Off-Road Velociraptor Safari Trailer
For my “day job” I run Flashbang Studios, an independent game development studio. Our next title is Off-Road Velociraptor Safari, a game in which you hunt raptors in off-road jeeps. We’ve been working on this for about 8 weeks; release is scheduled for next week.
Enjoy the trailer, and keep an eye on RaptorSafari.com for launch!
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(4.24 out of 5)
on January 20th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
It looks rather hilarious. But the concept seems rather unfair to the raptors. Them, versus you in a jeep with a spiky ball on a chain attached to the back.
on January 20th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Oh it’s fair: http://www.raptorsafari.com/driver.jpg
on January 20th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
That looks pretty fair to me.
on January 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Amazing, looks much better than the old demo.
on January 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Excellent.
I find the ball and chain idea to be reminiscent of Carmageddon 2, which is a good thing…I wish more games would remind me of Carmageddon 2.
on January 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Looks a lot like Carmageddon indeed…
Which is good ;)
on January 20th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Can you make a free play mode of this, With NO time Please! Please!
on January 20th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I’ve been waiting for you to make this game my whole life. Nice one dude.
on January 21st, 2008 at 3:49 am
I just hope there isn’t as much slo-mo in the game as there is in that video.
on January 21st, 2008 at 5:36 am
Looks amazing to me.
Can’t wait to try it :D
on January 21st, 2008 at 5:52 am
*looks at picture*
*looks again*
This game will be brilliant. No doubt.
on January 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am
Hmm, I knew at LEAST one person would say something about the unfairness to velociraptors. Good work guys, can’t wait for the release.
on January 21st, 2008 at 9:09 am
Good god.
This is the best thing I’ve seen in ages.
on January 21st, 2008 at 10:50 am
now the only question is: what will it cost ?
(or even will it be free !?!)
on January 21st, 2008 at 10:52 am
is it more or does this remind you of hammerfall a little bit? with the vehichle thing with the chain and weapon of choice as the tail and slamming it into people. none the less this looks hilarious and very funnny and fun.
on January 21st, 2008 at 10:54 am
Wow trailer gives me goosebumps! Release it soon!
on January 21st, 2008 at 10:56 am
It’s a free web game…
on January 21st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Wow. That… must be the coolest thing, like, ever. I think this might just win the The Mega Super Dragon Game of Thunder Fist Infinity and Time of the Infrared Universe, Ever (TM) -award.
on January 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Is it another flash-based game? Because both physics and graphics look simple enough to run on modest hardware; but anything running under adobe’s crap runs an order of magnitude slower. Please tell me there will be a flash-less version.
on January 21st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
=O killing an already extinct species?
Sounds fun =D
on January 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I hope there’s an option to lessen or remove the slo-mo effect, because it seems rather excessive; I was getting tired of it just watching the trailer. That was one of the main downfalls of that otherwise excellent Ragdoll Masters clone that I forgot the name of.
Nice trailer though.
on January 21st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
DEAR GOD RELEASE A BETA.
and why are people complaining about the slow-mo? I fucking love slow-mo, no matter where it’s put.
on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 am
Looks like old Carmageddon 2… Back to the past?
on January 22nd, 2008 at 6:58 am
Haha looked at the game and thought Carmageddon immediately and then I looked at the comments and saw alots of other people thought the same (: n1 … can’t wait to play it seems rather cool (:
on January 22nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Oh holy shit, you get POINTS for damage? This game is epic. Do want. Is there going to be vehicle deformation? I couldn’t tell if there was in the video. I don’t mean just doors flying off, I mean good old fashioned “Raptor’s head hits here, dent here” sort of thing.
on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
like in the video, going off mega high jumps only to land on raptors’ heads and then explode their head with blood and then you get an implant of a raptor’s head on the bottem. uber lulz
on January 22nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
oh my god
have any of you seen somthing so amazing that you just wanted to steal it and never show it to the world
this is one of those things
on January 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
OMG…awesome…i live near Flashbang studios…thats means I live near Matthew! SICK….lol…hey Matthew do you know of Anthem AZ…just wonderin
on January 23rd, 2008 at 7:59 am
Uhm… while I admire the desire for scientific accuracy by giving the lovely critters feathers, these guys are too large to be velociraptors. Of course, name it Off-Road Utahraptor Safari, and all’s well.
on January 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 am
Space Ace: Well sure–if that was a *human-sized* jeep…
on January 23rd, 2008 at 5:17 pm
… now who can look at a 3D rendition of a Velociraptor and say that it’s too big, just like that?… lol.
on January 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Like it a few things though..
