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Frog Finding 101's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Controls | #2 | 4.111 | 4.111 |
| Accessibility | #3 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Fun | #7 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.488 | 3.488 |
| Audio | #17 | 3.472 | 3.472 |
| Originality | #22 | 3.639 | 3.639 |
| Graphics | #35 | 3.028 | 3.028 |
| Theme | #62 | 2.778 | 2.778 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Yeah it is good. It is made by https://jdsherbert.itch.io/minigame-music-pack . you should check it out if you like it because there are a lot more good ones
Thanks for playing. I am not an artist so I lean heavily on simple art and try not to get too hung up on it. I can only focus on so much as a solo dev.
You are absolutely right the wild card is more relevant than the theme and that is 110% intentional. 1) Two of the wild cards were suggestions I had the won the vote so I wanted to heavily use them. With this I find GWJ wild cards typically more interesting than just the theme as it requires working around more constraints. 2) I didn't want to make just another game set on a train like I knew most entries would be. 3) Using the word "teach" of "train" was intentional as well. I original had the type saying "train" but it didn't flow as nicely and felt very forced. I decided on more natural language. The original concept was more focused on a book/training guide but after I did the art and they looked like chalk drawings I figured I would lean more heavily on that concept and go with a chalkboard/classroom style theme.
The connection to the theme is that it is a class on learning to catch frogs, so essentially training you. As for music, I try not to spend too much time on it as its not the core aspect of the game. I try to just find some background music to fit the theme and keep it to that. I would rather focus on the game loop than having a large soundtrack.
Thanks for playing and I hope you enjoyed it!
Cool game! Congrats on delivering with so much content.
I got confused when I saw the red and blue bushes because I thought that the boy couldn't get hurt by the pink bushes and vice versa.
Also, I think I found an unexpected solution to this level:
Is this game about "training", is that how your game fits the theme?
There are actually multiple solutions to the puzzles mostly unintentional though I couldn't test for everything. Part of the fun is finding ways to solve the puzzle and I like the solutions people come up with.
As for the theme yeah the idea is its a class/training on how to be a frog finder. It is a stretch I know but I really wanted to use the frog and companion wild cards as much as possible and this is what I came up with. I had the idea for a puzzle game about finding frogs and worked in the idea of it being a lesson towards the end.
283 days ago(+1)
Yeah the characters merging isn't supposed to happen. I thought I tracked down all the bugs causing it but you found one. Nice job! :)
Thank you for playing and I hope you enjoyed it
283 days ago(+1)
Yeah the mushroom is my least favorite as well which is why I avoided using it as much as possible outside of a few levels. The problem with the puzzle design is it felt very limiting in what I could make due concept that both characters move. The mushroom inverting one allowed more interesting, but complicated, puzzle design. As I got better at making puzzles though I found other ways around it. I had a few more puzzles but didn't include them to keep the game a good time length. After the jam I plan on publishing a full version.
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