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Remember this game?

Yeah, that's right: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2



Welcome to Frog Fractions 2. You'll learn all about Fractions 2!

Ask any schoolteacher about fractions, and they'll explain that although civilization has conquered fractions thanks to our hit game "Frog Fractions," the children of today face a much graver challenge: Fractions 2. Discovered by 16th-century Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunes, these "extra-fractional" fractions are twice as powerful and twice as confusing. Without Fractions 2, your children will never master recipes requiring 1/16/4rds of a cup of sodium demicarbonate, nor will they be able to buy the Frog Fractions 2 soundtrack for only a quarter hapenny!

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Play Frog Fractions online for free!

The limited edition "big box" will include the Frog Fractals lithograph series. From the Julia Set to the Twindragon Curve, your child will spend hours enthralled, staring at their intricate designs, unless you carelessly place two of them on walls opposite from one another, in which case your junior chaotician will sublimate into nega-reality, never to be seen again.

We've also made a deal with the Los Angeles Unified school district. In exchange for teaching art classes once a week, they send us all of the used frog parts from their biology departments. Once funded, we will select an artist every month and commission a work using these parts to add to the touring "Frog Fractions" exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA.

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Frog Factions Pi will have four playable races: Frogs, Toads, Elves, and Toad Elves.
Who am I?
... Is this the part where I break character?

Hi, this is Jim Crawford, project lead behind Frog Fractions. I made Frog Fractions in a little over a year, while I had a day job, on no budget, but with a lot of volunteer help. In designing it, I made the decision to trust you, the player, to figure out how to unlock the game's secrets without being guided every step of the way. In this Kickstarter, I'm asking you to, in turn, trust me. What do you think I could do with a budget?

The Plan
Most Kickstarters are very detailed about what you're paying for, but the nature of this one is that you're paying for a surprise. I created Frog Fractions explicitly to evoke the air of mystery that all video games held in the 1980s, before the era of endless preview coverage and official strategy guides took that feeling away from us, seemingly permanently. (Have you played Frog Fractions? If not, why would you trust me? Go check it out! Ask that friend of yours who liked it to keep pestering you about it.)

Frog Fractions 2 will evoke that same feeling even more strongly. I can't describe what I'm going to make in detail, but I can tell you that I've been thinking about how to properly follow up Frog Fractions for the past year, and I believe I can make something genuinely awesome.

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It will not be called "Frog Fractions 2." It will probably be called something like "Lost Kingdom: Reckoning," by Fork Bomb LLC or "Turbo Finance 2015" by Vespenta Holdings. Does that Russian flight sim on Desura look suspicious to you? Better play it just to make sure! Or maybe it'll be a plugin for Bonzi Buddy and you'll discover it when your grandpa asks you to make his email go faster. Wait, are you playing Frog Fractions 2 right now?

Additional spoiler-free details: it will be considerably larger in scope than Frog Fractions, containing multiple levels of secrets that will take you many play sessions to discover. As such, it will be a downloadable title and will cost money. It will initially be available for PC, with Mac and Linux ports to come soon after.


The goal is $60k dollars. They have $18k already.
 
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This will be worthless unless they reach 350k.
 

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I had more fun with the first one than with various retail games, but I wouldn't back it... still, I hope that Andre Felipe Felipe gets in. :3
 

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Fuck off, original Frog Factions is quite amazing, did you even reach the adventure part for example ?
I lost my patience on the pie discussion bullshit.
Its the same fucking shit, with the same fucking bad animated shitty vectors for over 30 minutes while the developer is having an autistic chat with himself.
Im not playing a game where the creator isn't willing to spend more than 10 minutes into animating your fucking main character or changing that retardaded background for once.
Don't even try something like "2deep4u" bullshit, this is pure shit and im very concerned you define this as an actual taste.
 
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Fuck off, original Frog Factions is quite amazing, did you even reach the adventure part for example ?
I lost my patience on the pie discussion bullshit.
Its the same fucking shit, with the same fucking bad animated shitty vectors for over 30 minutes while the developer is having an autistic chat with himself.
Im not playing a game where the creator isn't willing to spend more than 10 minutes into animating your fucking main character or changing that retardaded background for once.
Don't even try something like "2deep4u" bullshit, this is pure shit and im very concerned you define this as an actual taste.

The game isn't even 30 minutes long, and the background changes 10 minutes in. And what pie discussion? Are you sure you actually played Frog Factions?
 

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Fuck off, original Frog Factions is quite amazing, did you even reach the adventure part for example ?
I lost my patience on the pie discussion bullshit.
Its the same fucking shit, with the same fucking bad animated shitty vectors for over 30 minutes while the developer is having an autistic chat with himself.
Im not playing a game where the creator isn't willing to spend more than 10 minutes into animating your fucking main character or changing that retardaded background for once.
Don't even try something like "2deep4u" bullshit, this is pure shit and im very concerned you define this as an actual taste.

The game isn't even 30 minutes long, and the background changes 10 minutes in. And what pie discussion? Are you sure you actually played Frog Factions?
Oh im sorry, did i say 30 minutes?
I meant an eternity, my bad.

And im not going back to this game to show you the frog upgrade description monologue. He just writes something about going out for some pie or whatever.
 

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:lol: This game is a good moron detector. Dude, you just needed to read the spoiler in my original post from 2012!
 

