- Version 2.4.1 - 11 January 2026
Hello,Small bugfix update. Happy new year !Changelog :v2.4.1, 11/01/2026 :- Fix a blocking bug when capturing a screenshot with background animation turned off.
- Update 2.4: French translation! - 2 March 2025
Hey everyone! I'm very proud and probably as surprised as you to announce that the game is now available in French! (One could say the man finally got frog) Update 2.4 includes a language setting and a french dictionary with as much content as the english one. Translation wasn't easy as each language has its grammar and "plays" differently, but I'm pretty happy with the result. I think it suits the game well. French-speaking players will now be able to enjoy the game in optimal conditions, which makes me super happy! It's now been over a year since the game release and I'm still getting regular feedback and kind words from you people, so I'll also take this opportunity to thank you all for your continuing support, it's pretty great. I also have other projects that, although I'm incredibly behind schedule, I hope to share with you soon. Have fun and see you soon, MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #7 results - 30 October 2024
Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay, I was knocked out by a nasty cold for the past 2 weeks. Let's finally take a look at the results of the haiku workshop #7! The theme was "TEA", meant as a warm, cozy and poetic parenthesis before the final months of the year! Let's see what we got this time: You may notice the participation is dwindling a bit, which is highly understandable since the workshops have been going on for more than half a year already. But be it 4, 8 or 16 poems, I'm so happy to find each time that the overall impression of these productions is a mix of poetry, goofiness, and equally grave, cheerful or absurd considerations. For instance, this workshop started with my grim "we have to unmeet" entry, but was completely thrown off balance by the haiku about coercing people into buying rounds of tea for everyone, and the one praising the "hmm hmm hot hot good" tea, which had…
- Haiku workshop #7 - 25 September 2024
UPDATE: This will likely be the last workshop I organize on Steam, so to make it extra special I just extended its duration! Come participate and let's enjoy this ultimate event together! Hey everyone! Here's the first autumn workshop! As the end of the year grows nearer, let's congregate and make some poetry together! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry The theme this month is TEA! Here it is, with the password "SING FOR DEAR SMILE": As usual, the workshop will last 10 days or so, and then I'll publish the recap in 2 weeks! Have fun, and see you then! MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #6 results - 12 September 2024
Hey everyone! The 6th haiku workshop is officially over, and it's time to take a look at the results. It's been more than half a year since the game came out, time sure flies by! Thanks for sticking by, and as always, congrats for creating something and putting it out there! Now, the theme this time was "EVE", in an attempt to counterbalance last workshop's grim mood. Did it succeed? Let's find out! Ok! Let's see: Look at how diverse this batch is! I think it's the first time that the poems all feel so different from one another. We have gambling, a post-battle landscape, mysterious wilderness, a family, passing time, and seclusion. It's awesome how you guys explored so many different things with the same words! Of course, that doesn't mean there are no similarities. For instance, most poems start with the idea of waking up, which fits very well with the theme of eve. And evidently, you…
- Haiku workshop #6 - 28 August 2024
Hey everyone! Hope you got plenty of rest during these summer months, or at least that work has slowed down a bit. September is almost upon us, but before that, let's have a nice haiku workshop together! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry The theme this month is EVE! Here it is, with the password "WIN BAD WIN BIG": This should be a nice change from the last one. Hope you'll enjoy it! You have 10 days to submit your haiku, and I'll publish the recap in 2 weeks! Have fun, and see you then! MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #5 results - 15 July 2024
Hey everyone! The results are finally in, apologies for the slight delay! Thank you all for participating in the haiku workshop #5! The theme was "COIN"! A very pragmatic and materialist theme, which, as you'll see, produced some more serious and heavy haikus. Let's check this out! So... yeah. Lots to unpack here! The entries are all surprisingly... depressing. They depict a world where resource is scarce and competition everywhere. Everyone is obsessed with money, even the cattle only feeds on precious metals. The economy is so bad people sell their teeth, when they don't just turn against each other. Theft is an inescapable necessity to survive. Coolcoolcool. But there's hope! I mean, literally, the word "hope" was on the list. Surely it shed some light in this oppressive atmosphere? Well... Meh. "Hope" is mentioned in 5 haikus, but either as a remembrance of something lost, its direc…
- Haiku workshop #5 - 26 June 2024
Hey everyone! Summer is here, just in time for a new workshop! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry And the kigo for this one is COIN! The password is "NO NO NO NO": There it is! Hopefully it'll get your creative juices flowing. We'll see that during the recap in two weeks! See you then! MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #4 results - 14 June 2024
Hey everyone! Thank you all for participating in the haiku workshop #4! Sorry for the slight delay, things here in France have been, uhhh... busy. So, "HOME", heh? What a warm, delicate theme. Let's see what you made of it! Ha, I absolutely love them! All share a distinct, yet joyous, hearty vibe. Almost everyone made the link between home and songs (or barking, or barking songs), which I find quite poetic. Then again that was the point of my personal entry, so I might be biased, or have biased you guys. :P Having "home" as a theme, of course "noisy neighbours" kind of self-imposed as a popular topic. That is a very very human thing to complain about, which make these haikus all the more sincere. Of course, the given words helped - clowns are particularly prone to noisiness, and barking is generally considered loud. What's interesting is that the word "guard" was used both as a noun des…
- Haiku workshop #4 - 29 May 2024
Hey everyone! Hope you've been alright during this month of May. It's now time for a new workshop! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry And this one will be about HOME! Here it is, with the password "MAKE FROG BUS DREAM": There it is! Hopefully it'll get your creative juices flowing. We'll see that during the recap, in a big week! See you then! MarechalBanane
- Community posters! - 20 May 2024
