About the Dinosaur Game

The Dinosaur Game, also called the Chrome Dino, T-Rex Game or Dino Runner, is an endless runner built into the Google Chrome browser. When Chrome cannot load a page because there is no internet connection, it shows a small grey dinosaur. Press Space and the dinosaur starts running.

The rules fit in one sentence: jump over cacti, duck under pterodactyls and run as far as you can. The game never ends on its own; it only gets faster. Your score grows with the distance you cover, and the best result is shown as HI next to the current score.

On dinosaur.game you can play the same game online in any browser, on a computer, phone or tablet, without disconnecting from the internet. Just open the game page and press Space.

The idea is a joke about being offline. Without the internet you are thrown back to «prehistoric times», so the hero of the offline page is a creature from the age of dinosaurs. The T-Rex with its tiny arms also makes a funny runner: it cannot hold on to anything, it can only jump.

The pixel style is not an accident either. The game is drawn in the same grey, minimal style as the «No internet» page, so it feels like a part of the browser rather than a separate app. That is also why the game is monochrome, and why night mode is simply an inverted picture.