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Hi,
Thank you so much for your great feedback and playing and sharing Pocket Dinos with your friends. It's meant a lot that others enjoy this as much as I do! In this build are some hotfixes and a small change.
Fixed a rare bug where some dinos showed $0 Lifetime earnings
Fixed a bug wtih the shop loading the habitat books for the first load
Removed the Feedback button (legacy) - please use Steam Community (https://steamcommunity.com/app/4715900/discussions/) or the Discord (https://discord.gg/eNe5KVnGDV)
Increased Bond Events to last for 30 minutes (previously 5). This is to allow players who have the game in the background/muted to check back in and claim them.
Again, a huge thank you for making this a successful game launch. I really appreciate it!
- Diesel
I'm excited to announce Pocket Dinos is now in Early Access.
Enjoy a full experience of the base game, including hatching all 240 collectible dino variants across 60 unique species, completing collections, building and decorating habitats and unlocking hats!
Here's a bit more info about why Pocket Dinos is in Early Access, and what you can do to help!
Pocket Dinos is already a fully playable game, but I see Early Access as an opportunity to grow it alongside the community. My goal is to expand the game with new gameplay systems, quality of life improvements, and ideas inspired by player feedback while continuing to refine and balance the experience.
Community suggestions will play an important role in shaping future updates, helping Pocket Dinos become the best version it can be.
The current plan is for approximately 6 months. The exact timeline will depend on development progress, community feedback, and ensuring that planned features reach a quality I'm happy with before leaving Early Access.
The full version is planned to build on the existing game rather than replace it. Planned additions include new gameplay systems such as a Breeding Habitat and a larger Expedition Habitat that expands late game progression, along with more personality and interactions for dinos, additional challenge-based achievements, quality of life improvements, and features inspired by community feedback.
Save files are planned to carry forward, allowing players to continue growing the same collection throughout development.
The Early Access version is fully playable from beginning to end and already includes the complete core gameplay experience. Players can collect all 240 collectible dino variants across 60 unique species, complete collections, build habitats, decorate habitats and covers, unlock hats, earn achievements, and progress through multiple gameplay loops.
Yes. The Early Access price reflects the game's current scope, and I plan to increase the price as major content and gameplay systems are added throughout development. Players who join during Early Access will receive all future updates leading to the full release at no additional cost.
Community feedback has already played an important role in shaping Pocket Dinos throughout playtesting over the past few months, and it will continue to do so during Early Access.
I'll be actively reading bug reports, balance feedback, quality of life suggestions, and feature ideas from players on Steam and Discord. While not every suggestion will be implemented, community feedback will help guide development priorities and influence future updates as Pocket Dinos continues to grow.
Here we go with another mega update that's sure to make a few people happy - it's Achievements! This build is in preparation of the upcoming playtest so I'll be looking out for extra bugs.
36 general gameplay Achievements have been added
Future achievements will be added based on challenges and complexity - for now, these are accessible achievements to set the foundation
Here's a sneak peek:
That's 6 saves in total to try out different playstyles and focused strategies
Say hello to the Star hat (left) - collect all dinos to unlock it
When unlocked it appears in the shop so you can purchase more of them for all your dinos!
Collection redesign to declutter the top area
Now you can get an overview of Pocket Dinos or keep up with the socials right here
All dinos, scenery and research potions now have 3d shadows to make them pop off the page
Collection Cards and Dino Cards rebuilt to be faster, much much faster loading!!
Tutorial wording has been updated to give more information and a few more steps
Help has been updated with the overview
Open book, dino pop-in and scenery pop-in animation have all been refreshed to feel more bouncy
Added animation and sfx to library
Added version label to Main Menu (bottom right) for debugging
Hid "catchup notice" when leaving the game
Reset scrollbars in settings so each new tab starts at top - also refreshed settings
Fixed spacebar issue when editing any name
Fixed lag spikes from scenery updates relating to money
Fixed money not starting correctly when switching sessions
Fixed Affinity % going over 100% (thanks Jason)
Fixed older dinos not receiving Affinity Power - also added Birth Time and Hatch Time (as it starts from when you next see them, this won't be completely accurate for older dinos)
Capped research costs to 500 (if you make it that far!)
As this is a pre-release in preparation for an open playtest, please note any bugs with this update! Thanks all.
Horned dinos now wear hats correctly instead of from their horns
Various HUD settings have been updated to be simpler to understand for a casual player who doesn't even know what a HUD is
Removed money cover as it wasn't providing any real use case in a game about making money
All popups now respect auto-hide and won't show unexpectedly
Filter for stickers are now only applied on the Dinos and Eggs lists
Hats will now list as collected order not alphabetical from here on out
Hey! Here comes another update to make your dino experience awesome. For the first time you can now zoom in on your dinos and follow them around!
Turn on cinematic mode for a hands-off, HUD-free experience
Watch as your dinos entertain themselves while still making money
Turn off to return to normal view
Follows the selected dino while still allowing interaction
Select different dinos, adjust the zoom and have fun
Scenery layer has been completely reworked so it sits above everything (properly this time!)
Scenery placing and moving has been streamlined to be smoother and easier
Scenery now locks within the habitat bounds once you drag it in or after you edit it
Scenery now shows the up-to-date depth as you move it in front and behind others
SFX changes for dropping outside of the habitat
Research items in the main dino card now refresh while open (thanks Sean for spotting this)
Fixed HUD layers for all in the game
Added "Hide HUD when Mouse is Idle" checkbox and delay slider
Added "Hide HUD in Cinematic Mode" checkbox
Added "Always Show Money in HUD" option for those who want to see their money all the time
The new Cinematic/Follow modes, Auto Hide, layer adjustments and Scenery rework are quite big architectural changes and may have some other impacts or issues as a result. If you notice anything odd or something broken as a result please let me know and I'll get right on it!
Hi all! I took some time to refresh the branding of Pocket Dinos to represent what it is today. I never knew hats would be so popular, but here we are! Hope you enjoy the refreshed look!
Logo Sticker has been updated and a new one added
Eggs now upgrade to the next variant tier level in both the dino and the collection (Thanks Jason for the heads up)
Affinity now shows both the dino's affinity power and the Crested pack bonus addition (Thanks Jason for calling it out)
Some dinos were very shy and never coming out of their shell - so I fixed it (Thanks Sean for the info)
Enjoy!
A small hotfix have been rolled out to cover various issues, thank you to the playtesters (especially Sean) for finding and diagnosing these various bugs, it's so helpful!
Fixed multiselect keeping dinos in memory after deleting or moving manually, causing big knock on effects
Built more safeguards into the saving and loading to prevent some issues around this
Fixed collections not refreshing their card count
Fixed Pack Bonuses also not updating counts correctly after moving dinos
Also, here's some additions and changes:
Pack Boosts (bottom left) updated to be cleaner and easier to parse
Pack Boosts tooltips now rewritten to include their caps/adjustments to explain better (second image)
Variant Chance Boost now has a "yellow glowing egg" attached to the new dino toast (center) to let you know when it has taken effect
Variant Chance icon has been changed to be a Cherry, which aligns with Spiked Backs (previously a star)
Added new splash screen instead of keeping it just pure black
Added new help images for Bonding and adjusted some other wording
Added zoom and auto-follow camera ...... wait.... this isn't out yet....shhhh secret for next update maybe?? ;)
Have a great week!
Hello wonderful people! Here we go with one of the biggest updates to date. So many quality of life fixes, mixed in with some brand new stickers! It's time to.....
More than 20 new special stickers are ready for your habitats! Free! No unlock required!
Cute ones, fun ones and silly ones, let me know your favourites!
The food has been upgraded to give boosts to specific dino types, making feeding time a bit more exciting!
Switch food types on-the-fly in the habitat
Multi-select has been simplified requiring a simple hover and press to show on all of the dino cards
Clear all or Switch habitats as needed
Scenery capacity has been boosted to 30 (base) items
Added Oak and Pine trees and various rocks
Unlock even more scenery with your growing habitat
Added the missing toasts when collecting a new dino
Directs you to the Craft Room where you can add your new stickers
Added a few images visually explaining the help information
Added the level XP and your most recent gain to your habitats
Capped required XP past level 30 to make it fairer while still requiring time investment
Thank you so much to all the playtesters that gave feedback. Your feedback is so useful, and it makes Pocket Dinos better each day!
Fixed Pack Bonuses not updating when hatching
Rebuild of food and scenery data updates to poll less and run smoother
Doubled sticker cap to 30 for your covers
Fixed collections not refreshing on... um....collection
Fixed hat collection not refreshing on collection
Fixed hats positions in collections (they were sliding off screen for some)
Fixed collection notice showing outside of collections when you've already collected
Fixed Fullscreen > Windowed bug that was introduced in Godot 4.7 (Temp fix until they push a patch)
Fixed scenery tooltips having the wrong colour
Added "All" (aka unfilter) default option to stickers tabs
Rebuilt Hats in dino cards so it works better and is easier to select a hat
fixed clipping hovered dino tails in collections
Added pagination to the stickers list
Changed "Owned" text to green (was red like unavailable)
Dino pack prices adjusted to be linear - $50 > $500 > $5,000 > $50,000 > $500,000 > $5,000,000
All scrollbars set to reset position on change (previously it kept your scroll position on a new page then flickered)
fixed mouse hover still visible in disabled buttons in the shop
Rebuilt session data saving to be more robust and create backups
Fixed dinos getting stuck really skinny as they flip and then stop walking
Fixed various refreshes not being called on simple events in the shop
Various spelling, capitalisation and updates have been completed for all help and tooltips in the game
Many more micro fixes that make the game run better
As always with a fix this size please note that while the utmost care has been taken to make everything run as smoothly as possible, there still will be bugs (not the dino food - unfun ones) that may appear. Please let me know if you spot any so I can squash them!
Have a great week,
Diesel
Here we go with another big update and some tweaks under the hood.
You can now use any collected Hats and any purchased Scenery items as stickers!
Stickers amount has been doubled to 30 per Habitat cover
Cleaned up the sticker controls (left) and added better Collection navigation (top right)
A few new scenery items have been added overall
Fixed the Research Potions to reward properly after 8 hours
Fixed collections and sticker packs not updating their counts as soon as it happens
Fixed Habitat Bonuses not refreshing when new dinos hatched
Hid Variant Upgrade research for max Variant eggs
Big cleanup and rewrite of some core systems bringing overall system improvements/speed (oomf!)
Adjustments to starting settings for FPS and VSYNC
As always, keep the feedback coming!
Fixed Habitat Switching from breaking when changing between multi-select or single
Added HATS tab when at least one hat is unlocked
Added new Lily Pad, Lily Patch and Lily Flower
Hi all, it's been a minute! With this build comes a much requested feature and a few new things to keep it interesting.
Select multiple dinos in the Habitat and send them to other Habitats with ease
Switch between your Habitat books directly (top left)
Sort and Filter your collection with simpler tabs (top center)
Speed/loading improvements for each card overall
The early game feedback hinted that there wasn't much to do after purchasing your first set of dino eggs, so optional Research Potions were added!
Use Research Potions to speed up hatching, increase the chances of an egg hatching at a higher Variant and boosting the chance of hatching with Affinity
Research Potions are created every 8 hours, with each adult dino. Common dinos give 1 potion, all the way up to Legendary giving out 4 (approx 200-300 with all habitats full).
You can collect Research Points in the game world by looking for the Purple/Rainbow bottle in your Habitats
Early game for new saves now give you 5 free hatches, 200 potions and money for 2x dino packs, to give the kickstart it needed
The shops have been given a little spruce up with added information. (new items are coming soon!)
Habitats now remember what page you had open and now return to it
Fixed sticker grid not updating when claiming a new dino
Fixed loading issues on Dino Stats HUD
Added Affinity per habitat into Switch Habitat modal
Added and updated tooltips for various things to give more information
Switched Top HatHat and Top Hat around as it felt odd
As always, thank you to the playtesters for giving great feedback and really helping me see some things I had missed! Enjoy the dinos!
This is a quick bug fix to fix a few issue, but also set some foundational pieces.
Fixed updating your Habitat name from the Cover - it now ignores Sticker controls/inputs so you can type S, R and F
Fixed starting a new game - legacy code was breaking this flow
Also added a few minor updates:
Feed Mode now has visual buttons in the Settings and Habitat (near Food and Scenery)
Additional tooltips have been added to describe the feature in more detail
Scenery control hints are now also shown in the Controls Settings menu
Thank you to all of you who gave such helpful feedback the last few days! After a lot of thinking and planning, there's been a slight change of gameplay which makes it better for all.
Go completely idle with the Auto Feeder that can feed your dinos when the game isn't focused! (It still needs to be open on that Habitat)
Reposition it instantly or remove it as needed
Switch back to Toggle Feed or Manual Feed at any time
Also added Play Audio In Background setting so you can turn off all sounds when switching focus
Upgrade your Food Quality to get more XP and change the look of your Auto Feeder
24 new hats have been added as rewards for completing each Variant per Dino!
If you've previously collected all of them it will automatically add them to your account
You can now see your Income per min in the HUD at all times
You can also cover your Money and Income with the Money Cover in settings
Every time you pick up or drop a Dino, Scenery or Sticker you'll now here sfx and see some little movements
Shop Habitats have been rebuilt to fit the page and have animations
Auto Feeder and feeding in general have new animations when spawning
Aligned the controls to allow for use on Laptops (as they don't have scroll wheels!)
Right Click is NO LONGER Rotate, it's Delete - just so you know ;)
You can Lock and Unlock Dinos now even when your pages are full (sorry, silly bug!)
Reworked shop prices for Food and Scenery with lower amounts and consecutive growth
Buy Eggs now always opens the Dinos tab
Claim Bond wording change to "Grow Bond" to be less mechanical
Collection popup now delays until after hatching Dino (by 2 secs)
Tooltips and XP Popups now hide behind menus when open
Hope you enjoy the new hats and Auto Feeder! Share your feedback :)
This update brings brand new Scenery, Food and Habitat Levels to home even more dinos. Enjoy more end-game content as you build your empire!
Decorate your habitats with various scenery options
Gain Habitat Level from your dinos interacting with scenery
Profit!
Every time your dinos interact with scenery, you'll earn Habitat Level, to unlock more Scenery Slots and Dino Slots!
More dino slots = more profit = win
Look forward to more rewards soon!
Enjoy more variety when feeding your dinos with new food options including Leaves (default), Berries, Mushrooms and Bugs!
Increase your food quality with XP upgrades for faster hatching
All players will now receive 2 x Free Hatches to use on any dinos they choose. This early change allows new players to start earning fast, giving them a days head-start! Thank you to The WA Gaming Community for the helpful feedback
Tutorials have been expanded, with a few steps simplified
Help page has been updated with advanced strategies
Economy changes to scale better earlier while still keeping a challenge
As always, a huge thank you to the playtesters, who give fantastic feedback and honest opinions. Without you this game wouldn't be what it is today - and we're still early!
This update brings in the first Hat rewards for completing collections.
Hats will be a big piece of Pocket Dinos going forward, so here's an overview:
Hat as inventory rewards allow you to put them on any Dino
\ Hats will provide extras bonuses in-game such as boosting certain stats or increasing chances of events
\ In addition to Collections, Hats will be rewards for various other activities such as the upcoming Expeditions (more on that another time!)
\ Hats will also become stickers, allowing you to decorate your Habitat Covers
Various small to large improvements have been made across the game, specifically in stat-heavy UI's. It now should be faster and smoother to load various menus and Habitats.
There have been a few bigger changes across the shop such as making Habitat prices scale with your progress, Dino sell prices massively boosted to align with how much income some rarer creatures can generate, and subtle adjustments with various boosts (for balancing).
There are now 9 snippets/micro-songs in the game that play randomly between intervals, adding a bit of ambience.
This latest update (and the update before) contains a lot of small to big fixes, some structure changes and a few fun additions! First up - what's the big stuff?
You requested, I listened! Now you can click and drag on any Dino or Egg to drag them around and drop them around the Habitat. Put them where you want or make it easier to feed the Eggs.
Early on I made a decision to force eggs to hatch before being able to move them around. But now with various Affinity bonuses impacting XP and Hatch Speed it makes sense to allow Eggs to switch Habitats before they hatch. So enjoy moving that Legendary into a Hatch bonus-heavy Habitat!
When Affinity was first introduced it was simply a flat boost per Dino in the matching Habitat with no visuals. Now, its a bit more nuanced, and has bright visuals to boot! This will not only make your Habitats shine, but also make it easier to put Dinos into their matching Habitat without needing to open their stats.
Shop now responds to changes in your money, and things you couldn't afford before should be available as soon as you have enough - without needing to close and reopen
Fixed Affinity being shown as 0% when it's actually a decimal
Fixed Income Sorting
Thank you so much to the awesome playtesters for giving deep feedback and helping to shape this game.
Hi all,
This latest update brings a few key improvements and optimisations that will make the game feel better to play!
This now defaults to 60 FPS to make your game run better, but can be adjusted back to Unlimited if wanted.
If you'd like to keep a floating window of the game open at all times you can now do this in the settings.
In addition to the tutorial, the Help area has been updated to include some basic and advanced help items. This is still a work in progress.
Collections were originally managed by Variant (Normal, Tinted, Shiny and Rainbow). While this worked well, it made more sense to switch it to per Dino pack display (as that's how you buy packs anyway). So now each tab holds all of the same Dinos, with the 4 Variants side by side.
Font outlines and shadows are now more prominent/intentional
Various counts were not updating during play, including updating the "claim" buttons in the Collection when unlocking a new Dino while open.
Tutorial cards now have individual close buttons
Wording changes for some settings in the Options
Various layout and positioning changes for various menu items
Limited custom names to basic alphabet and numbers
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