Fossil Hunters!
Just 3 more days until Dinosaur Fossil Hunter release day!
Enjoy your weekend and let’s go fossil hunting very soon!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 3 days!
Just 3 more days until Dinosaur Fossil Hunter release day!
Enjoy your weekend and let’s go fossil hunting very soon!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 4 days!
Fossil Hunters!
How is your weekend? 🙂 In 4 days you’ll be able to play Dinosaur Fossil Hunter!
In the meantime, you can listen to our paleontology-themed playlist on Spotify!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 5 days!
Dear Fossil Hunters!
There are 5 days left before Dinosaur Fossil Hunter release day! 🤩
Moreover, with weekend around the corner, you can now listen to a special Dinosaur Fossil Hunter playlist! 🎧🎵
Sit down, relax and imagine yourself travelling the world in search of dinosaur fossils. We hope these tunes will inspire you just as they inspired us while creating this game! 😊
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 6 days!
Fossil Hunters!
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 6 days!
Have you added the game to your Wishlist? Remember about Wishlist Challenge – the more people add the game to their Wishlists, the bigger the discount at launch!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter releases in 7 days!
Fossil Hunters!
It’s April 27, meaning that there are only 7 days left until May 4 and Dinosaur Fossil Hunter game’s release day! Are you looking forward to the game? 😊
Let the countdown begin! 🤩
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter
May the 4th be with you!
Hello, Fossil Hunters!
A lot has happened since the time of our release date announcement. It turned out that April is bringing to the table many great games. After careful consideration, the decision was made to postpone release of our Dinosaur Fossil Hunter for one more week.
The new release date is 4 May 2022!
We’d like to tell you about many additions that are coming to the full version of the game!
NEW FEATURES:
Even more languages!
With the help from our amazing translators, we can expand the list of supported languages!
We will include the following additional languages:
- Japanese
- Korean
- Turkish
- Dutch
- Portuguese
Partial Steam Workshop Support
That’s a big spoiler, but we thought that many of you might be happy to know that we have included partial Workshop support in our game! Are you happy with your museum exhibitions? You’ll be able to share your museum in Steam Workshop and allow other players to visit it!
Voice-over
Our protagonist now has a voice! For the full immersion and to enhance the narrative part of the game, the narration in text will now be accompanied by a voice of the lector. We hope this will make your experience even more magical.
Achievements
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter will include over 70 Achievements for all the achievement hunters out there!
IMPROVEMENTS:
Improved Tutorial
We know that tutorial plays a big role in shaping first impressions about the game. That’s why we do our best to gather feedback at every possible stage. For a long time, our QA team has been our primary source of feedback but thanks to our recent playtests we were finally able to hand the game over to you – our players! We have gathered a lot of invaluable suggestions and based on that, tutorial in the full game will be improved. One of the more notable changes is that instead of static graphics, Help panels will now include short recordings showing certain features in action.
Waypoints
More waypoints and additional information such as room and location descriptions have been added in order to make it easier for you to find your way. You don’t have to worry about getting lost as the game will be sure to nudge you in the right direction if needed.
Controller support
We have been working on controller support system for quite a while now and playtests allowed us to address many issues so in the future, you'll be able play the game the way you like. Would you like to use your favourite game controller? Go for it! You'll be able to choose from dedicated settings for Xbox 360, PS 4, PS 5 and Xbox One controller, as well as set up your own configuration.
Upgraded mechanics
A lot of in-game mechanics have been improved thanks to our playtesters, including a water pump, which should be much more intuitive to use in the full version of the game.
WISHLIST CHALLENGE
Remember about the Wishlist Challenge!
If you’re looking forward to Dinosaur Fossil Hunter, we encourage you to add the game to your Wishlist! Not only you’ll be notified as soon as the game is available, but you’ll bring us closer to one of the challenge goals listed above!
Depending on the goal we reach by the release day, a corresponding launch discount will be applied to the game’s initial price!
SCREENSHOT COMPETITION
In one of our last announcements, we also mentioned Screenshot Competition. With release date changed to 4 May, deadline of the competition has been moved to May 4 as well. You have one more week to submit your entry.
Is there any exhibition that you’re particularly fond of in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue? Take a screenshot and share it with us on Twitter! Make sure to include #DinosaurFossilHunter hashtag so we can locate it.
3 winning entries will be featured in the game, while their authors will receive keys to these great games:
- Barn Finders
- Rover Mechanic Simulator
- Tank Mechanic Simulator
You can find more information about the competition here.
