The Tale of the ADHD Dinosaur
A short game where you play a dinosaur with severe ADHD, but none of the NPCs relate.
By Julien Poulton
Asset Credits
- Pixel art crown by Centuria Game Dev
- Froots n' veggies by zrghr
- Dino characters by arks
- Retro Computer font by Petyka
- Sound effects, UI & platformer tiles by Kenney
- Sunny land tiles and backgrounds by Ansimuz
- Tomb Opening Sound by AV Productions
Music Credits
- "Pixelland" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - "Scheming Weasel (faster version)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bonus
- A "Making of" is included in this video of a talk I gave I gave about Unity and my creation process.
- This game was featured in the level-3 festival of videogame media made by neurodivergents
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10/10, Perfectly sums up the life of me and my 16 browser tabs.
I actually counted them.
(I was gonna post this again but in my non-gamedev account, but I forgot the password lol)
10/10 !!!
That was a lot of fun and short, i usually like a short game but not when its that fun.
The game is VERY cleverly designed! congrats✨
I really love how well it mirrors the lost and trapped feeling we sometimes/often get, when ADHD just takes over our whole day or even week.
Would love to know, are you planning to do more games about ADHD?
Cause it seems like it's a huge market gap.
Thanks! I have no plans to do so
A game that accuretly simulates ADHD and Dementia, Now where's the Autism one and the ADD one.
5/5
"no, i know I SAID 'apple', but don't you know that's slang for 'carrot'? why do you take everything so literally? now go bring me a banana."
i think he has dementia
it's just how i felt sometimes
10/10
OMG, This is So CURSED and Perfect at the same time! Anyone who is blessed with nerodivergance will instantly relate and see how normal this game is! lol Brilliant!
the way everything kept changing every two seconds was infuriating' 1000000/10 defiantly recommend
10/10
so relatable. ouch.
the inventory joke and the "why can't you just remember this?' was relatable
I was on the verge of tears the whole tim
Incredible, all the notes - omg. Excellent little game <3
Infuriating, 10 out of 10.
The inventory gag made me feel so incredibly seen
10/10 WOULD FORGET AGAIN!
This game understands me better than the people around me. It's also my first game video, it's very special to me!! Here is a link to my game video on Bilibili →妳好！我是一隻有ADHD的小恐龍_The Tale of The ADHD Dinosaur_遊戲實況_游戏实况 (bilibili.com)
I translated it into Chinese myself.
I absolutely loved it. It's definitely a relatable and shareable game. I will play it again, it's on my to-do list.
I got so annoyed when it kept swapping 10/10
BRO I HAVE ADHD AND WHY IS THIS SO RELATABLE
love the game!
i would love a game where you just get those "10 more fruits" for like an hour, cause this was enjoyable and i only got 1 fruit!
The relatability in this game is unreal
this is a really good game but I'm not going to lie the fact that i cant speed up what they were saying was a little frustrating, like omg why you talking so slow???
It was good fun though and i liked jumping around all the mushrooms and bits and i like the visuals, very bright and cool to look at :)
That was very much intentional and part of the experience 😄
WHAT
What I liked about this game is that it really gave me a sense of resignation and lack of confidence, like "ok, what will happen this time?"
the changing locations is not 100% relatable, but my adhd is not severe (or at least I am medicated)
some of the notes things are kind of relatable though
speed-running this game is kinda fun though.
you can walk with the notes open by the way.
playing this again after over a year and its just as relatable as the first time, really nailed the adhd confusion
thanks ☺️
exactly !
yea, that's how it goes :(
Hehe Relatable
you talked about it in the making of talk you linked in the description but I still want to ask what was the process of coming up with the game's mechanics that portray adhd? I really liked how simple but effective it was at making its point.
10/10 great game
There wasn't any process, I just wrote ideas down whenever, after a week or two there were enough ideas for a game
very charming little game, could relate to the dinosaur
This is way too accurate. 10/10 love it
i hate it(in a good/nice way)
XD