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I got quite good at hitting those little bugs at a distance. Movement is a nice effect, but it is painfully slow. Shame you had to finish early, I would have liked to have seen how you'd flesh things out. I had fun regardless though. Good stuff :8ball: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1083262,"author_name":"Mmm1008fm","author_uid":"mmm1008fm","epoch":1728322829,"text":"This game is overall funny! Love the rain :cool: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1087956,"author_name":"Sviborg","author_uid":"sviborg","epoch":1728371014,"text":"\ud83d\udc38 Fun adventure with a frog! The controls are a bit slow, but when you speed up and catch bugs from a distance, it's a lot of fun! The visual style using vertices is simply amazing, and the rain adds to the atmosphere. \ud83c\udf27\ufe0f The game already looks great. \ud83d\udc4f","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1088879,"author_name":"umnatz","author_uid":"umnatz","epoch":1728380728,"text":"nice, short and easy enough to understand. good job. I like the uniqe vertices art style a lot too. \n\nWhat is the red border that just extends when I walk through it?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1090729,"author_name":"Megurt","author_uid":"megurt","epoch":1728395331,"text":"Oh my god, is it your own written mini-engine?! Good job! And you did something like joins 2D to connect lags ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1094183,"author_name":"Frogcula","author_uid":"frogcula","epoch":1728416540,"text":"This isn't my own Engine, I used Processing 4, and I believe what I did is called Inverse Kinematics although it is a simple version of it :p @megurt","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1094207,"author_name":"Frogcula","author_uid":"frogcula","epoch":1728416659,"text":"The red Border doesn't extend, you simply go back. I had to limit the movement of the player since going into the negatives on the X or Y axis would mess with the Rain's display algorithm. @umnatz","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1097594,"author_name":"AlwaysHungry","author_uid":"alwayshungry","epoch":1728460353,"text":"The game is easy to understand and extremely fun! I never thought the game would be so interesting before playing! Good job!!!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1101507,"author_name":"Iwant_Pizza","author_uid":"iwant-pizza","epoch":1728509158,"text":"No more words only frog","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1101530,"author_name":"fqds","author_uid":"fqds","epoch":1728509454,"text":"cooolll very","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1105191,"author_name":"Sylf","author_uid":"sylf","epoch":1728590983,"text":"You didn't lie - this is a game about frog, indeed! Loved the simplicity and whole flow.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1110514,"author_name":"ryusui","author_uid":"ryusui","epoch":1728783224,"text":"I was a little concerned about the controls but they were a lot smoother and more intuitive than I was expecting. My only gripe is the lack of an aiming indicator to help you line up your mlems - but then I think that might have been on purpose? 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