Snowman's Land: SNOVERCHILL by RHY3756547
===== IF THE GAME GOES DOWN, TELL ME AT @RHY3756547!! =====
One screen of almost unmanageably insane chaos! I'm not even sure I have a story for this game.
Shoot the other players with snowballs without crashing your Wicked Sick Hover Snowboard! You have two minutes to rack up points by performing flips, shooting down other players and most importantly, not dying! Use the jump mechanic extensively to dodge bullets and chase other players.
Invite your friends! If you have no friends, invite your family! It's no fun by yourself... :(
=== INSTRUCTIONS ===
Left hand over QWER+space, right on mouse! Click to shoot snowballs.
Rotate CCW: e
Rotate CW: r
Jump: space
Toggle Zoom: w
Scoreboard: tab
=== POST COMPO FIXES ===
8/12/2014:
- Optimized pos sync netcode.
- fixed K/D display.
- fixed respawn on joining session in progress (initially spawned you in wall)
- added simple HP display down at bottom right; it just looked like you got hit randomly sometimes.
- fixed jump misfiring
- rehosting on rpi, let me know if there are any problems
- firefox printing a box character after every single message
- fancy page
9/12/2014:
- fixed player position packets to only send when necessary! 5 players active at once should no longer DDOS the server with 300 packets per second (yikes!), now it's between 5 and 25 per second depending on what the player is doing.
=== LIBRARIES USED BY CLIENT ===
- glMatrix
- uh, the default canvas stuff?? does that count
=== MODULES USED BY SERVER (node.js) ===
- ws (websockets)
- connect (used for http host)
- serve-static (also used for http host)
One screen of almost unmanageably insane chaos! I'm not even sure I have a story for this game.
Shoot the other players with snowballs without crashing your Wicked Sick Hover Snowboard! You have two minutes to rack up points by performing flips, shooting down other players and most importantly, not dying! Use the jump mechanic extensively to dodge bullets and chase other players.
Invite your friends! If you have no friends, invite your family! It's no fun by yourself... :(
=== INSTRUCTIONS ===
Left hand over QWER+space, right on mouse! Click to shoot snowballs.
Rotate CCW: e
Rotate CW: r
Jump: space
Toggle Zoom: w
Scoreboard: tab
=== POST COMPO FIXES ===
8/12/2014:
- Optimized pos sync netcode.
- fixed K/D display.
- fixed respawn on joining session in progress (initially spawned you in wall)
- added simple HP display down at bottom right; it just looked like you got hit randomly sometimes.
- fixed jump misfiring
- rehosting on rpi, let me know if there are any problems
- firefox printing a box character after every single message
- fancy page
9/12/2014:
- fixed player position packets to only send when necessary! 5 players active at once should no longer DDOS the server with 300 packets per second (yikes!), now it's between 5 and 25 per second depending on what the player is doing.
=== LIBRARIES USED BY CLIENT ===
- glMatrix
- uh, the default canvas stuff?? does that count
=== MODULES USED BY SERVER (node.js) ===
- ws (websockets)
- connect (used for http host)
- serve-static (also used for http host)
Ratings
| Coolness | 77% | 2 |
| Overall | 4.06 | 21 |
| Audio | 3.77 | 62 |
| Fun | 4.40 | 1 |
| Graphics | 3.89 | 129 |
| Humor | 3.78 | 40 |
| Innovation | 3.66 | 200 |
| Mood | 3.69 | 72 |
| Theme | 3.44 | 769 |
Tou can play online (!)
However I suck at it. :D
The visuals are impressive too, especially for a compo entry. Great Entry!
Only "bad" thing is when two players spawn inside each other, but that hardly takes away from the FUN!
Also I suck at aiming. D:
The game is tons of fun, great graphics and really catchy music.
Next LAN-Party there will be no CS:GO, only Snowman's Land: SNOVERCHILL.
Played by myself for a little bit. My best score is... -250 xD
The map didn't feel designed very well, I would often gravitate towards the top of the room. Some kickback on the snowballs would be a funny way to control yourself slightly in the air too :)
Music is bumpin' and I like how everything is so boingy :) graphics are really cute too. Networked games are daring for 48h, good job :)
Absolute perfect multiplayer setup. :) Props for getting that set up during a weekend! Most people only dream of multiplayer functionality when participating in a 2 to 3-day event! :D
The only thing I could possibly suggest would be better visibility for each individual snowman in the form of right-off-the bat different colored hats maybe? Or different colored names? But that's pretty much it. :)
Great job!
Music stratled me at the start, though it probably makes more sense when there's more people playing and there's a bit of a havoc.
It's really impressive you got an online multiplayer going during a jam, that's really cool.
I originally intended for the level to fill the whole screen all the time, but the zoom was just too good after I implemented it to leave out. So now my interpretation is kinda "the level is the screen, zoom into the screen". :P
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Best game i played so far, you managed to do this in 48h? Very impressive, Great job!
It seems you interpreted the theme the same way I did, but your implementation is much better. Good work on this!
that's right not even HALF that
NOT EVEN HALF
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Come and see ours.. :)
Probably awesome with lot of peoples !
Great job !
I loved the simple controls, the fast pace, the lively music, the silly art and character customization, and just the whole package. The controls were brilliantly simple... I think this could even be adapted for mobile, with a simple tap for jump and tilt for spinning!
I can't offer much critique, but I can offer some suggestions. I think it could benefit from tilt mapping to speed control while grounded, for some added control. Also, being able to safely stomp snowmen as long as your skis are facing them when you hit... maybe the skis even blocking shots? That all said, fantastic work!
Sincerely, Dudeist Snowman
Congrats on finishing a multiplayer game :D
I love how simple it is, yet really fun (and difficult! Even solo, I am dying more than I should...)
One issue: On Ubuntu 14.04, it sometimes hangs after death (and sometimes before the match even starts - the first time I wanted to play, this happend, so I was confused and pressed all sorts of buttons).
At first I found it a little confusing that the ice makes you gain speed and that you can stick to the ceiling - but it doesn't hurt at all.
I'll try to check this out again with some friends!
(P.S. Thanks a lot for the the extensive feedback on our game as well. I wrote a response to it on our page and we already put in a lot of the changes you suggested.)
Well made!
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