{"author_link":"\/author\/gladers\/","author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","comments":[{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 25, 2014 @ 11:11pm","epoch":1409007960,"text":"Frogger clone with levels from pong, space invaders and pacman."},{"author_name":"5T4MP5","author_uid":"34376","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:05am","epoch":1409011200,"text":"Crashing on launch for me, on Windows 7. No error, just an application has stopped working message."},{"author_name":"mechabit","author_uid":"34391","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:07am","epoch":1409011320,"text":"Nice theme"},{"author_name":"IsaacL.Balogh","author_uid":"25471","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:11am","epoch":1409011560,"text":"Crashed on start for windows 7, no error"},{"author_name":"nerd burglars","author_uid":"41215","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:12am","epoch":1409011620,"text":"This game was fun. A blast from the past!"},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:13am","epoch":1409011680,"text":"@5T4MP5 do you have xna 4 installed? Can you try to open Arcade.ccgame if you have xna?"},{"author_name":"Andrew Adams","author_uid":"20321","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:37am","epoch":1409013120,"text":"Why you no Mac?"},{"author_name":"ob6160","author_uid":"31367","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 12:46am","epoch":1409013660,"text":"Fun game! Great idea to connect the 'arcade world' with the real world ;)"},{"author_name":"swabbur","author_uid":"38473","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:12am","epoch":1409047620,"text":"Unable to open it in windows 7... XNA is installed and working properly"},{"author_name":"Mekuri","author_uid":"20130","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:14am","epoch":1409047740,"text":"lol this was awesome, I loved it. I managed to complete all the levels (It started over so assumed I was done)\r<br\/>A brilliant idea!!\r<br\/>The controls and collisions were a bit unforgiving, but I really liked it, and wonderful use of the theme! Great job!"},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:19am","epoch":1409048040,"text":"@Mekuri Thanks for playing :D\r<br\/>It restarts and gets a bit harder, theres an ending screen if you can complete it on hard, but the pong level is brutal on hard mode :)"},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:22am","epoch":1409048220,"text":"If the games not running and you have xna installed, please contact me by twitter @gladers so we can diagnose and get the game running on as many pcs as possible."},{"author_name":"Vytheros","author_uid":"26487","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 7:52pm","epoch":1409082420,"text":"Good game, but very repetitive. Would love a little bit of variation in an updated version"},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 9:56pm","epoch":1409089860,"text":"@Vytheros if theres enough interest in extending the game I will, remember frogger only had 1 screen, this has 4 :)"},{"author_name":"kikito","author_uid":"4031","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1409091060,"text":"Hehe, poor frogs! Mixing up so many gameplay elements in one weekend was surely challenging. Gave you 5 points on Innovation and Humor :)"},{"author_name":"DarkCart","author_uid":"41601","time":"Aug 26, 2014 @ 10:17pm","epoch":1409091120,"text":"I love it. Nice concept."},{"author_name":"SevenKingdomsSurvivors","author_uid":"37250","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:03am","epoch":1409129880,"text":"Very cool!  We actually considered doing a frogger game that was connected to a racing game so the cars could run over the frogs."},{"author_name":"nolife-team","author_uid":"42320","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 9:05am","epoch":1409130000,"text":"Overall liked the idea, but the controls are really difficult:)"},{"author_name":"PERECil","author_uid":"40544","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1409152020,"text":"Great game, I like a lot how genres where mixed together."},{"author_name":"jahmaican","author_uid":"40987","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 3:17pm","epoch":1409152320,"text":"Not too innovative and quite short. And collision detection on pong level is so unfair it makes me cry. But it fits the theme very well!"},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:36pm","epoch":1409164260,"text":"*Hint the left bat aims the ball right at you. The right bat reflects it. The easiest way to dodge the ball is going downwards. Make the run from the right of the screen.\r<br\/>See you tube video if you are still stuck. Anyone else need the pong round made more simple? Theres like 5 different ways to complete it."},{"author_name":"gladers","author_uid":"40397","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 6:47pm","epoch":1409164920,"text":"Definition of Innovative - Introduce (something new). \r<br\/>\r<br\/>To the world of Frogger, theres a lot of new stuff :)"},{"author_name":"Reyn","author_uid":"25581","time":"Aug 27, 2014 @ 8:10pm","epoch":1409169900,"text":"Nice. If this was an arcade cabinet you would have made all your money on the pacman level."