Froga

Froga is an arcade game where you jump on lily pads towards a golden star.

Controls

• WASD or Arrow keys: move
• Escape: pause menu
• Use Mouse in menu

Rules

Lily pads are constantly shrinking in size until they completely vanish. New lily pad can reappear on empty space.

Ending up in the water costs you a life. Losing all lives results in game over.

To advance to the level, you should reach the golden star.

On level you can find bonuses. They give you additional score. Golden star also increases score.

Each time you collect 1000 points, you gain an extra life.

On later levels you will find crab enemies. They are trying to get you so try to avoiding them.

Ending up on same lily pad with a crab costs you a life.

Installation

1. Download and unzip archive
2. Launch Froga executable

Developer Notes

This game is more or less a clone of an old Soviet PC game called Perestroika (also known as Toppler) developed in 1990 for MS-DOS.

Froga was fully developed by me (Vladimir Kurkin). No AI was used in development. 

Main purpose of this project is to build and test my C++ game engine/framework on somewhat real game.

Basically Perestroika was chosen because of its simplicity while being quite fun.

While the game could have been written much more simply without building any engines, it serves as a technical milestone.

Many underlying systems, such as assets and code hot-reloading, 2D/3D rendering, OS and graphical API abstraction and even coding styles and paradigms - were designed to be reused in my future games.

Special thanks

• Z1s - Design feedback, Game Balance, Playtesting
• newt3d - Design feedback, Playtesting
• GK, Lynx, Planych, Annette, Stranger, Nick, Zhenyoque, Maiia - Additional playtesting