It's such a cool game, the exact kind of vibe I like.
I wish there was a parameter button that I could click to dissable the sound though. Or maybe I just couldn't find it. To tell the truth, the reason I was searching for it was because unfortunately the music was terribly glitchy for me...
But other than that, like I said, I really like the game. It's cosy, and cute, and not boring. I had a great time playing.
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!!
Thanks for making an account just to let me know! I really appreciate it!
Ah sorry you got one of our known bugs in the web build. I posted a dev log today with a bit more info about them. Basically for now if you leave that stuck bone behind it will respawn in another location so you can still get it somewhere else.
Haha you also shouldnt be able to see the sky there but that'll be fixed in the next build too 😅 sorry about the bugs!
Currently the fossil quality is random and you can pick up better quality bones over time that will swap out. Also if you hit the bones when excavating them it lowers the quality. Do you think it's unclear the way it is now? Let me know if you think we need to explain this to the player or change how it works? thanks for playing and I hope you'll come back and test out the next update, we have lots more content coming 😉
I didn't even notice the sky, haha, so not a big issue :). I was only confused on the bone quality because when I broke blocks, the dirt would sometimes take one hit and other times it would take two hits. So I didn't know if I was like...messing up while digging and making the quality worse (I hope that makes sense, lol). I think a short tutorial would be the best solution to clear up that bone quality is randomized and that breaking dirt blocks is supposed to take 1-2 hits. Also because my first bone only had blue stone on it that needed a pickaxe and I didn't realize that the tools were for different things and totally obliterated that bone, whoopsies.😂
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!
Hi there! Sorry for this oversight. I will add a controls list ASAP. In the meantime: Moving around is WASD and most things are done with mouse clicking. Other controls are shown in the UI for rotating bones etc. But I will definitely write up a proper controls list soon :-)
Thanks! I figured it out but it took me like 10 minutes to realize i couldn't pick the bone up because it was still blocked lol. Mostly a user error but its always a good idea to have clear instructions!
Having encountered something similar myself, I think it might still be considered 'buried' by one or more of the tiles on the right. Or at least, every time I had a "stuck" bone like that and I cleared out around it I could eventually pick it up! :D
Yeah thats exactly it. It's overlapping very slightly with the block on the right which is an indestructible block. So I'm just updating that code to ignore overlaps with indestructible blocks.
I'll try push an update later today with this fix as well as a couple of other ones.
Unfortunately web builds come with a bunch of annoying problems and because so many people are playing im a bit nervous about pushing a big update and accidentally causing other (potentially worse) issues.
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.
We're sorry about that :-( It only happens in the web/browser builds but yeah I know its horrible when it happens! We will try solve this issue soon. Thank you so much for playing and I hope the audio issue didn't ruin the experience too much! Hopefully it'll be fixed for our next update.
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.
Haha I LOVE him!! this made us laugh so much. Thank you! Made me think we should have an "invent your own dinosaur" area where you can use your discarded bones to invent strange creatures XD Thanks for playing :-)
Hi there. I am really sorry about that, that's frustrating! We will take a look at this first thing tomorrow morning and try fix it! If you are up for it and have the time to send us your player log file it would help us figure out why it might be crashing for you?
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
I am glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the audio glitch! It seems to only happen in the web build and not when you run the downloaded version so that's a temporary fix if you want to keep playing? but we will try to fix the audio issue on web asap, I know the sound it make is horrible when it does that :-( sorry.
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!
Thank you so much for going bug hunting for us!! I really appreciate it <3 We are going to squash these bugs this weekend. Esp the falling off the world one, that's not nice at all! sorry that happened to you.
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
Glad you had a fun time! As for the digging getting tedious: sorry about that. When we initially started we had 1 dinosaur so there wasn't as much digging involved.
We're actually right in the middle of working on the shop and one of the upgrades is actually a better/faster digging tool. So that's coming soon!
Ah yes, sorry, there are only two full Dino's and two smaller single find fossils at the moment! We are going to add more in future updates over the next couple months though along with some other features! If you follow us you should get a notification whenever we add a major update. I have a long list of dinosaurs/fossils that we plan on adding 😬
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.
