Frawg DevLog #1 - "Beginning"

Hello everybody,

-- ABOUT ME AND THE PROJECT--

This is my first devlog for this game, and my first devlog ever, so I'm kind of scared and thrilled at the same time. I want to showcase my process of making this game in these (probably semi-daily) devlogs. This should be my first "big" game, so I want to show to the world (by the world I mean the five or six of you that will actually read this) what am I doing and how am I doing it.

This game is about a little frog, that can shoot out its tongue to stick to cling on to surfaces near it. More on the movement below, this was one of my prototypes, and I liked it so much I wanted to make a game from it.

I will try to work on the game every day for the entire summer holiday, or at least the entire moth of June, so expect to see some devlogs pretty often. This game should take me about 1 to 3 moths of work to finish, and after its completion it will be playable for free on itch.io, I will maybe add optional payments, but only if the game is good enough.

Frawg (as I named this project), should serve as a new experience and a new project, that I can add to my portfolio. I am trying learn game and level design so my game will probably follow mostly that passion so don't expect it to be bugless :) 

--GAME--

As I said the game should be about a little frog that shoots out its tongue, and the main movement mechanics should work as this:

You can walk left and right, as is the norm in most other platformers

You have a quite floaty jump to help you maneuver to a safe spot while falling

And now the big difference is the tongue, you shoot it out when you press jump in mid air. The tongue shoots out and if it hits something the frog will follow it.

If the frog isn't stopped by any obstacle in its path and gets to the surface the tongue hit the frog stick to it waiting until you press the jump button again so it can jump. This acts something like a wall jump or even double jump.

Also the frog can only use the tongue once in mid air, if you use the tongue you will have to touch the floor again to regain the ability to use it again, thought I might change it. The movement was inspired mostly by the hook in Zelda, but much faster. I am sure that similar platformers exist so if you know about some other game that works like this be sure to let me know so I know what "competition" I have.

--CONTACT ME?--

If you want to contact me about this project or something else you might want to know, you can do so down in the comment section of this devlog or other one of my projects, or email me at omeletton@gmail.com

Also if you are an artist, and you would like to make some art, animations or music for this non-profit project I am more than happy to let you know that I will greatly apricate your services, so feel free to join me.

...aaand if you would like more of this stuff just write a comment. You know, I want to know if anybody actually reads this