Story of Sauria is a personal project blog, focused on drafting concepts, designs, and various other exploratory sketches for a hypothetical fanmade remake of the cancelled N64 game Dinosaur Planet.
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YES. THAT’S RIGHT.
PLAYABLE DINOSAUR PLANET BUILD
20 YEARS. 20 YEARS OF THIS GAME IN LIMBO. AND OVER 15 I’VE SPENT RESEARCHING THIS GAME
WE’RE FINALLY HERE
I”M SO HAPPY ;w;
YES I WILL CATALOGUE SHIT ON THIS GAME SOON, THIS IS SO MUCH TO TAKE IN
OH BOY I GOT SO MUCH TO RENOVATE WHEN I GET TO MY DOCS
Still alive, just not too active on here.
I do intend on returning to speculation/study stuff on here at some point, but this year’s been emotionally stressful for me, so I haven’t really had the spoons to get back to this project.
For the time being, I’m working on a twitter project that’s pretty much an extension of the storyofsauria tumblr, as to aggregate DP-related stuff. You can follow the storyofsauria twitter here if you want!
Stay safe, and let’s be kinder to each other!
Dinosaur Planet Audiorip Transcriptions V2
So, yeah. Story of Sauria’s been at a standstill for a while, but I have been working on a few DP-related things in the background. This, mainly.
Long story short, “i did a complete overhaul of my sorted MPEG.bin transcripts after noticing that the voice clips may be sorted by location to some extent. said details about it in the ANOTHERNOTE.txt file i included with the older package (and this one), but i feel it was way due for an overhaul anyway. can’t guarantee that this revision is more accurate, but hopefully it’s a little tidier.“
Using these as a reference point for a redone DP “remade” outline, which is why I’m posting them here instead of FYeahDP. But yeah, you can grab it here if you want!
A sort of map I did for location sorting, done around the time I was working on the video essay.
Locations are sorted by which character has them; sabre’s are in the brown circle, while krystal’s are in the blue. blue text indicates where a spirit/test can be found, red indicates spellstone areas, green for hubs, and grey for misc areas. Spirits and spellstones are numbered by where they’re obtained in the condensed story.
Connections are mostly a mix of design choice for a DP remake, and speculation based off the condensed story.
Apologies for the radio silence. Been caught up with other things on my end after the essay vid, so I haven’t had the time to get back to work on this blog or any other DP-related studies.
Gonna be slowly getting back into it, alongside some other supplementary stuff related to DP. In the meantime, if you got any questions, I’m always available via ask.
and my pet project three months in the making is done
Dinosaur Planet: A Case for a Remake is my two-part video essay project about one of Rare’s most famous cancelled games, that was transformed into what we now know as Starfox Adventures. with so much information about DP’s original incarnation uncovered, from strings and audio in SFA’s disc to leaked story documents, the game that could’ve been seems to be much bigger than what we got.
with over a decade of experience and research under my belt, I tell my retrospective on Dinosaur Planet and the discoveries surrounding it, and my thoughts on a remake of the game being viable in this day and age.
part 1 is mostly a history primer on the game and the info uncovered over the years. part 2 details the difficulties and challenges surrounding developing a DP remake, and whether DP matters today.
enjoy my cruddy voicework, and be sure to share and spread the word. <3
thank you so much for sticking with me for all these years. <3 <3 <3
~gen
And here’s that presentation thing I mentioned a while back. Enjoy! B)
Sorry for the radio silence! Been working on a little presentation thing that’s kinda related to this!
Doing a final proofreading pass; presentation thing should be up sometime this month.
Some FAQ-ish questions! And answers!
Jotted down a small list of questions related to the Story Of Sauria project that some people may have. Still working on a couple studies and an essay script for a possible video related to the project, but I figured I’d write this up to help clarify some things.
Will be adding to this as time goes on. If you got any more questions, feel free to stick them in my askbox.
Sidekick and magic studies. Likely may flesh these out more in later time: the only spells/abilities seen in DP footage were the projectile spell and Tricky using Find, Flame, and Distract. the Mindread spell is also explicitly mentioned in the hour-long DP audio.
For the record, my askbox is always open if you have any questions concerning the project!