Toad Warrior

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.23
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%
Toad Warrior!

You are a scientist who has been in a terrible shrink ray accident. Mount your trusty toad and set forth to find the missing uranium crystals that can bring you back home!

* Hand painted graphics
* Three challenging platformer levels
* Jungle beats

Tools:

VisualStudio, Unity3d, 2dToolkit, FruityLoops, Bfxr, As3sfxr, Photoshop, Audacity

Bacon: 12
Sandwiches: 4
Espresso shots: 8

If you spot any bugs/crashes, feel free to email them to [email protected].

Thanks for playing!

Comments36

SidetrackGames
SidetrackGames23 Apr 2012, 04:52
I like it :) A little frustrating with the pacing, but art and concept is good.
greg20man23 Apr 2012, 04:59
Looks fantastic and the audio blends seamlessly, great job.
unicornpooping23 Apr 2012, 15:59
Hard, but works really well. Good job :-)
Toast
Toast23 Apr 2012, 21:59
Really nice concept and graphics, but I wasn't as excited about the gameplay, animation or interaction. Still, this is an excellent prototype with which to make something great.
Lidfrid
Lidfrid23 Apr 2012, 22:01
very cool art work! But i can't change direction when i'm jumping on a mushrooom :(
JaJ
JaJ23 Apr 2012, 22:01
This looks amazing and the controls are very original. I got stuck behind the glowing crystals on the right of the first level, though.
piterlouis
piterlouis23 Apr 2012, 22:04
Nice concept. Ideal to phone game but with more speed in the jumps, please, are so slooow :). Graphics are wonderful!. Good work.
KevinWorkman
KevinWorkman23 Apr 2012, 22:07
Interesting idea and control scheme, but it was a little arbitrary whether a jump would result in victory or death.
dray23 Apr 2012, 22:07
Really nice game, maybe to slow so any miss jump is painful to wait. But the idea is really nice, you think about an extended version?
dr_soda
dr_soda23 Apr 2012, 22:07
These graphics are splendid. I really like your style and your music composition sense.

The game's controls though feel a bit too "outer space". I wished that the frog's jumps took less than 1/3 the time they actually do, and I found that you can get "trapped" on the mushrooms and just bounce up and down endlessly. It also would have been ideal to let the user pass through the bottoms of those leaves when they jump upwards and then land on descent.
SpaceToasterauthor23 Apr 2012, 22:13
Thanks for the feedback guys! I really appreciate it.

@JaJ - you can press 'p' or 'esc' to bring up the pause menu and retry the level or game. I did my best to clean up the physics kinks before submission but there are sill a few I couldn't fix in time :-/

@dray/piterlouis - definitely had iOS in mind.. my goal before starting the compo was to have one button/swipe controls on whatever concept I came up with. Definitely taking note of all suggestions here for a future version.
Jeremias
Jeremias23 Apr 2012, 22:17
Funny game. Here my feedback:

- the last level is hard
- second level... last mushroom... I hate you :D
- short screen flickering after level changed (level first showed and then camera and character moves)
- no pants but a cape xD
- sometimes you get on leaf and the frog stands still and after a short time, he is gliding and then you fall...
- really nice graphics
- good sounds and background drum music
Hazard
Hazard24 Apr 2012, 03:01
Great art and nice control concept. The mud pits of insta-death are incredibly annoying, though.
LukeRissacher24 Apr 2012, 07:03
Cool, really liked the art style. Re: gameplay - would be nice to speed things up, I made a lot of crappy jumps and had to wait 2-3 seconds to get control again. And would be cool to show the center point of the "rubber band" so I can gauge direction better (maybe it's the dude's "rubber band" :).
BenW25 Apr 2012, 04:12
I wish I had some sort of control while I was in the air. Getting stuck jumping endlessly was frustrating.
10WonXero1025 Apr 2012, 04:14
Nice game, a little tricky.
Would work well on mobile devices, actually you could probably charge real money for this on iTunes/Play.

