Key & Compass presents:
Escape from Dinosaur Island
by Richard Pettigrew

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
• External links:
  • This game at IFDB, IFWiki, and ifwizz.
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Map

Walkthrough

Note that the 🔔 symbol in this walkthrough marks places in the game where there's a loud bell sound effect.

Wrecked Basket

> x cylinder. x wreckage. take bar. x bar.

> lever cylinder. climb out. (🔔)

Crash Site

Once you've climbed out of the basket, you can't go back in. You don't need the fabric and you're done with the bar.

> drop bar. x fabric. x basket.

> n. n. w.

Clearing

> x wreck. x canopy. open canopy.

> x pilot. search pilot.

> x documents. (Member of "Flight 19".)

> x dog tags. (Lt Charles Carroll Taylor of the US Navy.)

> x hat. (Has goggles)

> take hat. wear it.

> x knife. take it.

> x recipe. take it.

> e. s. s. e.

Game Trail (north)

> x vines. (Something behind them.)

> cut vines. (🔔 Found a cave!)

> look. take vines.

> enter cave. d.

Ancient Shrine

> x altar. push altar. (Not strong enough.)

> u. s. s.

Game Trail

> x clay. x footprint. take clay.

> s. w.

Waterfall

> x fissure. (Might be able to fall through here.)

> e. d. w.

Freshwater Lagoon

> x lagoon. x fish.

> dive in. (Because you're wearing the hat with goggles, you arrive at...)

Underwater Cave

Note that this is a safe place. We'll be bringing everything here.

> x spring.

> drop clay. drop recipe.

> dive in. (Back to the lagoon.)

Freshwater Lagoon

> e. u. e. e.

Green and Pleasant Land

> x dinosaur. (Stegosaurus digging. Tasty hidden thing?)

> x ground. dig ground. x root. take root.

> s.

Sandy Beach

> x rock. (wedge shape) take rock. s.

Shallows

> x driftwood. take it.

> make axe. (🔔 using driftwood, rock, and vines.)

> take axe. x it.

Let's find a tree to chop down:

> n. n. w. w. n. n. w. n. n. n. e.

Forest

> x tree. (good for firewood)

> chop tree. (with axe)

> drop axe. look.

> x branch. take branch.

> x logs. ("Examine what?") take logs.

Guess the author forgot to give the logs a description. Let's visit that volcano next:

> w. s. s. s. e. e. u.

Volcano

You don't need the quartz.

> x quartz. x lava.

> light branch. (Now have a lit torch.)

> d. w. s. s. w.

Waterfall

> drop logs. drop torch. (Both fall into the fissure.)

> e. n. e.

Raptor Nest

CAUTION: When you take the egg, head quickly to the underwater cave where the mother raptor can't find you!

> x egg. take egg.

> w. s. d. w. dive in.

Underwater Cave

Time to make things! And yes, every time you do anything with the pot, you'll need to pick it up again.

> take torch. take logs. make fire. (🔔)

> take clay. make pot. (It's now a wet clay pot.)

> take pot. fire pot. (🔔)

> x pot.

> take pot. take water.

> take pot. take recipe.

While carrying egg, vegetables, recipe, pot of water:

> make soup. (🔔)

> look. take pot.

> x soup. eat soup. (Looks like you ate the pot too!)

> drop recipe.

Now head back to that altar:

> dive in. e. u. n. n. enter cave. d.

Ancient Shrine

With the strength of egg soup, you can push an altar.

> push altar. look.

> enter opening. (🔔 🔔)

You somehow emerge into a forest where you quickly find a way to civilization.

Pressing any key restarts the adventure.

Extras

Characters

• A dinosaur is digging in the "Green and Pleasant Land". You think it's a stegosaurus.
• A skeleton of a pilot can be found in a plane wreck. His dog tags identify him as Lt Charles Carroll Taylor of the US Navy.
• Some fish can be seen in the freshwater lagoon.
• A large velociraptor may eat you if you steal its egg.

Mentioned:

• Humans have been to this lost world before. You find their altar.

