Ludum Dare #29compo

Frog V Ducks

by maffydub

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★46%

Help the frog collect treasure by diving to the bottom. You can only dive as long as you have oxygen - stay above the surface or collect plants to replenish it. Avoid the ducks, or jump on them. The ornamental goldfish are ornamental.

Controls:
A - left
D - right
S - dive

Frog V Ducks uses WebGL, so you need a WebGL-capable browser. Chrome is recommended. Firefox should be OK. IE probably won't be - sorry!

All the code is at https://github.com/matt-williams/ld29/. I used the standard WebGL helper from https://code.google.com/p/webglsamples/source/browse/book/webgl-utils.js and the glMatrix library from http://glmatrix.net/. Everything else (including the game engine and the shoddy graphics) were created by me within the 48 hours.

Comments16

Gaeel28 Apr 2014, 21:27

That's some pro-level stuff on the voxel shader, man!

miwuc28 Apr 2014, 21:53

Nice effects with the floating and disappearing text, and the background music is pretty cool. I's kind of hard to see what' going on though.

Sodaware28 Apr 2014, 22:08

Looks great! Love the little ducks and the water effects.

It's a little hard to figure out when to dive, but other than that it's good fun (although I'm not very good at it).

vilya28 Apr 2014, 22:08

The controls are a bit fiddly & it needs some kind of visual or audible feedback to indicate when you've hit something good vs. something bad. Nice concept though!

I saw another comment about background music, but using Chrome on Windows 7 I'm not hearing any?

stoo28 Apr 2014, 22:10

Interesting idea, controls feel a bit clunky, but otherwise well implemented. Good looking 3D!

garygreen28 Apr 2014, 22:11

I really liked the style of your graphics. I found the controls difficult to get to grips with though.

grayhaze29 Apr 2014, 19:06

Nice idea and the engine's good for two days work. The controls were a bit confusing and I found it almost impossible to work out where the frog would dive to.

Ismei29 Apr 2014, 19:10

I liked the look of the game, but as ever found it difficult to know when to dive.

Brunodev29 Apr 2014, 19:10

Nice effects! You're good!

Zerkruemler29 Apr 2014, 19:32

Nice Graphics style. But unfortunately too hard for me.
My Maximum score of several attemps was 1.

perfect victim29 Apr 2014, 19:46

nice one , really fun concept !
but didn't hear any sound using chrome

mariscal29 Apr 2014, 22:03

Nice work! I couldn't hear anything with chrome though, and the camera was a little bit confusing. Liked the mechanic of diving!

Larzan30 Apr 2014, 06:14

Haha, nice idea with the ducks and the frog, it is the same setting as my game, just a diffirent view :)
I only got confused with how long the frog could dive, an 'airbar' or sth similar would be nice.

DustyStylus2 May 2014, 09:42

A little hard to control, but love the graphics. No sound in Chrome, sadly. :(

SimianLogic11 May 2014, 03:40

Very interesting technically, but super frustrating to play. I *think* my goal was to get treasure chests, which I was ok at, but the weird bouncing on top of water and rough controls made it super hard.

SnoringFrog14 May 2014, 02:27

It looked really cool, but I couldn't seem to control my character very well, so I never did enjoy it very much :/

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