User:KentrosaurusBoi/sandbox

Development History
Prehistoric Kingdom was started as a project in 2014 by the main developers Maurizio, Nathan, Kevin, and Matthew, all of which are still active on this project to this day. It was originally named Jurassic Genetics, with the concept being more rooted in the lore of Jurassic Park. This name and adjacent concept would later be dropped as they were infringing on Jurassic Park copyright. Part of the team working on this would go on to join the project Mesozoica. The remaining team members would go on to keep working on this project and would rename it to its current name: Prehistoric Kingdom. For a while both projects would square off against each other, adding different contents (such as demos, updates, etc.) in order to secure their fans, with them (the fans) being as passionate as the other about their respective games. The rivalry would end abruptly when Mesozoica's project would end in a massive scam in 2018. Development would continue with various ideas being thrown around, until they finally settled on a game much closer to the (at the time) newly released Jurassic World Evolution than to its 2003 predecessor Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis.

In 2019, the team changed plans once again, steering to a more nature-oriented theme, becoming more engaged in the addition of modular building in-game, thus increasing its creative ability and giving more liberty to the players involved. This would come as they released the 50-animal roster, and showcased the planned advanced AI that would be implemented for the dinosaurs and other cenozoic mammals, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles in-game. The amount of animals however, soon became unrealistic in terms of the team's size, and in terms of how much time would be needed to get them to perfection, so they cut the amount down to 22 animals in-game, citing the need to perfect the animals, and then add more later on. The growing team would soon after put out an Early Access Trailer in October of 2020, targeting April 2021 as release for EA. This would lead to increased publicity, and awareness about the game's existence. Development would continue steadily, with the release of a Playable Alpha, which brought the bare basics of the game and six dinosaurs (those being Tyrannosaurus/Tarbosaurus, Nasutoceratops, Styracosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Microraptor), the pushback of Beta and EA to Quarter 3 of 2021 instead of Quarter 2, and the continuation of monthly devlogs.

In the fall of 2021, the developers released another trailer, this time for the Beta release, targeting it at December 6th of the same year, while pushing back EA even further to the same month in 2022. Beta would release on that date, bringing with it 8 new animals (Archaeopteryx, Camarasaurus, Deinocheirus, Protoceratops, the Woolly Mammoth, Torvosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and Pachyrhinosaurus), many more modular items, and advanced game mechanics and UI. Beta would continue to update, bringing two more animals: (Brachiosaurus) and (Iguanodon) in Update 0.4. Many other optimizations, such as bug fixes and general game material would also come out in small mini-updates. In June of 2022, Prehistoric Kingdom would release its Early Access edition of the game, adding 7 new animals: (Acrocanthosaurus), (Argentinosaurus) (which was not announced to the players until the day of the release), ( Dryosaurus), (Psittacosaurus), (Triceratops), (Smilodon), and (Coelodonta).