13 years ago, ArmchairPhilosopher
Nice, but still needs quite a lot of work to be great
This little game is quite nice, especially the gameplay and idea behind it are fife-star-material. But the actual game is not, it still needs a whole lot of work to become great. - And that's the good news: If the developers put this little more work into this, they have a winner at their hands. First and worst of all is the performance. Playing this game on an 1st generation iPhone is not at all fun. It runs at something that feels like 5 frames per second on this older hardware, which makes it quite hard to control the dino. It feels like the whole game is made of Cocoa instead of using OpenGL ES. And if so, that's a really bad decision. Plus, it takes ages to load, almost two minutes on my 1G iPhone. The second thing that needs work is textures. All in all they look really nice and you can see that a huge amount of work and creativity went into designing this game and its world. But why in all that's holy did the developers stop there? Many textures, especially in the menu, have no antialiased edges and look totally cheep. But the sounds are nice, the gameplay is great, the graphics are beautiful, considering aforementioned negative points. Developers, please take this game, make those improvements, and you'll have a winner!
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