GenDino: the Chrome dinosaur game, remixed with AI

The rules are the ones you know from Chrome's "No internet" page: run, jump, survive. What changes is the cast. Instead of a T-Rex jumping cacti, you might get a mermaid jumping bottles of glue past a giant wristwatch. Every character, obstacle and backdrop is pixel art made with an AI image model and redrawn in the grey, blocky style of the original game.

How it works

GenDino setup screen: a mermaid, a bottle of glue and a wristwatch above the words A mermaid jumping glue past watch — Each game is a short sentence: a runner, the thing it jumps over, and what it runs past.

Fill in the sentence. The three boxes make a sentence like A mermaid jumping glue past watch. The first word is your runner, the second the obstacle, the third the scenery in the background. Type anything you like into a box, up to a few words, and press Enter.
Wait a few seconds. The AI draws your object and the picture appears above the boxes. Things it has drawn before show up instantly.
Press Let's run. The run starts like the classic dinosaur game, with your three pictures. Short on ideas? I'm feeling lucky fills the boxes with a random trio.

GenDino gameplay: the mermaid runs along the ground while a giant watch stands in the background — The mermaid from the setup screen on its run. The wristwatch has become a landmark in the background.

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Phone or tablet
Start and jump	`Space` or `↑`	Tap the screen
Duck	`↓`	—
Try again	`Space` or `Enter`	Tap the restart icon

Pictures of different sizes change the game more than you would expect. A tall runner is easier to hit, a flat obstacle like a sheet of paper is easier to clear, and a huge background object can hide the next obstacle for a moment. That is part of the fun.

Combinations people have drawn

A thumbs-up hand, Bigfoot and a small spreadsheet in pixel art — A thumbs up jumping Bigfoot past a spreadsheet

A snowmobile and a steaming bowl of soup in pixel art — A snowmobile jumping a bowl of soup past the light

A flying squirrel and a delivery truck in pixel art — A flying squirrel jumping a truck past a leaf

A tractor and a photo camera in pixel art — A tractor jumping a camera past a falcon

A small monster and a pillow in pixel art — A monster jumping a pillow past a sports car

A planet, an asteroid and a roll of tape in pixel art — A planet jumping an asteroid past a roll of tape

The ready-made set alone has close to two hundred objects, from coffee mugs and killer whales to a half-eaten corn dog, and you can add your own on top, so most games have never been played by anyone before.

Where the idea comes from

GenDino started as a Google Labs experiment in late 2024 that let people describe their own dinosaur game and play it. It was online for about a week. This site is an independent revival of that idea and is not affiliated with Google. The original Chrome dinosaur game has been part of the browser since 2014 and appears whenever the connection drops.