DinoKids Developer Blog

Let's play basketball !

(DinoKids) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:45:44 +0900

Hello,

Recently, we've developed multi-player base minigame called "Dino-Basket".
There are no complicated rules and controls. Move the character, and shoot!
Players compete with other characters for getting higher score under the equivalent condition. Here are some screenshots.

by DinoKids Team

Dinosaurs in the future city !

(DinoKids) — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:20:35 +0900

Hi there,

It had been so long since I had updated.
I'll try to udpate with frequency from now on.

Actually, we are as busy as a bee these days with developing of DinoKids
- design the new map, resize the characters, change some control options
and add more functions - and everything worked as scheduled.

Here is one screen shot that is from our second world map.
It looks like the space or future city and you can see the Dinosaurs in there.
Getting into the vaccum tube, the Dinosaurs are moving up and down automatically.

Hello! New York

(T-REX) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:17:50 +0900

Last week, we participated in Virtual Worlds Conference in NY.
Actually, It was our first debut to the public.
We had a great time meeting so many people in virtual worlds industry
at the conference.
Thank you so much for taking the time with DinoKids, I really appriciate it!

Here is the first movie clip of DinoKids!

(DinoKids) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:09:00 +0900

Here is DinoKids' playing movie clip. It's the first clip we open to the public.
In this movie you can see overall character's movement in the world of DinoKids.
We are planning to release this kind of movie clips periodically, so you can catch our overall ideas for DinoKids' development.

Our booth location in Virtual Worlds Conference.

(DinoKids) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:55:17 +0900

Here is our booth information in VWC.
Our booth number is 16, and I think you can easily find our booth
when you enter or exit the conference hall.
Feel free to visit our booth and get some free stuffs !
See you soon ~

Here is our New Logo !

(T-REX) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:41:00 +0900

We’ve created a new logo design by adding our company name to the existing
game title logo as part of our preparation for Virtual World Conference.
Now we need to prepare some promotional materials for the conference.
Hopefully, everything will go well. Wish us good luck!

Here is our New Logo !
You can see our brand with company name more clearly.

It is designed by EH Jeong. Good job EHJ~

Random Coin Eating Function

(T-REX) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:46:00 +0900

Recently, our server team has been working on implementing objects that
appear at random and the logic that will enable characters to pick up and eat
those objects.

An example of this would be the random creation of coins in the world in which
the timing of location can be adjusted.

When the characters touch these coins, the coins will disappear.

The coins can also appear in other places, following different rules.

This function is in its prototype stage now. If we can refine this function, and add
some more details and polish, we can use it for all sorts of things in the world.
We’re already thinking of ways we can use this in multi-player games and
NPC options.
Thanks for all the hard work, server team!

Participating in the Virtual World Conference 2008, april

(T-REX) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:15:00 +0900

We decided to showcase DinoKids in the 2008 Virtual World Conference held on
April 3^rd to 4^th in New York, USA. We’re very excited and nervous about
participating in a worldwide conference that is attended by many of the virtual
world industry experts.

This will be DinoKids’s very first debut to public, so we hope that our showcase is
successful and that we receive valuable feedback about our development.

We’re participating in the conference as a Bronze Sponsor, and will keep you
updated with more information later.

History of DinoKids 10: Can We Jump, Chat, and Act All at the Same Time?

(T-REX) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:38:00 +0900

We were bombarded with questions while we were testing the character jump,
chatting, and shop functions.

“Can we make characters chat while jumping?”

“Can we make characters move forward while jumping?”

“Please, ask one thing at a time!” our programmer yelled.

We felt much more restricted in creating a virtual world based on flash than
based on the typical online game platform which uses a full client program
and server.

It’s not that difficult to implement jumps and double jumps for normal
side-scrolling MMO games, but in DinoKids, which is based on flash, designing
even a normal jump requires complicated logic and extra work to properly
synchronize the action to the virtual world.

We’ll be definitely adding more character actions to the world. We’ve learned that there are technical limits in making such a huge flash based virtual world, and are trying to figure out how to improve DinoKids as much as we can within those limitations.

History of DinoKids 9: You Don’t Have to Walk All Day

(T-REX) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:31:00 +0900

We thought it’d be more fun to have more ways to move the dinosaurs than just
walking and jumping, so added and tested a few more ways to move characters
such climbing ladders and ropes, moving uphill and downhill, and using escalators and teleport.

Also, We thought of adding a devious little function that might let bad dinosaurs press some sort of switch that would cause a blackout throughout their world.

That sounds like it might be fun… Or maybe not?