The Fregstival

Grid placement puzzler crossed with Tower Defence. Build up your temple to great heights, by organising fregs, food and defensive turrets. Made with Brainoid and Space3d for LD54.

https://honestdan.itch.io/fregstival

The Fregstival expanded the Fregward universe from the 2022 Mega Jam. Brainoid and I were putting together an idea for a tower defense meets tetris hybrid game, and asked spacey3d to come up with a thematic interpretation of our idea. In true spacey style she delivered an idea we would not have considered ourselves: a festival for fregs, who eat a grand feast in the name of their Frogod.

The game came together really well in the end, we feel our scope was a lot better than usual, which let us focus on polish and balancing the game. There were some player on-boarding issues, but not to the extent where they weren’t able to play the game. We aimed for something that everyone can play, but with some depth that you could really attempt to min-max your play to achieve a better score. An integrated leader-board helped with replay-ability.