Jurassic Park Builder was a 2012 construction and management simulation video game developed and published by Ludia for iOS and Android operating systems, as well as Facebook.
Jurassic Park Builder is a freemium game[3] consisting of two-dimensional landscape renderings and three-dimensional creatures.
[3] Basic mission objectives are given to the player by characters from the first two films:[6][5] Alan Grant, John Hammond, Ian Malcolm, and Kelly Curtis.
Completing missions ultimately gives the player the ability to create new buildings and conduct research for cloning new dinosaurs.
[4] Various aspects of the game take time to progress, including the hatching of dinosaur eggs, the clearing of forest land, and shipments of food from the mainland.
[6] In a minigame titled "Red Zone", the player must tap on a specific dinosaur to prevent it from escaping its enclosure.
[7] Mike Wehner of Engadget noted the in-game cost for some items and wrote: "Jurassic Park Builder will certainly satisfy fans of similar games like Farmville or even Sim City, but before you dive into the prehistoric landscape make sure you get your credit card ready.
[4] Eli Hodapp of TouchArcade wrote: "If you're hoping for a mixture of a Tycoon-style game with Jurassic Park decals and racing stripes, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
[17] Website Slide to Play wrote: "As much as we dislike this unchallenging gameplay design, we still can't help but enjoy the pleasant visuals and audio".
[6] Rob Rich of 148Apps.com gave the game four stars out of five and wrote: "Jurassic Park Builder is not Operation Genesis for mobile devices, but it is like playing a simplified freemium version of it.
Waiting several seconds – possibly even a minute – until it's all good to go sees everything running nice and smooth, but that initial period of chugging can be excruciating".
[3] Nadia Oxford of Gamezebo also rated the game four stars out of five and said that the "core gameplay certainly doesn't break new ground, but it builds a solid experience with its old materials".
Oxford praised the game's "decent selection" of dinosaurs, and noted that "they vocalize with an impressive library of snarls, squeals, and grunts".