
Play as security guard tasked with keeping dinosaurs from getting into a facility. Throughout your shift, things will begin to go wrong and dinosaurs will start to end up where they shouldn't. Can you survive the shift?
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The Paddock is a short game about dealing with dinosaurs as a security guard, if you die you must start from the beginning.
CCTV cameras that are used for watching the dinosaur and electrocuting it when it gets too close to the fence.
First person game, you have a torch and a few other tools.
One continuous level that has you complete objectives as you play it.
A story that unravels as you play through the game.
A short experience that can be finished in 1 hour. If you die, the game restarts.
Gameplay
Set in the remote mountains the player is starting their first shift as a security guard, alone. The primary objective being, don't let the dinosaurs get in, while also trying not to get eaten.
As some of the Dilophosaurus begin to break in, the player must do their best to avoid them while also completing objectives. If the player fails in keeping the Giganotosaurus from breaking through the fences, the game will end.
If the player is killed, that is it. The game will give you an option to restart or go back to the main menu. This game is meant to be beaten in one sitting.
Story
The story of the game will be told through voice lines within the game as well as lore scattered through radio signals and notes.
A remote research facility in the mountains is monitoring dinosaurs and how they interact with each other in the environment. The player is tasked with keeping the facility secure while everyone is gone. As the day goes on, more and more starts to go wrong for the player and eventually dinosaurs start turning up where they shouldn't be, inside the facility.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Reviews
Promising Start with Active Dev Support This isn’t the next big triple-A blockbuster, but for a solo dev’s first crack at making a game? Honestly, not bad at all. It's got charm, its got suspense and it's got bugs, and it’s got potential. The dev is open to feedback and actually listens, which is rare these days. So yeah, it’s got issues but it also has a future, and I’m looking forward to seeing how it evolves over time.
the only game i've played with both dinosaurs and northern irish voice acting so it's a thumbs up from me
I counted 20+ bugs in first 60 seconds.
So fun to play! I love the cctv section it’s my favourite part. The dinosaurs look really cool and the map in general is well designed. Sign posts to show you where to go are super helpful also. Definitely going to play it again and would highly recommend to anyone!
Impressive work for what is essentially a first project from a solo dev, constantly being updated and patched so the future is bright!
Was a fun experience - I liked The little minigames involving the dinosaurs, such as the security cameras and flares. The scripted sequences were also cool as was the game over screen among many other things. Would recommend
Arrived to the soothing melody of a Northern Irish man Slept in a bed Scared off a dino with pure masculinity got strapped into bed for non-consensual forever sleep 11/10 would play again
Very interesting game! I would suggest giving more animation/ audio cues for the Giga during the camera sequences. The camera section could also have a percentage gauge to see your NV timer/ electric capacity. but all in all, I love the game!
Short but truly a valiant effort for a solo dev. Hope to see more like it in the future
Hey Josh, I tried to like it but it has just too many issues at the moment for me to enjoy it: - the voice over is really hard to understand. I see that you're going for a radio like style but it's just really difficult to understand like this. - the stamina bar makes sense when your're being chased but overall it just feels like an unnessecary obstacle when you have to move across the whole compound so often with limited stamina. - there are a lot of places in the environment where you can see gaps between objects, like some parts under the fences, where you can see outside the Paddock. Sometimes objects are just straight up missing, like a bottom row container in the warehouse, [spoiler]when you are looking for the nests with eggs[/spoiler], where two containers are then floating above the invisible (or missing) one. - [spoiler]the shocking ability via the CCTV doesn't seem to work or only when it wants to. I waited for Cleo to sniff the fence, like the info box said I should, and then shocked her but it didn't do anything most of the time, whether I shock one time or a hundred times. And because of this I instantly lost at the end[/spoiler] - [spoiler] when you have to restart the electricity outside the main gate and the game tells you that the dinosaurs are nocturnal luckily, it is actually night time and doesn't help you at all xd [/spoiler] - after I died ad the end [spoiler]when the two Gigas attack the Paddock[/spoiler] and I clicked on the restart button, it just gave me the death screen again. The second time I wanted to restart too. I know this is probably your first game and I don't want to hate on it since I feel like your were heading in a good direction with this and I want you to succeed with it. I will ask for a refund now but I would like to look into it again, when it got a few updates.
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