Parkasaurus is an upcoming simulator putting you in charge of not only managing the day-to-day operations of a fully functioning amusement park, but also managing the lives of dinosaurs on display.

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All the parts to an addictive park simulator are in place, but the addition of dinosaurs is more than just a quick swap of traditional animals for extinct ones. The announcement trailer shows off the occasions when one of the dinosaurs becomes agitated and breaks free of its enclosure, wreaking colorful, adorable havoc on the park and its visitors.That's when the game transitions into a first-person shooter, and your objective switches from macro-managing the park and all its business operations, to hunting down and stopping the dinosaur using tranquilizers.According to developer WashBear Studio, you start the game with "only a dream and an abandoned park," and build it into a world-class attraction. The graphics are bright and cartoony, with Minecraft-style NPCs and adorable geometric dinosaurs.Oh, also, it has a time travel element, where you hunt for the rarest and most valuable dinosaur eggs through fourth-dimensional travel.The footage shown is pre-alpha, and the game isn't slated for release until sometime in early 2018, but WashBear Studios already has a Steam page in place for Parkasaurus.Earlier this year, scientists found a dinosaur tail preserved in amber , with bones and feathers within. The dinosaurs shown in the trailer look to be more recognizable than the species locked in the fossil.

Seth Macy is way into dinosaurs. Follow him on Twitter @sethmacy