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A jam submission

Little Big Mode 🐸View game page

top-down unit management arena froge-like
Submitted by RDPolarity (@rdpolarity), Quarks404, T0meo — 10 hours, 44 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#873.5803.580
Presentation (graphics, audio)#1403.6803.680
Theme#1753.3603.360
Originality#2303.1403.140

Ranked from 50 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent Mode?
biggie b. biggerson having big mode modes in the big mode 'mode' gamejam. AKA Play as biggie and swap between different spawn modes using the 1,2 and 3 keys.

Made in 6 days @.@ (of no sleep)

__CONTROLS__

WASD - Move
LEFT CLICK / SHIFT - Eat fly (if in radius)
1 - Soldier mode
2 - Archer mode
3 - Bomber mode
SPACE - Spawn freg

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Submitted(+1)

Very fun game! Love the pixel art style and the chill music! Very well put together game jam game! A++

Developer

Thanks for playing homie <3 I'll make sure to check out yours, Been a little busy with work. 

Submitted(+1)

Great art, the mechanics can be polished up.

Developer

Appreciate it my guy ^^ <3 God you should have seen what it was like before I did last minute polishes haha

Submitted

Last minute polish™ is where it's at.

Submitted(+1)

I am bad at this but I had a lot of fun :heart: :heart: :heart:

Developer(+1)

I'm sure you're frog-coded. mr. Valve himself. Thanks for playing ^^

Submitted(+1)

Made it to round 20. The glory was great, but at what cost?

Developer(+1)

How many fregs died for your glory, was it worth the throne? 😔👊

Submitted(+1)

Wonderful job! This is an exciting game I had a lot of fun with, there was an adrenaline soaked thrill in the beginning as I had to constantly dash through the open field, dodging the enemy and building my army. Then I was able to sit back and reap the rewards, watching my army mow down a bunch of frogs. Lots of fun build options and great work overall, great work!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing <3 I was really hoping to capture the interest in building armies regardless of the gameplay.
PS. When are we adding bobby as a spawnable unit in little big mode?

Submitted

This is the collab that needs to happen for sure!

(+1)

A really good way to amass a frog army. It's not hard, but it's polished and satisfying.

Developer

Haha, I'd prefer to think you're just highly skilled. Thanks for the kind works Zaglik man

Submitted(+1)

First froge-type game I have ever played. I liked the mechanics, they felt solid. Nice graphics and sound effects too. I like the range type guys cus they stick around longer. 

Developer

Appreciate the review, very kind my guy ^^ Indeed the purple fregs are the way 🙏

Submitted(+1)

Dummy I am, I didn't even realize you could switch frog modes in the beginning! Things clicked in after I figured that out. Cute graphics and fun gameplay, though I soon found myself reigning as an unassailable frog-overlord with little challenge. Would've liked to see what more you could have added if you had more time! Great work!

Developer

<3 Thanks for playing. I am really starting to wish I put in a tutorial now, certainly should have put it higher on my list haha.

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. I always like these types of games. Balance could be adjusted. After two or three rounds you can swap to the explosion frogs and never need any of the other frogs modes. Planet also does very little as an upgrade compared to the others. I like the permanent doge idea, but I never seem to see him do much might, I might just be missing it while playing. 

Developer (2 edits)

Thanks for playing! <3 Your right, I did mega last minute balance changes on the day of submission to get it to it's current stage, but if I had time I would've:

  • Made the doge more powerful so you could build a doge army build (the doge is just a reskin of the soldier frog)
  • Added rarity to the upgrades so that you get ones like 'planet' more often and 'epic fly' less
  • Enemy types that counter certain froges like the bomber toad / explosion resistant metal toads
Submitted(+1)

Fun game. I always like these types of games. Balance could be adjusted. After two or three rounds you can swap to the explosion frogs and never need any of the other frogs modes. Planet also does very little as an upgrade compared to the others. I like the permanent doge idea, but I never seem to see him do much might, I might just be missing it while playing. 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This was super addictive and fun, I'm going to give this review the time it deserves.

- The title is clever and deserves its own point.

- The music bangs and is vibey enough that I don't wanna rip my ears off after playing for a while. Really great pick for that.