I feel that the main point of development should be the gameplay loop for the fossil excavation mechanic: setting objectives, encountering limits, improving the gear, overcoming the limits and encountering new ones and son on. Besides some quality of life improvements to make the excavation feel nicer. Maybe there should also be a reward for obtaining fossils, to make it an objective.
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 :)
Hey thank you so much for playing and leaving such a nice comment, really appreciate it! Awesome!! We are already planning what content to work on for the next update, excited about it :-)
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!
WOW you made an account just to let us know!!? that's so awesome. Super duper cool of you! We really appreciate it <3
We are planning on adding more dinosaurs and extra content in the future so if you follow us it'll notify you when we make a major update. We'll get you in to dinosaurs if its the last things we do ;-) hehehe
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.
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It's such a cool game, the exact kind of vibe I like.
I wish there was a parameter button that I could click to dissable the sound though. Or maybe I just couldn't find it. To tell the truth, the reason I was searching for it was because unfortunately the music was terribly glitchy for me...
But other than that, like I said, I really like the game. It's cosy, and cute, and not boring. I had a great time playing.
Thank you for sharing!
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.
Thanks I'm glad you're enjoying it! Definitely on our list of things to add! Sorry the options aren't available at the moment :-(
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!!
Thanks for making an account just to let me know! I really appreciate it!
Ah sorry you got one of our known bugs in the web build. I posted a dev log today with a bit more info about them. Basically for now if you leave that stuck bone behind it will respawn in another location so you can still get it somewhere else.
Haha you also shouldnt be able to see the sky there but that'll be fixed in the next build too 😅 sorry about the bugs!
Currently the fossil quality is random and you can pick up better quality bones over time that will swap out. Also if you hit the bones when excavating them it lowers the quality. Do you think it's unclear the way it is now? Let me know if you think we need to explain this to the player or change how it works? thanks for playing and I hope you'll come back and test out the next update, we have lots more content coming 😉
I didn't even notice the sky, haha, so not a big issue :). I was only confused on the bone quality because when I broke blocks, the dirt would sometimes take one hit and other times it would take two hits. So I didn't know if I was like...messing up while digging and making the quality worse (I hope that makes sense, lol). I think a short tutorial would be the best solution to clear up that bone quality is randomized and that breaking dirt blocks is supposed to take 1-2 hits. Also because my first bone only had blue stone on it that needed a pickaxe and I didn't realize that the tools were for different things and totally obliterated that bone, whoopsies.😂
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.
I'm so happy you enjoyed it so much! Thanks for playing!
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!
Hi there! Sorry for this oversight. I will add a controls list ASAP. In the meantime: Moving around is WASD and most things are done with mouse clicking. Other controls are shown in the UI for rotating bones etc. But I will definitely write up a proper controls list soon :-)
Thanks! I figured it out but it took me like 10 minutes to realize i couldn't pick the bone up because it was still blocked lol. Mostly a user error but its always a good idea to have clear instructions!
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
Thanks for playing and sorry about those bugs!!
I'm busy fixing the issue you posted a screenshot of, should have a fix up later today. Also looking at the sound issues.
The firefox issue is a really hard one... I'm looking into it but its complicated. Hopefully I can find a fix for it. Sorry about that.
No worries! I really enjoyed parts of the game such as the bone cleaning part, which was very relaxing. Keep up the good work!
love the game, great way to pass the time :3
although-- found a bug, i think? i cant pick up this fossil :P
Oh no! Luckily this is a super easy bug to fix. Will sort it out asap.
Sorry about that.
Having encountered something similar myself, I think it might still be considered 'buried' by one or more of the tiles on the right. Or at least, every time I had a "stuck" bone like that and I cleared out around it I could eventually pick it up! :D
(Loving the game, it's very fun XD)
Yeah thats exactly it. It's overlapping very slightly with the block on the right which is an indestructible block. So I'm just updating that code to ignore overlaps with indestructible blocks.
I'll try push an update later today with this fix as well as a couple of other ones.
Unfortunately web builds come with a bunch of annoying problems and because so many people are playing im a bit nervous about pushing a big update and accidentally causing other (potentially worse) issues.
