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Hangry Farmersaurus-Rex-- Final Release!

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     We are ecstatic to announce that we have met our goal— Hangry Farmersaurus-Rex is complete!     We’re proud to say that we overshot our goal by only one day—a good deal better that where we started with our first project, which we were on track to overshoot by several months. We definitely improved in our ability to measure scope and schedule, and it has been invaluable to be able to hold ourselves accountable for our goal.      We’ve loved going through your feedback this last week, making a list for improvements, and watching the game take shape. Huge ‘thank you!’ to those who played the first release and gave us your gems. (If you care to read the credits, you'll find that we've included you. You are invaluable!)      We’ve added a lot of your suggestions, as well as a few ideas of our own, such as: sound and music, additional animals, the level environment, animations, more responsive turns from the player perspective, Endless Mode, and the belly laugh of

Project "Farm-Eating Game" Announcement - Alpha Version Released!!

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Project "Farm-Eating Game" You're the T-Rex, and you gotta eat 'em all! I won't keep you reading long, but hopefully you will take a good amount of time to play our project, observe and examine your experience, and let us know juicy deets afterwards. It'll be much appreciated! In our last blog post, we said we'd be working on "MVP" projects, creating games at their minimum with a bit of polish, and get them done within a month and move on. On August 7th, we came up with a list of simple but fun game ideas, narrowed down our favourites, and went with the first on our list. We then planned out how we were going create it, keeping time and project management in mind, and then we set off running. Our deadline is  Sunday September 10th , so we've only got just over a week! On that day, we're dropping whatever we've got and moving onto the next thing - after a short break, debrief, and planning for the next project of cours