- I think the inclusion/balancing of more/existing frog modes would add a TON to this game. I can echo what the other guy said about one minion type being OP, but I'd also add that certain upgrades are also far better (extended tongue range doesn't really do much when you can just take speed instead, for example). I think this would also solve another issue, which is the mass mechanic - as far as I can tell, it's not currently worth it to try and make that balance work - expending your mass to produce summons is objectively better. But with time spent on balancing/adding other frogs, there's a good chance that could change - and it'd be worth pursuing that, because the mass is a cool mechanic.

- I'm guessing randomly generating maps took a decent amount of your dev time, but in a game like this, it's not gonna make much of an impact on the actual gameplay. Your time is (probably?) better spent just hardcoding one map.

All in all, this is one of the first entries I played that REALLY hooked me, and after being provided all the info by the game, it was really fun to try and imagine ways to stretch the limits of the game (how big or fast can I get?)

Kudos on a job well done!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! Mega appreciate this response. I'll also respond with the time it deserves! Here's a bunch of fun facts:

  • The title was based off of 'little big planet' from the PS3 days
  • Tome0 did our music while being half deaf and sick, if you like it now, imagine what he could've done if he was better!
  • The game was pulled together in 6 days, as I was in Sydney on a work trip for the first 2 weeks (rip timing)
  • I didn't actually spend that much time on the map generation (under a day), frankly due to an amazing Unity plugin called "Map Graph". All-in-all it was probably faster than doing it by hand considering each tile was 16x16 and the map was I think 500 tiles wide.
  • One of the enemy types I wanted to add was the "Mega Buster Toad" and the "Mega Dart Toad". The buster toads would explode with a large boom and destroy large parts of your army, and dart toads would shoot large bullets from a range.
    • The buster toad is good a thinning down your army is latter levels if it gets too big
    • The dart toads are good at destroying some of your bomber frogs from a distance before they explode
    • Ideally I would have added more of these 'disruptor units' to give the player a harder time, and I could've even made the spawner-ai smart by spawning more of them when you've got more frog units deployed.
  • I wanted to add rarity to upgrades, that way more powerful ones like the "fly" and "speed" upgrades would appear less frequently. They're intentionally OP... but not intentionally common haha.

There's so much more I wanted to add, I've only mentioned a few here, I wish I was in this ready state a week ago, I'm sure we all do. Again thanks so much for playing ^^ <3

Submitted

tongue range goes past the screen edges so if you get enough you can farm the screen of flies in one spot.

Submitted(+1)

Love all the little froggos! Nice graphics and music. Gameplay-wise I found there was really only one type of frog spawn that I needed and it basically made me invincible. Would’ve loved to have seen the other obstacles you mentioned, I bet they would’ve added quite a bit of challenge later on.

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I like the combination of the "vampire survivors"-esque genre and summoning an army! Took a bit to figure the controls (and didn't even know I had access to 2 more types until I came back here to vote and saw I use the number keys. Thought I just hadn't played for enough to unlock them.) Very impressive! Solid pixel art! And you got music and sound all made too! Honestly will probably come back to play this some more later.

Submitted(+1)

Neat little game here! I like the spritework and BGM, it's pretty fun!

Gonna give this a nice 7.5/10, keep up the good work!


If you could, could you also play my submission? (Frostbite Mountain by DiamondCore (itch.io)) I need some ratings lol

Submitted(+1)

The music's really nice as well as the whole esthetic! Cover art's amazing too! Bigger big biggie b. biggerson is pretty big but he's also little. I give you the big award

Submitted(+1)

The gameplay is really fun, but I was a little confused at first, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. The graphics are very nice and the music is catchy. Very good submission :)

Submitted(+1)

Super fun my max round was 14! I kinda found myself constantly playing it, It'd be cool to see more upgrades and maybe different soldiers in the future! 

Submitted(+1)

Very fun, very fast, lots of fun. Took a sec to figure out the controls but how fast it is to try again made it a blast. Big fan!

Submitted(+1)

Very neat game! Had lots of fun playing it. It took me a while to figure out how to play, I think a "how to play" screen is worth implementing eventually. Also nice graphics and sound!

Submitted(+1)

Lots of fun!

The art and presentation are good,  I enjoyed the gameplay a lot the difficulty curve was on point. your interpretation of the theme was good with the different frogs you can summon. Good music and sfx too.

Developer(+1)

The amazing Tome0 did our music, and I slapped together the SFX in the last few hours haha, always leave that stuff till last. Appreciate the kind words <3 thanks for playing.

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