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I knew there was going to be retards claiming its "2deep4u".
the awesome questigz with the dragons with asteroids on mars!!!11
Oh, wow, that's awesome! I mean, he must have spend more than 5 minutes to make that game afterall!

"Did you solve the secret from the inner poundignz where you can press down so you can break game physics oh my god this developer is a genius best game ever made"
Go choke on a dick.
 

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Itz happened! http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/frog-fractions-2-the-jig-is-up-and-the-game-is-here/

Frog Fractions 2: the jig is up, and the game is here
But can you reach the end? And what mysteries lie in store?
LEE HUTCHINSON - 12/27/2016, 6:15 PM

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Enlarge / Frog Fractions 2 in all its froggy fractional glory.

Disclosure: This author donated to the Frog Fractions 2 crowdfunding campaign in 2014 and he also really likes the games, so any overly enthusiastic language below is likely due to his desire to get more people converted to the cult of Frog Fractions. It's fun! We have donuts at every cult meeting!

The original Frog Fractions swept through Ars Technica a few years ago like a productivity-destroying storm. Someone—probably Andrew Cunningham—dropped the link into staff chat, and one by one everyone was sucked into playing the weird, crazy fractions-tutor-gone-wild "game," meeting Draggy Ceilingeater and journeying to Bug Mars to become a Bug Porn mogul.

Re-reading those sentences makes me feel weird—but nonetheless, that's what happened. The Flash-based game starts out simply enough, but once the player realizes how they can break the rules of the initial "level," it quickly transforms into a series of nearly incomprehensible (but fun!) scenes and events. It's a surreal, rewarding trip—but unfortunately, you can only play through for the very first time once. Replays are fun and you can keep an eye out for details you missed, but overall, Frog Fractions is a relatively linear experience.

After waging a successful 2014 crowdfunding campaign to produce the sequel, lead developer Jim Crawford has been mum on the second game's progress for more than two years. In an interview with Ars back in 2014, Crawford explained his fascination with the seemingly limitless territory to explore in old games—in an era before the Internet and instant access to clues and walkthroughs, mysteries were more potent—maybe you really could walk all the way to the castle in the distance and discover something no one has ever seen before. Frog Fractions played on that sense of discovery, that excitement about creatively breaking a system and finding out that behind the gears and levers, there's another world to explore.


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/ This is the game wherein Frog Fractions 2 hides.

Crawford took Frog Fractions 2 in a different direction from Frog Fractions, explaining that its release would be a complex and hidden process—there might be multiple games that came together to form Frog Fractions 2, like some kind of weird Voltron; or the game might be released and hiding in plain sight for months before anyone discovers what it really is. A ludicrously complex alternate reality game sprang up and has been keeping folks busy at ferreting out details about the game; a set of odd symbols popping up in multiple indie games turned out to be yet another part of the Frog Fractions 2 hunt. And, finally, after two years of waiting and endless jokes on Twitter about whether or not Frog Fractions 2 is even real... Frog Fractions 2became real the day after Christmas, 2016.

"It's surreal," said Crawford in a brief statement to Ars about the game's "release." "But at least I have a point of reference in my life now," he continued. "This happened the first time around, too!"

A bit of fairy dust
As it turns out, Frog Fractions 2 is hidden inside another Steam indie title: an otherwise unremarkable resource gathering game called Glittermitten Grove (though the Frog Fractions 2content wasn't actually in the game until after a Christmas update). To access it, you can either play Glittermitten Grove for real long enough to find a floating door in the sky, or you can use fireworks to drill down into the dirt. After seven or eight blasts straight down, you'll discover a secret door.

And through that door lies...

...a Rogue-like text-mode adventure quest?



We won't spoil more than a teeny bit here, but the game feels both very similar and very different from Frog Fractions. You wander the world, collecting keys and finding warp zones into a bunch of different minigames. The minigames vary in duration and complexity, but all are relatively easy to complete (so far). I've spent about three hours with the game so far, and there is some small sense of story beginning to emerge—sort of. Like the first game, it rewards exploration; however, unlike the original Frog Fractions, the sequel is very much not a linear experience. One thing that definitely is the same is the humor—based primarily around distorted gaming tropes and non sequitur, Frog Fractions 2's text-mode Rogue gameplay and its minigames all feel wonderfully, absurdly familiar.

Two things we haven't encountered yet, even after three hours, are frogs and fractions. Our gaming editor Kyle Orland spent some time interviewing Crawford a few weeks ago, and we'll have that interview ready to run in a few more days. Maybe Jim can tell us where he's hiding all the amphibian math. And the bug porn. It's just not Frog Fractions without bug porn.

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I don't understand why this game pisses me off so much
It drives me fucking insane
It makes me wanna insert my dick into a toaster
Its so fucking pretentious, so contentless, such an awfully uninspired piece of bad looking garbage
I took a fucking diarrhea shit once and it looked better than this
There are so many talented people in this world, who makes amazing content - spending their fucking lives trying to be recognized while this piece of pretentious retarded garbage gets 70k to make a kewl Meta game that is as fun to play as waiting for paint to dry
I wish i could give money to see this NOT happening - just revert it back into time like a baby being shoved back into the ugly vagina it came from
I would rather have a giant cactus be shoved and twisted into my rectum to be stumbled upon this garbage again
Just this fucking thread makes me angry
God fucking christ
But what would we have to buy, Glittermitten Grove ?
Just fucking hilarious
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