- Joined
- Jan 28, 2011
- Messages
- 97,440
Remember this game?
Yeah, that's right: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2
The goal is $60k dollars. They have $18k already.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Last edited: