Terrible Lizards Characters: Who's Who

Jordan

Role

Player character

Who

College student-athlete road-tripping Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles before the fall semester Dev

Personality

“A pretty typical late-teen kid of the early '90s: polite, eager to help, and not above the occasional wisecrack” Dev

Trivia

Athletic enough to explain the parkour — but cannot swim Dev

WDR's launch posts refer to Jordan as “they”, and we do the same Dev. Jordan's quips are a big source of the game's humour; the team wrote many lines while playtesting with a document open, adding barks wherever a hint or reaction felt right Dev. CGMagazine's review calls Jordan a second-year engineering student Press.

Stella

A longtime friend and colleague of Dalton and Elena — the three rose together as paleontologists. Stella is off-site when Dalton's Dinos goes quiet, reaches Jordan, and becomes “a voice in your ear and a kind of guide” Dev. Early builds had her talk only through fixed phone terminals; the team switched to a headset so conversations happen while you keep moving. She also feeds you puzzle information — for example the elevator keypad code in Level 2 (1677).

Dalton & Elena Coolidge

Dalton Coolidge founded the attraction with his wife Elena after they discovered a rare “duelling dinosaurs” fossil nearby Dev. The fame — and the money — built Dalton's Dinos a couple of miles from the dig, close to Route 66 for tourist traffic, and the attraction's revenue funded their own digs so they needed fewer grants Dev. In the game, Dalton is “always one step ahead of you”: you follow his breadcrumbs and retrace the path he took Dev. Searching “what happened to Dalton” is the core mystery; the answer is in the story (see spoiler section).

Others you meet

WDR says there are other characters “better left for players to discover” Dev. Community walkthroughs mention a character called DJ in the deep caverns of Level 4 Community. Many staff members exist only through notes and tapes — the writers built each around a single idea of that person's perspective Dev.

The Paleo Pals

The Paleo Pals are “the mascots and guides for Dalton's Dinos”, and in-world they “help bring in the money to run the place and fund questionable scientific research” Dev. Their suits are a deliberate homage to Five Nights at Freddy's — but built to be suits a real person could wear; Benji's long neck works because the wearer looks out through a hole at the base of the neck Dev. Artist Eden designed them. Each has a talk box in the attraction (see the Paleo Pal Review achievement).

Pterry — whose name is on the notes achievement, Pterry's Scrapbook — was added to the line-up midway through production Dev.

Behind the game

• WDR Studios — the game studio started by the people behind JT Music, a group known for over a decade of video-game songs. Terrible Lizards is their first game, made over three years Dev Dev.
• John “patfan” — lead developer, answering the official Q&As Dev.
• Amanda — writer; Eden — artist (mascots, illustrated notes); RJ Palmer — principal creature designer Dev Dev.
• The Civil Swingers — credits song “Yellow Line”. The soundtrack also includes a new JT Music song made for the game Dev.
• Publishers: Digital Pajamas and Behaviour Interactive.

Voice cast

People search for the voice actors of Jordan and Stella. WDR mentions final voice performances and full-motion video sequences Dev, but none of the official posts we checked name the cast. We'll add credits once there is a source we can link — not before.