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Frog V Ducks by maffydub

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made by maffydub for LD29 (COMPO)
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.
Web http://matt-williams.github.io/ld29/
Source https://github.com/matt-williams/ld29/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=36549

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1460
Overall 2.85 884
Fun 2.65 873
Graphics 3.62 276
Humor 3.28 159
Innovation 3.35 365
Mood 2.71 801
Theme 3.46 376

Feedback

Gaeel
28. Apr 2014 · 21:22 UTC
That's some pro-level stuff on the voxel shader, man!
miwuc
28. Apr 2014 · 21:48 UTC
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.
Sodaware
28. Apr 2014 · 22:03 UTC
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).
vilya
28. Apr 2014 · 22:03 UTC
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?
stoo
28. Apr 2014 · 22:05 UTC
Interesting idea, controls feel a bit clunky, but otherwise well implemented. Good looking 3D!
garygreen
28. Apr 2014 · 22:06 UTC
I really liked the style of your graphics. I found the controls difficult to get to grips with though.
grayhaze
29. Apr 2014 · 19:01 UTC
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.
Ismei
29. Apr 2014 · 19:05 UTC
I liked the look of the game, but as ever found it difficult to know when to dive.
Brunodev
29. Apr 2014 · 19:05 UTC
Nice effects! You're good!
Zerkruemler
29. Apr 2014 · 19:27 UTC
Nice Graphics style. But unfortunately too hard for me.
My Maximum score of several attemps was 1.
perfect victim
29. Apr 2014 · 19:41 UTC
nice one , really fun concept !
but didn't hear any sound using chrome
mariscal
29. Apr 2014 · 21:58 UTC
Nice work! I couldn't hear anything with chrome though, and the camera was a little bit confusing. Liked the mechanic of diving!
Larzan
30. Apr 2014 · 06:09 UTC
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.
DustyStylus
02. May 2014 · 09:37 UTC
A little hard to control, but love the graphics. No sound in Chrome, sadly. :(
SimianLogic
11. May 2014 · 03:35 UTC
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.
SnoringFrog
14. May 2014 · 02:22 UTC
It looked really cool, but I couldn't seem to control my character very well, so I never did enjoy it very much :/