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Our voice actor nominated for Best Actress!

22/5/2021

Lisa Fanto created all our female voices - yes, the young voice of Emma, the bossy voice of Hilda, and the calm voice of Ramona was also that screechy witch!

Well, she went on to star in the web series LOVE, GUNS & LEVEL UPS. Not only did it win an honourable mention in the DC Webfest 2021, but Lisa is nominated for Best Actress in the biggest celebration of web series in Germany @dieseriale!

Picture of Lisa standing holding a huge gun, with a sign behind her saying,

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Scott gets job at The Eccentric Ape

10/5/2021

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Our amazing programmer Scott Purcival starts work at The Eccentric Ape today, and we wish him all the best.

Scott began working on Frog's Princess on 26 July 2018, when the game was still in a greybox state. He began working during the hiring call! He has been an amazing asset to the team and made every feature we asked for, including:

PLAY FEATURES

getting the game into a playable state in 4 weeks so we could get ready for our first Kickstarter campaign
making a Back button which is a significant alteration of the Fungus storytelling program
separating the Storylines
creating Contents so that the player can go to any page - Scott also added pictures to the buttons and frames around active buttons
creating an entire Character Customisation feature for svg files which remain high quality even when enlarged
implementing the (slightly buggy) Unity Accessibility Package so Frog's Princess can be read on a screen reader by players with vision impairment

Photo of Scott wearing glasses in his home office with 3 monitors behind him

INSIDE STUFF

collaborating with artists Christy, Riley and John to help optimise their art for the game
wrangling cameras and culling VFX and including images with off-camera settings
making a tool for Kathy so she can change character expressions on a page at the click of a button
many other changes to enable Kathy to make the game such as separate Voice, SFX and Music control
optimising the assets so game size went down from 1.3GB to 580MB (and most of that is Kathy's fault as she kept adding characters and background layers and audio)
improving performance so we get to the next page in 0.3 seconds usually, instead of the 3 seconds it was taking during production
suiting Frog's Princess to devices with hard memory limits by redesigning the chapter loading routines
building a Multibuild feature for us so we can produce demo and main games at the press of a button

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building a Save Game system which we call the Library, which can fit any number of books, as Scott, a father of three, thought of students making games in class
redesigning the Menu system to keep up with all the changes
surprising us with Swimmy Frog - yes, one day Kathy found a fish in the well beside the main menu. She pressed it and was transported into the well playing a minigame!
but Kathy's favourite of all, as regular readers will know - Scott made our loading frog

Scott is a joy to work with. As the game design matured he not only kept up with changes but suggested a few himself. He is completely unstoppable – he keeps at a task until he gets it working, makes it efficient, and has a clean console. We think the Eccentric Ape are very lucky to get him.

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Our voice actor nominated for Best Actress!

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