Frogatto & Friends Download PC

Frogatto & Friends is a platformer video game with adventure elements released in July 2010. The game received positive reviews, particularly for its "gorgeous" pixel art. The game is cross-platform and runs on Linux (including Nokia N900 handheld devices), AmigaOS4, AROS, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, iOS and BlackBerry Tablet OS. The game uses an open-source engine (under the zlib license), with game data mostly proprietary and partly under Creative Commons BY license.

Plot

In Frogatto & Friends, the player helps the title character, Frogatto, save his friends from trouble.

Development and release

The game was created by a team that includes the creator of The Battle for Wesnoth, and three of Wesnoth's department leads.

In contrast to their previous project, The Battle for Wesnoth, the Frogatto team did development as a small centralized team, with the intention of building a solid engine and a game to showcase that engine, before trying to build a community around the game; the intent being to speed up development by reducing bureaucracy, and to enable stronger creative freedom over the work.

The game's engine is programmed in C++ with cross-platform capability in mind. In the Anura game engine's GitHub license file, the source code is licensed under the zlib license and the included content as CC0. Both the source code and the game have been publicly available since r125 of their source repository, but they did not attempt to build a community around the game until after reaching 1.0. It is intended by the developers that the source code of the game be used to help make other open-source games. The engine is also multi-platform and runs on most systems where the game runs. This helps developers of smaller platforms (such as AmigaOS) by giving them technologies to create high quality, open-source, new modern games on (and for) their system (and reach users of other platforms as well).

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