[Prototype] Feeding Frenzy

[SlimSlaby]

Ok, this is just a quick gameplay prototype of Feeding Frenzy. It's all about catching flies with your frog. Scale your window down if framerate is bad.

Feeding Frenzy

Left/Right = rotate frog on lillipad
Spacebar = shoot tongue out and try to catch flies.

Currently, you can catch both flies and hornets, but in the final version you'll obviously lose a life for sucking in a hornet.

Got lots of ideas for improving this one :

Multiplayer
Jumping to different lillipads
Frog grows as you eat flies
Crocodile that keeps you moving.

[WilloughbyJackson]

Nice beginning.

The one suggestion I have is to make it so the player cannot hold down on space and keep the tongue action going. I was able to catch every single fly and hornet on screen by just holding down on the spacebar.

-pXw

[SlimSlaby]

In the final game, hornets will be deadly. So, the player will not benefit from doing this. Avoiding sucking in hornets will be their reason to not use that behavior.

[WilloughbyJackson]

Actually, I was able to avoid the hornet and suck in the flies using the hold technique.

[SlimSlaby]

So, you might be able to clear lvl 1 with that technique. But as the amount of hornets increases, that would become more difficult.

I could add a delay before you can use the tongue again, but I'm wondering if that would feel too restrictive. I'll try that out and see.

But I really don't think it's gonna be a big issue. Making the hornets fly around faster and cluster closer to the lillipad might also solve the issue even on lvl 1.

[Ray Beez]

Cool. I wish the frog rotated a bit faster, with accelleration too.

And you might want to pick a game title that isn't already a very popular web/download game:
http://www.popcap.com/launchpage.php...&src=findagame

[Ironclaw]

Fun game.

Suggestions:

Rotate faster
More levels than just one
Better graphics
Sound and Music

[Fuzzgtp]

hmm.. guess my post didnt show up ><
anyways, i think this game could really benefit from mouse controls. Make the frog spin to catch up with the mouse. the frog does spin a little to slow though
fuzz

[SlimSlaby]

Cool. I wish the frog rotated a bit faster, with accelleration too.

And you might want to pick a game title that isn't already a very popular web/download game:
http://www.popcap.com/launchpage.php...&src=findagame

Yeah, you know I was thinking that it sounded familiar. I'll have to change that, thanks for the info!!

I'll play around with the rotation speed, and add acceleration to the mix. Good feedback.

[SlimSlaby]

hmm.. guess my post didnt show up ><
anyways, i think this game could really benefit from mouse controls. Make the frog spin to catch up with the mouse. the frog does spin a little to slow though
fuzz

Yeah, I was thinking about that last night. I'm gonna add that as a control option so I can compare them. I'll probably do that when I add the turning animation for the frog. Right now, he just rotates with no animation.

Also, this prototype just has the basic controls. I want him to be able to jump to other lillipads that are floating around.

[SlimSlaby]

Fun game.

Suggestions:

Rotate faster
More levels than just one
Better graphics
Sound and Music

Yeah, I intend to have more levels, music, and more depth to gamepyay. This was just a prototype for the controls, you can't even die yet!!!

[artlink]

inspiration here: http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/frog.htm

[SlimSlaby]

yeah, I wish I was an artist. I have the mouse control working now.