[Early alpha] Divefrog, the game where you're a frog and you

garcia1000 · Post by **garcia1000** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 1:12 am

Hello!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/218 ... eFrog.love

Divefrog is a game where you're a frog and you kick other frogs. It runs on 0.10.0

This is a fully playable game with three selectable characters at the moment.

Major features yet to be implemented:
- Netplay
- AI

Please give any comments and criticism here. I was looking at some of the other games posted here and they are way more, how you say, "polished". What's an efficient way to add polish to my game?

s-ol · Post by **s-ol** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:17 am

garcia1000 wrote: Please give any comments and criticism here. I was looking at some of the other games posted here and they are way more, how you say, "polished". What's an efficient way to add polish to my game?

Hey, it seems you forgot to attach your game (or link to the project page)

You may be interested in this popular talk on game feel, which relates to polish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

garcia1000 · Post by **garcia1000** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:39 am

oooooooooooooooops!

Fixed!

Thanks for the polish link

roastchicken · Post by **roastchicken** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 7:09 am

Interesting game. I'm not sure how good the instant kill mechanic is. I didn't get a very good feel for the game as it was just me, pressing the four buttons (forever alone

) One problem is that it crashes after the ninth (final) round for me with this error:

Code: Select all

main.lua:385: attempt to call field 'setF' (a nil value

Traceback

main.lua:385: in function 'draw'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

[EDIT]

Looking at that line in the source it seems you meant to put 'love.graphics.setColor(31, 39, 84)'

garcia1000 · Post by **garcia1000** » Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:45 am

Thanks, that must have gotten deleted somehow. Fixed locally.

Divefrog was inspired by Divekick, a game where humans kick people and each hit is instant kill

AbbeAbyss · Post by **AbbeAbyss** » Fri Jan 01, 2016 10:31 pm

I suppose you could "polish" the game if you want to make it into something commercially viable, but I think the crudity, like the badly drawn sprites (no offense, man

) and the silly character names, gives the game a comical, whimsical feel that I find hilarious. Fans of Tim and Eric should know what I mean

Can't tell if the gameplay is good, need to try and play this with a friend later on.

garcia1000 · Post by **garcia1000** » Sun Jan 03, 2016 2:46 am

Nice, I added a lot of "juice" to the game in the form of explosion particles everywhere, huge fire bars for the super meter, and so on

I didn't intend for the sprites to be so badly drawn

it's just that my drawing skills lag behind my programming/music skills a bit

garcia1000 · Post by **garcia1000** » Mon Jan 04, 2016 9:59 am

That "juice" talk was really useful! I added some of the things like screen shakes, and more particles, and I think it looks better now. I hope it retains the "indie" feel as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBb_1oBf3M8

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