Dinothawr is a block pushing puzzle game on slippery surfaces. Our hero is a dinosaur whose friends are trapped in ice. Through puzzles it is your task to free the dinos from their ice prison.
- Agnes Heyer (art, level design, some code)
- Hans-Kristian Arntzen (programming, music, some level design)
Android APK (Google Play, direct download, QR for direct download)
The game itself is a shared library and needs a libretro frontend (e.g. RetroArch) to run. To play Dinothawr, use the right libretro core, and dinothawr.game as a game ROM. An example command line would be:
retroarch -L dinothawr_libretro_linux_x86_64.so dinothawr/dinothawr.game
Dinothawrs gamepad control are mapped as shown here.
On PC build of RetroArch, the default keyboard binds are:
- Z: Push
- X: Toggle menu
- S: Reset level
- Arrow keys: Move around
- Escape: Exit game
Dinothawr supports a large number of platforms. We only provide bundled builds for Android. After release, we expect bundled builds to show up.
Dinothawr implements the libretro API, and uses e.g. RetroArch as a frontend. On Android, RetroArch is bundled, and is transparent to the user.
Make sure latest SDKs and NDKs (r9) are installed.
git clone git://github.com/Themaister/Dinothawr.git
cd Dinothawr
export DINOTHAWR_TOP_FOLDER="$(pwd)"
cd android/eclipse/jni
ndk-build -j4
git clone git://github.com/libretro/RetroArch.git
cd RetroArch
cd android/native/jni
ndk-build -j4
cd ../libs
cp -r armeabi-v7a x86 mips "$DINOTHAWR_TOP_FOLDER/android/eclipse/libs/"
cd "$DINOTHAWR_TOP_FOLDER"
mkdir -p android/eclipse/assets
cp -r dinothawr/* android/eclipse/assets/
Open Eclipse and import project from android/eclipse. You should see Dinothawr assets in assets/ folder, and various libraries in libs/.
Try running the project on your device, and you should see Dinothawr.apk in android/eclipse/bin/.
git clone git://github.com/Themaister/Dinothawr.git
cd Dinothawr
make -j4 # (on OSX, you might need make CC=clang CXX="clang++ -stdlib=libc++")
retroarch -L dinothawr_libretro.so dinothawr/dinothawr.game
Dinothawr is fairly hackable. dinothawr.game is the game file itself. It is a simple XML file which points to all assets used by the game. Levels are organized in chapters. Levels themselves are created using the Tiled editor. If you want to try making your own levels, make sure you use the "plain XML" format for .tmx files and not the default zlib base64.
Level design guide (pdf)