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I believe it might be caused by embedding game's pck inside the exe file (from what I've read). I've change it and hopefully chrome will allow this for others to download without hassle.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179605,"author_name":"ZedGame","author_uid":"zedgame","epoch":1760124156,"text":"Beautiful audio + visuals and satisfying gameplay!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179614,"author_name":"StaticRose","author_uid":"staticrose","epoch":1760124316,"text":"Actually prett nice mechanics. I wish it was a bit easier to interact with the cards. But love the variety of all the different frogs! Very cool.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179629,"author_name":"Bumble","author_uid":"bumble","epoch":1760124680,"text":"This game is real fun! The ability to upgrade cards by collecting a lot of them is a nice twist on the jam topic.\n\nAnd I really like the animation when you pick up a new card!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179630,"author_name":"thaDev","author_uid":"thadev","epoch":1760124729,"text":"Wow! That is a crazy amount of work, and very well done too, it's a really good game loop and could definitely become something big. It makes me thing a lot of those mobile cow merging games where it could just go on and on forever. The art is extremely cool and funky and the music and the vibe fits well. Props to you for being able to make this!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179634,"author_name":"LDJam user 281994","author_uid":"281994","epoch":1760124798,"text":"The frogs are cute, and the animation is great too\nThe graphics are top-notch! The frog jumps adorably, I love frogs \ud83d\ude0d\nUnfortunately, you can\u2019t collect the items that drop from the frogs because enemies start surrounding you (","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179645,"author_name":"Matimoo","author_uid":"matimoo","epoch":1760125053,"text":"Wow the card menu is awesome! The animations really sell it. Good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1179653,"author_name":"BorealTeuthidia","author_uid":"borealteuthidia","epoch":1760125310,"text":"Such an amazing game for being made in 3 days!! I really enjoyed playing it! I had a problem where my browser kept kicking me out of the game and then I'd die before I could get back in but what I could play was really cool and really impressive!! 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Bonus points for allowing players to remap the controls, as an azerty gamer I really appreciate that kind of detail :)\nHuge fan of the froggy's design and the catchy music, congrats!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1182727,"author_name":"LDJam user 243929","author_uid":"243929","epoch":1760301251,"text":"@helicule me and @lisek-gagatek are Colemak gamers so we understand the struggle! :sweat_smile: and thank you for the kind words!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1184779,"author_name":"Longfall","author_uid":"longfall","epoch":1760565375,"text":"Great take on the \"survivor\" genre, mixing both automatic \"weapons\" and manual one ! Nice graphics and cards effects, a bit frustrating to be able to equip only 6 at a time haha","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1184794,"author_name":"mr_mesmer","author_uid":"mr-mesmer","epoch":1760569587,"text":"It is a stable game with nice progression system. I have some advices to improve:\n\n1. Now all enemies move to current player position. You can make half of them move random, and it will be cooler, because player cannot move circle around mob stack.\n2. I think, you can reduce enemies hp 2 or 3 times, because player want annigilate map. Now it is slow, I think\n3. Jumping is cool! But I see lake with water lily and my litteraly first action in game - try to jump on it. It will be cool, if you add this mechanic\n4. Maybe will be better, if frog can hook cards like it hook fly.\n\nOverall, I like setting, I like movement and jumping in this game. Found it in danger feedback zone, seems undeservedly","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1187026,"author_name":"sangheli","author_uid":"sangheli","epoch":1761013136,"text":"Nice visuals, though I thought I\u2019d be catching insects.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188238,"author_name":"WormKingBoo","author_uid":"wormkingboo","epoch":1761241154,"text":"I feel like this might be my favorite game so far! The art is so good - very cute, unique, readable, and there's a ton of variety between the frogs. It gave me Cult of the Lamb vibes in the best way possible. I also loved the pacing and the difficulty scaling. Just enough time to get used to moving around and gather a couple upgrades before things really start to heat up. I replayed several times just to see what other frog types I could find. Really enjoyable game, great work!!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1188686,"author_name":"treenut","author_uid":"treenut","epoch":1761306128,"text":"super cute style, the music was also super hype. really liked the upgrade system and being able to swap out cards for a better build, that's rare in this genre. though i wish the stash was a little larger to keep more of the duplicates for upgrades, it's very hard to make a specific build otherwise. lovely game","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld58\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/clownworks.itch.io\/pond-swarm","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"89418","g_author":"1243929","g_event":"LD58","g_eventkey":"112","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"427415","g_title":"POND SWARM","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"131","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"418668","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"418668","n_urlkey":"427415","n_parent":"415614","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/58\/pond-swarm","n_slug":"pond-swarm","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"243929","n_created":"1759488372","n_modified":"1778810790","n_version":"1340159","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD58","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":4,"author":243929,"body":"**Pond Swarm** is a survivors-like game. 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