dharby 2020-10-06 01:02
I love the color palette of this. Nice job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Loop Frogs
By garys and Super Hadoken
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 196 | 3.98 | 186 | |
| Fun | 229 | 3.87 | 186 | |
| Innovation | 203 | 3.91 | 187 | |
| Theme | 176 | 4.17 | 188 | |
| Graphics | 261 | 4.16 | 188 | |
| Audio | 693 | 3.30 | 180 | |
| Humor | 242 | 3.64 | 179 | |
| Mood | 667 | 3.50 | 176 |
I love the color palette of this. Nice job!
good mechanics! super fun to play as both characters! :)
Really cool graphics and control. The only thing was I would have preferred a different button for changing frogs. Maybe the space bar?
I liked the mechanics, it was a good take on the loop theme!
Thanks for playing all!
@ninnec You can use SPACE to jump and ENTER to switch character. Or actually, Numpad 0 will work too if you're using cursors... Best played on a joypad though, I've found. ;)
@garys Ahhh, cool. Thank you! Great game!
Great game!!! The core loop is solid, the screams make burst out laughing and the gameplay teach mechanics at a great pace. Awesome game. If you have a chance please play and rate my game. Good luck!
Very cool, creative and beautiful!
SO Awesome! Great work!
Really nice game. The flame corridor and the last level took me a couple of tries but I managed to beat it :) I really liked that the game has controller support, because it felt way better than on the keyboard.
This game is awesome, the art is really beautiful, I loved the HUD and the sfx!! Congrats...Kinda hard the game but it's funn
Great puzzle game! Very enjoyable to play, and you can easily imagine ways the concept could branch out and get more challenging over time.
Heh we had an idea very similar to this originally - and this is very well executed! I loved the puzzles! Game could've benefited from some music and removing that "AAAAA" audio from the green frog, but it's a really well made game otherwise.
Love it. Well done team! The frog voices are great... and the way Green walks cracks me up. :frog:
Awesome concept! Loved that the brown frog can mount the green frog haha
Awesome job! Graphics are great and had a great time with this one, the synchronization and timing is a great thing. Very good job :heart:
Frog kept getting stuck and not actually following the loop I set. Other than that it worked well and was fun.
Great job ! I love it, very clever frog mount !
I was laughting sooo hard when heard the frog's voices....omg)))) All in all I had fun time playing. And I loved the simplicity of pixel art)
Amazing! Everything is clear and it was fun to play this :D
That was INCREDIBLE!! It took me a bit to realize that the green repeats the actions you did, but other than that, the sound effects, the art, the gameplay, everything else was so good!! Loved it nice work! :smile:
Very nice core mechanic and very well developed level design. Good job!
I'm speechless... I started the game not knowing how you could possibly fit the theme in. It's incredible guys... And it's not lacking anything in my opinion. You're my favorite so far.
Good job :thumbsup:
The sound of the frogs walking is just *chefs kiss* :laughing: Great work, I loved everything about the game!
Using the loop frog as a platform is a fun take on the recorded action puzzle game. I do think that the way the burner obstacle was used in large numbers in straight paths was mostly dragging out the solutions however, not a compelling way to design the levels. The strong and clean presentation makes up for it tho, I would definitely try another version with improved puzzles.
Very nice sprites
Funny game! Great job!
Great mechanic and liked the frog's style. Fun puzzle design too.
Didn't know about the double jump, so took me a while on one of the levels.
Very good entry.
I love the mechanics, the graphics were nice, and the puzzles were well designed. I think the sounds arefunny. There were times when it seemed that the green frog doesn't follow a new loop I set for it and reverts to the first loop so I had to redo the loop I wanted to set. But other than that, I really enjoyed playing the game.
Wow this game is amazing. Art,sounds,game mechanic. I saw a few amazing games so far and this one ranks very high! great job !
The dudes who make frog games gotta stick together, easy 5.0 ratings down the line.
Perfect graphics! Great stuff!
I love this game ! It reminds me of chronolooper which was also very fun, but I like how in this one, it’s two different frogs that you switch between. The art is cool and that sound effects were pretty funny. I think I found a bug where the green will loop as the green +orange one while the orange one stays still (2 orange ones), but it wasn’t gamebreaking. Very fun game dude, great job.
