Super Frog
Date realised: 1993
Audience: Male and female 8+
Genre: Action
Super frog is a classic action game which came out in 1993.
The objective of the game is to find and kill a witch to help save a princess.
There are 6
levels but during these 6 levels you have to achieve mini objectives such as
collecting keys, coins, apples, finding secret hide outs and killing/jumping
over enemy’s.
Super frog game map: http://www.dvdflick.net/storage/l1ma1.png
The game starts off where the
princess is taken away from her prince which is then turned into a frog. The
frog then drinks a bottle which gives him super powers. The music is quite basic and a bit fairy tale.
It then goes into the credits and a screen comes up where it explains how
points work.
(Super
Frog- Part one.)
o
Introduces collecting coins
o Essential
to jump to collect objects and jump
over spikes
o Basic enemies
(Blobs) easy to kill and avoid.
The frog
fell down and straight away it introduces you to coins in the air suggesting
that you have to jump to collect coins. After walking just a bit you come
across cherry’s which you already know is 50 points so you know you have to
collect these. However in the first part it introduces simple enemy which don’t
cause much harm and is easy to get rid of especially with how simple super frog’s
controls are. The first enemy is a little blob which only takes a jump on the
head to get rid of. But to get to the cherry and enemies you have to jump over
a small ditch off spikes. It’s easy to jump with super frog so this bit isn’t too
difficult and is just an introduction to the game.
(Super frog-Part two)
o 
Jumping on springs to get
coins and on floating islands.
Jumping on springs to get
coins and on floating islands.
o Longer
jumps/Double jumps
o 
Secret tunnels
Secret tunnels
o Harder enemies
e.g. hedgehogs
o 
Jumping on certain clouds result in
more coins
Jumping on certain clouds result in
more coins
After you have defeated the first enemies and you carry on
walking it’s easy to see that the game is getting more adventures. Springs are
introduced in a simple way, There easy to jump too and it’s easy to recognise
that the spring is essential to collect coins in the air. While in the air you
also see flying ‘islands’ you can try one jump which sometimes isn’t good
enough and you fall back down. This is helping the user to understand that
double jump is essential in some parts of the game. I like how the game decided
to use the springs this simple because the springs are quite close to the
beginning of the game so I do like how they are covering the basics while in
the first half of the map.
Secret
tunnels are a big feature in this game. They hide so many points which are kind
of essential to the game as the main objective may be to find keys to help
capture the witch. However at the end of each round the points are counted up
from all the coins and fruits you collect. The results can result you being in the
leader board. The first tunnel you had to walk down a long pat to then jump on
a spring which resulted you being launched up into quite a few of coins and
launched back out through some logs. I like that feature, you could walk over
the logs as much as you like but you won’t fall through into the secret tunnel,
instead you have to find the tunnel and bounce back out into logs which is
unexpected. 
(Super frog-Part 3)
o Jumping/climbing
on trees
o Snails, hedgehogs
and bees are more involved
o Spikes
o Getting up
on higher places
o Mushroom
coins
In part 3 of
the map I realised that I had to get onto a big ‘cliff’ and the only way to do
that is to jump on to the tree branches kind of like climbing the tree. It’s
easy to see that you do have to jump the trees to get there because they make
the tree branches stand out a lot. If you fall of a branch you have to start
from the beginning and hope you don’t fall into the spikes at the bottom of the
trees. However on the right hand side of the spikes there is a tunnel which you
just have to walk into the wall to make the tunnel appear. In the tunnel there
is a spring which shoots you out into some coins and you appear at the top of
the Clift. But if you want to carry on climbing the tree you has to battle
bee’s which fly at you and attempts to attack you which is a lot more
challenging.
The main feature I noticed in this part of super frog is that
there are mushrooms which rapidity spit out coins. So instead of just jumping
on an enemy and getting one you can jump near a mushroom and get several.
(Super frog-Part 4)
o Arrows
saying danger- Makes it a bit more tense but also allows the player to become
more prepared and more excited for what’s coming up in this part of the map.
o Loads of
springs- Bit more complicated
You slide down a hill of apples after the sign danger, after
sliding down you have to jump over a row of spikes which then leads you into a
row of springs. Above the springs there’s an A lot of coins, you have to jump
spring to spring while trying to collect the coins and moving across. After
moving across the springs you can spring onto the ledge which you then carry on
sliding down a hill full of coins until you get to the tree which symbols the
end of that round. Around the tree there is quite a lot of enemy’s waiting for
you. It is quite obvious that you do have to try and kill the enemy’s to get
into the tree and move onto the next round.
In conclusion I think the game is a good old classic. It has
all the basic but yet important moves such as hitting, jumping and collecting
coins. I think that having classic moves is one of the main reasons why I like
this game so much. They made the round quite simple at first but as the map
goes on those moves become more difficult and the gamer establishes that the
game will get more difficult as it gets on and that they have to be find and
collect object’s for there mini/Bonus objective as well as help find the
princess and destroy the witch. However I do think the game could use more
tunnels or something to give the game more of a twist like different enemy’s
etc. I think this will help the user want to carry on because it will be more
entertaining. But overall I am impressed with the game and like many of the
features which is included in this map.
VVVVVV
Date released: 2010
Audienc
VVVVVV’s game map
When you first begin VVVVV a mini story starts. In the story
there are mini men which look a bit like robots working in there station on a
ship until something happens and they go trough and teleporter but resolting in
oly one robot escaping and not the wrhole crew. There is an box explaining how you can skip the
story by pressing the action key which can be either the space bar, z or u.
Your first
challenge is doing a flip over some spikes, to do the flip an dialog comes up explaining
how you have to press the action key. Once pressed the man flips over to the
other side of the room as if the action key turns of the gravity.
You then have to do a ‘leap of faith’ this is where you have
to turn off gravity again which fly’s you through an room until it hits an
different room. I like this effect because it was kind of unexpedictly and also
you can bounce back through the ‘leap of faith’
After the
leap of death you come to a trickier situation which is called traffic jam. It has
red little stop signs bouncing back and through onto both walls. Basically the
user has to use the action key several times at this point but this is also challenging
because of how fast the men are. So in this section you have to learn how to
press the none gravity key at the right moment to pass. Once you die you return
back to the checkpoint just before the red stopping men.
In this part it is again more trickier. You can easily tell
that the game is getting more ad more difficult each room you go through. In
this room there is two checkpoints. You can see that only one check point is
lighten up and that is 
because he
robot as walked past it to activate the checkpoint. This means that when I next
die I will get transported to that check point. To get past this level you have to use two
keys at the same time. For example you have to use the left moving and then the
action key at the right time just to make the man switch over before he goes
into the spikes. This is more difficult because its making the users think of
co-ordinating buttons at the right moment.
because he
robot as walked past it to activate the checkpoint. This means that when I next
die I will get transported to that check point. To get past this level you have to use two
keys at the same time. For example you have to use the left moving and then the
action key at the right time just to make the man switch over before he goes
into the spikes. This is more difficult because its making the users think of
co-ordinating buttons at the right moment. 
When you go
near the little telly icon and press enter it shows a message from someone so
the telly icon is basically where you can get your messages from. Also I have
realised that if you just press enter anywhere the little map will come up.
This will be handy because it allows you torecognise where you are.
To get pass the green icons moving then you simple have to
press action to dodge them. I like how they did this feature because its kind
of the opisite of the red moving men because they was going verticle and slower
while these was going faster and horizantle. So it tells the user that theres
more to expect and that each round is goin to be more unique and harder than
the last.