- Things Are Heating Up! Gotta Love July... - 17 July 2026
I built this! It's a towering Jump King / Tower of Heaven inspired map!Hey hey! Marceline here again! Your new hip, cool, and young Community Lead. (31 is young...)Have you played any of my maps? Probably not, but I pour a lot of heart into them and would love if you gave them a try... Join our Discord sometime and play em or even make some of your own!We've got a bunch of stuff to share with you all. Let's get to the good stuff... (All of it. All of it is the good stuff.)Sandbox Alpha 0.7.8 (Bugfixes mostly...)If you missed 0.7.7's announcement, we updated our emote system... :3cNothing too fantastical, but there's plenty of bugs fixed in this patch. (Cleaning is important too... Speaking of, have you cleaned your room lately?)If you want to check out the previous patch notes or this version's patch notes, head over to our Discord.And as usual, don't fret! We're hard at work on the goo…
- June Update - Emotes, 0.7.7, Kickstarter, and Patreon! - 25 June 2026
June is almost gone, but we aren't.Hey, I'm Marceline, the new Community Lead for Pixeljam. \\o/ There's a lot of ground to cover, so let's get through it all...Emotes & Update 0.7.7Expressing yourself in the prehistoric era is about to get way cooler and way easier.Trust me when I tell you, you haven't see anything yet!Using our new emote system, you'll be able to customize everything about how you communicate with others! Include animations and make it as fun or mundane as you like! Yours truly will be as smug and taunting as possible...We've also made a few other tweaks & changes, you can read them on over our Discord.Download the newest branch today and dip your claws into the new update! (New here? Check out our Patreon or Kickstarter page & get access to our latest Sandbox Alpha build.)Our Patreon Evolved!Have some pride in however you choose to support us!We're giving our Patreon…
- Dino Run 2 Progress Report / Pledge Window Closing Soon - 15 May 2026
Hello all,We've been hard at work since the Kickstarter campaign "ended", here are some of the fruits of our labor, wrapped up neatly in a progress report video: To summarize: - Expanded emotes - Multiplayer lobbies - Terrain painting - Level Generation - Joints and Welds All coming to the playable builds relatively soon. Speaking of playable builds, the window for getting your hands on it is about to close. Click here to check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/the-dino-run-2-early-access-campaign To explain more, a Kickstarter campaign these days has 3 major "phases": - Main campaign (usually 30 days) - Late Pledges (any number of days after the main) - Pledge Manager (late pledges end, but new backers can still join) We are now in the Pledge Manager phase, which is the really REAL ending, seriously. I know, it's weird, and we didn't exactly know how it worked befor…
- Dino Run 2 Update: Late Pledges, Pivot Creations & Streaming - 10 October 2025
Hello All,The Kickstarter Campaign is over, but is it really? Apparently they allow late pledges now, so if you missed the initial window of opportunity, you can still back the project here and get immediate access to the Multiplayer Sandbox. We're also currently working towards our next stretch goal of SHINIES:Embrace your inner archaeologist and hunt down these super-secret relics hidden across the world - then display them in your Sanctuary to show off your skills. Each Shiny comes with a unique detail card to examine, complete with fun facts and higher-resolution art of your prize. Pivot CreationsThe community is learning the newly added pivot feature along side of us, and has already come up with some clever uses for it, including a 6-hole golf course and a stealthy egg-heist:We also added 5 new fashions for Halloween to the latest version (0.5.2):Streaming UpdatesWe'll be streamin…
- Final Week For The Dino Run 2 Kickstarter! - 30 September 2025
Hello all,The Dino Run 2 Kickstarter has only 3 days left! If you've been waiting for the last minute to back it, it's basically almost the last minute..Click here to pledge and get immediate access to the Multiplayer SandboxSee what the community has been using the sandbox for in the last couple weeks:We also just added Pivots to the sandbox, and we'll be running a pivot-themed creation contest this week as well. To keep up with the details, please join our Discord Server where we engage with the community every day.New features will be added to the sandbox regularly from now on, leading up to the core "run from doom" experience and the inevitable Early Access launch in 2026.End-Of-Campaign Streaming EventWe'll be having an extended Stream Friday, October 3rd at 2 PM EST that will last for a few hours. Join us at that time on our Twitch Channel and we'll show off new Sandbox features,…
- - Dino Run 2 Progress Update - - 15 September 2025
Hello All,Time for another update regarding our progress on Dino Run 2!Kickstarter CampaignThings are rolling along well, and we've reached four of our funding goals so far. If you want to throw it some support, Click here to check it out. Next funding goal will unlock the Jungle Homestead, which adds a new biome and placeable objects to your domestic endeavors in the Dino Run universe:Multiplayer SandboxWe're weeks away from launching Pivots, which will allow you to pin any object to the world and rotate around it. All backers of the Kickstarter campaign get immediate access to the sandbox. With pivots you can start to make your prehistoric engineering ideas come to life:What's NextLevel Generator: Define parameters and "roll" a level until you like the way it looks, then enter it and start adding on objects and decorations.Doomwall 1.0: a basic version of the doom to add the necessary…
