Future Plans for the Blog

Hello, everyone! I hope you all have had a wonderful holiday season!

This post is meant to outline some of the plans that we have for posts on this blog.

When there are significant updates on the progress of the game that we feel ready to show, you may find details here. However, those posts may not necessarily be on any set basis, and will be posted whenever we have new content that is worth showing; we don't want to show something that is half-finished for the sole purpose of meeting some quota.

For posts following a regular schedule, we have two planned post categories at this time, though more may be added in the future. They are the following:

"Creature Feature": Every Tuesday, I will be writing a post about one of the species or a group of species that will be featured in Dinosaur Battlegrounds. These posts will be as informative as possible, and will include pictures of both fossil specimens and a screenshot of the model that will appear in the game if it is ready.

"Sci-day": Every Friday, there will be a post about some core concept of science or research technique that will allow us to create a truly accurate reconstruction of the Hell Creek paleoecosystem. There will also be concepts or research that has led us to make certain design choices, or perhaps raises questions that Dinosaur Battlegrounds could help answer. For example, there will likely be a post that summarizes cladistics and phylogenetic bracketing, and how that technique offers support for a feathered Tyrannosaurus rex. The post would also attempt to explain the relevance of 'secondary loss', and how that allows for the possibility of a fully scaled T. rex.

If you're a fan, I would highly recommend that you follow this blog so you can get the latest news about the game, and perhaps learn something new about the fascinating creatures that lived on our little blue marble millions of years ago!

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Invest in Dinosaur Battlegrounds

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Step Aside, T Rex... Make Some Space for Dakotaraptor!

Since it was announced that the first formation we would release was Hell Creek, Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the most popular and anticipated playable species to be featured in Dinosaur Battlegrounds. On October 30, 2015, however, a description was published of a new species that may just challenge the "Tyrant Lizard King" for that title.

This new species, named Dakotaraptor steini, was an incredibly large dromaeosaur (or "raptor"), comparable in size to the much earlier Utahraptor ostrommaysorum, with an estimated length of up to 5.5 meters (18 feet), Despite this, the proportions of Dakotaraptor more closely resembled those of much smaller dromaeosaurids, such as Deinonychus antirrhopus and Dromaeosaurus albertensis. This massive carnivore lived in the same time and place as Tyrannosaurus rex at the very end of the Mesozoic (A time known as the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Cretaceous period), making it one of the last surviving members of its lineage.

The fact that it lived alongside Tyrannosaurus, along with the fact that as a raptor it was armed with a fearsome arsenal of killer tools at its disposal, makes the Dinosaur Battlegrounds team extremely excited to feature it in the game. The idea of these two large carnivores living in the same environment raises some very interesting ecological questions that we might be able to use the game to investigate.

How might these two species have interacted, if they did so at all? Given their massive size, they would have been able to take on a variety of prey on their own. However, it may have hunted in packs, which would give it an even wider selection of victims to choose from. This may have even allowed it to directly compete with immature Tyrannosaurus rex between six and nine meters in length, or fully mature Nanotyrannus lancensis (though there is still controversy regarding the validity of this taxon; I will not take sides on the issue). Regardless, the idea of Tyrannosaurus rex fighting with packs of giant raptors outside of an inaccurate Hollywood blockbuster is a dream come true!

References:

DePalma, Robert A.. Burnham, David A, Martin, Larry D, Larson, Peter L, & Bakker, Robert T. 2015. The first giant raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Hell Creek Formation. Paleontological Contributions (14).

Version A. Life-restoration of Dakotaraptor steini, work in progress.

Current Status of Dinosaur Battlegrounds

Hello, everyone! I hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving - a fitting holiday to post about dinosaurs given how I'm sure many of you have had one sitting on your dinner table!

As we have stated a few times in the past, most of the work we have been doing is related to getting the backing we need to go forward, and has taken priority over all else. This type of work is behind-the-scenes type stuff, involving things like writing pitches, communications with potentially interested parties, etc. It's not exactly the type of thing that we are at liberty to go into detail about nor is it something that people like to read about. It is critical to our success with the game, and future as a game development studio.
All in all, we are continuing to do as much as we can to work towards this game, and as soon as we have anything worthy of showing off, you will see it! As proof of this, here are a few things you can look forward to in the near future:
1. We will be getting several interview videos out, with myself, Frank, and possibly a few others. In these you will learn a bit more about the team, as well as our thoughts and plans for the near future.
2. A few images will be published soon, showing off some of the newer fauna and flora that will be featured in Hell Creek.