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Snowball Fight by JonnyGinger

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made by JonnyGinger for LD31 (JAM)
Snowball Fight is a wave-based arcade shooter. Survive hoards of evil snowmen in the "safety" of your snow fort.

Controls
WASD = move
space = shoot
mouse = aim

You must be facing the direction you are shooting in to shoot.

Keep in mind this is my first Ludum Dare, so I took it easy. :P
jar via Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fZQAzXkYHWMUpTcmtQcl9McjQ/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=45533

Ratings

Coolness 20% 2185
Overall(Jam) 2.60 936
Fun(Jam) 2.67 788
Graphics(Jam) 2.60 798
Innovation(Jam) 2.67 740
Theme(Jam) 3.07 852

Feedback

BMacIntosh
10. Dec 2014 路 05:34 UTC
Not bad, nice and simple. I did start having some serious lag spikes around Wave 10. It looked like you might be triggering the garbage collector by calling 'new' too much.

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ijwu
10. Dec 2014 路 05:41 UTC
I managed to crash it by spamming too many snowballs, haha. I do like how you made it so you must be facing where you want to throw snowballs. That adds a bit more to it than just spamming snowballs all over the place.

It's fun to play, as far as stationary defense games go. It would be more fun to have more elements such as upgrades, more enemy units, etc. If there were more units I didn't see them as I only made it to wave 6 before crashing.

Good job overall! This is great.
馃帳 JonnyGinger
11. Dec 2014 路 05:46 UTC
Haha thanks guys. Those were the only two bugs I did seem to find so I'm glad there aren't more :P
Wusakko
11. Dec 2014 路 06:33 UTC
I cant shoot :/ I pressed all buttons :D
Dietrich Epp
11. Dec 2014 路 06:54 UTC
The "facing" mechanic takes a bit to figure out... I thought the game was broken at first! But I do like that you can't just shoot snowballs everywhere.
ynots
11. Dec 2014 路 09:17 UTC
simple and nice..
rincewind_cz
11. Dec 2014 路 22:33 UTC
Well simple shooter with rather hard controls. I've got serious lags after while and I had to kill your game :-) You have probably some memory leak somewhere in your code...
danidre14
13. Dec 2014 路 19:00 UTC
A bit of lag after a while, but really nice and simple.
punkto
13. Dec 2014 路 20:37 UTC
Nice game. Maybe so much white in the screen :P