Very cool puzzle platformer. Fits the theme perfectly.
Great art and gameplay, it was really fun, I don't know how I noticed that the green frog had a double-jump until the very last stage, the green frog got stuck a couple of times and stepped a bit off the buttons which broke the advance for me, but luckily got solved by starting a new loop.
Really cool mechanic, the art looked good and the sound effects were hilarious, only problem I really found was the loop mechanic with the green frog was it felt finicky
Great game with a really solid gameplay loop that also fits the theme. On top of all that you have good sound effects and nice art. I'm green with envy at your skill and success in making this game. Congrats on making a such a good game. Now if you will excuse me I am gonna make like Kermit and sit on a long singing about how it's not easy being green.
Cool puzzle game with good art style. I like the green frog walking animation
Nice game. Sometimes, green frog don't go at the right position but, the concept is so cool and fit perfectly to the theme. Good entry. Congratulations.
Cool game. It looks great and the puzzle solving theme is great. There were a few issues with the positioning of the Green Frog loops sometimes but that's no big deal. Nice job, the only thing that bothered me were the sounds the frogs made when they jumped. But that's what mute is for right?
interesting take on the time loop concept, funny when the frog death sounds continue playing at the end of the level
Cool. the gameplay and concepts are clear to grasp. Very fun to play
Great game! Probably one of the most exciting ones so far! Had much fun playing it !
Awesome submission! A great concept and execution on the theme. I love the little frogs!
The concept is awesome, I love the art style. The goofy walking animation of the green frog makes me laugh every time I keep staring at it. I had one bug though, my brown frog doubled for some reason. I also wish there was a button or option to restart the loop of the green frog without overriding it.
Great puzzle game, levels are so fun, and it is also very challenging when thinking how to plan the actions of the green frog. However, our Luigi (for Mario's) frog is like such a tool, maybe there can be more levels designed for the brown frog to help the Luigi frog. Well done!
It actually took me a second to understand what was going on with the green frog... but once I got it, I fell in love!
I'm a huge fan of strategy/puzzle games that involve time and control. This mechanic completely nails that!
Not sure I have much criticism or feedback. The art style is solid and cute. The button mechanics and accompanying sound design works.
one of the best time loop puzzles I've tried so far. Absolute fantastic! Love how you incorporated the frogs! Love the art style! My only problem is that there is no music sadly and sometimes the replay isn't accurate. But I understand that creating an accurate time loop could be really hard. I also did it in my game and I have the same bug as you. Other than that, puzzle level design is well crafted. Good job!
Cool game! Fun puzzles and game design. The art style is also really nice! good job.
I like the cute graphics. Really clean looking.
I also like the sounds the frogs make, especially when they die.
A few times I ran into a bug where the green frog's actions didn't follow what I did exactly - I wasn't able to tell why. Must be a discrepancy somewhere between how the frog responds to your inputs versus the saved inputs. Only happened now and then, though, so not that big a deal.
Nice take on the "looping actions" mechanic, and great work overall.
Wow, really good! I like your pixelart style, the concept is great. I just had one problem in the level, where you have to move right over three burners. I setup the loop with green, but when i mounted green i kept dying. only after letting the loop play out once it worked. Maybe its just a little unclear what was recorded and what wasnt. I thought dying would reset the loop. Everything else seemed flawless :D
Really clean execution on the concept here! The only problem I ran into was having my frog seemingly desync from the path I had laid out? Not sure what happened there, but redoing the loop seemed to fix it.
Hey there @garys :) Great to see you back with a new game. I remember having a lot of fun with 'For Duck's Sake' earlier this year. Let's see... awesome pixel art, a fun and absurd premise and awesome frog sound effects. Check! I've played a lot of games with this kind of core game play concept this jam and am already a little burned out, I'm afraid. Your's at least kept me interested with the love of detail regarding the level design and the characters. Definitely the best of those I've played so far. The controls were snappy and responsive and the levels weren't too frustrating (at least to the point I played it). This game could really use some funky soundtrack to go along with it :) Maybe you can find some musician next time.
all in all another great entry. Keep it up!
