game dev idea's

[Matic]

Hi guys,
My wife is addicted to the game and had a WHOOOOLE bunch of ideas for a next version of the game..
I messaged them by facebook and got a reply to post them on the forums so here it goes.

1. Basic additions like aquatic and air dinos would be great!
2. The biggest addition... some form of JW live connection, but here is the thing.. people need to go outside with their smartphone, to find fossils... those are uploaded to the game’s acount for dna research. Have each country have a country specific fossil, BUT in order to “catch em all”, add a multiplayer auction market in the game so people can trade, sell,...
3. Tourist mode: stroll trough the park and meet every dinosaur, solve a puzzle, fill in quiz questions,... as you explore or visit shops.
4. Lab work / hatchery: Be able to walk inside the lab and/or hatchery where you can inspect and take care of eggs.
5. hatched dino's should be small dino babies... it would be fn to watch em grow to big dino's.

For myself, I thing the smartphone addition would be so awesome....

Anyways,
Stay safe and take care!
Mike

 

[Thylaco]

Well, they're certainly interesting ideas.

I think a Ludia/Frontier cooperative would be a bit unusual, but an optional accessory app might be an interesting little thing (you can't make it the only way to get fossils, as there's people that could get a copy of the proper game and not have internet/phone access for whatever reason, the ideal situation is giving a bonus to people that can and do, but not penalising those that don't or can't).

Country endemic things are never really a good idea (you can't do it for every country), but just certain species having a more limited distribution could maybe work, as examples, Species 1 could be found everywhere in North America and in only one place in each other region, Species 2 could be found in a couple of places in each region and Species 3 could be restricted to South America, Africa, the Arabian peninsula, Greater India & Oceania (a gondwanan distribution, or close to it anyway). The individual places could even be as specific as states/territories/provinces for larger countries.