The explorer frog has the only real way to track the Mothmen in the darkness, which is an echolocation croak, which brings back a sonar ping signal.

We had originally intended for more than just combat goals, and the first level was intended to be the post tutorial level, where you were going to run to an escape area... sadly we ran out of time, and where the death victory conditions still worked for the final map (checking on the king's health vs the moth's health) that didn't really work for the fist map where you could get in a slow-painful-loss condition once the Unicorn Frog was downed.

Having played so many turn based strategy games (X-Com, Battle Brothers, Menace, Xenonauts, Phoenix Point) I'm still ashamed I've never checked out any of the Fire Emblem series.

Oh, completely agree -- We had planned for two more levels (1 tutorial, and one mid-level between first and king level) but just ran out of time (another project had 16 hours of bugs show up on Saturday). I tried to jam in what I could with text in the game's web page, but nothing can really replace a tutorial and decent tooltips (even have the text for tooltips in game, just never managed to get them hooked up before the deadline).