#DINO SQUAD GAME WIKI ANDROID#
#DINO SQUAD GAME WIKI CODE#

#DINO SQUAD GAME WIKI CODE#

The game was released in September 2014 initially, it did not work on older devices, so the code was updated and re-released in December of the same year. The developers chose the dinosaur theme as a reference to the game's function, a joke that not having an internet connection is the ' prehistoric ages'. During development, the game was given the codename 'Project Bolan', in reference to Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the T. Gabriel designed the player character, named the 'Lonely T-Rex'. The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014, which consisted of Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung.

The game over header and restart button after the player runs into a cactus If a network administrator disables the Dinosaur Game, an error message appears when attempting to play the game, which features an image of a meteor heading towards the Lonely T-Rex. The game was designed to reach its maximum score after approximately 17 million years of playtime, in reference to how long the T-Rex existed before it went extinct during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. The color scheme then alternates as the game progresses. Once the player reaches around 700 points, the game switches from dark gray graphics on a white background to pale gray graphics on a black background, representing a shift from day to night, with daytime sky graphics also becoming nighttime sky graphics. As the game progresses, the speed of play gradually increases until the user hits an obstacle, prompting an instant game over. Pressing space, ↑, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile devices will cause the dinosaur to 'jump', while pressing the ↓ key will cause the dinosaur to 'duck'.

ĭuring the game, the Lonely T-Rex continuously moves from left to right across a black-and-white desert landscape, with the player attempting to avoid oncoming obstacles such as cacti and Pteranodons by jumping or ducking. Additionally, the game can be accessed by inputting chrome://dino or chrome://network-error/-106 into the Omnibox.

#DINO SQUAD GAME WIKI ANDROID#

The game can then be launched either by pressing space or ↑ on desktop, or by tapping the dinosaur on Android or iOS mobile devices. When a user attempts to navigate to a web page on Google Chrome while being offline, the browser notifies the user that they are not connected to the Internet, with an illustration of a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex shown on the page.

Dino squad game wiki