Your dash attack teaching moment made me verbally exclaim, "Oh f*** yeah." (This is the only time something from the jam got that much of a rise from me, so I don't share this lightly.) While the graphics are simple, the setting is a fun choice for a game, the music is boppin, and I like what you've done from a gameplay standpoint.

To improve this, I would suggest focusing on how the game introduces challenges and mechanics. It's too much too fast. Give me more time to learn and familiarize myself with one mechanic across several sections designed to showcase its utility before giving me the next one. Then start mixing and matching once I'm comfortable with it to keep up the challenge and variety. The same applies to the enemies, albeit in a different way. You've got sections that have a boatload of the velociraptor guys, but they're all horizontal runner types, which makes the space feel messy and cramped as opposed to a fun, interesting challenge. Take a look at how Hollow Knight handles high enemy counts. They do this with variety, maybe throwing a runner type, a jumper type, and a bunch of floater/fliers to force you to move and attack in fascinating ways. (Granted, time is limited in a jam, so finding ways to make use of what you have in varied, intentional ways becomes the name of the game. In this context, a high count of fliers moving in semi-random patterns works a lot better to present a fair challenge than an army of horizontally moving baddies running at me in a straight line from both directions with no room to dodge.)

I wish I had more time to finish this as you've got some good stuff going here!

Been wanting to play this for a few days - finally got around to doing it. I like your setting the most out of all the games in this jam. Like everyone else, I like your movement the most too!

I think two things could've been done:

1. Narrative - I know its a game jam and we don't bother much with stories in jams, but its such a core component of what makes a game a game, that imo it should be a part of any game. Something simple - some directive to get the player moving towards a goal. I personally feel like even in a game jam, some narrative is a non-negotiable. It could be something simple - "need food for my family", or "I must kill all dinosaurs" - but the fundamental function is to give the player some reason to explore. That's just my 2c.
2. Level design - the playing space was elegantly designed from a mechanical standpoint, but visually they ended up feeling unmemorable. Unmemorable doesn't mean unfun. It was fun for sure. Unmemorable means that there were no rooms that stuck out as locations for me to recognise and remember. Having one memorable room per region helps players memorise the map and increases immersion. Think of rooms like that giant room of platforms in the forgotten crossroads in hollow knight. It's difficult to forget that room, and every player knows what's to the left of it and what's to the right of it. So some ways to do that are using the shape of the room (horizontal, vertical), use repetition (many many flowers, or many many of those round spiky things), use symmetry (what's on the left side could be on the right side), use some architectural component (maybe a gigantic archway or something) - basically anything that makes the room stand out.

These are minor nitpicks in what was overall a super fun experience. Well done!

Here are my feedbacks on the game :

Cons : 

- The game seems too punishing for nothing at some times, for example on the dash & attack tuto, there is peaks so if you fail by trying this ability you get one health removed. But i didn't managed to understand how to use it properly at begining so i had to restart 3 4 times this tutorial before being able to pass and it frustated me to be killed by a tutorial

- The Camera don't follow the player and is stuck at some rooms so you don't see clearly what come next and when you enter a room you get like directly hit by an enemy, this was really annoying sometimes

- The game seems to lack of risk reward system on the micro level design, there is rooms were i can get healing plant but to do so i have to pass and beat enemies but i have no interest to risk to lose health .. to get health ! Or maybe those plantrs were te the healing upgrade ? beceaus i saw you were mentioning them but i dind't find them or understand what are they 

- No clear sensation of progression, we do not discover new abilities we have them all from the start and I didn't find any health upgrade after 20 mn of gameplay so i feel like not rewarded for my exploration

- Maybe the Macro level design is not enough dirigist to clearly guide the player where he have to go, i was pretty lmost and i din't found any bosses in my 20 mn of gameplay, maybe i was to stuck won some rooms or i was bad at this game hahaha

Pros : 

- Clear and good tutorials to explain the abilities to the players

- The movement system of the character is the best one i have seen so far in the jam woah ! Really the game shine from it ! It is so smooth, we really get the velocity sensation of the jump and dash, it is so fun to move with this character

- The atmosphere of being n in the prehistory with dinosaurs is great, we feel it in the musics and the visuals we get directly the mood of it !

