How do you reinvent Frogger? In the modern age of gaming can you really justify charging for the simplistic games of the past such as Frogger or Pong especially in the this age of free to play games dominating a significant portion of the market. Sure they were limited due to the technical restrictions of their hardware but the question remains as to how they can be relevant in today. It certainly is a difficult task but for the Frogger instance specifically one that developer Hipster Whale has solved perfectly.
So how do you make a modern Frogger game? The solution as it turns out is to make the path procedurally generated and different each time and to make the game free and sell additional frogs or characters. Its genius really because when you think about it, it doesn’t really matter what Frogger looks like, whether your a frog, cow, flea, robot or even telephone box, as long as the game plays the same and is as fun as regular old Frogger who cares what the traffic dodging star looks like. The fact that you can earn additional characters through collecting coins along any given run, watching advertisements to earn a coin boost or being rewarded coins after several hours. Once 100 coins have been cultivated you get the chance at playing the slot machine which gives you a random character for your hard earned coins. Its a fair system and model as you play for cosmetic differences that do not effect the gameplay. Combine that with fun gameplay that makes you want to top your high score and you have Frogger for the modern era and a top notch game thats worth your attention.
5/5