Snowman Sumo by AtkinsSJ

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made by AtkinsSJ for LD31 (COMPO)
Snowman Sumo is... a sumo-wrestling game about snowmen. (I never said I was good at naming things...)

Roll around to grow your snowman, then smash into your opponent to knock them into the water. Play against a friend, from the comfort of your web browser. Supports game-controllers and keyboard.

Ratings

Coolness 54% 3
Overall 3.32 423
Audio 3.43 161
Fun 3.61 148
Graphics 3.11 545
Humor 3.69 63
Innovation 3.06 610
Mood 3.19 333
Theme 3.91 210

Feedback

mactinite
08. Dec 2014 · 08:00 UTC
I really liked the sound effects! This would be a lot more fun if I had someone else here to try it out with me.
mrexcessive
08. Dec 2014 · 15:04 UTC
Hi there. Really nice sounds, reminded me of the Insheeption south park episode... anyway... The game is like an early one from Mario Party, nice slipping mechanics. Good job.
belva1234
08. Dec 2014 · 18:19 UTC
hahahah we can make a duo listen the music in my game hahah
Baknik
08. Dec 2014 · 18:19 UTC
Mario Party! Thanks for the nostalgia trip.
belva1234
08. Dec 2014 · 18:19 UTC
hahahah we can make a duo listen the music in my game hahah
Iak
08. Dec 2014 · 18:23 UTC
The sound effects are amazing. Have nobody here to play local coop with, but I can see that the game is quite fun just like that. XD
GeeItSomeLaldy
08. Dec 2014 · 18:36 UTC
Boosh. Boosh!

I like the idea that moving increases your mass. Simple resource management layered upon absurdity :)
whitematterteam
08. Dec 2014 · 19:54 UTC
Nice and funny game. The sound effects are awesome ahahah
karlipoppins
09. Dec 2014 · 08:29 UTC
Haha I played this with my wife and she now hates me because I became so good at it :) Love the graphics, simple gameplay... Loved the music at first but kinda got bored after a while :)
reverso13
09. Dec 2014 · 12:27 UTC
Great game! the idea es very similar to my game, give it a try :P http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=12353
Tortoise
09. Dec 2014 · 14:02 UTC
Nice game and the sfx were funny. Reminded me of a mini-game from marioparty but the slide-y-ness made it hard to control.
MechanicalLife
09. Dec 2014 · 17:09 UTC
Sound effects!
CoderDozer
09. Dec 2014 · 19:59 UTC
An AI option would be nice. Sound effects were good.
the-arrival
10. Dec 2014 · 15:29 UTC
Best sound effects ever :D
Teesquared
13. Dec 2014 · 18:59 UTC
Had a blast with my dad it was fun to see how big we could make the snowmans before we fell off.
01rafael
14. Dec 2014 · 20:52 UTC
Ahahaha! Snowmans sumo ))
Great concept!
Gread72
20. Dec 2014 · 15:11 UTC
I like the sound sfx and music ... fun
Insality
20. Dec 2014 · 15:26 UTC
ahaha, awesome sounds and music :]
and this snowman effects, great
Alex Rose
20. Dec 2014 · 19:23 UTC
Great game idea. Yeah, like someone said, it's a bit like bumper balls in Mario Party except you switched it up with the rolling mechanic, which makes it a lot more interesting, scaling the size.

I also spent far too long trying to make them perfectly smash each other so they'd blow up simultaneously. At one point realised I'd spend the past 5 minutes rolling back and forth, increasing its size and then removing the exact same size again, bit of an optical illusion, felt like it was continually getting smaller but I pretty much reached the minimum size rofl.

But yeah, great effort, nice one. Go England and all that too.
Dining Philosopher
22. Dec 2014 · 15:53 UTC
Great idea, it would have been even better to have a best-of-N, but that was hard within the time limit. Great work on the rolling animation!
joppiesaus
24. Dec 2014 · 13:28 UTC
What a music! Sploosh! What an awesome, fun and innovative game.
Very fun to play with friends. You can create snowballs that are bigger than the screen and would be impossible according to physics. That idea that you can create huge snowmans is awesome. Sounds are creative(I laughed sooo hard when I heard "Sploosh!"). The music isn't actually bad, so that's good!
Maybe a little more polishing, I've found some bugs.
I wish I could say more, but I don't know what to say!
Definetly an awesome game, great work!
recursor
24. Dec 2014 · 15:06 UTC
Played this with my daughter and we had a lot of fun with it. I like how the snowmen get larger the more you roll around. It adds a bit of strategy to the game.
Rodaja
27. Dec 2014 · 00:36 UTC
It is very hard to turn around a combat, because if the other one is bigger of has the upper hand you're already screwed.

The sound effects were lovely, the music really stuck in our heads.

We tried for the sake of it to see how big we could get the snowmen to be, the experience did not let us down.

Good job!
🎤 AtkinsSJ
30. Dec 2014 · 12:32 UTC
Thank you everyone for your kind words and ratings. This is the best-scoring LD game I've ever made. :D