If you're a readin' nerd like me you've probably spent a good deal of time obsessing over the late author Michael Crichton's many novels. Now because I like dinosaurs so much of all Crichton's varied works none grabbed my attention more than the Jurassic Park series. There's just something entrancing about a world world where big business and big lizards collide with "chaotic" results. As a game player I've always longed for someone to condense the experience of Jurassic Park into a playable open-world experience which caters to fans of games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Just Cause 2 or Grand Theft Auto 4. Yesterday a project popped up on Kickstarter that seems to cater to this specific subset of fans.
GG3 writes: "Developer Studio Wildcard stated that Ark: Survival Evolved would pay tribute to people who bought The Stomping Land on Steam, after its Early Access program sort of fizzled. With a huge community currently active in the latest dinosaur survival game, sunglasses on Tyrannosaurus Rex creatures have started to appear."
Last month The Stomping Land made news as it came out that the last developer working on the troubled MMO had officially decided to end his time working with Supercrit after a long period of silence from the head developer Alex “Jig” Fundora. That last man standing was Vlad Konstantinov, a freelance character artist from Russia who specializes in dinosaurs.
Caraline Nelson writes: "After receiving over $100,000 in funding Alex Fundora has left supporters with maybe half a game at best. The studios leader abandoned his seemingly talented workforce without proper pay and they have therefore, rightly, stepped away from the project to find other work. His lack of communication and complete disappearance was crippling."
