{"author_link":"\/author\/gmaker\/","author_name":"gmaker","author_uid":"20390","comments":[{"author_name":"Hellequin","author_uid":"20522","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 6:37am","epoch":1418106720,"text":"Awesome graphics and great game overall!!"},{"author_name":"JNyknn","author_uid":"26965","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:32am","epoch":1418110020,"text":"Hilarious game with wonderful graphics."},{"author_name":"Arovoid","author_uid":"46827","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:47am","epoch":1418110920,"text":"Greatly animated and works very smoothly!"},{"author_name":"Kim","author_uid":"44790","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:47am","epoch":1418110920,"text":"Nice little idea, good art and sound. A bit hard to avoid the gnome though. Tried jumping over it but the jump is too short."},{"author_name":"sorlok","author_uid":"28370","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:49am","epoch":1418111040,"text":"Really fantastic visuals, loved the setting. The gameplay was good, but needed a bit of variety. Good job!"},{"author_name":"C63Industries","author_uid":"47156","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:53am","epoch":1418111280,"text":"I really enjoyed the snowman \u2603 theme and evil elf. It is indeed a game in one screen."},{"author_name":"Hermitli","author_uid":"45555","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 12:24pm","epoch":1418127540,"text":"I love your pixel art style. It's awesome! 5 stars Graphics!"},{"author_name":"ramonparaiba","author_uid":"21621","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:49pm","epoch":1418136240,"text":"Great pixelart! Congratulations"},{"author_name":"hundredhundred","author_uid":"42294","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:55pm","epoch":1418136600,"text":"Nice game!"},{"author_name":"Threef","author_uid":"15219","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 2:57pm","epoch":1418136720,"text":"Nice idea, sweet graphics and fun! Only thing I would change is that you should lose health when gnome get presents and not touches you."},{"author_name":"SivGoose","author_uid":"47035","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 3:00pm","epoch":1418136900,"text":"Merry Christmas!\r<br\/>Addictive game, good replay value especially with the random generating trees and development of the players skills.It took me a few goes however to realize the elf was evil. Invulnerable time when you are hit is the perfect length and a good mechanic to add. It took me a few goes however to realize the elf was evil."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 6:31pm","epoch":1418149560,"text":"Hi there. Sorry not rated. Java wasn't happy Chrome\/W8.1"},{"author_name":"Headmade","author_uid":"42076","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 7:22pm","epoch":1418152620,"text":"Lovely pixel art and sounds, it is a very cute game. I love helping santa, but this Ludum Dare the snowman is really everywhere. Can't blame you for that though."},{"author_name":"ShadowStryker","author_uid":"39432","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 3:50am","epoch":1418183100,"text":"I liked the graphics style. I could never make graphics like that, my art-skills are too poor, haha."},{"author_name":"SeriouslyCrunchy","author_uid":"40340","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:31pm","epoch":1418217960,"text":"I like this a lot. Great little game, simple but good fun. Good potential for expansion here too."},{"author_name":"EquipeJAM","author_uid":"46706","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:03pm","epoch":1418241480,"text":"Good Work ^^"},{"author_name":"LegacyCrono","author_uid":"3093","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 8:56pm","epoch":1418244660,"text":"The graphics are really good! I feel that the snowman should jump a bit higher, it's very difficult to avoid the gnome. It gets repetitive after a while, and it's frustrating that the Santa sometimes spend way too much time outside of the screen, so you just have to wait. Has some shortcomings, but it's quite fun. My best score is 32 =D"},{"author_name":"biscuitdough","author_uid":"4177","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 8:17am","epoch":1418285520,"text":"Also had trouble jumping over the elf, but great graphics, and the soundtrack is catchy"},{"author_name":"joppiesaus","author_uid":"29014","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:52am","epoch":1418298420,"text":"Awesome graphics and great gameplay! Woooh! I found it pretty hard thought."},{"author_name":"Recon","author_uid":"25931","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 1:23pm","epoch":1418303880,"text":"Good graphics, but did you make it before the jam???"},{"author_name":"gmaker","author_uid":"20390","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 1:29pm","epoch":1418304240,"text":"@Recon ofcourse not. http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gmaker\/profile\/past_broadcasts"},{"author_name":"hypnoticbytes","author_uid":"46966","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 3:03pm","epoch":1418309880,"text":"Wow, love the graphics, 5 stars!!!"