Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30560033-20161121073630/@comment-30034293-20161121151203

Hi Kol,

I feel like most "methods" people use to find presents and frogs are mostly a placebo effect, and they seem like an example of apophenia, or "the human tendency to perceive meaningful patterns within random data." However, that's not to say that I don't know for sure that these strategies don't work, as it seems that whenever I find a method to follow, it eventually works some of the time. But my opinion is that the presents and frogs on the Pond are completely randomly placed, and there isn't a solid way to lead us to them. What also makes this more difficult is that (if you hadn't noticed already) the Pond's boundaries in terms of remembering past lily pads and other objects (presents/frogs/flies/lily pads) that have gone out of the player's view (the screen) are quite shallow (no pun intended :P). If you pass a frog and keep going until the frog is out of view, then hop back to the place where it originally was, you will probably find that you were too far and the frog disappeared.

Well that's my take on it... (there've been rumors that the largest flies actually do lead you to presents/frogs, if you want to try another method... but I suppose apophenia has a part to play in this also). I'm not one to say whether or not the devs decided to implement a way to easily find frogs/presents or if object placement is purely random.

~ Zhisio ~