Fossil Quest

WOW!! The idea of going out to dig and find fossil pieces for a museum is amazing! Also, exploring different parts of the world and highlighting those locations teaches us where dinosaurs used to live. The art is beautiful, I’d love to see more of this project! Is there a sequel planned? I think it could be expanded into something bigger for Steam — keeping the exploration and fossil-hunting mechanics, but adding the process of cleaning what you find and organizing it in your museum, unlocking new exploration sites and dinosaur information. It sounds awesome! I’d love to see this idea developed further because it’s truly great!

this is so cute and well made!! the art style is really lovely and I love the fossil assembly aspect. I didn't encounter any bugs or issues, but i think it would be more intuitive if there was a key to dig rather than mouse controls. really cool game!!

After sorting out my tech difficulties (skill issue, not game design), I can say that the game is as charming as it looks. 

The art style is good at balancing a variety of factors. It is adorable, it is detailed enough to convey the fossils as stone remembering bone, and is simple enough to be pleasant while doing both. There are a few main themes for decorating your museum that mix and match quite well. And, again, these add to the experience without being distracting. Very well done. 

The music is pleasant but unobtrusive. 

The gameplay was fun. Describing why things are fun is not my strong point, but it worked for me. Perhaps as important is how delightfully intuitive it is. No tutorials and minimal popups, but easy to play anyway. I tend to do poorly at games without in-game tutorials, but I only made one mistake when I started playing. And that only a very minor one. I would call this very good design. 

I quite enjoyed putting the dinosaurs together. Neither of mine were complete, as it is a bit late for playing through more than one dig site, but it settled the part of my brain that is always looking for a nice, low-pressure puzzle.

I like the writeups about the dinosaurs. I only played through one dig site, so I'm not sure how many dinosaurs are currently in the game, but it was fun to read about the history of paleontology. For both of them. And obviously learning about dinosaurs is always fun.

A very good game on the whole. My only problem is both small and might have been my fault. I struggled to find a way to exit the game once it was running. There didn't seem to be any button for it, and neither the escape key nor any of the letters provided an exit option. Needing to pull up the task bar to manually close the window to exit a game is not my preference. I did go back and double check that I hadn't missed an instruction on the starting menu and loading screen. Still, this is a very minor issue and as it is late and I am bad at tech may well be my fault. 

On the whole, a very pleasant game. I look forward to playing again and to seeing it expand. 

The movement is incredibly slow/jank - the pickaxe should not force you in an unskippable animation that follows through/enacts whenever you hold down those buttons (maybe let the player move while doing it?)

When it comes down to it, there needs to be more depth/interest in these minigames - if you feel that they can have an "auto complete" system (as in the assembly function for the fossils), that means that the system/function likely isn't interesting enough to participate with on its most basic level (it could still be a feature added later on if you don't want to fix/achieve things).

I see some potential if you explore the players intentionally messing up their fossils to make new abominations - falsifying descriptions, or anything else (if that is fleshed out/expanded upon more, I feel that it could become a whole "good" vs "bad" player thing).

There are a lot of ways this game could expand in, as I feel it is somewhat flavorless in all of them (but especially the exploration part - why not add some combat or some other bs in the caves?)

My gripe is that everything here is effectively one giant fetch quest (as most games go), that the player can immediately recognize is a fetch quest. There needs to be depth/detail to the story to distract the player from that.

This looks really fun and interesting, but unfortunately I can't play it. 

When I try the web version it doesn't load properly. After the Unity screen it is just black. There is some music that starts up if I click on the screen though.

When I tried the download version it crashed and gave me this error message: Unable to parse Build/Web_0.1.2.framework.js.br! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: br" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug.

I hope this is helpful.

nice game, excited to see it get updated. i like the assembly, feels very tactile in opposition to most museum-type games i've played.
note: audio options & a way to play in windowed mode would be helpful. i like to listen to other things when i play games, but i had to set volume to 0 in volume mixer for this one. easier to have ingame settings.