- Good overall feeedback to the players, we feel like the game is polished as a finished one 

- I wasn't really a big fan of the visual, but i have to say there was a lot of diversity and, layering decoration to give a sensation of depth, to say it works well !

- Good overall diversity in terms of pacing in the level designs, we have to switch between the different abilities we have pretty often and this bring diversity in the game, there was different enemies, obstacles, etc

- A MAP !!!

Anyway, for the cons part pleas take it professionaly and not personaly, it's my oppinion and also my experience differe from other as i didnt find any upgrade or bosses after 20 mn of gameplay so i felt frustated at the end, maybe this was only me and i was bad to your game haha
But despite that you have really something serious in you hand and really I think yoput work deserve a good place in this jam !
Congratulations for the work done, keep up the good work :D !

Really cool game! My game session was unfortunately interrupted by the family after dying to the big dino, lmk if I missed anything super vital to the game experience as a whole, though what I have seen so far is pretty good.

Gameplay! Your player movement is easily the best out of the jam, it's exhilarating to zoom through rooms and dash attack through enemies in a similar speed to a fighting game character. I didn't like the combat aspect of it so much, it felt kind of inconsistent when enemies hit you and when they don't, but it's fine, your movement makes up for it.

I think your weakest area in this was graphics, the mixed pixel sizes and partially weirdly scaled assets look out of place. Your audio is great though! Sound effects are super fitting, music is a tad repetetive but it sounds great.

Good job on making this, you can definitely steal some aspects of this movement for later games!

The movement and attacks are definitely the highlight of the game for me! Unfortunately it was crashing for me on the browser version occasionally but it was still a fun experience. Similarly to Joseph it reminded me of the smash moveset with the different types of attacks. It made the combat very entertaining! Great job

Hello,

I have had a blast playing your game! The thing I appreciate the most is the moveset. It reminds me Super Smash Bros, with the grounded tilts and directional aerial attacks. So refreshing to see. It is well implemented and I have been using them a lot.

I loved the moment when dropping the rock on the mosquito and some other clever moments in level design, with horizontal and vertical spikes and flowers launching those balls. Also, the map image in the Pause Menu and the pixels with different sizes just have great charisma.

A couple of moments, mostly at the beginning, the jumps and wall jumps felt a bit clunky, but nothing to pull me off the great experience. 

Congratulations!

Cheers

PS: don't hesitate to try and finish our game :)

Really liked the movement and the little puzzles. The dinosaur mount was fun to ride, I was just somewhat confused when I got to the place where you get it from the wrong side without beating the boss and the dinosaur was not there. Maybe have a rock wall there that you couldn't pass without the dinosaur? Gotta say that the graphics were quite uneven due to there being different sizes of pixels, they really should be the same size. The challenge was overall just right for me, got a time of 1929!

Surviving the ancient time is surely hard :D
I really liked the concept and boss fights. And mosquitos, they were especially awesome

Here's a recording of my feedback and play

Great game! It's so fun doing this whole dinosaur adventure. Dropping the huge rock was a really fun moment! There were a lot of parts I struggled with but I persevered and I think I've done almost everything, but I'm not sure when it's over. I'm not sure how to get to the area you have in the lower left screen shot of you pogo-ing over the lava (which looks really hard!) I beat both bosses, got the fire and the bow and arrow, but I'm not really sure which direction I should go. Oh man, the ice level took me so long, I've never been happier to see a save point TTvTT

this is super good, only complaint are mixels and also the speed of the wallslide, feels a little to slow and made the movement feel kinda clunky, but thats about it awsome game!!

Really fun game. The movement is smooth. The visuals are a little bit confusing sometimes, but overall, it's still very good.

I like it! I love the puzzles, and the dinosaur riding mechanic! The atmosphere and exploration is nice too. The tiny raptors kinda scared me when they flew towards me, I wasn't expecting that lol

This is nice so far! The movement and variety of attacks is really interesting but takes a second to get the hang off. Ill be sure to play this through and come back to rate it when I'm done. Im also vibing with the music!