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Just a Button is a little game made for the Experimental Gameplay Project.

The rules of Experimental Gameplay Project are pretty simple:
1. Each game must be made in less than seven days,
2. Each game must be made by exactly one person
3. Each game must be based around a common theme i.e. “gravity”, “vegetation”, “swarms”, etc.

The theme for august 2009 was “Bare minimum” and, as you can see, the graphics of the game are close to the theme.
Having bare minimum visuals is the first step, but trying to find the bare minimum gameplay to have fun with a game seems a lot more interesting!
The idea behind Just a Button is that pushing a button is the minimal action needed to do something in 95% of video games, so why not trying to make a game where this action is the only one available?
This game explore gameplay variations around this thought. Quickly the multiplayer aspect was added to the project because hell yeah, playing games is even better with friends around!

And so here was born the idea: Fun with Just a Button and some Friends

Frogames is Partner and Judge of the Level Up 2009, the Intel Visual Adrenaline Game Demo Challenge.Winners will receive hundreds of dollars of Frogames Art Content Packs, and a lot of other prizes.

We are very proud to be part of the judges team, not only because we are going to work with Will Wright, but also because we have the largest mustache of the judge panel!

Registration is free, so don’t miss the deadline: submissions will be accepted until July 1, 2009!

Level Up 2009

Level Up 2009 Prizes

Level Up 2009 Judges

Penguins Invasion is the first iPhone game developed by Frogames. It revisits the game universe of Penguins Arena: Sedna’s world, which was released 18 months ago on Mac OS X and Windows, and which won the 2007 Intel® Game Demo Contest.
Penguins Invasion is a small but addictive game; a “wack-a-mole” set in the colorful and fun world of the penguins in Penguins Arena.
This time, driven from their home by global warming, the penguins are invading us with explosive fish! You of course, are the last bastion of humanity…
The game features include:
- online scores
- achievements
- short and fast-paced games
- easy and intuitive controls
- a high quality of graphics and sound
- increasing difficulty level
- a $5 coupon to purchase Penguins Arena (Mac OS X & Windows)
For more information about the game and to view the online scores, please visit: http://www.frogames.com/iphone/
The game costs US$1, and you can buy it at: http://itunes.com/apps/PenguinsInvasion

To mark the release of its game Penguins Invasion on iPhone, Frogames is organizing a competition with a prize of US$100! The winner will be the player who achieved the best score between 10 and 17 June, the first week of the game’s release.
The prize is very generous: US$100! That’s 100 times the price of the game!
The competition rules are available on: http://www.frogames.com/iphone/

Here an excerpt:

Being hit by a Fish Bomb: You should avoid Fish Bombs at all costs, but if you happened to get launched up into the air, use these tips to land safely back on the ground if possible.

1. Fly away from the water. If your thrown towards the water, press the S (or what ever key you choose for backwards) to start flying away from the water. Do the same for what ever direction your going.
2. If the bomb has not quite gone off yet, and you know there’s no time you escape, brace yourself. If you are going to get thrown forward, hold down S to start going backwards and minimize the force.
3. Never run away while close to a bomb. You won’t make it. If an opponent places a bomb by your feet, running away will only increase your danger. Once the bomb goes off, you’ll be going so fast that there is no hope to fly back to land, and you’ll beat eaten by sharks!

This guide will help new players but we’re pretty sure it will also be very helpfull to veterans! Thank you Rekedens!

Here a little report of last months activities.

You can follow us on our Kiva Lending Page.

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December, the 13th 2008

Mukasa Grace is the leader of Nkokonjeru Model One in Uganda. She is 40 years old and married with 6 children. She has a poultry farm business where she keeps chicken both for meat and for egg. She has spent 8 years in the same business and as a result, she has been able to own an organized home. She also has cows that she milks to pay fees for her children. Grace needs a loan to be able to buy more feed in bulk for her chickens since buying in small quantities is costly due to transport fees. Frogames lends $50 december the 13th, 2008.

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January, the 18th 2009

The Kadiatu Kargbo Group is composed by Kadiatu Kargbo and Aminata Tarawalie who are both local entrepreneurs in northern Sierra Leone.
Kadiatu (28 years old - 3 children), the leader of the group, sells market food, cigarettes, soft drinks, and sometimes bowls. She will use this loan to expand on her business by buying one “batter” of cooking oil (five gallons make a batter), one batter of palm-oil, a bag of rice, two gross of cigarettes, mints, gum, bars of soap, and so on. Kadiatu’s dream is to save a lot of money so that she can buy herself a plot of land and to see that her business continues to grow. Frogames lends $25 january, the 18th, 2009.

Aminata Kargbo Group is composed by Aminata Kargbo and Fatmata Kanu. They are local entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone. Aminata (48 years old - 4 children), the leader of the group, will expand her business with this loan. She will invest part of the money in her “gara” business and part in the palm-oil business. She will buy at least white cotton. She will also use some of the money to buy ink, powder, soda and other chemicals used in dyeing the cloth. She will also have to pay workers who design some intricate patterns on the white cotton. She loves doing her business and would like to see it grow as it is her only source of survival.  Frogames lends $50 january, the 18th, 2009.

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March, the 4th 2009

Today we make loans on january and february 2009 basis.

Augustus Tetteh is fifty-one years. He is divorced with three children. He is a dealer in building materials like cement, nails, roofing sheet, etc. in Ghana.  He would like to procure increased goods to accelerate his business and expand his shop.  Frogames lends $50 march, the 4th, 2009.

Rosemary Odiase sells second hand shoes and clothes in Nigeria. She also rents out VCD’S to her customers. She would like to purchase more second hand shoes and clothes to sell. She hopes to expand this business. She is 28 years old and married with 2 children. Frogames lends $25 march, the 4th, 2009.

Raphael Onyeator is 46 years old and married with 7 children. He lives in Nigeria. He sells and repairs motorcycle spare parts. He has been in this business for a long time. He would like to purchase more motorcycle spare parts to sell.  Frogames lends $50 march, the 4th, 2009.

It’s not the first time one of our games get an article in a magazine but it’s pretty rare for us to know exactly in which magazine :  we can’t read them all and editors don’t have time to contact us when they make an article about us. The only way we know it’s happening is because of our website statistics, an increase of visitors coming from a specific country is a good clue.

If you come across one of those articles please inform us by e-mail!

After a long hiatus we decided to finish it. Here the result:

What was your development process like?
Penguins Arena was born during a Game in a Day session (the subject was “impalement”). Penguins Arena’s gameplay really hasn’t changed much since the early prototype…we just replaced the sticks with snowballs! Some months later we worked on a second prototype, and we were so happy with the results, we decided to make a full game out of it.
We like to use an iterative process because it’s probably the most comfortable one for a young team. The problem with this process is: when are you supposed to stop working on a feature, or even on the game itself? Nobody is going to tell you when enough is enough, and more features don’t necessary mean more fun.

Many thanks to Deborah for her support and to GarageGames for making awesome Game Engines!