Play a clone of the iconic Google Chrome no-internet Dinosaur Game (chrome://dino for Chrome only) on your wrist. I looked all over for something like this, and I couldn't find anything remotely close in quality, so I decided to make this using pure SwiftUI for fun. If you like this game or enjoyed playing it, I would appreciate if you starred it or even shared it with your friends. I also don't expect to work on this too much more, as I am quite satisfied with the end result.
I initially recreated the Dino Game for Fitbit smartwatches, namely the original Versas, a few years ago before I started wearing an Apple Watch. (In fact, you can see some of my other open-source Fitbit apps on my Github, so go check those out.) However, that app was quite buggy in terms of collision detection and the dinosaur sprite. It also became obsolete once I got my Apple Watch since it no longer had any use for me. That is the inspiration for the UI, and both are almost identical, down to the same sprite images and haptics. This does have nicer animations and the implementation is slightly better, though.
Most of this code was written by ChatGPT. Some of the logic for collision detection and element formatting I needed to fix, but I basically told it to start with a very basic implementation with rectangles to represent the dinosaur and cactus, and slowly had it add more features.
Simply tap anywhere on screen, use the Digital Crown, or swipe up to make the dinosaur jump over different types of cacti and the occasional pterodactyl as the game gets progressively faster. Each time you successfully do so, your score will increase. Once you do collide with an obstacle, hit the restart button that will appear to play again. Much like the original game, the pterodactyls do not start spawning immediately, and they can also spawn at different heights, so be sure to not jump into them when they are flying higher!
- Clone this repository or download it as a zip folder and uncompress it.
- Open up the
.xcodeprojfile, which should automatically launch Xcode. - You might need to change the signing of the app from the current one.
- Click the
Runbutton near the top left of Xcode to build and install.
Hopefully this goes without saying, but you need Xcode, which is only available on Macs.
You can run this app on the Xcode simulator or connect a physical device.
The watch must be paired with a device running iOS 16.0 or newer.
The watch itself must be running at least WatchOS 9.0 as well.
- SwiftUI - Helps you build great-looking apps across all Apple platforms.
- WatchKit - The framework provides infrastructure for creating watchOS apps.
If you find one, feel free to open up a new issue or even better, create a pull request fixing it. But then again, this game is extremely simple, so I don't expect for there to be any.
- v1.0 - initial release
- v1.1 - digital crown support
- v1.2 - swipe up support
- Add ability to use Double Tap gesture
Sachin Agrawal: I'm a self-taught programmer who knows many languages and I'm into app, game, and web development. For more information, check out my website or Github profile. If you would like to contact me, my email is github@sachin.email.
This package is licensed under the MIT License.