromebook :(

Oh noes, backspace does not work as delete, and I can't get rid of exhibits cause I use a Chromebook. 

i've been looking for one fossil for 15 ingame days

10/10 peak game

my things are gone :( I came back to play and my museum is empty

does it save?

really fun game but it keeps crashing

love this game so much! though i've come across a glitch with the display table; when i go to 'assemble' it, nothing shows up despite having multiple display case fossils :(

I'm so excited to watch this grow! It has all the makings of a game that will suck me in. It's so cozy and cute while being simple yet interactive. My only request/suggestion is as the game goes on, having different ways of aquiring fossils would be great. I know this game is brand new so you guys definitley have more planned and I'm STOKED!!!

This is awesome!!! So so fun and I love the technical design of the game! The dig site, scanner, and fossil excavating are all lovely and designed rlly well! It was a little confusing at first but I caught on quickly :)) would be great if there was a short tutorial or even just a page describing how it works!

Great game.  The info on the exhibits are a big plus.  Wondering if the full version has an encyclopedia that comes with it, explaining all the unlocks.  I spent way too much time on this demo.  What a gem.

this is the cutest fricken game ive ever played, distracted me from uni assignments but TOTALLY WORTH IT

A little gameplay, a little critique ;)