Image: github.com · Current Three.js scene featuring the original island, dinosaurs, and atlas-based interface
Dino Island (2002) recreated in Three.js
A macOS-focused recreation of the game, built on REA and Ghidra research into the original.
Credits
The full story
This is a work-in-progress recreation of Monte Cristo's 2002 game Dino Island, built for the browser with Three.js and TypeScript and aimed at Mac users. It loads the original game's island data, dinosaur models, animations and interface graphics. Research with REA and Ghidra uncovered the file formats and how the game behaves.
So far it has the original island terrain and textures, 1,536 placed plants, water, skybox and clouds, plus four dinosaurs. The author is clear that it isn't a finished port and doesn't run the original Windows game.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- Awesome REA list: Dino-IslandRepository account: merttcetn
Source, controls and the research notes on the original formats.