Credits

Credits / About Dinosaur Island.

Dinosaur Island was authored by Richard Pettigrew and is a browser based adventure game. It has been written to mimic the popular style of text based games from the 1970s through to the mid-1980's. The tool used to create this game is named Adventuron. Adventuron is the brain child of Chris Ainsley and is available for use at:

https://eeyo.io/adv781/

I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Chris for developing Adventuron and for all the assistance and advice he has given me throughout the authoring of this game. I'd also like to mention Richard Hawkins, John Metcalf and Tim Gilberts for their playtesting, without them the game would be full of bugs and typos!

If you get really stuck, I'm more than happy to respond to help requests.

Press any key to return to the adventure.

Endings

• That I am afraid is game over!
• You can die if you take the egg and don't find a safe place to hide soon afterwards.
• CONGRATULATIONS
• You win if you escape from the island.

Inventory

You have a six-item carrying capacity.

• Metal bar. Find it by examining the wreckage in the basket. Using it, lever the gas cylinder off your legs. Now you can climb out.
• Torn fabric. It's at the crash site. Ignore it.
• Quartz. It's at the top of the volcano. Ignore it.
• Clay. It's on the south end of the game trail. Examine it to find a footprint. Take the clay and make pot:
• Wet clay pot. Take it to the underwater cave, and if you've made a camp fire there, fire pot.
• Cooking pot. Take it, and while still in the underwater cave, take water to fill the pot.
• Cooking pot (Water). Take it. In the underwater cave, with the filled pot, egg, root, and recipe, make soup.
• Pot of nourishing soup. Eat the soup. You now have the strength to push the altar in the ancient shrine.
• Rock. It's on the sandy beach. With the rock, driftwood, and cut vines, you can make axe.
• Documents. Find them by searching the skeleton in the clearing. Read them.
• Dog tags. Find them by searching the skeleton in the clearing. Examine them to learn who the skeleton was.
• Driftwood. It's at the shallows. With the rock, driftwood, and cut vines, you can make axe.
• Knife. Find it by searching the skeleton in the clearing. Cut the vines at the north end of the game trail with the knife.
• Leather flying hat. Find it by searching the skeleton in the clearing. Wear the hat. Its goggles let you find the underwater cave when you dive in the lagoon.
• Recipe. Find it by searching the skeleton in the clearing. Take it to the underwater cave and make soup with the filled cooking pot, egg, vegetables, and recipe.
• Cut vines. Cut the vines at the north end of the game trail with the knife. With the rock, driftwood, and cut vines, you can make axe.
• Axe. To get one, make axe with the rock, driftwood, and cut vines. Chop the dead tree in the forest with the axe.
• Tree branch. Created when you cut the dead tree in the forest with the axe. Light the branch on the top of the volcano to create a lit torch.
• Lit torch. Drop the torch at the waterfall; the torch falls through the fissure into the underwater cave. There, with logs and torch, you can make fire.
• Logs. Created when you cut the dead tree in the forest with the axe. Oddly, you can't examine the logs. Take the logs to the waterfall and drop them. The logs fall through the fissure into the underwater cave. There, with logs and torch, you can make fire.
• Root Vegetables. At the green and pleasant land, examine the dinosaur, then examine the ground. Dig the ground to unearth the root vegetables. Take them to the underwater cave and make soup with the filled cooking pot, egg, vegetables, and recipe.
• Dinosaur egg. It's in the raptor nest. Take it to the underwater cave and make soup with the filled cooking pot, egg, vegetables, and recipe.

Thank You to my Patreon supporters

This walkthrough was funded via Patreon with

• the support of Robin Johnson, Ville Lavonius, Andrew Schultz, Kenneth Hon, Jason McIntosh, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, and Phil Tatro;
• the generous support of Janice M Eisen, Amelia, and Matthew Foxley;
• the very generous support of Karl Ove Hufthammer;
• the extremely generous support of Emily Short, Allen Garvin, Jesse McGrew, Jacqueline Ashwell, Marius Müller, and Jennifer Rexrode;
• and the invisible support of several anonymous patrons.