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RiP my beloved ones.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093728,"author_name":"LDJam user 260720","author_uid":"260720","epoch":1728413925,"text":"This game is the cutest I love it!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093766,"author_name":"Ninjavitis","author_uid":"ninjavitis","epoch":1728414153,"text":"I think disabling collisions between the control frog and the spawned frogs would help - you do explicitly call out the risk of getting stuck, but it's still frustrating when it happens. Similarly, sometimes the spawned frogs would get stuck in the geometry and I'd have to restart the level.\n\nIt would also be nice if the dangers interacted with the player frog somehow - perhaps stunning them, with a brief period of invulnerability afterward so you wouldn't get chain-stunned?\n\nOverall, fun game! Very good visual clarity.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093772,"author_name":"Glassar","author_uid":"glassar","epoch":1728414197,"text":"A really well executed concept with nice art and animations and an enjoyable gameplay loop. And an impressive number of levels, taht's usually where I fall short with game jams, 90 % on mechanics and assets and then scrambling to get content together","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093808,"author_name":"zwartraider","author_uid":"zwartraider","epoch":1728414388,"text":"Lovely game with lovely art and music! I was heartbroken when one of my little toads got caught! :cry: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093820,"author_name":"Greenstone00","author_uid":"greenstone00","epoch":1728414460,"text":"It's pretty good and on theme.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1093845,"author_name":"shp","author_uid":"shp","epoch":1728414657,"text":"This is a pretty good one! I like the way you gotta wait for the little froglings to not lose them. The player character toad also has some nice cake","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1094018,"author_name":"Aleux","author_uid":"aleux","epoch":1728415670,"text":"I like the simple controls and game design (simple is not bad!) It feels very polished and a pretty perfectly scoped game for the 72h limit so great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1094558,"author_name":"Firebender","author_uid":"firebender","epoch":1728419145,"text":"10\/10 would surround myself with my offspring again, unable to move anymore. I played the game to the end and had a good time, thanks for that!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1099154,"author_name":"Stames","author_uid":"stames","epoch":1728480522,"text":"Frogs have such a hard life :scream: \nThe game was very nice. One small thing, it sometimes happens, that your offspring surrounds you so you can't move anymore","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1101294,"author_name":"VoraciousGhost","author_uid":"voraciousghost","epoch":1728506972,"text":"While the mechanic is simple, the level design is really good at ramping up the difficulty and making your vary your strategy!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1103020,"author_name":"Mayple","author_uid":"mayple","epoch":1728542738,"text":"Really nice and fresh take on a frogger-like game. Nice job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1114737,"author_name":"Ido","author_uid":"ido","epoch":1729085439,"text":"Extremely cute and challenging puzzles, frogger got older and now have kids to take care of :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1120495,"author_name":"Praccen","author_uid":"praccen","epoch":1729873304,"text":"Nice! 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