The Hungry Frog series is a series of related educational games which all revolve around the continuing hunger of Hungry Frog frogs to eat and breed. Counting Frogs is one of the math Hungry Frog games.
Other Hungry Frog games include math Hungry Frog games teaching elementary arithmetic skills as well as more advanced mathematical topics such as absolute value, multiplication, and division, and Hungry Fog Ion Eaters for learning chemistry. If you want to see the other games as shareware, let me know via Email.
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What is Counting Frogs?
Counting Frogs is a simple to learn color (or B&W) real-time animated multimedia game which makes the learning of the sequence of integers on the number line fun. You (or your child) can select options of learning to count up or count down using positive numbers only or both negative numbers and positive numbers. Throughout the course of the game audio and visual aids direct your child on the quest for a new high score!
The players object is to keep the Hungry Frog colony breeding by helping them eat flies flying overhead. When the frogs eat a lot they make tadpoles, and tadpoles sometimes change into frogs to move the game up to the next level. Both game difficulty and speed are fully adjustable, so beginners or experienced counters can both have fun.
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How do you play Counting Frogs?
To play, just double click on the Counting Frogs icon. Once the game starts, clicking on a frog gives you control of the frog's tongue. You must hold the mouse button down and drag the tongue to a fly, then release the mouse button.
If you are playing "count up" the number of the fly must be the next integer after the number of the mouse. (For example, Frog +1 eats Flies +2 in count up; Frog +1 eats Flies 0 in count down).
If the player releases the tongue on the correct fly, the frog will suck up the fly and eat it, if not you'll see what happens. (Note: Level 1 starts with only a single frog, so you can practice your mouse skills and start out by getting everything correct - there's no way to be wrong on level 1!)
You remain in the game as long as you have tadpoles (the little swimmers swimming around with the frogs). The tadpoles die, as well as grow into new frogs (when this happens you go up a level) so you have to be sure to keep eating (the more you eat, the more tadpoles you get), or you may run out of tadpoles and the game will end.
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What's the current version of the Program?
The current version is v1.2 Version 1.2 fixes problems earlier versions had with old Macs with the old itsy-bitsy B&W screens, and fixes a few other minor reported bugs including Help and About Box menu bugs. If you want the non-guilt inducing version of the game, print the form you are prompted to print when the game ends (or you quit) and mail it in.
v1.2 also fixes bugs that cause the program to crash after display of the guilt screen if you have no printer selected, as well as adding some new game start options.
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What computer setup do I need?
The game has been tested to work with System 7.0.1* or higher, and shouldn't care what Mac it runs on. (Note: V1.1 has been tested on an SE30, and should now run on old macs w/B&W screens - sorry if you had problems before). You can run in B&W, 4 colors, 16 colors or 256 colors, or 1000's of colors all at any window size up to a two page display (1152x870 pixels). Feel free to resize (or zoom) the window to any size you like, that's why the size box is there! Apple didn't implement resizable windows for nothing, you know.
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Last but not least, SEND ME COMMENTS ON THE GAME!
If you have any problems with this game, like crashing or weird behavior, SEND ME A COMPLAINT SO I CAN FIX THE PROBLEM! The game works on all the systems I've checked it out on (more and more!), but I can't anticipate everything. Only if the game works fine, then, by all means send in your shareware fees if you find the game useful.
Finally, be aware that due to the nature of shareware other users could have made changes to the program before you receive it, and it is your responsibility to verify that the instructuctional nature of the program has not been compromised by a third party.
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P.S.
If you have any ideas on ways to improve the game, let me know!
