oxxar 2020-10-05 22:28
Haha, great voice acting and music.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Lily Pad Drifters
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 780 | 3.51 | 64 | |
| Fun | 569 | 3.54 | 63 | |
| Innovation | 604 | 3.50 | 64 | |
| Theme | 835 | 3.59 | 64 | |
| Graphics | 859 | 3.48 | 64 | |
| Audio | 241 | 3.85 | 63 | |
| Humor | 158 | 3.80 | 64 | |
| Mood | 753 | 3.44 | 62 |
Haha, great voice acting and music.
Fun game! Simple controls and challenging gameplay. great graphics and audio. Thanks for sharing!
The mechanic of the game was fun. I wish the lily pods were more spread out so that I had more freedom to move around in the screen. I couldn't understand what was causing my frog to get poisoned, but overall the game mechanic was solid and fun!
Good game, interesting movement mechanic. Seemed fun although I kept dying and didn't understand why.
I'm not sure I understand the game. I'm supposed to keep moving and eat flies, but it seems like eating flies hurts me because after I hit a few of them I die? But also not eating flies eventually kills me too? The general idea is interesting and the drifting is relatively fun but I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to do because everything eventually kills me.
Loved it! Would totally play that on my phone!
Simple controls but very fun nonetheless! It was just challenging enough to keep me engaged but still hard enough that I wasnt able to win. XD
Nice and simple, yet the frog's life is hard. By the way, am I dying because of lack of nutritious components in my body or because of spinning around so much? :D
That was an interesting concept. fun to play and great looking art and nice music and effects. Only thing that was a bit confusing was the direction that the frogs goes when I released. Since the lily pad is spinning I expect the frog to go in the direction of the spin, but it goes in the direction the frog was facing. I guess it was done so since you can grab on to any part of the leaf and it would make it difficult to launch in the spin direction. So, it's not that bad, just something that I noticed that was a little confusing. Other than that it was really fun to play.
Didn't understand rules, but looks and plays great otherwise.
nice and fun, love the audio!
Neat game! It was pretty challenging to play. I like the art and the gameplay a lot. I know the voices were intended as humor and as the frogs making fun where you had to win the girl's heart, but the discouraging voices almost taunted me as I kept dying lol. Otherwise this was a fun and unique gem of a game and a great entry!
Thanks for the feedback so far. I ended up taking out the mechanic that kills you if you drift too long, that should make the game a lot easier to understand!
Super cute game! Definitely had a steep learning curve, but it was super satisfying after you mastered it :)
Tough game but super fun. I love all the lil froggies! I was pleasantly surprised by the ambient dialogue, it really added to the atmosphere and setting!!
my poor frogge
First of all, 10/10 splash screen.
Second, I know a classic PS1 Frogger death animation and sound when I see/hear one, nice touch. :wink:
Third, I really like this game. It's a classic "simple to learn hard to master" concept, and while it took me a bit to get to grips with the controls, once I was able to understand them I was dartin' across the lily pads and catchin' flies like a pro.
I only got a chance to check out the first two levels, but I'm definitely making a note to come back to this one.
XD Great audio preview, love this, mechanics are very interesting, enjoyed playing this
Simple controls, kinda weird though. Its really hard to catch flies at the beginning.
This game is a surprisingly addictive. The starvation(?) mechanic was a bit confusing to figure out. I know many people have said something about it already. But, I think if it had a visual representation (like a bar) it would make for a good alternative mode. Additionally, a lot of insects like to spawn outside my reach. However, I think this game would be fun to play on mobile.
I enjoyed this way more than I thought I would on first blush. That music's incredible.
A few things that could really take this over the top: - This may be happening already, but it'd be nice if the bug spawning patterns varied per level - Some kind of indicator of how much time you have left without eating (draining colour from the frog, maybe?). I found myself staring at the timer a lot, doing quick math to see how long I had left - It felt super awkward launching myself when the frog would spin in reverse, but I don't have any helpful suggestions here.
I absolutely lost it when my frog exploded into a mess of blood. Simple and addicting, nice work
The idea is good and fits the theme well. I wish there was an easy mode because it's very difficult :frog:
I liked your game a lot. It is simple to learn, hard to master. The best games use that concept :-) I can't really see where the theme is, do the levels loop around?
