Fossil Quest

SO cute and fun. Played at work to kill free time and it was so enjoyable. I wishlisted it on steam and am looking forward to the release so I have a new cozy game that's cute but also sciencey which i love. If I could make a suggestion I would put a grid on the flooring so rearranging is a bit easier to visualize to know what can fit where. Also would be so fun if in the future you can help out with the town, maybe helping upgrade the town or making it more touristy to help the mayor get more confidence in his town, I think that could be a cute side story!

All in all, so cute and looking forward to the full release!

Found out about this game recently, and I've been hooked!!

I've just filled out the form, so I don't want to repeat myself, but I really love this game so far, and I hope it sees great success!! It's a shame not many people are talking about it as far as I know!

Keep up the awesome work!!

Hey Devteam!

I saw the game on opera gx launcher by pure luck!
Having a great time, found a very rare find in my 3rd digging ! I've missed the 2 first days of visit because im dumb but im really liking it ! Great concept. as said before, i guess digging can be repetive but I'm used to farm games so I dont mind but i get the point. no bugs in 4 hours of time. 
Im kinda poor but I would like to donate few bucks to back up where could I do that ? Keep up the good work :)

Hi!

Have been browsing itch.io for a fun little game and stumbled on this one. Loving the concept and designs! Just a question for the full game: will there be more updates/options in the character customization (gender, more colors, accessories, hair styles, etc.)

In the meantime, keep up the great work!

Hi!

First of, excellent chill game. I've been playing a few hours now and honestly can't wait to add more dinosaurs to my collection.

I've found some bugs here and there but honestly nothing that didn't allowed me to play:

- i think days over 19 overlap with the one before? i have a few screenshots of that i that's interesting for you

- day counter overlap that open museum countdown, would be wise to place one of them somewhere else (i think the day counter is usually on the top right corner?)

- i'm a leftie and would love to play with the arrows if that's possible to add on the game engine, it doesn't seem possible with the current version

can't wait to play the next versions :)

It'd be nice to have some bald hairstyles.

Hey, Im playing the non downloadable version to try it out first. I have a had a bug several times: When opening the museum and fastforwarding time the people left eventually but kept talking, my persona was not to be seen. Couldn't move forward with the day. No keys worked. Had to go to follow on steam so I could close the tab and try again. However if I just let it play naturally there is no bug :D I am not your everyday gamer so for me it would be better if there'd be another way to for example move by mouse. And for me, it took me a while to figure out how the digging etc worked. So maybe a preview or a starter area to practice would be great.  However: It made a wanna be gamer finally game and I am just a noob so you can be proud. Also; My inner child loves this!  Lots of luck to you guys! 

I found a bug. The scanner gives a lot of false negatives. More than once digging in places where the scanner was red I end up finding some lucky finds, or even bones.

Such a good and simple game, makes me feel like a kid again :) I'm only playing the browser version atm, but I plan on getting the DL/Steam version once the game is fully released! I adore the art style and I like that there's a bit of a story as well with the town. Really excited to see where this game goes! Everything is just visually pleasing and I LOVE the display cabinets and organizing them by theme! Its also very satisfying to complete a skeleton and pose them :)   

I do have a few critiques and suggestions tho; The gameplay loop can be a bit dry, though I do believe that's because this is a demo so not much content to fully explore yet and its easy to lose momentum once you've been playing for awhile. The digging aspect isn't bad, though being movement locked while digging is a bit unfortunate. Other than that I have a fun time with the game    

First off, I absolutely ADORE this game. It scratches a perfect itch of a good museum-builder game that I have been looking for for the longest time. I adore the art style and the characters. I've played for about 3 hours total and haven't encountered many bugs. My only complaint is that sometimes the digs can feel a little dry. I'll go on an expedition in Montana or Canada and mine through the whole area to only end up finding one or two bones. Other than that, I really do love the game and I CANNOT wait until the full version gets released. Keep up the good work!

I really want to play this. But i press arrow keys, im pressig wasd. I cant move, unfortunately.

Despite an interesting concept and an eyecatching style, the mining is torturously slow and opening your exhibit is somewhat lame (and broke for me).
It can be fun if you turn your brain off to it though. 

I wanted to love the game so bad, i donated and wishlisted even but sadly now the game seems to be compeltely broken, after some time on an excavation it freezes and theres nothing to be done about it, i tried deleting all files and reinstalling but it just keeps happening so the game is unplayable in this state :( i did love the concept tho.

hello! i just found this game today and its so so so so cool and so much fun its addicting! :DDD

would you possibly know if theres any way to download it on a mac?

Loving this so much!

My only feedback is just altering the controls! I'm playing on a laptop that doesn't have a full keyboard with a delete key, so I'm kind of stuck with the exhibits I have already placed haha. Keep up the good work!

Loving this demo, and looking forward to when the full release is out on Steam.

I've been trying to one hundred percent the diplodocus for about three hours, but the ribcage just won't show up. Is the probability super low for that part of the skeleton or has my game become bugged?

I agree with some of the other comments that it would be nice to mine and move at the same time. Having the click to mine every time is really making my wrist act up and could be a potential accessibility issue. It also would be nice to have a counter that would tell us how many fossils or lucky finds are in the area.

Great work and looking forward to updates!

