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Dinosaur Game
The Dinosaur Game (also known as the Chrome Dino) is a browser game developed by Google and built into the Google Chrome web browser. In the game, the player guides a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex across a side-scrolling, desert landscape. The game was created by Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung in 2014.
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. The game can then be launched either by pressing space or ↑ on desktop, or by tapping the dinosaur on Android or iOS mobile devices. Additionally, the game can be accessed by inputting chrome://dino or chrome://network-error/-106 into the Omnibox.
During the game, the dinosaur 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 pterosaurs by jumping or ducking. Pressing space, ↑, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile devices will cause the dinosaur to jump. Pressing the ↓ key will either cause the dinosaur to duck, or fall faster depending on if the button is pressed mid-air. As the game progresses, the speed of play gradually increases until the user hits an obstacle, prompting an instant game over.
Once the player reaches a certain point, the game switches from day to night (or vice versa, depending on if dark mode is selected in the browser's settings). The color scheme and accompanying weather graphics then alternate as the game progresses. 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.
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 player character.
The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014, which consisted of Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung. Gabriel designed the player character, named the "Lonely T-Rex". During development, the game was given the codename "Project Bolan", in reference to Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the band T. Rex. The developers chose the dinosaur theme as a reference to the game's function, a joke that not having an internet connection is equivalent to living in the "prehistoric ages".
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.
Pterosaurs were added as obstacles with a browser update in 2015.
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Dinosaur Game
The Dinosaur Game (also known as the Chrome Dino) is a browser game developed by Google and built into the Google Chrome web browser. In the game, the player guides a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex across a side-scrolling, desert landscape. The game was created by Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung in 2014.
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. The game can then be launched either by pressing space or ↑ on desktop, or by tapping the dinosaur on Android or iOS mobile devices. Additionally, the game can be accessed by inputting chrome://dino or chrome://network-error/-106 into the Omnibox.
During the game, the dinosaur 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 pterosaurs by jumping or ducking. Pressing space, ↑, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile devices will cause the dinosaur to jump. Pressing the ↓ key will either cause the dinosaur to duck, or fall faster depending on if the button is pressed mid-air. As the game progresses, the speed of play gradually increases until the user hits an obstacle, prompting an instant game over.
Once the player reaches a certain point, the game switches from day to night (or vice versa, depending on if dark mode is selected in the browser's settings). The color scheme and accompanying weather graphics then alternate as the game progresses. 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.
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 player character.
The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014, which consisted of Sebastien Gabriel, Alan Bettes, and Edward Jung. Gabriel designed the player character, named the "Lonely T-Rex". During development, the game was given the codename "Project Bolan", in reference to Marc Bolan, the lead singer of the band T. Rex. The developers chose the dinosaur theme as a reference to the game's function, a joke that not having an internet connection is equivalent to living in the "prehistoric ages".
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.
Pterosaurs were added as obstacles with a browser update in 2015.