I missed the audio queues though, I think it adds a lot to a game like this. The graphics are solid though.
Two things I didn't really understand: Why is there sometimes a textbaloon appearing at the frogs in the left top corner? And what do the hearts mean?
I had fun playing your game, well done!
Edit: I did not read your description properly, sorry for that. the objective is clear now :-) I have to win the girl frog and the hearts are an indicator of how far I've come/
I spent way too much time playing your game just to finish it (which i did u_u) :D It's net, Art is a litle bit incoherent, like pixel art and vector art, and i've the feeling that it's usually safer to just stay in a good spot. But it's a good start and it could become a fun mobile game.
@namnam Nice! Yeah, I originally had a mechanic that forced you to keep moving around but ended up taking it out in an effort to make the game easier to play and understand.
@mike09123 I revisited your game because sound in my browser was broken. I re-reviewed you audio rating :-) I liked it a lot! Also, the audio queues sound like the belong in the game. Well done sir!
I was in laughter at the splashscreen :laughing: A fun and addicting game ! Well done!
Really funny light hearted game that had really fitting music and graphics. Great voice acting, I also wanna be this frog.
Found this game to be incredibly charming and addicting for such as simple concept. Want to echo that this feels like it has the potential to be a successful mobile game!
My only real issue was in the first level - it seems your flies spawn pretty much at random, so I had a couple attempts where very few flies came within the reach of the lilypads.
I'm super bad at this game, but it is amazing!!! hahahaha it has been super hard that the lilipads move counterclockwise for me, this could be a setting maybe? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: really liked a lot, specially all the voice effects (starting with the first screen)!! good job :smile:
The sound was hilarious :laughing: I found the best strategy is just to stay in place and let the flies come to me :sweat_smile: :grin::thumbsup:
Neat mechanic! I did struggle a bit in the first level with wanting to dive way off screen because there were so many flies outside of the zone with pads, but definitely a lot of good stuff going on here! Nice entry!
My biggest criticism would probably be what others above have said about adding in more incentive to move. I found that I could beat some levels with like a 50% chance by just not moving
Nice one!
The game is beautiful, with so many cool details like the fishes or lily pads changing color randomly when you restart. The music is bangers.
The mechanic is smart but has a few issues. The jumping direction felt weird, and it was more than often optimal just to not do anything. I won level 4 by not touching anything and level 5 with one jump. The level progression with a bit of story is nice.
Small bug : you can touch the kill zone and die while hanging to the rightmost lily pad on level 2.
Thanks for the game 💕
@doot Thanks for the feedback! Originally I uploaded the game with a mechanic that kills you if you don't move after a while. I didn't have any feedback for "why" you died other than a snippet on the home screen saying that you have to keep moving. The first ~10ish reviews kept saying they had no idea why they were dying, then I took it out. Easy to game the system that way but at least people are beating the levels :D
The game is pretty fun without the "stay in place, you die" mechanics but I think you should say on the page that you removed this from the game: in my opinion it changes quite dramatically the feeling of the game as it should have been quite a frustrating mechanic to deal with.
About the game, using hearts for the number of level you cleared is weird (even if I get what they represent): I was wondering why my 5 lives were never used and why I was dying instantly (understood it after finishing level 1 tho) and I agree with comments saying that the intuitive throw of the frog would be to continue from the spinning movement instead of her direction but I got used to it.
Overall, the game is hard but fun once you get used to the throw, I love the humour of the game and the audio (both voice acting and background music)
Absolutely solid presentation and gameplay. One thing that's a bit annoying in some of the smaller levels is that groups of flies can spawn outside the catchable are which can screw you over.
loved the use of the theme. very clever.it is very hard, i think there should be more pads to land on. would also be better it it automatically attached when you hit the other pad you land on. thanks for making the game.
You really did it, you really did make me want to impress frog waifu. Congrats!
The implementation of the theme is genius, the gameplay is fun and feels fair, the VO is funny... I don't want to like this game as much as I do... but I still do. It's just too enjoyable!
I like your idea which is fun. When I try to catch flies frog died. Somehow I press the button two times fastly than I make frog move a litte bit its circle and it has changed its place and move to another circle. Than again while I was trying to move more frog died because of hunger. Overall i liked your game and tried to use all skills of the frog.