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POND SWARM

By Macron, Lisek Gagatek and pierogo

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1313.9027
Fun364.0927
Innovation3713.2827
Theme3923.6827
Graphics2094.0827
Audio1973.6427
Humor1783.5426
Mood4123.5227

Comments

tearei 2025-10-07 13:29

I can't believe you did this in 3 days, that's really cool.

iriska 2025-10-07 13:35

OMG! I definitely enjoyed this! I'd even love to play a full-release version of this game! πŸ’œ ⭐ πŸ’œ

madcat92 2025-10-07 17:57

Chrome says there's a virus inside, and deletes it right away( We had the same problem when we added a shortcut with an icon to the archive.

lisek-gagatek 2025-10-08 20:24

@madcat92 Thanks for pointing this out. I believe it might be caused by embedding game's pck inside the exe file (from what I've read). I've change it and hopefully chrome will allow this for others to download without hassle.

zedgame 2025-10-10 19:22

Beautiful audio + visuals and satisfying gameplay!

staticrose 2025-10-10 19:25

Actually prett nice mechanics. I wish it was a bit easier to interact with the cards. But love the variety of all the different frogs! Very cool.

bumble 2025-10-10 19:31

This game is real fun! The ability to upgrade cards by collecting a lot of them is a nice twist on the jam topic.

And I really like the animation when you pick up a new card!

thadev 2025-10-10 19:32

Wow! That is a crazy amount of work, and very well done too, it's a really good game loop and could definitely become something big. It makes me thing a lot of those mobile cow merging games where it could just go on and on forever. The art is extremely cool and funky and the music and the vibe fits well. Props to you for being able to make this!

alexandra-suprunovskaya 2025-10-10 19:33

The frogs are cute, and the animation is great too The graphics are top-notch! The frog jumps adorably, I love frogs 😍 Unfortunately, you can’t collect the items that drop from the frogs because enemies start surrounding you (

matimoo 2025-10-10 19:37

Wow the card menu is awesome! The animations really sell it. Good job!

borealteuthidia 2025-10-10 19:41

Such an amazing game for being made in 3 days!! I really enjoyed playing it! I had a problem where my browser kept kicking me out of the game and then I'd die before I could get back in but what I could play was really cool and really impressive!!

topteddy 2025-10-10 19:56

Great assortment of frogs, but hits lack impact.

keith-wang 2025-10-10 22:09

That's quite some work in three days, the cards are even in 3D. Gameplay wise there are a huge amount of enemies and equipment. Probably one of the most completed roguelike Ive seen in LD.

helicule 2025-10-12 20:27

Had a ton of fun playing this! Bonus points for allowing players to remap the controls, as an azerty gamer I really appreciate that kind of detail :) Huge fan of the froggy's design and the catchy music, congrats!

pierogo 2025-10-12 20:34

@helicule me and @lisek-gagatek are Colemak gamers so we understand the struggle! :sweat_smile: and thank you for the kind words!

longfall 2025-10-15 21:56

Great take on the "survivor" genre, mixing both automatic "weapons" and manual one ! Nice graphics and cards effects, a bit frustrating to be able to equip only 6 at a time haha

mr-mesmer 2025-10-15 23:06

It is a stable game with nice progression system. I have some advices to improve:

1. Now all enemies move to current player position. You can make half of them move random, and it will be cooler, because player cannot move circle around mob stack. 2. I think, you can reduce enemies hp 2 or 3 times, because player want annigilate map. Now it is slow, I think 3. Jumping is cool! But I see lake with water lily and my litteraly first action in game - try to jump on it. It will be cool, if you add this mechanic 4. Maybe will be better, if frog can hook cards like it hook fly.

Overall, I like setting, I like movement and jumping in this game. Found it in danger feedback zone, seems undeservedly

sangheli 2025-10-21 02:18

Nice visuals, though I thought I’d be catching insects.

wormkingboo 2025-10-23 17:39

I feel like this might be my favorite game so far! The art is so good - very cute, unique, readable, and there's a ton of variety between the frogs. It gave me Cult of the Lamb vibes in the best way possible. I also loved the pacing and the difficulty scaling. Just enough time to get used to moving around and gather a couple upgrades before things really start to heat up. I replayed several times just to see what other frog types I could find. Really enjoyable game, great work!!

treenut 2025-10-24 11:42

super cute style, the music was also super hype. really liked the upgrade system and being able to swap out cards for a better build, that's rare in this genre. though i wish the stash was a little larger to keep more of the duplicates for upgrades, it's very hard to make a specific build otherwise. lovely game