Run, hop, and swim your way to victory in this charming pico-8 remake of Duck Life!

The game focuses around training your frog through mini-games to win races

This remake fixes one of the most startling issues with the original game, the blatant lack of frogs. Now, with 16 hats and 7 colors to choose from, you can customize your frog to your hearts desire!

How To Play

Races are automatic and are based off of your frog's stats. If you aren't winning, it means you need to train more!
If your frog is fainting in the middle of a race, it means they're low on energy and need to be fed more to increase their energy stat
Any more questions? Make sure to post it in the comments, and I'll make sure to address the issues asap

Z = Circle Button
X = X button
Arrow Keys for all other inputs

Train your frog via games to win races, and earn enough prize money to buy every hat!

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	HTML5
Rating	Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars (9 total ratings)
Author	Mopi
Genre	Simulation, Racing
Made with	PICO-8
Tags	2D, Animals, Cute, duck-life, Frogs, minigames, PICO-8, Pixel Art
Average session	About a half-hour
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard

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FrogLifeHandbook.pdf 1 MB

Development log

Version 1.01 - Bug Fixes
Jun 29, 2021

Comments

Snoom1 year ago(+1)

honestly this is amazing, its a really fun remake of duck life c: i love how you put your own spin on it with the race terrain and minigames and such, my favourite was probably the swimming one! though the jumping was fun too once i got the hang of it :D

also idk how you made those frogs so adorable when theyre like half a pixel but they really are so cute <3<3<3

Mopi1 year ago(+1)

Thank you so much! Glad you could get so much enjoyment out of my little project from forever ago :)

Honestly those frogs are one of my better creations, sometimes I would just spawn a bunch and watch them hop!

XenoCow1 year ago (3 edits) (+1)

I finished it as best I could. I spent maybe too much time on this game... 🐸

A few things I noticed:

There is not enough money as reward to both max out the energy of the frog and to buy all the hats/colors
There seems to be a bug on the second level of the second circuit that makes a maxed frog jump way too short and get hurt when it should stomp the competition.
The energy bar in-race looks like it might go up to 100 but only shows up to 48 in the main menu like the other skills. The value can go beyond that 48, though.
Cute frogs

Patsy1 year ago(+2)

Very cute! Give me more frogs to have please. I must race them!
★★★★★

Mopi2 years ago

I saw some issues with clarity, so I made sure to add some information to the description. Make sure you read it for a list of controls, and gameplay instructions!

If clarity is still an issue I can see about adding a tutorial as well

Edgar Lillo2 years ago(+1)

this is pretty poggers my guy

Mopi2 years ago

Thanks bro, you’re pretty poggers too

FeanorsCurse2 years ago

There are other keyboard layouts than qwerty, you know...

Mopi2 years ago(+1)

I'm sorry! Z and X are the default Circle and X inputs for Pico-8, the game engine I developed this with. If you play on mobile, it'll give you Circle and X as actual buttons which makes it more playable. What keyboard layout do you use/what keys would you prefer? I can see about adding that as an accessibility feature :)

FeanorsCurse2 years ago

Hi, thanks for the nice reply. Where I live we have z & y switched, I know other countries where it's the same. Probably even other layouts out there. Best option would be to: