‘Dinosaur Island: Back from Extinction’ Crushes 1600% Kickstarter Funding

The impossible to find Dinosaur Island, as well as an expansion and stand alone two player game, is about to return by way of a recently launched Kickstarter. Pandasaurus Games certainly didn’t expect the original print run to sell out immediately so the company has been hard at work to get the title in more gamers’ hands. Along for the ride is your opportunity to score the Dinosaur Island: Totally Liquid 5th player expansion and the new game Duelosaur Island. The project has already smashed through 1600% of its funding goal and runs through April 20th.

From Pandasaurus:

Dinosaur Island is the product of an insanely successful Kickstarter last Spring. We were lucky to have the backing of over 6,000 awesome fans worldwide.  We released the retail edition in late 2017 and then something unexpected happened.  It sold out instantly and started going for ridiculous prices on the secondary market.   Then our backers started raving about the game online.  Tom Vasel of the Dice Tower named it one of his top 5 games of 2017 and we were awarded with 4 Golden Geek nominations including strategy game of the year, thematic game of the year, best artwork and presentation and overall game of the year.  It’s been a wild ride for Dino Island since it was first unleashed on the world just a few months ago.

Dinosaur Island has been sold out since about the moment it went on sale and we’ve heard the constant calls to make the Kickstarter exclusives from the last campaign available again.  And we’ve been listening.

In Dinosaur Island, players will have to collect DNA, research the DNA sequences of extinct dinosaur species and then combine the ancient DNA in the correct sequence to bring these prehistoric creatures back to life. Dino cooking! All players will compete to build the most thrilling park each season, and then work to attract (and keep alive!) the most guests each season that the park opens. Do you go big and create a pack of Velociraptors? They’ll definitely excite potential guests… but you better make a large enough enclosure for them. And maybe hire some (read: a lot of) security. Or they WILL break out and start eating your guests—and we all know how that ends. You could play it safe and grow a bunch of herbivores… but then you aren’t going to have the most exciting park in the world (sad face). So maybe buy a roller coaster or two to try and attract guests to your park the good old fashioned way? 

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Founder/Editor-in-chief of The Gaming Gang website and host of The Gaming Gang Dispatch and other TGG media for fifteen years, Jeff takes on any and all sorts of games but is especially ready to tackle roleplaying games and strategy games. He's been involved with the hobby since he was just a wee grade school lad, over four decades ago.

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