You never quite know what you're going to get with Grasshopper Manufacture, but it's usually strange enough to make you check whether someone's slipped something in your drink.
Kristan Reed (Modojo)
Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. has announced it has raised over $80,000 dollars for Japanese earthquake and tsunami aid. The earthquakes and subsequent tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11th, 2011 left behind a storm of destruction. Thousands were lost in the disaster, and the survivors watched helplessly as their homes, businesses, and lives were swept away. To help with the relief efforts, Grasshopper Manufacture Inc. launched a campaign that included a fundraising event, a charity app, and special auctions to raise money and awareness for the people in the affected areas.
NowGamer - Frog Minutes is completely unlike anything Grasshopper has ever made before. There’s no violence, no lunatic protagonist and no highly stylised art style.
Grasshopper Manufacture today enters the iOS app arena with a soothing app that eschews the developer’s typical balls-to-the-wall style for something more ‘Zen’. Grasshopper Manufacture and the developer’s front man Suda 51 are known for surrealistic, blood-soaked games, that often distort gamers’ preconceived notions of the typical ‘action game.’ In Frog Minutes, the developer has forged a path into new territory by tapping into the healing aspects of nature.