},{"author_name":"Phaix","author_uid":"38968","time":"Aug 29, 2014 @ 7:34am","epoch":1409297340,"text":"Good old times. Interesting interpretation as it fits."},{"author_name":"borgi","author_uid":"39688","time":"Aug 30, 2014 @ 3:18pm","epoch":1409411580,"text":"Cool idea for the theme!"},{"author_name":"dancingmad","author_uid":"39644","time":"Aug 31, 2014 @ 8:46pm","epoch":1409517660,"text":"I liked the way you interpretated the theme 'connected worlds', but besides that, the game is not bery original... Good graphics."},{"author_name":"Binary Gambit","author_uid":"20783","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 10:29am","epoch":1409567040,"text":"Thanks for showing this at the Frankfurt Independent Game Dev Meetup"},{"author_name":"H1S2","author_uid":"40166","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 8:47pm","epoch":1409604120,"text":"The game looks really hard. I really like the idea of mixing different arcade games. I know some of these assets I think ;) Great entry - good job"},{"author_name":"rhaasken","author_uid":"12716","time":"Sep 1, 2014 @ 9:05pm","epoch":1409605200,"text":"Cool way to fit the theme.  Fun and polished game, and I like how you can keep walking up to increase the difficulty.  I got stuck on the insane difficulty though."},{"author_name":"liquidminduk","author_uid":"37631","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 12:06pm","epoch":1409659260,"text":"lot's done in the short time you had, good connection between games. well done!"},{"author_name":"ericdpitts","author_uid":"6759","time":"Sep 2, 2014 @ 12:07pm","epoch":1409659320,"text":"Great job, neat idea.  I liked the music too!  I got stuck on the pacman level though, could never sneak around those damn ghosts.  I wouldn't have a chance on the &quot;hard&quot; mode :P"},{"author_name":"Lvyn","author_uid":"39221","time":"Sep 3, 2014 @ 7:16pm","epoch":1409771460,"text":"Nice idea ! :)"},{"author_name":"whalebot","author_uid":"36369","time":"Sep 5, 2014 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1409959740,"text":"Neat concept. Impressed you were able to create all those different styles so quickly!"},{"author_name":"Tex Killer","author_uid":"7901","time":"Sep 6, 2014 @ 4:19am","epoch":1409976840,"text":"Nice interpretation of the theme, and it is impressive that everything work! That said, the gameplay is a little stiff, specially on the &quot;PACMAN&quot; level. Don't know if that was intentional, but it didn't feel natural.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>By the way, I see that you tried running my game last week, but it crashed. I've detected and fixed some memory errors, so you're welcome to come back and try it again! Thanks :)"},{"author_name":"Rehacked","author_uid":"41818","time":"Sep 8, 2014 @ 7:01am","epoch":1410159360,"text":"Nice game!Good job.but only a question: Why controll of menu was with arrows and game with WASD ??"}],"images":["ld30\/40397-985aef09388c9f043388565c45e20070.jpg","ld30\/40397-948bd739da90c19b55f3f65aceecaf83.jpg","ld30\/40397-5b649970de822f7d2386b14c05f6e22a.jpg","ld30\/40397-404687f13cae0fb5a9e231a768c83f40.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/19323047\/Frogging-v3.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/mega.co.nz\/#!l49QBTqY!bw0AlxE5KGEgWdh-cJAsPcIWmjCYEylD8VEZlz-b7Tw","text":"Windows (slightly harder v2)"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=koRXjp91pzU","text":"YouTube (for those that cant play)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"17660","g_author":"40397","g_event":"LD30","g_eventkey":"24","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"17689","g_title":"Frogging - XNA ","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"397","g_commentcount":"35","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40397-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40397-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40397-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/375043\/40397-shot3.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"UPDATE ITS WORKING!! \r\nThank you for all your comments. I have fixed the game and also included Microsoft XNA with the game. (Its a 6mb install file)\r\n\r\n-------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nThe year is 1985..\r\nOn route 69 there has been a head on collision between two trucks.\r\nOne containing state of the art arcade games such as frogger and pacman, pong clones and the other containing toxic waste.\r\n\r\nThe toxic waste has caused the arcade world to connect with the real world. \r\n\r\nThe roads are overrun with Space Invaders, pong has overtaken a basketball court and Pacman has found a hedge maze in the local park!!\r\n\r\nCan you escape to the other-side of the river before the military comes to clean up this mess??\r\n\r\nReplay the game for harder difficulties.\r\n\r\n-----------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nWindows - Unzip and install XNA if you don't have it already (you probably do have it installed). Then run the Arcade.exe to start the game.\r\n\r\n-----------------------------------------------\r\nVersion history\r\n\r\nv1 Crashed without Windows Games Live installed\r\nv2 Normal game - The way god intended\r\nv3 Slight difficulty adjustment to prevent tears","title":"Frogging - XNA "}