This week, I've been able to get together a splash animation that you see when the frog jumps into water. I've also tried using it but modulated red for when a frog hits a car but it's difficult to notice. It's fine for a placeholder for the time being though and the animations do the job of taking place when the frog hits a hazard.

I also have a basic car sprite to use (the scale of things in this game just isn't a concern, is it?) and I've gotten them traveling across the screen in their intended respective directions on the roads. In the course of debugging I had a couple cars go wildly off track. I think it'd be interesting if a car occasionally went careening off the road, possibly crashing into a tree or water somewhere. It'd be an interesting hazard to watch out for.

What I'm particularly happy with this week is a bit of traffic control logic that so far seems to be making for an effective stop light. (Sorry no video). There is the potential at the moment for cars to get stuck on each other when one stops just a bit too far into the intersection. With the test I've been running it clears itself up but I don't think I can count on that so I'll be clearing that up next chance I get.

So far, the cars have just been starting from a default point that I set on level load. What I really need to sort out soon is something that will spawn the cars. I am wondering also about frequency of the cars and how closely they follow each other and how this relates to when they're stopped. As cool as I think my traffic control stuff is and also having this free range approach to the level, I see the potential to end up with something where it's either way too easy to cross the street or it's completely impossible.