Giant Bomb Presents: The Surprising History of Frog Fractions

This game is still some inside joke as I still don't get it, even after trying to play it several times.

[tinfoil hat] is this part of the frog fractions 2 ARG????

Jim Crawford is a really interesting and funny guy, good interview. Hope to see him on one of the GDC late hour shows.

I have a fascinating story about the last time I went to the toilet. BTW, I'm open for interviews!

@sammo21: How far did you play it when you played it? Did you... go underwater?

No.

Awesome, Patrick - thanks for getting Jim for the interview. Hearing frank talk about the development of something as crazy as Frog Fractions is almost surreal.

@sammo21: Go underwater.

@thomper: @larrydavis:

I replayed the first bit of Frog Fractions after listening to this interview. Man, that part where you're underwater in Bug Mars and this guy is just going off about the history of Boxing is still the best thing ever.

Jims a cool guy. Grabbed some beers with him after a game jam last year in San Francisco. Fun dude.

It took me an embarrassingly long time to find my way out of the first part of the "game". I think I got just about every upgrade before I decided to try different things.

I read the name and I had to listen :D

Go underwater

Did you press down to dive?

Deep Voice Patrick.

This interview is hiding behind the title of an UpWorthy post :P

This interview IS the entirety of Frog Fractions 2.

Mission Complete. Thanks for the crowdfunding money!

And on the seventh day...

Also, this game is still kinda great.

@sammo21: Get your ass to Bug Mars

It took me an embarrassingly long time to make it out of the beginning because of how much fun I was having reading all the jokes that had been put into the upgrade descriptions.

Yup, dis exactly.

Thanks for posting this really love hearing his reasoning behind this game. enjoyed it

I love how much sincere work went into such a batshit crazy game. Really fascinating interview with a really fascinating dude. Frog Fractions 2 could change the world.

I was kind of like "i get it...its kind of funny" with Frog Fractions.....then i finished it and as the credits started, it went into a perfect parody of the end of The Matrix with a song that sounded purposely like Rage Against the Machines "Wake Up" and i was like....

GENIUS!!!!!

The hell are you talking about? Lemme guess, you never got past the first are where you're just playing as a frog on a lily pad? There's more to the game than you think.

Older podcast links are currently broken, so click on the RSS link to get the direct URL to the MP3 file. That seems to work.

The Portal 1 to 2 comparison seems pretty accurate for Frog Fractions 1 and 2.