Thanks for playing! And hey, I wasn't directly inspired by that, but one of my favorite animation creators online is Aaron Blaise, who worked on the Lion King, so maybe I've finally successfully absorbed 0.00001% of his immeasurable talent! I just love that people on his level make videos covering their process at all so we can learn from them. 

And oh boy, the announcer was such a fun character to record. My game VO debut hahahaha, I've been hyping myself up to try getting over the fact that I don't really want to hear my own voice while I'm testing my games and finally gave it a go. 

Yeah, the flashlight signals to you which frog has a key in each wave, and I kept thinking it was too obvious what it was for and how to use it and kept making the signal less and less clear until I ended up realizing the flashlight had become almost useless and it was too late in the week to go back or add a progression that starts with it being extremely easy to see what it does. Oh well, I can add that later if I make a full game out of this! Glad you liked the audio design, that was kind of the centerpiece of the jam for me this time.

I've never even heard of that! I'll check it out. Thanks for playing!!

Awesome! Glad you had fun, even with the firefox lag hahaha. A lot of the theme stuff ended up not quite being player-facing. So there's stuff in there in the back end of the game that's related to the theme but I didn't have time to finish presenting it clearly to the player, so I genuinely think I deserve a low score in that category. There's always next time! Thanks so much for playing!

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked it. I had basically resigned that I wouldn't have time to do the announcer voice, but after testing it for awhile I decided it would be such a fun addition that I pushed it to higher priority than a lot of the powerups. I wish I had time for both, but I'm satisfied with my decision! The voice was SO FUN to record and doing it ended up being a really nice break from programming.

Very much! Thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing and for the kind words! I'm quite happy with how the audio and visuals came out for this one! And I agree with your critique, though I don't think I realized how off-theme the game had become until the last day of the jam, since my initial idea was explicitly based on the theme my intent with it was still there. As I was working on it and trying to find the fun in it, I think I lost the plot a bit and nearly all the things that were obvious matches to the theme had disappeared from the game. It can be so hard to realize that's happening sometimes!

Basically, the flashlight makes a frog in each wave signal that they have the key, and the keys open chests filled with bugs that signal Froglet's location. I had another half-baked system in mind where you would help the frogs signal to each other how to avoid predators, but that very quickly became out of scope haha. I decided the game seemed like it would more fun overall if you didn't get punished for catching the "wrong" frog (something I intended to add later as part of a difficulty progression), and I ran out of time so the Froglet pickup ended up in a chest just like other loot, without player-facing information that monitored the connection between finding Froglet in a chest and collecting the bugs. I think I ended up with something that was a bit more fun, overall, at the cost of really losing track of keeping the theme front and center. So yeah, I think I'd actually give myself a one or a two on theme for this jam, even though the "game" that lived in my head before I started was closer to a four or a five. Oh well. 

And I try to be strict with myself for not making adjustments after everything seems to be working well, but oh gosh did I want to break my rule on the last day and significantly increase the point penalty for missing a chest. I TOTALLY agree that missing frogs was the only thing that even slightly felt like a problem in the final product hahaha. There's always next time! I almost reached out to you to see if you still needed help with your audio montage but decided to just stick with my own game this time. Would love to do a jam with you sometime in the future! 

Thanks for playing! Out of curiosity, what browser/system are you on? I'm still relatively new to trying to make stuff work nicely in a browser and trying to triangulate the source of the issues a few people seem to be having. One person found that the game was laggy for them in Firefox but not in other browsers, so I'm wondering if there's an issue with the browser being used or something. I hadn't considered that the browser could be the problem, and being a big dummy I only tested the game in Vivaldi, which isn't exactly a common web browser choice hahahhaha. "Oopsie-Froggie" (that was my favorite voice line to record hahahhahahaha)

So the flashlight is most obviously used to light up the play area, but less clear is that it signals which frog has a key in each wave. My thinking was that by shining a light through something like a frog, you can (probably? I imagined this without testing it on a real frog haha) see through the frog and see what's inside it and stuff, kinda like when you shine a light through your hand. So the idea is that if you're quick enough you can always use the flashlight to find a key in each group of frogs. I did feel like the game eventually lost the plot of the theme of the jam, but my original concept was about signaling game mechanics to the player in an atypical way (I hand drew the keys into normal map textures so there's no magic shader or texture swap happening to make the flashlight-signals-key thing work, it's all just baked into the lighting system). It was really fun to build and I think it looks pretty cool (if subtle) even if it didn't end up being the centerpiece of the game that I expected it to be. 

Dang that might be the highest score I've seen! Nice! 

The game ends when you run out of nets. It feels like it keeps going forever because the chance of finding nets in chests increases as you get closer to losing, admittedly by a slightly higher margin than was reasonable, so the game seems to just keep going even though it doesn't. One of my to-do items I didn't get to was to make a more obvious animation for losing a net (they're tracked on the left-hand side of the screen next to your juice counter). I didn't really catch that the spin and disappear animation I was using didn't really read when you're focused on the gameplay until it was too late in the jam to make changes. 

Thanks so much for playing and for the kind words about the music and sounds! Learning my way around in the guts of the audio integration tools in Godot was my main focus for this jam so I'm glad to hear that you think it paid off :D

Awesome, so glad you enjoyed it! I had such a fun time recording it. It's kinda fun feeling absolutely crazy shouting stuff like "OOPSIE-FROGGIE" at your microphone after a week of actively avoiding human interaction to make the rest of the game hahahaha!

Thanks! It's also dripping with FROG JUICE

Glad to hear that it's reading the way I intended it! I was playing the first prototype without audio and was like "hehe FROGTACULAR" and then was like, oh I should have super busy arcade-y text popups, so I added that. Then I was like, you know what, what's another day to do a bunch of insane voice lines? And oh boy I had SO MUCH FUN recording them ahhaahhaha

Oh yeah ABSOLUTELY brainrotting. I had such an amazing time recording insane voice lines for this. "Oopsie-Froggie" on a miss is my favorite one that still makes me laugh when it pops up occasionally. Thanks for playing!!

Thanks so much for playing! By the end of the jam I was kinda feeling similarly actually, except that I realized it might just be generally more fun as a mobile/touchscreen game. So hey, maybe I'll fix up the touchscreen controls and add some more collectibles and powerups and keep going with it. I also REALLY wanted to add a leaderboard but have no idea where to get started with a shared hosted leaderboard; I'm pretty new to web app stuff.