Pressing space, ↑, or tapping the dinosaur on mobile devices will cause the dinosaur to 'leap', while pressing the ↓ key will cause the dinosaur to 'crouch'. ĭuring the game, the Lonely T-Rex continuously moves from left to right across a black-and-white desert landscape, with the player attempting to avoid oncoming obstacles such as cacti and Pteranodons by jumping or ducking.

Additionally, the game can be accessed by inputting chrome://dino or chrome://network-error/-106 into the Omnibox. The game can then be launched either by pressing space or ↑ on desktop, or by tapping the dinosaur on Android or iOS mobile devices. When a user attempts to navigate to a web page on Google Chrome while being offline, the browser notifies the user that they are not connected to the Internet, with an illustration of a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex shown on the page. The game was created by members of the Chrome UX team in 2014. The player guides a pixelated Tyrannosaurus rex across a side-scrolling landscape, avoiding obstacles to achieve a higher score. The Dinosaur Game (also known as the Chrome Dino) is a browser game developed by Google and built into the Google Chrome web browser.

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