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.
We're sorry about that :-( It only happens in the web/browser builds but yeah I know its horrible when it happens! We will try solve this issue soon. Thank you so much for playing and I hope the audio issue didn't ruin the experience too much! Hopefully it'll be fixed for our next update.
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
Haha I LOVE him!! this made us laugh so much. Thank you! Made me think we should have an "invent your own dinosaur" area where you can use your discarded bones to invent strange creatures XD
Thanks for playing :-)
Aww that would be so much fun! :)
Really wanted to try this game but the downloaded version crashes on start and the web version doesn't load (firefox)!
Hi there. I am really sorry about that, that's frustrating! We will take a look at this first thing tomorrow morning and try fix it! If you are up for it and have the time to send us your player log file it would help us figure out why it might be crashing for you?
You can find the file here on your pc:
%appdata%/../LocalLow/DefaultCompany/Fossil-Hunter
You can email it to: lasse@unsigneddouble.com or find us on our discord :-)
Oh and thank you so much for letting us know! Appreciate it.
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
I am glad you enjoyed it. Sorry about the audio glitch! It seems to only happen in the web build and not when you run the downloaded version so that's a temporary fix if you want to keep playing? but we will try to fix the audio issue on web asap, I know the sound it make is horrible when it does that :-( sorry.
Thank you so much for going bug hunting for us!! I really appreciate it <3 We are going to squash these bugs this weekend. Esp the falling off the world one, that's not nice at all! sorry that happened to you.
Thanks for playing!
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!
Oh thats super lame. Could you let me know what browser you're using so I can try fix it?
Sure thing! Im playing on a Chrome browser rn, hope that helps!
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.
Thanks for playing cerafish and have a lovely day. We're also looking forward to seeing where it goes! :-)
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
Glad you had a fun time! As for the digging getting tedious: sorry about that. When we initially started we had 1 dinosaur so there wasn't as much digging involved.
We're actually right in the middle of working on the shop and one of the upgrades is actually a better/faster digging tool. So that's coming soon!
Thanks for playing and have a rad day.
Yay dinosaurs!
Are there only two dinos at the current moment? I'm really excited for the full game.
Ah yes, sorry, there are only two full Dino's and two smaller single find fossils at the moment! We are going to add more in future updates over the next couple months though along with some other features! If you follow us you should get a notification whenever we add a major update. I have a long list of dinosaurs/fossils that we plan on adding 😬
Thank you for the fast reply! I look forward to the updates and am a rather patient person. I'll be cheering ya on in the bg!
We should have an update with some new fossils and other things within a couple weeks time 😊 thanks for cheering!! We appreciate it!
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.
Thanks for playing!
Anything you felt would be a good addition for the next update?
I feel that the main point of development should be the gameplay loop for the fossil excavation mechanic: setting objectives, encountering limits, improving the gear, overcoming the limits and encountering new ones and son on. Besides some quality of life improvements to make the excavation feel nicer. Maybe there should also be a reward for obtaining fossils, to make it an objective.
So cute, and the art looks great
Thank you!!
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 :)
Hey thank you so much for playing and leaving such a nice comment, really appreciate it! Awesome!! We are already planning what content to work on for the next update, excited about it :-)
Cool Game! I really liked assembling the skeleton. I want more dinosaurs
What dinosaur would you like us to add next? Let me know your favourite and we'll add it!
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
Thanks ramborob!
We can't wait to add more features either. Don't forget to follow us so you're notified when we make an update :-)
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!
WOW you made an account just to let us know!!? that's so awesome. Super duper cool of you! We really appreciate it <3
We are planning on adding more dinosaurs and extra content in the future so if you follow us it'll notify you when we make a major update. We'll get you in to dinosaurs if its the last things we do ;-) hehehe
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.
yesss thank you Kate that makes us very happy!
This is so much fun! Very cute, very functional. Great graphics, easy controls, intuitive and fun mechanics.
Awesome!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it and thank you for leaving a rating <3 Your name is very on theme!! love it :D
Thanks cozyharry! Glad you enjoyed it :-)