This is a great game. The puzzles were well designed and I really liked the looping mechanic. One thing I didn't like was that on the jet flame traps, the brown frog was killed by touching them even if they were being disabled by the green frog. My expectations were that once disabled, the entire thing was harmless.
Awesome submission! Really cool puzzle mechanics. A bit difficult to get used to it first, but when you understand it, its very interesting to play. Graphics is amazing. Frog sound effects are top notch! Best game I played on this LD so far :D
oooh, this is such a fun game :D
While confusing at first (is any mechanic introduced this LD not confusing?), I really loved the creative way to rethink a puzzle platformer! Once you get the jist, it is an extremely fun, enjoyable and rewarding ride! What I particularly loved was the death sound of frog_green :D One thing I'd have to nitpick is that the hurtbox of the firethrower is disabled a bit later than the animation implies, which makes the level with the line of them a tad bit frustrating (I personally went with the slow route for that level for that very reason). Other than that though, I really feel this is on the level of an actual demo, not just a jam game. Thank you for bringing us this game u_u.
Finally my dream fantasy of being able to play Frog and Toad in a game lol.
From a high concept point of view I loved this game. A pair of frog friends where one is relatively useless, and another one who can casually time travel and jump much higher. Sooooo good. In fact it's pretty unique cuz most games try to have both characters be somewhat powerful in their own right, but here Brown just mooches haha.
Like @duke said, there's quite a bit of entries like this this LD, but your overall execution does make it stand out and made me not feel theme fatigue here. Even the tutorial was presented very well and in line with the world.
The art is nice. The idea is unique and the sound feels good. Great game
Really good game! I love how you put a spin on the most overused mechanic in this jam by having the looping and not looping characters interact! The later levels started to be more about timing and reaction rather than puzzles. Only thing I didn't like was the final level. How was I supposed to guess you could double jump on fire? I thought the solution was going to be something clever that I had missed that could bring the brown frog to the green frog, but nope, just jump straight into the main hazard the game has been telling you to avoid. :neutral_face:
Gameplay aside, the game is also very polished. The graphics are superb, and the audio is so funny, I kept making the frogs die on purpose and it was hilarious!
Very original concept and approach to the theme. :) Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this. Top notch game with fantastic gameplay, graphics and audio, feels very finished to me! Solid entry.
Great graphics and nice to have controller support. Gave up on the flame corridor but very nice puzzle game.
Really fun game to play, and really well made ! Nice job ! I like the graphics and the mechanics is simple yet effective :) that silly sound when frogs get burnt made me laugh a bunch of time xD
Great game, orignal and easy to aboard!
I've seen this concept before but the game was really good. I like the graphics and the audio. Good job!
The graphics and the main idea is wonderful. I had some hard time for coordinating the frogs, because they take up more space when the brown one is on the green one. But in general was a fun game and different from all the looping games :smile:
Sometimes, green frog do not repeat the same path, but otherwise is it a cool game ! (I liked the sounds of frogs)
Awesome core mechanic with the green frog.
· There's a bug that causes the green frog not to do exactly the same and is a bit frustrating, but totally understandable.
· I liked the frog animations, and it was a fun experience.
Good job!
Very nice entry, this is a good concept idea well executed with nice art and audio. Really like the mood!
(Thanks for the AZERT layout support :thumbsup:)
First of all the graphics are amazing. I love these amphibians! I don't know if it supposed to be a nod to the Frog and Toad books but that is totally what it reminds me of. The controls are intuitive and the concept is super clever! What a great entry! Great job :)
Loved the graphics of this game, the concept is amazing as well, and super theme related
I think there is a bug tho with the loop thing of the green frog. Sometimes it doesn't make exactly the same movements, and that can cause the green frog to die in the repetition but not in the original try.
(Also cool banner)
Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed our hard work. We weren't sure how it was going to play, it all came together in the last hour or so. Such is crunch time. The loop bug is a known issue that unfortunately made the cut.
@sophiemae0 I've never heard of the Frog and Toad books but I can see the similarity. :)
Heyo, I played your game on stream! Here's the vod if you wanna rewatch; https://www.twitch.tv/videos/765804766
Thanks for submitting your game!