You can also expect a detailed roadmap of future updates on the game’s release day.
May the 4th be with you! 🙂
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Wishlist Challenge & Screenshot Competition
Hello, Fossil Hunters!
A little bit over 2 weeks keep us from Dinosaur Fossil Hunter release day! I hope you have already noted it down somewhere, but just in case, let us give you a friendly reminder – the full game will be released on April 27!
To fill some time until that day, we’ve decided to hold two special events.
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Wishlist Challenge
Have you added our game to your Wishlist? If you haven’t, please do so – it’s just a single click and having our games added to Wishlist means a world to indie developers like us.
Moreover, if you know someone who would be interested in the game, we’d appreciate it if you could point them in the right direction.😊 Depending on how many people have Dinosaur Fossil Hunter in their Wishlist on the release day, a corresponding discount will be applied to the price.
Fingers crossed we can reach those goals!
Now, as for the other event, we’d like to announce…
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Screenshot Competition with Rewards!
Some of you might recall our previous contest back from the Prologue days, Dinosaur Drawing Competition. You can read about it here and take a look at the winning entries here.
We had a great time and we were looking forward to another opportunity to hold such a contest! Now, we’d like to dedicate our contest to museum exhibitions.
Here's how to enter:
- Play Dinosaur Fossil Hunter: Prologue and set up the most wonderful dinosaur exhibition! 🦖🌴✨
- Post your drawing on Twitter along with a hashtag #DinosaurFossilHunter
We will announce the winners on April 27. Winning entries will be featured on our Social Media channels and in the full version of Dinosaur Fossil Hunter!
Before taking part in our competition, make sure to check the rules:
Rules:
- Screenshots must be taken in Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Prologue (NOT the Beta playtest version).
- The drawing contest starts on April 11 (right at the time when this information has been posted 😉) and ends on April 27 at 7 PM CEST.
- You can only submit 1 entry, so choose the best screenshot carefully!
- The best entries will only be chosen from screenshots posted on Twitter. Screenshots from other social media sites won’t be taken into account. That said, if you’d like to show us your work on Facebook or Discord as well, then go ahead! We’ll be happy to see it! ❤️
- The 3 winners will be announced on April 27 and we will share their entries on our Social Media channels: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Discord and Steam
- Each winner will also receive 3 game keys to following games:
- Rover Mechanic Simulator
- Tank Mechanic Simulator
- Barn Finders
- Rover Mechanic Simulator
If you have more questions regarding the competition, please contact us on Discord or in the comments section of this article.
Good luck!
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter at Steam Simfest 2022: Hobby Edition
Hello, Fossil Hunters!
It's the fourth day of Steam SimFest Hobby Edition 2022! We’re celebrating simulation games – especially the ones that allow us to try new things and professions we wouldn’t dream of picking up otherwise.
For that reason, our paleontology simulator game Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a part of this wonderful event! Here, you can live your childhood dream of becoming a professional paleontologist and hunting for dinosaur fossils! Or perhaps paleontology is an unfamiliar field to you and you’d like to see how working at the excavation site looks like? We’ve got you covered!
Tomorrow, on April 1 at 11 AM PT (8 PM CEST) we’ll be streaming Dinosaur Fossil Hunter for you all! If you missed the previous stream, make sure to take a look!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter at Steam Simfest 2022: Hobby Edition
Hello, Fossil Hunters!
It's the fourth day of Steam SimFest Hobby Edition 2022! We’re celebrating simulation games – especially the ones that allow us to try new things and professions we wouldn’t dream of picking up otherwise.
For that reason, our paleontology simulator game Dinosaur Fossil Hunter is a part of this wonderful event! Here, you can live your childhood dream of becoming a professional paleontologist and hunting for dinosaur fossils! Or perhaps paleontology is an unfamiliar field to you and you’d like to see how working at the excavation site looks like? We’ve got you covered!
Tomorrow, on April 1 at 11 AM PT (8 PM CEST) we’ll be streaming Dinosaur Fossil Hunter for you all! If you missed the previous stream, make sure to take a look!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter release date
Big news, Fossil Hunters!
We can finally share this information with all of you – Dinosaur Fossil Hunter will be released on April 27! Make sure to mark this date in your calendar so you can prepare accordingly and save some spare time for fossil hunting!
Here is the latest trailer of the game to give you an idea what to expect!
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With this announcement, we're now closing registration for Beta playtests – that said, playtests are still ongoing!
Best Regards,
Dinosaur Fossil Hunter Team