Hey everyone! So some of you may have noticed I asked them for permission to use their haikus in promotional content. It was to print some posters that I used during a local event where I live. Thank you all for your participation, I'm quite pleased with the result! Here are high def versions of it, if you wanna check it out or print your own: 102x68 poster 170x102 poster And here are some photos of what it looks like IRL: It feels really great to have a nice chunk of the community content printed neatly on a giant poster. Thanks for letting me do it, I hope you'll enjoy it! MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #3 results - 9 May 2024
Hey everyone! Thank you all for participating in the haiku workshop #3! This one actually holds the record for most entries! I'm super happy to see you're still interested and participating. I hope you enjoyed the update! And once again, congratulations for making a haiku and putting it out there! It's not as easy as it looks. So let's see what we have here this time: I must say, quite a fruitful one! Let's see what we can make of it: The new backgrounds have been quite popular, representing 80% of the submitted entries! I'm glad you liked them, hopefully they provide a bit more variation in expressivity. People are divided on the wall topic. Some insist they shouldn't be built ("don't start a new wall"), some say they rise, some insist they don't, at least not "near nice camp". Some promote their insulative properties ("mute her kind with spiced walls"), only to be contradicted by a pe…
- Haiku workshop #3 - 24 April 2024
Hey everyone! It's been a while! After a glorious workshop about bugs quite a few weeks ago, let's celebrate the release of version 2.3 with a new one! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry And this one will be about WALLS! Here it is, with the password "GO SING DUMB DUCK": There. I hope it'll inspire you to create your own. As always, I can't wait seeing what you make of all that. It's gonna be fun! Thanks, and see you in a big week for the recap! MarechalBanane
- Update 2.3 released! - 19 April 2024
Hey everyone! VERSION 2.3 IS OUT NOW! It contains: Mouse support! Composing is now comfier than ever! A brand-new background and music themed around new year's eve! A not-so brand-new background and music with a big frog in it! A LOT more season words (more than twice as much)! the "..." punctuation mark, more mysterious than ever. "-ed" and "-es" suffixes. Add past tenses and plurals to anything. A delicate sprinkle of handpicked new words in almost every category. A few bug fixes and quality of life improvements The game is now in the state I wanted to reach when I initially started it. I really hope you'll enjoy these changes. Let me know what you think! Have fun composing! MarechalBanane P.S : Oh, oh, and don't miss the next haiku workshop! It'll happen on Wednesday.
- Update this Friday! - 15 April 2024
Hey everyone! Just to make it official: Will The Man Get Frog will receive its free 2.3 update on Friday, April 19th! You can have more info on its content here. See you there! MarechalBanane
- Update this month! - 2 April 2024
Hey everyone! Will The Man Get Frog has been out for more than a month now, and I've already hinted at a game update a few times. It's now time to give you a bit more details about it! Version 2.3 is planned for sometime this month. A haiku workshop will closely follow. This upcoming update will include: Mouse support! You'll be able to freely switch in-game between controller, keyboard, and mouse. A brand new background, along with a new beautiful track from c.diffin! More words to choose from! Bug fixes and small quality-of-life improvements And that's about all. Can't wait for you to try it! See you soon, MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop #2 results - 15 March 2024
Hey everyone! Thank you all for participating in the haiku workshop #2! I'm glad to see that you enjoyed the first one, and got back at it. And as always, congratulations for making a haiku and putting it out there! It's not as easy as it looks. Here are the pieces I'm aware of: So, what can we take away from this? A few thoughts: Bugs fly. It has been written enough times so that I can be confident this piece of information is correct. Mostly summer, and a few fall backgrounds have been used. We're talking about bugs, so honestly, I can't argue with that. Well, maybe spring would've worked too. But since the spring background depicts a mountain at night, I understand it was less popular for this theme. Bugs are tied to different symbols here: either a menace ("bugs seek your arm yes"), a familiar and soothing motion ("bugs fly calmly"), a dietary supplement ("your taste of flies") or a…
- Haiku workshop + Posting guide! - 6 March 2024
Hey everyone! After a first, very enlightening workshop about snails, let's carry on with a new one! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Haiku posting guide Here's a guide showing you how to post your haikus in the hub. Don't hesitate to use it! The entry And this one will be about bugs! Here it is entry, with the password "EAT EAT FULL FULL": Now craft your own! I'll be very eager to read your productions. Thanks and see you soon, MarechalBanane
- Haiku workshop results - 1 March 2024
Hey everyone! Thank you all for your participation in the first haiku workshop! It was awesome to discover your creations. And congratulations for making a haiku and putting it out there! It's not as easy as it looks. Here's an exhaustive selection of the pieces that were made for the workshop: A few things to take away from these productions: Snails have a strong roaring tendancy, and even madly roaring in the worst cases. Some snails are hairy and need shaving. Some don't. But only the mad snail has the ability to shave things, namely here the sky of gold (love this by the way) Some words have been more inspiring than others. "mad" and "roar" have been the most used, on the other end, "prize" was never used. All in all, the worlds depicted are a bit bleak, as themes of fear and madness are prevalent, and living beings in it cope by roaring a lot. The absence of trust also comes a few…
- First haiku workshop! - 21 February 2024
Hey everyone! As Will The Man Get Frog already celebrates its one-week birthday, I'm happy to announce the first haiku workshop! It's really simple: I post an example haiku with a password, and then you use it in shared game mode to write your own and post it in the hub! And then we have fun reading each other's stuff. Maybe even at some point I host a stream reading your works out loud. I dunno. We'll worry about that part later. Without further ado, here's the first entry, with the password "DREAM BIG WIN FRUIT": Ain't it a beauty? Now craft your own! It can be inspired from this one or go in totally different direction, it's up to you. Just remember to have fun! I'm looking forward to discovering your works, it's gonna be really cool! Thanks and see you soon, MarechalBanane
