How unfair is this!  A prince has studied for years to travel by magic.  He automatically assumes that a young princess who called for help is useless.  But as we shall see, her magic is far greater than his.  AND she helps people.

Even though we "finished" the game in 2020, we have been making small improvements when we revisit it.  In this clip, we have added two expression changes to Emma.

Uh... someone is missing from the rescue team.

But we put her back in.

This is what happens when you are old and have had different careers.  They come back to haunt you...

Here is Frog's Princess being enjoyed at AVCon, Adelaide's anime and video game festival, which was held at the Adelaide Showgrounds on 29 and 30 June this year.

Blind players can play the original Frog's Princess storybook but they need help setting it up.  We held off on posting updates because we wanted it to be fully accessible to blind players playing independently.

Two programmers attempted to fix this but were unable to.

And then along came Scott!

Yes, Scott Purcival who made the original storybook playable, and optimised it, and made the characters customisable, that Scott.  He was the one who you might remember made the dancing frog timer and surprised the team one day with a Swimmy Frog game!  He is now working at Tea Games doing much more sophisticated projects than interactive novels, but they were kind enough to let him work on Frog's Princess for us.

When you make a lot of small changes, sometimes you can accidentally move things around.

Here we found the back arrow for the mirror was too high.

This is what it looked like before it was fixed.

We know Soldier Willard always follows the rules, but that is because he always tries to protect his King.

Here after Emma and Francis defeat the Witch, he turns to his King while Francis is telling Emma what happened while she was unconscious.

We have spent 3 years making small changes like this one.

Emma was too large in the previous version of Chapter Two, Scene One, Page 7.

Now she is the right size!

Oh my goodness, it's been a while!  After faithfully keeping up our blog for more than 4 years, we seem to have taken ahem... a year's break.

So what have we been doing?

Well, Kathy has been teaching at SAE Creative Media Institute for the past year.  However today she was contacted by a radio announcer and she places the interview here for your listening pleasure.

Note that Kathy is introduced 6:34 minutes into this excerpt [1:19:33 in the actual show].

The thrust of her message is that it takes indie developers to make really original games.

Over the past couple of years we have made a significant number of small corrections to Frog's Princess, and there are only the big ones to go before we put out a big patch.

However occasionally we have a little visit and make more little corrections.

Would you believe it, when the cart was driving behind the lemon tree, Iron Henry showed in front of it!  Well, we can't have that, so we fixed it today.