Awesome idea, and loved the froggy theme. The art is super nice! I got annoyed with the green frog loop bug not being exactly the same, I was stuck in the 3rd level cause if was always hitting the flames in the loop :(. Was fun tho!
Got stuck in one of the levels because several times in a row, the green frog wasn't matching the pattern I gave him like, at all. Not sure what # it was, but it was the level with three 'permanent' buttons (the second of which, you have to reset to get out of the room with it). I couldn't get the brown frog out of the first room because whenever I wasn't controlling green, green would fail to make the jump out of the room.
I was also slightly confused by the banner at first; I thought it was an extension of the gameplay window because they're so close. Maybe some slight space or a border would help separate them?
Really liked the theme/idea though, and it's very visually appealing.
Cool pixelart. Funny Spune effect. hehe Remember The Lost Vikings. Good Job
Really clever take on the theme and super cool mechanic. Looks fantastic as well, amazing job!
As I said in the stream, double jump felt a bit weird and I wish there a music! All in all, everything was perfect! Solid entry.
WOW what a game well done! the idea already exists, but you managed to redesign it, it was very good, great graphics (I loved the green frog walking) and the sounds are very well done too. congratulations!
Another take on ghost/follower entity platformer based on timeloops and another unique execution of it :) Found the jumping mechanics to be a little bit too tricky to my taste, but it may be just me. Level design executed very well and simple, so no big spikes in difficulty. Would love to see more variations of the levels itself (other backgronds etc) but de to Jam time it's understandable. Very good entry and the job well done!
Such an unordinary mechanics! It reminded be Braid. It's very inventive distribution of roles: one frog is light and bouncy while the other is fat and clumsy
I had a lot of fun playing this, good job! I would play more levels if they are added someday.
(very liked sound effects by the way ;D)
Very interesting core mechanic, really well integrated in the level design. Well done!
I like this one, really cleverly executed idea (with some nice art). It has a feel of an old game in some way. I've completed all levels, although the one with multiple lasers in a chain was a nightmare XD
Was a really fun game. Only thing that got to me was it freezing sometimes and making my yellow frog rush into fires when I need to be very precise and careful, but maybe that was a problem on my end (with my over-heated PC)
I was really laughing with their wails when they died also :joy:
Lovely pixel art (I really like those glittery teleporters!) and a nice take on the recording mechanic. Without spoiling anything, I love the reveal at the end, it's really cool when games do that! Congrats on making a solid puzzle game for LD, I think good puzzle games are one of the hardest things to make in an LD timeframe. Thanks for the game!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/764573572?t=00h26m30s
@skyeward Thanks for streaming our game. It's very helpful to see how players respond.
One of the best games I've played this jam. Very polished controls-, graphics-, and level design wise. The two frogs are hilarious too! 5/5!
fun game mechanic. the art and sfx are pretty great too.
I wish there was a way to restart the loop earlier, because sometimes I miss the window and have to wait the end of loop.
Ohhh I love these froggies
I also love these froggies
Great puzzle game. love the froggie animations
@zeu31 We tried to keep the levels small so there wouldn't be a need to wait too long. Unfortunately, we didn't get enough time to playtest the levels. They could do with a bit tweaking. Thanks for playing.
Nicely done, well animated and no issues, except that the last level uses what feels like an exploit to me, being able to double jump because you hit the ceiling...? Other than that, very decent entry!
I love it. The graphics are amazing. The animations are polished and smooth. I like the arcade-style of the buttons. The mechanics are great, original but simple and understandable. It fits the theme. Overall: 5 stars.
Great game! I liked it. :) Good job!
I love the idea of this! I got stuck and wasn't able to finish it, but I enjoyed playing until then. The pixel-art graphics are good quality, and the puzzles generally manage to be challenging and engaging without being overly-frustrating. While the lack of music is a bit disappointing, it's understandable, and the sound effects make up for it by being very charming. Good job! I'd like to see an expanded/polished version of this!
Nice work! There have been multiple platformers with the same basic design as this, but nothing has had these challenges and obstacles! Plus no one ever thought to use frogs.
