Amphibia: Locust Pocus

Amphibia: Locust Pocus
Developer: Workinman Interactive Publisher: Disney Games Platform: HTML5 Released in US: May 15, 2019 This game has uncompiled source code. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused sounds. This game has debugging material.

To do: Confirm the date. Early revisions (1.0.6-1.0.10) on the CDN.

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

Anne and Sprig forgot to set the locust traps this year causing them to invade Amphibia!

Help the two get rid of them while collecting goodies on the way for the townsfolk!

Unused Audio

Filename	Audio	Description
anne_eww.ogg		According to a commented line in the source code, this had a chance to play after Sprig enters a hole.
anne_explosion_mimic.ogg		Anne mimicking an explosion sound.
anne_ha_haaaah.ogg		Anne taunting, probably at, something.
anne_jump.ogg		Possibly an alternative jump sound for just Anne.
anne_oh_shoot.ogg
anne_oh_thats_gross.ogg
destroy_bug_2.ogg
destroy_mushroom.ogg		Strangely the one with the typo is used instead.
destroy_other.ogg
failure.ogg		A failure jingle.
heron_incoming.ogg
placeholder_silent.ogg	N/A	Just silence.
quest_complete.ogg
ribbit.ogg
sprig_found_something.ogg		Possibly an alternative sound for Sprig finding something.
sprig_oops_no_loot.ogg		According to a commented line in the source code, this was originally intended to play when Sprig fails to find an object after digging.
sprig_search.ogg
this_way.ogg

Debugging Material

To do: Inaccessible free mode. Other ingame debug tools.

Character Debug Logging

world.elements.character.* contains a variable called _debugOutput, setting it to true prints log traces of animations for the character.

ANIMATE: *

Sprite Selector

workinman.DebugSpriteSelector contains a static variable called _ALLOW_DEBUG, setting it to true allows being able to pulling up a window for modifying the transform positions, alpha level and visiblility of a sprite on the fly when clicking on one while holding ⇧ Shift.

Debug Panel

Pressing ⇧ Shift ~ displays a debug pane for Workinman's HTML5 engine, allowing you to adjust the time scale, show guide boxes, toggle cloud flags, wipe local storage and open the default debug screen. According to the welcome message, the tool is supposed to only be in debug builds, which the final game strangely is.

Debug Screen

Pressing CTRL F Y allows pressing ⇧ Shift Y to open a debug screen that unfortunately isn't too interesting as it's likely a base for a developer to add buttons to, which aren't defined aside from the close button, at least the version number is there.

Development Paths

The game includes a JavaScript source mapping file on the server, exposing the local source paths of the game's development environment. The JSON files for the game's levels and textures also mention original directories.

/Users/workinman007/Documents/projects/disney_channel/amphibia/rpg/git/src
/assets_folders/
/Users/workinman016/Desktop/Disney Games/Amphibia/spine/test
/Users/workinman027/Documents/Projects/Projects/disney Jr/amphibia_rpg/03_production/design/02_working/characters