I made an account to comment because I liked the game so much. It's really cute and scratches the same itch that animal crossings/stardew valley does, which is just what I was looking for. I think one of my fossils is stuck in the blue blocks area? I can't pick it up. Also I'm really curious to learn about the method behind the fossil quality or is it randomized?  Every fossil except one was 70% quality and I can't figure out why, lol. Great game and I really enjoyed playing it!!

This is such a charming and relaxing game concept! The gameplay loop of digging, scanning for fossils, and then carefully excavating them in the mini-game is incredibly satisfying. Getting to take your finds back to build and decorate your own museum is a fantastic reward that ties everything together beautifully.

Hii! I really like the design of the game and everything but I cannot figure out the controls? Please if you would maybe add control instructions in the description of the game it would really help people like me that just cant figure them out!

Cute concept! It reminds me of My Sims.

 Here are some issues I ran into:

- Several bones could not be taken, even with all surrounding tiles cleared (at least 1 per area I played)

- Audio stuttering if I scroll down off the page

- Unplayable in Firefox, plays ok on Edge

love the game, great way to pass the time :3

although-- found a bug, i think? i cant pick up this fossil :P

This game is lovely! I really enjoy both finding and building the skeletons, and the decoration options are good. My only problem is that whenever i scroll down the page, (ie leave the game window), or when a loading screen appears, the audio glitches out, repeating a single note over and over again until the normal game resumes.

I knew I'd love this game from the moment I saw it. It's so cozy and adorable, and such a unique concept. I'm sure the complete version will be amazing, great job devs!!! The artwork is also amazing, the game really has a style. I love the cute character models and the pretty museum decorations.

Anyways here's my dino! Such a cutie <3

Really wanted to try this game but the downloaded version crashes on start and the web version doesn't load (firefox)!

this is a super awesome game but the audio has been glitching for me :( it’ll start lagging weirdly and skipping. i know its not my computer, i tested different audio stuff

cool game but i found a bug where the map didn't block the sides so i ended up falling off the map. i can't go back up and had to refresh the page but it did save my progress and let do the level again. Also noticed some small visual bugs. the double text and bones being shown without being unburied. idk if the bone one was a chance to happen but i did see another one do it on the same level. love the game just like to bug hunt to help out!

Looks like an awesome game, but unfortunately its not loading on web for me :(  Hope you guys can get this fixed as this seems like a super cool game!

really cool idea you guys have going on here, looking forward to seeing where it goes :) really like having to assemble the skeleton, haven't seen something like that in a fossil-themed game before.

Had a fun time! If you're interested in fleshing this out some more (pun not intended), I'd say the actual digging gets kind of tedious. Might I suggest ways to upgrade digging speed? That and more dinosaurs, because everything needs more dinosaurs! :D

Are there only two dinos at the current moment? I'm really excited for the full game.

The game has potential, the build your own dinosaur mechanich is really interesting, to be able to recover the dinosaur skeleton bone by bone and build it yourself.

The fossil excavation mechanic can be fun, it feels like the typical updgrade game (dig 1 and dig 2).

I would like to play a finished version of this game.

So cute, and the art looks great

such a lovely idea! that's the kind of game I would've loved to play as a kid and absolutely enjoy now as well! the illustrations are adorable, dino facts are very interesting. will be waiting for more updates :)

Now this is a game that tickles my fancy. Cute smooth graphics and controls. Love the searching for fossils part and then assembling the bones after. Can't wait to see what the game has to offer in the future. Welldone

Hello Hello! I just wanted to say I played it and enjoyed it. I'm not into dinosaurs but I'm into cozy games, I liked the radar in the game and that there's the guide on the exhibit and auto setup (I used it once on accident and then the other time to make sure it was aligned juuuuuust right). I didn't have an account on here before, created one just to comment here!

I love the art style of this cosy game. For someone who knows almost nothing about dinosaurs - I really enjoyed it! The re was just enough information and fun facts for me. Being able to put together the exhibit in the end really tied it altogether.

This is so much fun! Very cute, very functional. Great graphics, easy controls, intuitive and fun mechanics.

Lovely little game about making fossil exhibits, has great potential!