},{"author_name":"Wir","author_uid":"33937","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 3:04pm","epoch":1418309940,"text":"Great pixelart :D"},{"author_name":"ZNCatlaw","author_uid":"42407","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 5:05pm","epoch":1418317200,"text":"Fantastic.  True believers know the #snowmanjam is real! \u2603 \u2603 \u2603\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great sound, wonderful pixel art.  And the gnome fills me with rage."},{"author_name":"Pulsartronic","author_uid":"45161","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 6:19pm","epoch":1418321640,"text":"cool"},{"author_name":"victorafael","author_uid":"46310","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 7:55pm","epoch":1418327400,"text":"I loved the graphics (I have seen before)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I wish the snowman was faster to jump more easily those evil creatures... But I can not blame him... He got no legs!\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Reminds me the bowser level in super mario :D"},{"author_name":"puppetmaster","author_uid":"39425","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 8:07pm","epoch":1418328120,"text":"[+] Cool sliding snowman animation, suitable music, nice pixelart\r<br\/>\r<br\/>[-] The place where the gnome stops was a little pit odd. You never know exactly when you can jump with the snowman\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Well made!"},{"author_name":"mikale","author_uid":"21491","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 8:35pm","epoch":1418329800,"text":"Awesome :3 so cute."},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 6:09am","epoch":1418364240,"text":"Hilarious game and wonderful graphics. Thank you for your comment about my game ++"},{"author_name":"Teesquared","author_uid":"35091","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 11:22am","epoch":1418383020,"text":"Entire game on one snowman. Really fun, funny, and frosty. F that gnome."},{"author_name":"deyteris_team","author_uid":"45193","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 12:20pm","epoch":1418386500,"text":"I has a lot of fun playing it. Thanks for bringing Christmas spirit!"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 3:38pm","epoch":1418398380,"text":"Love the graphics. Great game! I Included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/08ofw2klihI"},{"author_name":"Jupiter_Hadley","author_uid":"27744","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 8:06pm","epoch":1418414460,"text":"*I Included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http:\/\/youtu.be\/YpdCMKphEUw"},{"author_name":"snickersnacks","author_uid":"36844","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 9:58pm","epoch":1418421180,"text":"Nice pixel art in such a short span of time. Good job! :)"},{"author_name":"dook","author_uid":"18341","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 11:13pm","epoch":1418771280,"text":"That Santa sure is a clumsy fellow ;)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Awesome game! It was super hard to avoid the gnome, though."},{"author_name":"Dissiden7","author_uid":"25686","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 11:20pm","epoch":1418771700,"text":"Had a really hard time with the controls. The snowman would jump and throw the presents just fine, but moving around felt like it was by pure chance... Maybe Safari Java plugin was bugging out, so I'll refrain from voting on those categories.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Other than that, graphics are great and it looks really well executed."}],"images":["ld31\/20390-012d1d8af29ff02f3749d0b2ee6b96c7.jpg","ld31\/20390-1beb61013d65c344b3d842d1610dc45c.jpg","ld31\/20390-5fd029a8cfd7e0a97a2b100352e2de2d.jpg","ld31\/20390-c7f53f5eb43e0deeb7c13372ffe98cc2.jpg","ld31\/20390-f21e24eeec5868a7e100d77ae9a44e9f.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.znay-znay.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ld31\/ld31.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.znay-znay.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ld31\/ld31-1.0.jar","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.znay-znay.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ld31\/ld31-1.0.jar","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.znay-znay.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ld31\/ld31.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"13587","g_author":"20390","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"13617","g_title":"Happy Snowball","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"380","g_commentcount":"36","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/20390-shot0.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/20390-shot1.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/20390-shot2.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/20390-shot3.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/20390-shot4.PNG-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"New year is coming\u2026 But not all children will receive presents because absent-minded Santa keeps loosing gifts on his way to children. \r\nSo you are playing as a snowman who is trying to help Santa and pick up all the lost presents in order to return them to Santa and consequently increase children\u2019s chances to receive their gifts. Have fun and beware of a harmful gnome.","title":"Happy Snowball"}