1) It’s animal cruelty unless your mission is saving some beautiful princess which the raptors have taken prisoner and they can at anytime take you out of the jeep and rip you apart. It looks too much as some bastard just rampaging around the sweet little peaceful raptors’ home for fun !
2) Whats with the matrix slow effect constantly ? Its cool if its there sometimes but now its like : look people, the PHYSICS IS THERE NOW NOW, WATCH WATCH.ITS GOURGEOUS .i mean physics aint THAT new..I’d say just use it naturally or at least give players the option of turning it off. Cause it sure would annoy me..dont be mad at me cause i know so many people who are seek and tired of seeing that same lame matrix effect in every game.
on January 24th, 2008 at 12:55 am
Is the music in the vid going to be in the game…? i hope it is. and also is there going to be blood, or optional blood?
on January 24th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Looking absolutely brilliant Matthew and the rest of Flashbang Studios. Can’t wait to play this. Also if you don’t mind me asking, what’s in this for you if it’s a free webgame?
on January 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
All i could think of when i was watching that trailer was “I WANT THAT GAME!” It looks like a mixture of Excite Truck and Carmageddon, which is good.
on January 24th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Robot Chicken, you mean like in FlatOut? The car gets deformed where ever you get hit? Yea that would be SICK! *in a good way :D*
Game looks awesome…And the idea of releasing a trailer about a week before the game comes out is a pretty good idea, because then you don’t have to hear us complain like crazy about a demo or something lol. Downside is that if someone gives you a good idea…you either tell people you’re postponing the release date or release the game and make another version / patch…
on January 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
What is that in the back of the car? A kangaroo?
on January 25th, 2008 at 1:36 am
From the site: “Flashbang strives to fan the flames of scientific curiosity in gamers with such historically-accurate simulations as Off-Road Velociraptor Safari and Jetpack Brontosaurus”
Jetpack Brontosaurus? Give it to me!!
Kudos for righting the wrongs of past scientific follies, and demanding the visual presence of feathers on our reptilian precursors. They would be proud!
on January 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Looks AWESOME!
on January 26th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
“We’ve been working on this for about 8 weeks; release is scheduled for next week.”
?!?!?!
2 months for a game like this? Not from scratch, right? Or does you at Flashbang studios works 18h a day?
Unbelieavable! Congratulations!
on January 28th, 2008 at 5:15 am
It’s been a week, now where’s our bloody game?
on January 28th, 2008 at 6:56 am
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Dylan said,
on January 24th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
What is that in the back of the car? A kangaroo?
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No it is a skull of a Triceratops xD
on January 28th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Why won’t you guys release it already!?
It’s been a week now.
on January 28th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
We’re waiting on a Unity update, which should be soon. Fear not!
on January 28th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Please release it, Me and my friends are waiting for like ….. 8 days. That’s long dude.
on January 28th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Just wait patiently ^.^
on January 30th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Dude, this game is marvelous. Really, I love it so much.
I have one minor detail (fix?). I think the driving part stinks. It is very hard to make a nice curve with your car. Maybe because the driver is a velociraptor but I really think their could be a better driver engine in the game.
on January 30th, 2008 at 6:42 am
The game’s awesomeness is seriously cut off as there’s no way to downgrade the visuals so I could actually play the game and not watch a slideshow. I hate my c0nputar.
on January 30th, 2008 at 6:46 am
hmm.. well.. it’s a nice game, but it seriously lags for me.. AND IT’S NOT BECAUSE OF MY COMPUTER! my computer is great, and one of my friends has got a sucky computer, but he can play it?
on January 30th, 2008 at 9:09 am
It does work a bit better on Internet Explorer than on FireFox, though. A downloadable version with some options for tweaking the visuals would work the best…