Frogatto & Friends, or simply Frogatto, is a platformer

Platform game

A platform game is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles . It must be possible to control these jumps and to fall from platforms or miss jumps...

 game with adventure-elements

Adventure game

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, created by a team that includes the founder of Wesnoth, and three of Wesnoth's department leads, and was first released in July 2010. In Frogatto, the player helps Frogatto save his friends from trouble.

Frogatto & Friends is available without charge for a variety of computer operating systems, and in the iPhone

IPhone

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 App Store for $0.99. The most current version of the game, 1.1.1, was released on July 4, 2011.

Development

The game is programmed in C++

C++

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. It is cross-platform

Cross-platform

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, and runs on Linux

Linux

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 (including OS flavors running on Nokia n900 handheld devices), Mac OS X

Mac OS X

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, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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, and iOS.

In contrast to their previous project, Battle for Wesnoth

Battle for Wesnoth

The Battle for Wesnoth, or simply Wesnoth, is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy setting, designed by David White and first released in June 2003. In Wesnoth, the player attempts to build a powerful army by controlling villages and defeating enemies for experience. White based Wesnoth...

, the frogatto team did development as a small, centralized team, with the intention of building a solid engine and a game to showcase that engine, before trying to build a community around the game. Both the source code and the game have been publicly available since r125 of their source repository, but they did not attempt to build a community around the game until after reaching 1.0. It is intended by the developers that the source code of the game be used to help make other open-source games.