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Meet Darwin, a daring dinosaur with a dream: to fly like no dinosaur before. In a forgotten jungle, he stumbled upon an ancient cannon and hatched a wild plan...

Controls

Click or tap on your phone at the right time!

Credits

Beachball font

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux, HTML5
Release date	Sep 18, 2023
Author	tversteeg
Genre	Action
Made with	Rust, Aseprite
Tags	2D, Dinosaurs, one-button, Pixel Art
Code license	GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL)
Asset license	Creative Commons Attribution_NonCommercial_ShareAlike v4.0 International
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Mouse, Touchscreen
Accessibility	One button
Links	Source code, Homepage, Support

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Development log

Tech
Sep 18, 2023

Comments

JacquesJnr223 days ago(+1)

Darwin's Ascent is a super neat, hand-made microgame that tickles your pixel art craving and makes you say "Weeeee"! 8/10!

So this game's art-style is a winner! It's cute, it's bright and I love it.

Great work on the simplicity of the narrative and game loop it's so simple anyone can pick it up and that ROCKS!

My favorited part about this game is the progression and for sure the first-time I hit a bomb, I chained like four in-a-row and was like "ANOTHER BOMB?! YEAH!" the whole time.

Last - your tech dev-log is a nice read and the real back-story for me! Great work on the rotation crate (rotating pixels is a common pain-in-the-butt). Your design and art skills combined are amazing, please keep it up.

Suggestion: Give Darwin a voice. Some cute dino feedback would suit this game perfectly!