Loving the game so far but I have a few issues/suggestions! I'm using the desktop version by the way :)

1. I believe there should be some sort of number in the corner of my screen telling me how many fossils and lucky finds are left when I'm hunting for fossils. This would save SO much time and help with the issue of feeling like I'm grinding

2. I had a problem where I was on a map in  that was 37x28 squares and only got one ammonite as shown below. I spent at least 10 minutes mining every square I could. I have incomplete skeletons in that can be found in that region and even if they were complete, not all of the pieces were gold. I understand this sometimes happens in real life but you have to find a balance between realism and player enjoyment

3. I don't like that I have to manually rotate my character to mine each individual square but that's just personal preference

4. There should be an option in the settings to turn on and off the screen shake when mining, I noticed my eyes were starting to hurt and this could be an accessibility issue. This should be added ASAP in my opinion

5. The presence of a tutorial should be included. On the first day I accidentally opened the museum with nothing in it because I didn't realise I had to put down the fossils first. I also didn't know I could hold the mouse button to mine instead of clicking each time until day 4. I got a little confused as to which side is left or right when building a skeleton, it took a while for me to understand the darker shade of bones goes on the darker outline. All of these things should be pointed out to the player

6. The controls feel kind of all over the place. Pressing P to manage the exhibits and then having to press F to assemble or DEL to delete it is a lot of movement on the keyboard. Using close together commonly used keys is much more comfortable. For example using Q and E to switch between exhibits so we don't have to manually click them, also using Q and E for tool selection when excavating a fossil, using Backspace to delete an exhibit, the scroll wheel to rotate an object, Tab to manage the exhibits and even Spacebar to assemble an exhibit

I'll definitely continue playing for awhile and I'll update this if I think of anything else. I'm also happy to reach out on Discord if needed :)

DUDE this game is AWESOME I've been needing a dinosaur game for awhile and I randomly stumbled upon this one and introduced it to ALL my friends lmao I LOVE IT please add more customization or paintng Dinos, side quests I CANT wait for the full game thank you all and love you so much for what you've created 

Diplodicus is too big to rotate, please fix

i got stuck under the museum 

That was a pretty cool experience! Even though this demo is limited and it does get a bit repetitive, it gives a really good idea of what's coming and definitely leaves me wanting more! The visual style looks awesome, the concept is nice and I really like the different minigames you created for cleaning up or assembling fossils. It really made me going to gather all kinds of nice stuff for my museum and I can fully imagine that in the full game, when you add more variation and perhaps more challenge, this will become a really cool game! Well done! And, wishlisted, obviously :-) 

A few things I want to mention:

• Fossils are sometimes (partly) exposed which feels a bit weird
• Deleting an exhibition doesn't really work, it just stays
• You can only rotate an exhibition when it is green already, while I would expect it would just rotate and prevent you from putting it down when the orientation doesn't fit
• In the description it says you can't come back to a location when you leave it, but they actually come back all the time
• There's not much incentive to buy the extra tools, perhaps add a layer of complexity or inaccuracy / crudeness to make it necessary to buy them if you want to keep your bones in a better state?

Love this game a ton! Its really fun! Although, the excevating can get really boring after a while (the part with the moss and stone).  Maybe add more mini-games? I really enjoyed the puzzle mini-game! Overall it is an amazing game and I love it, but encountered a bug while playing. I had a bunch of fossils but when I went to assemble them, they did not appear. Like in the hotbar, the fossils I know I got would not appear. This happened with the lucky finds too. At first I thought I was tripping, but when I wrote down what I got, it was not my brain. Maybe this was intentional? This happened on my chromebook btw. I also couldnot figure out how to use the better quality fossils. I could not switch it out, nor would it automaticly replaced. Maybe it was teh bug again, because it would not show up in my hotbar. Besides that, it is an amazing game and I can not wait to play the full version!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

love this game lots! i've been playing  on the browserfor some months now, and it only seems to get better. but in the recent updates i lost my save! i'm really bummed, as i'd been working on it for a while—any chance you'll release a mac version at any point so i can save my game there?

Like a real dig, but without the backache, insect bites and unbearable heat and/or miserable damp. LoL. I hope you will add a sieve shaking mini game (with teeth and small bones) and finding coprolite would be fun (If you haven't added it already).
If the game dose well financially, consider an archeological themes sequel. The industry is finally realizing there is a real market for non-violent adult video games.

I love how the excavation and museum mechanics feel both satisfying and cozy , digging up fossils and assembling exhibits gives a real sense of progression. Congrats !
Have you thought about adding more variety in the dig tools or layers to make the exploration even more strategic and rewarding ?

From a game dev to game dev I love fossil excavation system and game in overall. Cleaning the bone yourself while you have to be careful to not damage it? Genius! Game itself is super chill and I had a lot of fun arranging the bones without a blueprint image. I could say more about the clever ideas you put in this game but this comment would be too long haha I can't wait to play a full version :D 

Good luck with the development! You're doing amazing job 💪

i really enjoy this game! i started playing two updates ago (i think?) and i'm really enjoying all the new things that have been added (the character creator is so cute)! i really like the sound design and all the info about various dinosaurs/fossils :)

my one issue that's popped up since the last update is that i think the lucky finds are broken for me :( the first time i played this game i found a bunch of them easily, now i haven't found a single lucky find in the first two excavations (i saw your comment saying they should pop up after 50-100 blocks but the second excavation was more than 350 blocks and i still didn't find even one). maybe it's just a me issue though! anyway overall this is a lovely and very enjoyable game, i look forward to following its progress :D

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.