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How does the game fit the theme?
You are making diplomatic and infrastructural decisions for your kingdom despite having just woke up in the body of the king... Surely, nothing can go wrong, right?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
All assets (code, art, music, sound) are created from scratch!
However - Frog character sprites and title screen background are repurposed from an abandoned personal project.
Fonts used are: Grape Soda, and Venice Classic
How many people worked on the game?1
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the name is perfect, i love the premise!
a role i never knew i needed to fill! Love it, great little visuals - love the leg kicks on the throne!
Thank you!! Yeah thought it was a fun unique concept! Glad you agree!
LOVE THE VISUALS!! Long live frog king!!!
Thank you!!! Long live, indeed! :)
Loved this one! The Frog King's leg kicking is 10/10
Thank you so much! It's my favorite part of the game for sure :P
Really good visuals and sounds design, gets repetitive pretty quickly tho
Thank you for the feedback! I completely understand that feeling and it's something that I was concerned about too. I originally scoped for there to be more variation in events (crises, random events that impact your decision making further), and different ways to interact/understand the scoring mechanisms, but ran out of time :O But I guess that's part of the process right?
I thought it was really fun, but I really didn't understand it... I like frogs though!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! If you'd like some more insight into the mechanics, all events typically provide a positive or negative impact to an individual score (food, culture, etc.) If those scores were already low (i.e. 30/100) any changes to that score would provide a bigger impact to loyalty. For example, if your food score is low, and you reduce food/gain food, the loyalty swing will be that much more powerful. And the inverse is true. Food score is high and you change the score, your peoples loyalty won't care so much, that wasn't a score that was important to them. The trick to the game is trying to glean the general status of your scores in the way your loyalty shifts as you choose events, and determine how to prioritize events that way. I recognize it as being tricky, but felt that having the scores be visible would reduce the impact of the theme.
I really liked this game! The cutscenes were great, the gameplay is fun and tricky, a stellar job!
You did so much with so little!
Super well done!
Thank you so much for the kinds words! I'm glad it seems I've struck a good balance in the difficulty!
I love how dramatic this is. Great visuals too!
Thank you so much! Finding the right tone for the visuals and audio were really tricky for me, as its something I tackled later into the work and was concerned wasn't so fleshed out as it could've been
Nice
Thank you!! :)
This game was such a banger! It was so much fun, the visuals were awesome, and i played it forever. Definitely a 10/10.
Thank you for the very positive feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed!!
I love that dramatic intro cutscene. Good job making a game solo is really difficult and you managed to make great soundtrack and graphics. Overall feels fun to play!
Thank you for the feedback! Yes, it was a fun exercise to make all the elements feel hopefully somewhat cohesive and into a fun experience!
nice game
Thank you!!
Today I learned that I would be an awful frog king
Haha! I suppose not everyone is cut out for the job :P
Good game, I really love the visuals of the game, congrats!
Thank you very much!!