- Pixeljam have launched a new Kickstarter to get Dino Run 2 ready for Early Access - 3 September 2025
Dino Run 2 is finally actually happening, with the latest Kickstarter aiming to get enough funds to make it ready for Early Access. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/pixeljam-have-launched-a-new-kickstarter-to-get-dino-run-2-ready-for-early-access/
- The Dino Run 2 Kickstarter Is Live! - 2 September 2025
Hello all,We just launched the Dino Run 2 Early Access Kickstarter Campaign. Check it out here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/the-dino-run-2-early-access-campaign?ref=9aoxr8We've been working on this game (and campaign) for a very long time, as many of you know. This is the big moment where we gather all dino-fans and rally around making the Dino Run 2 Early Access launch as awesome as possible.All backers $10 and over will get immediate access to the Multiplayer Sandbox, where you can explore and experiment, design & destroy, hang out and have fun alone or with friends.Please note that we cannot give Steam Keys to backers until the game launches on Steam, which will be sometime in 2026. We'll supply a direct download link for now.Show us what you've made with it in the dr2_sandbox_creations channel on Discord as well. The community is already creating some pretty impre…
- Long-awaited prehistoric multiplayer platformer Dino Run 2 is heading back to Kickstarter with a new demo - 14 August 2025
After some setbacks, Pixeljam are readying a fresh Kickstarter to help fund the prehistoric multiplayer racing platformer Dino Run 2, along with a fresh demo. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/long-awaited-prehistoric-multiplayer-platformer-dino-run-2-is-heading-back-to-kickstarter-with-a-new-demo/
- The Multiplayer Sandbox Is Ready / Kickstarter Campaign Announced! - 7 August 2025
Hello all,We've been hard at work on Dino Run 2 since the last announcement, and we're happy to report that the Multiplayer Sandbox is ready to distribute to all backers, patrons and funders. We start rolling it out today!If you supported the campaign in the past, be on the lookout for an email, Discord ping, Kickstarter update or Patreon post in the coming days.We're also about to launch a Kickstarter campaign on September 2 to help us get to Early Access launch, and you can follow it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixeljam/the-dino-run-2-early-access-campaignEveryone that pledges to this campaign will get immediate access to the Multiplayer Sandbox, regardless of the campaign reaching its funding goal.If you have access to it now, we hope you enjoy the new build - it's massively improved from the last version. if you don't, you'll be able to play it in September!Take care,…
- First Run Test Revealed! - 5 February 2025
After an unusual amount of development time, we are pleased to show off the first gameplay peek ever at Dino Run 2: Plenty of things to add still, like NPC and background dinos, more physics events, dynamic lighting, doomwalls, etc. It's getting there...
- Sandbox Mega-Update! - 13 June 2024
Hello all, We recently made a major update to the Sandbox Alpha, available to all current supporters: Raptor: Added tail whap ability Improved raptor collisions Added several new idle animations Raptor's feet now adapt to terrain while idle Raptor now blinks procedurally Added crouching Added pounce animation Added vanity station for changing the raptor's color palette and patterns Sandbox: Added several new placeable objects Added several decorative placeables (Ferns, trees, etc.) Added a flavor selector for placeables (bouncy, icy, etc) Added palette swapping and flavor variations to almost all placeable objects Misc: Expanded the start cave into a new sanctuary Added a debug console Dragonflies now come in several colors Supporters list is updated automatically Check the video for what this actually looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXM-fPwW228 We're steadily working toward…
- A Wild Dino Run 2 Spotted On Steam! Read This And Get Ready... - 15 November 2023
Dino Run 2 has been a long time coming. We dreamt it up over 10 years ago, ran an over-ambitious kickstarter for it in 2013 (which did not reach its goal), and followed it up with a very realistic campaign in 2019, which saw enough success to get us tinkering with the game's basic systems from 2019 to 2022. Development was rocky during that time though, to put it mildly. Mid-2022 we pushed the RESET button and started from scratch. With the help of some new team members, the success of Nova Drift and the ongoing crowdfunding campaign, we have arrived where we are now, the SANDBOX ALPHA, which is totally playable and a solid foundation to the larger Dino Run 2 experience: However, it's not ready for Steam yet. We'll be updating the current playable over the next year or so getting it *just* right for its big debut. In the meantime, If you want to check out the current playable build, hea…
