Tadpole Treble's just finished Early Access and is now available for its official Steam launch tonight! So if you passed on the Wii U version, the Steam launch is ready for ya.

@ludist210
Thanks! If nothing else, try shooting for all the Challenge Flies. Every unlockable in the game is linked to a reward in some way.

@Anand
We developed a slightly-working version of a copy/paste feature, but it didn't quite make the final cut unfortunately (had a few bugs in it).

@TriforceBun

What's it going to take to get you on the show to talk about Tadpole Treble?

Mr_Mustache said:

@deathly_hallows

I gotta beat stupid Ghostbusters first. And can you guess how much of THAT I played today?

0 MINUTES

If you are talking about newest Ghostbusters game that was released a few months back do yourself a favor and don't play it. Its complete garbage. It is a repetitive, crapfest of a game. Seriously, check out the reviews. Play Tadpole Treble or any other game. Seriously, this isn't just an opinion, its pure fact.

I know I'm super late for this, but you've really got something special here. This game is just fantastic. Simply moving around and collecting the bubbles feels good, but when it's paired so that you're navigating the stages while grooving with the music, the game reaches a new level of fun. This is especially true in the tracks with lyrics. When both the instuments, the vocals, and the gameplay all reach peak intensity, you're left with this great sense of flow.

And this is pretty much a perfect example of doing short games well.The game takes the core ideas to their limit, while offering unique spins on the gameplay. We get great songs in a wide variety of genres. There's nothing unnecessary to be cut out. And replaying the game multiple times is incentivized with challenge flies, collecting all the bubbles, low score challenges, high score challenges, and concerto mode. So you're engaging with the content from multiple angles, rather than playing it the same way every time.

I've got about 1170 bubbles, but I don't think I'll try getting the other ones, as I don't find obsessively restarting the levels over and over again to be as fun as simply playing them normally. I'd much rather just play through a level and try to get as many bubbles as possible and not stress about going for 100%.

And there are plenty of nice, smart design touches, like how the fish the come out of the background in Barracuda Caverns are shown to the player before they're expected to dodge them. I can't remember other examples off of the top of my head, but I definitely noticed new obstacles being telegraphed and conveyed to the player ahead of time.

Anyway, I'll definitely be getting all the challenge flies, as the reward for that is a nice surprise. Speaking of surprises what the heck popped up on the screen when I hit that X mark on Thunder Creek? It looked like picture of you and your brother followed by a message?

OH GEEZ. I wrote all this while leaving the game on the shop screen only to find that the camera slowly zooms on the bullfrog's face. Whoa. I love these silly little touches The bullfrog is definitely my favorite character.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule

Wow! Thanks for the nice words. I'm pleasantly surprised to see all the positive feedback; sometimes when you're working on a project for so long, it's difficult to see it objectively and you just kinda HOPE that people like it. But I'm thrilled that we're sitting at 90 on Metacritic...like, it's kind of crazy to me.

I'm glad you invested as much gameplay in the game as you already have, and that you also managed to stumble upon a couple of our easter eggs (the Etude one was based on a promotional video we put up on YouTube; our programmer has a wry sense of humor and put that in the game itself because he wanted to). As for the other one, there's sort of a long story behind it, but basically it has a full Spanish translation for Thunder Creek that we got a friend to make, but the recording itself didn't make it in the game. I'd love to hear someone attempt it though, because it's actually a very cool translation. I'm guessing you've stumbled upon the Pause Menu Song by now?

@TriforceBun

But what was the picture lol?

And yeah, I've heard the pause menu song a couple of times in-game, but I first heard it back when you posted the song on YouTube.

@Hero_Of_Hyrule
It was this one:



A pic of Michael and I at a Disney park trying out their merchandise.

Playing the Steam version of this now, and I dig it! Super cute.