Random Palaeo-Work idea of the Day #13

Hello, this is Mesozoic Mind. It's the first week of the spooky season, and what better way to celebrate then a horror work?

Ambush

A game can be summed up as Alien: Isolation WITH RAPTORS. You play as ascintist who has arrived in a Lost World-type setting, but something happens that leads a pack of a Dakotaraptor or Deinonychus-esque species to ambush you: perhaps you were in the wrong place at the wrong time as they were hunting, or disturbed them by entering their territory. You do manage to escape, and the pack goes away - except for one, who sees your escape as an insult to its pride, and goes rogue to hunt you down. What follows is a chase through the shadowy jungles to reach a rendevous point where you can escape as the raptor could appear anywhere and ambush you before eating you alive, and that's not without considering what other animals might attack you first as you run into their path.

To survive the raptor, you must either put enough distance between it, or hide in certain spaces where it can't detect or reach you, like in the trees or in small caves or burrows, but you would first need to determine if no animal is in there, or else you'll get a nasty surprise. There would be no way to make traps that would seriously impede it Predator-style, and its not easily distracted. The worst you can do is get the attention of a larger creature that could scare off the raptor... but only for a short while before resuming its hunt for you because is hatred for you is that strong. And mind you, doing that might send it after you instead.

Fortunately, if you can make it to the end, you will be rewarded with the rest of the raptor's pack showing up and taking the persuing raptor out once and for all, including a melanistic specimen the persuer was seen fueding with at the start.

This was just a very rough concept whipped up in a day. Hope you like it. Share your ideas for your own dinosaur horror games, as I'd love to hear them.