Pretty good and fun puzzle game I really enjoyed it <3
Charming game that requires some thinking to get through. The concept of one looping and one non-looping protagonist works great. There is just the right amount of levels for it not to get boring. :frog:
I was a bit lost at times with when to jump on the back of the green frog but it did give that extra layer of gameplay that I enjoyed. Jumping over fires sometimes got me on edge a bit (I'm not a big platformer gamer). But I do think it all works quite well together :D! Nicely done. Cool concept.
I love the idea of this! Pretty good and fun puzzle game. One of the best games I’ve played this jam.
Really interesting game, nice work!
Cool platformer you have here. Somethimes the green frog did not follow his patern but it was a lot of fun!
I loved it! The idea is really cool and fits the theme perfectly. The design of the puzzles is awesome! I didn't feel frustrated at any point but I had fun completing them (and I'm not a puzzle game fun, tbh). The art is gorgeous and the sound works perfectly, and I found the frogs' animations and sounds really funny hahaha.
LoopFrog, I love it. The game mechanic was fun once you got used to it, and the unique idea for this challenge was fun too see.
Very cool game! I really like the level design and game mechanic! Nice work!
What's there to say? Awesome concept. Awesome graphics. Very fun to play. And a lot of levels. An awesome experience. (:
Nice graphics and sound effects coming together to make a some very cute frogs
Fun puzzle game! It was cool to collaborate with myself on some levels. [Seems like we were on similar pages for the theme this jam :wink:](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/echoes-of-ouroboros)
Great puzzle game good work. The tutorial is solid and well presented and it's a good unique take on the theme. I felt like you balanced challenge without having it too easy or frustrating. Good stuff.
super clever, and well executed! some of the levels felt a bit long (restarting the green frog from the start just to add something at the end became a bit of a chore sometimes), but overall is was super good!!!
I absolutely loved the characters, and the mechanic that makes your frogs have to ride one another while having different capabilities was fantastic. I would love to see more leves with these guys!
I like the mechanics! The graphics are great, the soundtrack is also good. It's a fun game, great job!
Really found this game very fun to play! It popped up as a recommended game when I was rating games on my twitch stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/775822276
good game bro
Great idea in the game, it didn't take very long to get how I'm supposed to progress. Really good clean graphics and super cute frogs :smile:
The hop-sounds were a little "noisy", if you get what I mean. They sounded a little low quality recording like they were coming from an old phone. They were perfectly functional, just felt like a little bit of a bad fit for the rest of the game, when everything else was so polished.
I also somehow confused the buttons several times, but that's more on me than the game
Really happy to have played this :smile:
@hunttis lol yeah, the frog sounds were just me and my daughter croaking into a headset and no sound software to lower the volume or clean it up. Thanks for the feedback.
Very good game design. It took a bit time to understand the mechanic, but once I did, I enjoy a lot the puzzles. The Level design is very clever. And the frogs are cute. And there's many possibilities! The level with all the blue flames to switch off with the green frog make the synchronisation difficult, but very interesting. Only the sound is a bit rough and boring after a while. Otherwise, good job you two!!!
I literally saw every Twitch streamer of Ludum Dare playing your game hahahaha
fantastic! my only issue is having the platforming elements. I think it should be just a puzzle game IMO especially if this ever made it to mobile :)
great job otherwise!
It is a very creative game, and an excellent interpretation of the theme. I like the graphics and the sound in general. The gameplay is very unique and different. The controls are precise, as well as the main mechanics of performing actions among the frogs. I see a lot of potential in your idea, and I hope you will consider making an expanded and commercial version of your game. Good job.
this game is awesome! I love the idea of one character being in a loop, and the other not, and using that to solve puzzles. The jump height difference between the two is another great layer of complexity.
the platforming (particularly jumping over tall fire) was a bit challenging/frustrating to me, and I really really didn't care the sound effects of jumping, for some reason they made me feel pretty uncomfortable.
Is there a way to restart/reset a level? I couldn't figure out any way to, which was also kind of frustrating.
Overall, great job, your idea was awesome and your execution was was solid, just some nitpicks / user friendly things.