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Go Home Dinosaurs!

Go Home Dinosaurs! is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Go Home Dinosaurs! rather than just read about it. In short: Go Home Dinosaurs! is a tower defense video game developed and published by Fire Hose Games. It was released on March 14, 2013, for Windows and May 9, 2013, for iPad.

Key takeaways

Go Home Dinosaurs! belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Go Home Dinosaurs! to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Go Home Dinosaurs! from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Go Home Dinosaurs! is a tower defense video game developed and published by Fire Hose Games. It was released on March 14, 2013, for Windows and May 9, 2013, for iPad. The game focuses on a group of gophers working to protect their barbecue party after it gets crashed by a horde of dinosaurs.

Gameplay Go Home Dinosaurs! is divided into three locations containing 20 levels each. The main objective is to control a young gopher, who throws rocks at any dinosaurs within range to prevent them from reaching a grill with three steaks at the end of the path. If a dinosaur reaches the grill, they will blow up sticks of dynamite near it, causing a loss of one steak; the player will lose the level if all three steaks are lost. Additional defenses can be added via cards, which are usable by collecting enough coconuts from palm trees that randomly spawn throughout the board. By completing levels, the player will earn coins, which can be used to purchase power-up cards and costumes for the main gopher to use.

Development Go Home Dinosaurs! was first shown at the 2011 PAX event. In 2012, Fire Hose Games launched a playable beta version of the game on Chrome, with several updates subsequently released to enhance gameplay. Initially intended for a late 2012 release, the game was delayed to polish and add extra content; it was eventually released on Steam in March 2013, followed by an iPad release in May, that same year.

Reception

The PC version received "universal acclaim", while the iOS version received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Eric Ford of TouchArcade praised the game's combination of tower defense and puzzle elements but noted control issues with the mobile version. Andy Chalk of Gamezebo noted the game's lack of violence and short length, and called it "fairly shallow", though he stated that it would be a good game for tower defense fans to play with their children.

References

External links Go Home Dinosaurs! at MobyGames

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Go Home Dinosaurs!

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Go Home Dinosaurs! claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Go Home Dinosaurs! before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Go Home Dinosaurs! ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Go Home Dinosaurs!

In research: Go Home Dinosaurs! appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Go Home Dinosaurs! in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Go Home Dinosaurs! is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 video games, Cancelled PlayStation 3 games, Fire Hose Games games, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Go Home Dinosaurs! outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Go Home Dinosaurs! in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Go Home Dinosaurs! means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Go Home Dinosaurs! out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Go Home Dinosaurs! in simple terms?

Go Home Dinosaurs! is a tower defense video game developed and published by Fire Hose Games. It was released on March 14, 2013, for Windows and May 9, 2013, for iPad.

Why does Go Home Dinosaurs! matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Go Home Dinosaurs!?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Go Home Dinosaurs!.