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[[KGB]]'s [[2023 Officers|2024]] [[Booth]].  The [[Carnival]] theme was "Arcade".  Our chairs for this year were, [[jpwang2]], [[kgurusha]], [[acacciat]], [[ejchapma]], [[skroneme]], and [[eplin]], who led us to complete a single-story Blitz booth on [[Midway]].

The Dino Game is a browser-based arcade game, which can be accessed when Google Chrome is unable to connect to the internet. The player controls a dinosaur, which must jump over cacti and low-flying pterodactyls. Although public reception was great, it is suspected that this theme did not land with the judges.

The booth featured a nearly monochrome, pixel-art aesthetic, with sharp contrast from red pixels and lighting representing fires. The outside of the booth featured pixelated murals of running dinosaurs, with a porch that housed a large cardboard dinosaur statue, named Karl. The inside of the booth features a long hallway with an inverted color palette (black background, white dinosaur outlines), red overhead lighting with a meteor at the end of the hallway, and a white projector room where we housed our game: a recreation of the Dino Game.

This Dino Game recreation was written by [[eplin|Teddy]]. It begins with a cutscene of a dinosaur attempting to sneak up on a sleeping Scotty Dog, only to be crushed by a meteor. Many dinosaurs then flee across the screen, while Scotty jumps out of a mound and begins running. The player then controls Scotty, jumping over the other fleeing dinosaurs as the endless runner mechanic. [[acacciat|Anthony]] composed actual music for the game, with motifs taken from "Solidarity Forever". The game was played with a pressure mat, so that participants would jump in real life to make Scotty jump in the game. The game prize was a dinosaur sticker.

Link: https://one-kappa-tea.itch.io/totally-just-the-chrome-dino-game

Due to heavy rainfall and wind, Midway was closed on Thursday, and the roof was re-tar-papered on Thursday night/Friday morning.

== Notable features ==

* The long interior wall -> "longer" booth
* Blacklight usage with UV-glowing paint
* A real video game! (https://one-kappa-tea.itch.io/totally-just-the-chrome-dino-game)

== Things learned ==

* Tar paper isn't very good at waterproofing a flat roof, although the rain was worse than usual.
* If we want to win, we need to pander more to the elder judges. Whether or not we're willing to do this is uncertain.
* While the number of build week builders was an improvement from last year, we need to improve recruitment and build attendance before then.

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