Welcome to Dino World : a dinosaur-themed roll and write
Created by Caezar and Kuly from Alley Cat Games
Draw, Roar, Score! Take control of competing dinosaur theme parks in this medium weight roll and write game.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Final files nearing completion and more news!
about 7 years ago
– Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 03:23:07 PM
Happy new year everyone!
Sorry this is a lot later than planned, but we have been busy finalising the files for Welcome to Dinoworld, as well as taking some well deserved time off over christmas.
We wanted to show you some of our progress that is tangible.
The player sheets have been re-worked and looks and feels a lot better to play with. It just has a few minor tweaks then they are done.
The rest of the cards for the base game are done bar a few graphical tweaks, here is some more examples of recently finished cards.
The cards for the expansions and promo cards need a bit more work, so in addition to the rulebook this is all we have left to do before we submit the files to the manufacturer.
Pledge Manager
As you will, or will not be aware, for this campaign we will be running a backer kit pledge manager as opposed to the standard kickstarter. We're hoping to open this up later this week, or at worst next week.
Next Kickstarters?
You can see a more detailed look of our upcoming kickstarters and WIPs below, but Coral Islands a gateway level 2 dice-stacking games in 1 box experience launches next week, with beautiful art from the amazing Sabrina Miramon again. If you were a Dice Hospital backer, we will be giving you a free Dice Tower/Tom Vasel promo card as a small thank you (you'll just need to message us/fill in the form). The expected kickstarter price will be £25/$31
Few images of Coral (bottom right) and Islands (left and top right)
Chocolate Factory, one of our bigger games of 2019, launches almost immediately afterwards in February. It will be reviewed by Rahdo, Man vs Meeple and Jon Gets Games (amongst others!) It is a medium weight euro game, with literal engine building, a conveyer belt mechanic and wooden chocolate pieces! It has tons of pieces including (but not limited to) 5 recessed player boards, 100-ish cards, 135 wooden chocolate pieces, is designed by the amazing design duo: Matt Dunstan and Brett Gilbert, and for 1-5 players.
Coming to Kickstarter in February
Timeline?
As long as we can get the files sent to the manufacturer by the end of the month or early February, welcome to dinoworld is on track for a April/May arrival time with backers.
Below is our timeline of Coral Islands, but also our other works in progress!
We will do one another update tomorrow before the campaign ends!
See you then friends!
Caezar, Kuly and the Alley Cat Team.
New Stretch goal revealed: KS FREE mini expansion pack
over 7 years ago
– Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:34:57 PM
12mm dice now unlocked!
The 12mm dice upgrade has been unlocked at £42,000! The new stretch goal at £48,000 is:
A new mini expansion pack for all tiers!
This mini expansion pack which currently does not have a name, but has been tested in the last month internally and ready to go are essentially public objective cards.
This time the cards unlike the visitor cards asks players to draw a number of dinosaurs in specific shapes (including OR excluding generators). Players who achieve them first score 12 points while other players who achieve them later score 8 points. These are publically accessible cards, meaning that all players are tasked with trying to achieve them for extra points. This means that players who have visitor cards which are predominantly carnivore or herbivore heavy, will not be penalised so is in effect balanced, and essentially asking players to play with spatial elements more carefully.
Importantly, this is a KICKSTARTER FREE mini expansion pack, which will be sold as promos in the future. We always try to think of ways which thank kickstarter backers for their patience and trust, but also allow non-kickstarter/late pledge people to get in on the action too.
Thanks again for all your support, it's been a tremendous campaign to run!
Caezar and the alley cat team.
Print and Play file now up!
over 7 years ago
– Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 07:00:23 PM
Print and Play file is now up!
For those eager to try the game out, we have a very basic version of the game available to download. Just scroll down on the kickstarter page itself and you can download the files.
For a bit more fun, you can play the game along with Tom Heath in the playthrough section! You literally ONLY need the player sheet - although knowing the rules will help ;) However, the "public visitor" mode used in the video, is typically used when you have 10 or more players and not the "core experience" , since one of the best parts of the core game is when the visitor cards are BETWEEN players so you can fight it out for those valuable visitors!
Nearing £30,000 stretch goal....
We're nearing the £30,000 goal , and we'd love to start upgrading the components rather than adding more content :)
Kind regards
Caezar and the Alley Cat team
FUNDED! And unlocked stretch goals!
over 7 years ago
– Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 09:30:40 PM
THANK YOU SO MUCH WE ARE FUNDED!
We at Alley Cat Games are flabbergasted by the response we've had. Funding within 3 hours was phenomenal and having raised over £20,000 in 24 hours is amazing. You guys and gals are awesome!
New unlocked stretch goals!
So we wanted to make sure the first set of stretch goals were extra content. The game is so good, because it has so much replayability, but we wanted to add to that. As with all our campaigns, we make sure we carefully do the finances to ensure we offer the games as low priced as possible, while being mindful of how things are going to cost on our end too. Extra components always add to the price it costs to manufacture.
This has now unlocked which we were going to unlock at £14,000. These are 3 new lab cards! Side Entrance, Urbanisation and Power Regulator. These were originally created "just in case" for stretch goals, but left out of the original base game due to space.
At £21,000 we unlocked 2 new special building cards! These are the HOTEL and the GIFT SHOP! The hotel gives bonuses based on how many visitors you accrue while the gift shop gives VPs based on how close they are to your park entrance/exits :)
At £30,000 we will unlock 3 more lab cards!
Beyond £30,000 we will have enough to start improving the components themselves, such as the card stock, box quality, dice size etc. We will however, also have stretch goals to increase the content of the expansion pack too.
Once again, thanks for backing and we can't wait to get the games in your hands!
