Finding Lake Chewaucan

The idea behind this game is great! It is wonderful to see scholars sharing science and knowledge in this way. While the game does have some bugs and issues, it is fully playable. I highly recommend that the creators consult with an experienced game developer to fix these technical problems. Otherwise, it's a great project, and I see no reason not to give it a positive review!

TL;DR Cool idea, terrible game. You need to be willing to put up with a lot of issues, or the game won't be for you I love the idea of time travel to find clues. Learning about types of bones. And i love educational games in general. So I really wanted to like this game but sadly it feels like a prototype, not a finished game. It needs a lot more polish in basically every area: UI, performance, gameplay, ... The issues start with the main menu - there is no "New Game", only "Load Game" where you can then also create a new game. Also, the quit button in the main menu doesn't work! Yikes. And it only gets worse. You get thrown into a scene with a) possibly the worst screenshake i've ever encountered in any game (no settings to disable it, generally few settings). Audio is just as much a mess with volume level of music jumping around wildly when voices start or stop, which is incredibly jarring (at least you can disable music altogether as a workaround). Voicelines get cut off when others get triggered so you have no idea what they were going to say; there is no logic to prevent issues like this. The gameplay confused me as well. To be clear, i know nothing about fossils or bones, …

Interesting idea, terrible implementation.

Overall quite a fun experience but I feel like it can be a bit rough around the edges I mostly had problems with the map being laggy and the minimap being largely useless because it's too zoomed in. At some point in the game I had to restart cause I fell into the small lake and couldn't get out. But on the other hand the game was really fun, exploring the same place but in a different time was very cool. Big fan of the aesthetic whether it was meant to look like that or not, made me feel nostalgic for some older unity games. A sequel would be really cool too but maybe exploring a period that's much more different compared to the modern day, like the devonian or carboniferous, it doesn't even need to be about the detective time travelling work, (even though that was really fun too) just casually exploring a larger area in this artstyle could be fun. And for sure more interactions with the world would be cool too. Like I want to look at every plant, animal, rock or otherwise and know everything there is to know about it. The music was really cool too although a bit repetitive after a while, reminded me a bit of dino synth which I find to be a really cool music genre. Also cool th…

the invisible barriers are weird, the UI with the map didn't make sense at first, i didn't know how to activate the astrolabe until i randomly clicked everywhere because i don't know what an astrolabe is. i stopped playing after trying the rock dating game because literally not enough rocks spawn to complete it. it seems like a really great and fun idea but it is SO rough around the edges.

No. Terrible narrator, terrible graphics, invisible walls. Don`t.