How do you animate a frog?

With a theme and species decided it was time to get drawing. It turns out frogs are kinda hard to draw (who knew?) and even harder to animate. With very little experience in the field of animating frogs I had to spend a lot of time figuring out how they ever manage to keep their legs under control. What followed were countless (very) dodgy prototypes and many hours of painstaking photoshop puppetry before I finally managed to produce a fully animated version of our first frog, who would eventually become our mascot Fribit! Here he is (on the left) in all of his beautiful froggy glory:

Frogar.io froggy goodness

We are hoping to use our little game to make everyone fall in love with frogs, with that in mind some of our current and upcoming special frogs are going to be based on real-life species that we think should be getting a little more press. For example, our frog 'Frungi' (on the left) is based on one of the rarer breeds of Harlequin frogs. Although these little critters are beautiful, they are currently listed as endangered. So not only are we helping spread the love for frogs, but we're also helping to spread the word for endangered species.

Here's a video of our lead developer, Donny, playing as Frungi: