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Frogi

By jemh2k

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1633.5340
Fun2143.1840
Innovation2862.6940
Theme1623.6340
Graphics893.9040
Audio713.6740
Humor1942.7936
Mood493.9340

Comments

daflamingpotato 2024-10-06 23:36

nice, really like the art in this!

custodi 2024-10-07 00:13

Simple and NOT relaxing game) I like how dithering was used here. Too slow pointer for me, i pushed my buttons hardly

guadalupe-murgo 2024-10-07 00:19

It is a very relaxing game, I liked the music :)

rickylee 2024-10-07 00:47

lovely game :) i eated everything too

tad-i-guess 2024-10-07 04:17

Very nice! Really love the art, and the sounds come together to give it a nice mood.

oldtoadpower 2024-10-07 05:34

I'm a toad, I love frogs)

diabolical-sloth 2024-10-07 10:56

love the music and the background art is genuinely beautiful. I wish I could see what my score was so I could go again and try and beat it :)

#teamrelaxing

jemh2k 2024-10-07 12:03

@diabolical-sloth glad you liked it ! If you go back to the main menu after dying, it should appear underneath the title :)

sviborg 2024-10-07 12:19

😢

ellaris 2024-10-07 13:58

Nice game, the arrow rotated too slow, even when I got used to it and kept snatching everything up it was still frustrating, couldn't relax because of the arrow speed. I really liked catching prey on the tongues way back, maybe it would be worth to experiment with a hooked tongue (at least on the way back). The flies spawning on the sides felt unfair as they were way closer to the player and required more movement.

someoneman 2024-10-07 16:57

At first I was annoyed by how slow the aiming was, but I think it was an intentional choice to force you to think about where to aim, and it fits the relaxed mood. I got 135 points and I don't think I ever had a situation where I couldn't hit all the bugs because of the slow aiming speed.

skaaaza 2024-10-07 17:29

Nice graphic and good mood :)

meep 2024-10-07 19:51

The dithering on those hills are *chef's kiss*!

frastarlaw 2024-10-07 21:16

I wish that eating enough would give you some extra lives back, so I could eat more :D

digitalwizard 2024-10-08 00:17

Addictive and simple, a perfect LD game. Well done! Easy to play, hard to master.

eric-shaun 2024-10-08 00:20

Easy, uncomplicated and sorta relaxing :grin: The Music is definitely ethereal chill - love the background art and the frog ribbit is spot on :v:

webzsta 2024-10-08 00:21

I really love the art style and the use of the dithering effect! However, like someone else mentioned, the slow cursor didn’t feel quite right for me.

timhugh 2024-10-08 00:21

Love the art style! Fresh take on an old concept, and the sounds fit the mood. Nicely done

crygos 2024-10-08 00:29

Fun little game. I really like the pixel art and I did not realize that there was music until I read a comment about it. It just fits very well. Nicely done!

erik-tate 2024-10-08 00:43

Frog gang! :frog: I got really in the zone and ended up with a score of 160 on my first play through :smile: The music was super zen and I liked the minimalist art style. The arrow was _almost_ too slow, but it reminded me of Dome Keeper a bit. Great job!

flipsy 2024-10-08 01:20

I love the little scroll down intro and the graphics. Sound and music work well. The slowness of the controls make it very unforgiving, I think speeding it up a little would of made it more enjoyable for me personally but appreciate it was likely a deliberate decision. Embedded version played fine for me. I liked catching the pesky drones Great job!

olddog 2024-10-08 03:58

love this game art and playing so much!!! it is simple but interesting,,wish for more content to play

velvetlobster 2024-10-08 11:52

No, this is pretty straightforward, quite nice actually, even pretty relaxing. It took me a while to figure out why I kept dying. I hadn't noticed that the dragonflies release something to harm you. I particularly enjoyed the music and the soundscape.

sebbernery 2024-10-08 16:51

Great arts, the music and the graphics gives a good mood to the game. It's also well polished with animation / transitions. Congratulations !

kirass 2024-10-08 17:42

I really liked this game! It's awesome!

asfdfdfd 2024-10-08 21:03

Nice relaxing game with great artstyle!

rincs 2024-10-09 17:39

Now THIS is a Zen game the IS zen with a little bit of challenge. I love it. Thanks for making this game!!!

tonyglaze 2024-10-09 20:55

So fun and relaxing game. So pretty and I will sleep to this music

coltonphillips 2024-10-10 04:40

The art is delicious. I simply must know how you made the dithering pixel art, the effect is amazing.

ansible 2024-10-10 17:59

The intro is sublime! Lost in the clouds and hills forgot the game. Complementary audio and sfx, all together is an extremely clean design!

As with others, the pointer felt a bit tight even though you do settle into it more as you play on.

wouter52 2024-10-10 18:01

I was curious what your game would be like :innocent: And I'm happily surprised! Love your game! Its very relaxing. The opening I said out loud: "oh wouw, dat paralax though!" I thought that was epic ;p

I remember thinking: this game reminds me of paratrooper (that old DOS game from back in the day). And then the crickets(?) came along by with their projectiles :grin:

Really well done! Love the graphics. With little details like the eyes of the frog blinking asynchronously and the background music is a delight

absolute-garbage 2024-10-10 18:36

I love this art and music, simple but very nostalgic. Love this even more because it reminds me of gold miner, one of my favorite game from childhood. And the first complete game I ever made myself was also a gold miner tutorial!

ithildin 2024-10-10 19:16

Nice entry :)

I may not add anything new, here but I liked the graphics (the intro in particular does a great job at immersing you in the pond scenery!) and the music track. It was lulling, and didn't get repetitive at all as it tends to be the case sometimes in short games you can replay multiple times in a row.

Gameplay was simple, but well executed except for the tongue rotation speed, where I agree with other reviewers that it was a bit too slow. Given the speed of some of the bugs there were cases where it wasn't possible to arrive from the last one's position, and that felt unfair, running counter to the overall chill vibes. On the plus side, I appreciated the generous collision detection, so you could still grab some bugs without perfect accuracy.

A great example of what a good compo entry can achieve. Congrats!

PS: 62 points has been my highest score so far.

togis 2024-10-10 20:25

Relaxing indeed! :) The music really helps to set the mood, if it was with a higher bpm and different instrument, this game could be super stressful without changing the gameplay at all, this shows how important setting the tone is!

I didn't have any issue with the embedded version on this ld page, in case you wonder if it is still an issue.

Great job for a compo! I was impressed by the sliding background at the beginning of the game.

keithswanger 2024-10-10 20:32

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Super cozy pixel art and music! I really enjoyed playing. My tongue stopped working when I got hit though, I'm not sure why! So here's my score with 1 life xD

nadia-pixel 2024-10-13 13:54

that is actually very difficult and fun!