🦕 Poor Dino — Cope & Run

A dinosaur too stubborn to stay extinct, jogging through a thunderstorm under a colorful parachute while the game mocks him the whole way.

Play it live: https://poor-dino.itch.io/poor-dino

📸 Screenshots

✨ Features

• Signature parachute mechanic: The canopy pops open the instant the dino's feet leave the ground, billows as it fills with air at the top of the jump, then pinches shut as it nears the ground (with a gentle pendulum sway).
• 3 lives + heart pickups: A hit costs a heart (with brief mercy invincibility) instead of an instant game over; once you're down a life, a glowing heart sometimes floats in that you can grab to earn one back (capped at 3).
• Opening thunderstorm: Every run starts with heavy, wind-blown rain and lightning flashes + thunderclaps that ease off after a few seconds.
• Sarcastic quips: Taunts scroll along under the ground and keep needling you as you run.
• Air double-jump: A live-filling power vessel charges over ~20s; when full, jump again in mid-air. Spends the meter, then recharges.
• Meteor event: A telegraphed "☄️ INCOMING!" warning, a flaming meteor crashes down, and leaves a smoking boulder to hurdle.
• Shareable ending: Game over gives you a sarcastic rank + epitaph and an auto-generated score card you can copy, share, or download. 100% client-side.
• Face mode 🤳: Upload a side-profile photo and the dino wears your face — tilted to match its head pose and shown on the share card too. Fully client-side: the photo is cropped and downscaled in the browser and stored only in localStorage; it never leaves your device.
• Rich, procedural graphics (zero image files):
  • Day → dusk → night → dawn sky cycle with a sun/moon that arcs overhead and twinkling stars.
  • Parallax clouds and rolling hills.
  • A hand-drawn T-Rex that runs, jumps, ducks, blinks, and kicks up dust.
  • Cactus clusters and flapping pterodactyls.
  • Screen shake, particle puffs, and gentle sound effects.
• Endless & responsive: Scales to phones and desktops; keyboard, mouse, and touch.
• High score saved locally.

🎮 Controls

Action	Keys	Touch
Jump	Space / ↑ / W	Swipe up
Duck	↓ / S	Swipe down
Start / Restart	Space	Tap
Mute	🔊 button (top-left)	Tap button

▶️ Run locally

It's a static site — any file server works:

npx serve .        # or: python -m http.server 8000

Then open the printed URL. (Opening index.html directly in a browser works too.)

🚀 Deploy

No build step — any static host works. index.html just needs to be at the site root.

• Netlify: drag the folder onto https://app.netlify.com/drop, or connect the repo with build command empty and publish directory .

📁 Project structure

poor-dino/
├── index.html   # markup, HUD, overlays
├── style.css    # UI / overlay styling
├── game.js      # game engine + all procedural graphics
└── README.md

Built with plain HTML, CSS, and the Canvas 2D API — no frameworks, no build step.