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Toad Warrior by SpaceToaster

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made by SpaceToaster for LD23 (COMPO)
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 batonrye@gmail.com.

Thanks for playing!

Web http://www.artdrivescode.com/Games/ToadWarrior/
Windows http://www.box.com/s/7f689a410ace00e64946
OSX http://www.box.com/s/1fc600bbddee4adc7811
Source https://www.box.com/s/b7eb829b74bf6f2e603c
Timelapse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl8lm3MLMaM
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12730

Ratings

Coolness 60% 3
Overall 3.11 353
Audio 3.15 166
Fun 2.68 503
Graphics 4.23 29
Humor 3.26 89
Innovation 3.06 376
Mood 2.98 271
Theme 3.30 285

Feedback

SidetrackGames
23. Apr 2012 · 04:47 UTC
I like it :) A little frustrating with the pacing, but art and concept is good.
greg20man
23. Apr 2012 · 04:54 UTC
Looks fantastic and the audio blends seamlessly, great job.
unicornpooping
23. Apr 2012 · 15:54 UTC
Hard, but works really well. Good job :-)
Toast
23. Apr 2012 · 21:54 UTC
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.
JaJ
23. Apr 2012 · 21:56 UTC
This looks amazing and the controls are very original. I got stuck behind the glowing crystals on the right of the first level, though.
Lidfrid
23. Apr 2012 · 21:56 UTC
very cool art work! But i can't change direction when i'm jumping on a mushrooom :(
piterlouis
23. Apr 2012 · 21:59 UTC
Nice concept. Ideal to phone game but with more speed in the jumps, please, are so slooow :). Graphics are wonderful!. Good work.
dray
23. Apr 2012 · 22:02 UTC
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
23. Apr 2012 · 22:02 UTC
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.
KevinWorkman
23. Apr 2012 · 22:02 UTC
Interesting idea and control scheme, but it was a little arbitrary whether a jump would result in victory or death.
🎤 SpaceToaster
23. Apr 2012 · 22:08 UTC
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
23. Apr 2012 · 22:12 UTC
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
24. Apr 2012 · 02:56 UTC
Great art and nice control concept. The mud pits of insta-death are incredibly annoying, though.
LukeRissacher
24. Apr 2012 · 06:58 UTC
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" :).
BenW
25. Apr 2012 · 04:07 UTC
I wish I had some sort of control while I was in the air. Getting stuck jumping endlessly was frustrating.
10WonXero10
25. Apr 2012 · 04:09 UTC
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 :)
Zamando
26. Apr 2012 · 08:00 UTC
Great concept, and I like the art style! A little hard to estimate how the frog jumps sometimes. Good job! :)
joshimoo
28. Apr 2012 · 19:40 UTC
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.
Rectifier
28. Apr 2012 · 20:39 UTC
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
28. Apr 2012 · 20:44 UTC
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
28. Apr 2012 · 21:16 UTC
Woah... sweet graphics dude, I love the shading on your art style! :) Well done
PIXEL^3
28. Apr 2012 · 21:51 UTC
...why is the player nude?
caranha
29. Apr 2012 · 16:34 UTC
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
29. Apr 2012 · 19:11 UTC
A fun and original game if a little frustrating at times. The hand painted graphics really make it.
Catman
29. Apr 2012 · 19:28 UTC
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
29. Apr 2012 · 20:13 UTC
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.
derosa
29. Apr 2012 · 20:39 UTC
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 :)
ericdpitts
29. Apr 2012 · 22:29 UTC
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
30. Apr 2012 · 06:07 UTC
A bit slow paced and sometime I had the feeling it didn't really jump as I intended to. But very nice graphics!
EricTheCoolDude
30. Apr 2012 · 20:22 UTC
I like the graphics, however, the inconcistant controls made it pretty frustrating.
Gornova
01. May 2012 · 20:24 UTC
nice entry and timelapse shows us how much effort you put in this game (perfect for a tablet)
Tourgen
01. May 2012 · 23:46 UTC
That is some great looking art. Nice work. I didn't do too well at the game but it was fun.
Puzzlem00n
02. May 2012 · 00:48 UTC
For me, what was really missing was a death animation.
MaximSchoemaker
02. May 2012 · 21:08 UTC
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
11. May 2012 · 19:44 UTC
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
14. May 2012 · 00:03 UTC
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.