T-Rex Time Machine

T-Rex Time Machine is a 170,000-word, text-based interactive adventure novel by Rosemary Claire Smith, with no graphics or sound effects. You play a physics student who turns a Land Rover into a working time machine and travels to the age of the Tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops and pterosaur to study dinosaurs and film a documentary.

A stolen invention

Your rival and enemy, Darien Vance, claims your work as his own, accuses you of plagiarism and gets you kicked out of graduate school. In the past, you must prove you arrived first, clear your name and make it home safely. You can also prove that Darien stole your time machine plans or forge a new partnership with him.

Choices and adventures

Your choices control the story. You can play as a male or female character, and as gay or straight. Dodge stampeding triceratopses and sickle-clawed troodontids, repair your Land Rover while mastering time travel, and find love with your best friend or one of your time-traveling classmates. You can feed a baby duckbilled dinosaur and let it imprint on you, then film and debut your documentary as either a scientific masterpiece or a heartwarming nature film.