My only concern: Where is the guy's pants? LOL, it disturbs me to think that there might be an uncensored version out there somewhere :)
Zamando26 Apr 2012, 08:05
Great concept, and I like the art style! A little hard to estimate how the frog jumps sometimes. Good job! :)
joshimoo28 Apr 2012, 19:45
I like the art style and sound scape, overall the experience was pretty polished. The things that need some more work are the control schemes, particularly the physics.

Got stuck multiple times, also ended up infinity jumping on a mushroom.

Overall I like it, and see potential for expansion.
Rectifier28 Apr 2012, 20:44
The character has a single scrap of fabric, which he uses to make a cape while riding a toad naked.

Glad he has his priorities straight.
Oye Beto
Oye Beto28 Apr 2012, 20:49
I couldn't beat level 1... I can't get to the green crystals :(
I'd prefer an easier level and then move to something like this.

The hand made drawings are pretty cool and I also liked the music.
AlwaysGeeky
AlwaysGeeky28 Apr 2012, 21:21
Woah... sweet graphics dude, I love the shading on your art style! :) Well done
PIXEL^328 Apr 2012, 21:56
...why is the player nude?
caranha
caranha29 Apr 2012, 16:39
Awesome graphics, and I liked the controls a lot too. The game itself is a bit too difficult - I couldn't for the life of me get up even to that first crystal :-/

Also, if you miscalculate the jump, you can get stuck in a mushroom for a long while.

Still, it is quite fun to just jump the guy around - he seems so happy in his toad :-D
moop
moop29 Apr 2012, 19:16
A fun and original game if a little frustrating at times. The hand painted graphics really make it.
Catman
Catman29 Apr 2012, 19:33
Awesome graphics and nice music. I also liked the originality of the controls, altough it gets a little hard to go where you want and you et frustrated that you cannot di anything after a jump!
summaky
summaky29 Apr 2012, 20:18
It is a little too slow for my taste, but the graphics are nicely done and the music is perfect. I didn't understood why I died when jumping on the mud, though.
derosa29 Apr 2012, 20:44
Haha, loved the hand painted art! Also the controls are perfect for a mobile device (not that I could try...). I laughed when I saw the pixelated zone of he guy :)
ericdpitts29 Apr 2012, 22:34
Really amazing artwork and graphical design, but the gameplay is a bit frustrating. Maybe allow for more precise movements, lower jumps, etc. In the second level, I could not get up on the leaves at all, I just kept jumping all the way across the level. But, if you polish up the gameplay a bit more, this would be a great game to have on my phone!
johanp
johanp30 Apr 2012, 06:12
A bit slow paced and sometime I had the feeling it didn't really jump as I intended to. But very nice graphics!
EricTheCoolDude
EricTheCoolDude30 Apr 2012, 20:27
I like the graphics, however, the inconcistant controls made it pretty frustrating.
Gornova
Gornova1 May 2012, 20:29
nice entry and timelapse shows us how much effort you put in this game (perfect for a tablet)
Tourgen1 May 2012, 23:51
That is some great looking art. Nice work. I didn't do too well at the game but it was fun.
Puzzlem00n
Puzzlem00n2 May 2012, 00:53
For me, what was really missing was a death animation.
MaximSchoemaker
MaximSchoemaker2 May 2012, 21:13
Interesting concept and very nice art ^^
Pity the controls didn't work too well for me :/ I guess it was mainly frustrating that you only had control while you were on the ground and not in the air (which makes sense of course), but because the jumping was quite slow it left you feeling very helpless when you made a wrong jump :3
jimmypaulin
jimmypaulin11 May 2012, 19:49
Superb entry! The graphics are exceptional, so polished and very funny. Intuitive controls, perhaps slightly higher gravity would be good as I got a bit frustrated waiting for my next go after a bad click. It's not quite obvious which direction it'll go in at first either. Good sound and a good difficulty curve, really good stuff thank you
Tom 7
Tom 714 May 2012, 00:08
The graphics are really great, and the game plays smooth. It's so hard though! In particular, since I can't control myself once I take off (even with bounces) I suffered a bunch of deaths that seemed unfair. You have to be patient in the air no matter what. I love that frog's gape though.
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