Snowman Stacker by dook

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made by dook for LD31 (COMPO)
Oops: Should perhaps explain the controls as well! Click and drag the snowballs to shoot them. Dragging away from the direction you want to throw them in.

A simple little snowman golfing game. Your objective is to move the snowman down the hill to the indicated box. Rolling each ball will make it bigger, try to create a new snowman with ideal proportions: each ball half the size of the one under it. And in as few strokes as possible.

It's pretty obvious I was rooting for the snowman theme, luckily this theme isn't hard to live up to ;)

Try the Android version! (May not play well on small screens, though)

I wasn't home most of the weekend so this is what I could manage in about seven hours :)


ADDED POST-COMPO VERSION:
Adjusted graphics, physics and controls. Most importantly you can now drag anywhere to shoot. You no longer need tiny fingers to play the Android version!

Web: http://www.aergia.dk/?page_id=148
Android: http://www.aergia.dk/ld31/post/snowman.apk

Ratings

Coolness 49% 1385
Overall 3.09 673
Audio 2.28 785
Fun 2.97 666
Graphics 2.89 676
Humor 2.60 467
Innovation 3.21 495
Mood 2.79 689
Theme 3.54 644

Feedback

fleegle2000
08. Dec 2014 路 06:05 UTC
I'm amazed at what you put together in 7 hours. Yes, the game is very simple but it works with the theme and the procedural generation of the hill really carried the game and kept me interested. It is very difficult to build a proper snowman but I wanted to keep trying. You definitely focused on the right things in the short time you had.
xWarZonex
08. Dec 2014 路 21:35 UTC
The game wouldn't work.... Or atlest that's all I can assume because you never explained the controls...
馃帳 dook
08. Dec 2014 路 21:50 UTC
Heh, good point! Added a description of the controls. Simply click and drag the top most ball to shoot it.
Valon
08. Dec 2014 路 22:40 UTC
Very impressive for 7 hours. I had a bit of trouble with the controls too tho.
rabbit
08. Dec 2014 路 22:40 UTC
I wish there were more levels to this. Its a cool concept, though buggy.

Also making the player restart when missing one stack is not cool. Let them try that again, but lower the score by x amount.
Cheshyr
08. Dec 2014 路 22:43 UTC
Ok, that was fun. I wish you could shoot them out of order, but I enjoyed making a monsterously huge snowman. Nice work!
Geckoo1337
08. Dec 2014 路 22:43 UTC
Simple concept but really interesting. I spend some time with pleasure. Thank you for this cool contribution. SnowMan is my friend :)
crazyrems
08. Dec 2014 路 23:10 UTC
Playing on Android was fun, it's a well suited game for that kind of device.
Nice game.
error031
08. Dec 2014 路 23:23 UTC
Very fun game, just neded a while to find what controls are. Other than that, cool game!
alyphen
09. Dec 2014 路 21:05 UTC
A really nice mechanic, pulled off very well, especially for seven hours. The physics are well done, the hill generation is nice, and it's tricky to put together. A lot of fun to play, well done.
HotBoxGames
09. Dec 2014 路 23:20 UTC
Really impressive for so little time spent creating the game - great work!
01rafael
09. Dec 2014 路 23:21 UTC
My score is 18!
Am I best? :)
By the way nice and simple game
spacedoubt
09. Dec 2014 路 23:26 UTC
Well done! Fun to play.. That little box at the end seems a bit misleading seeing as how the first snowball ends up needing to be 4 times the size of the biggest snowball.
Meral
09. Dec 2014 路 23:36 UTC
For only 7 hours I think this is fantastic. A restart function would have been nice.

Allowing the snowballs to get bigger by rolling is a great idea. That's even more fun than the main objective. =D
Mr.Greenhat
10. Dec 2014 路 00:33 UTC
Had fun playing it on Android (Nexus 5)! But it's kind of tricky to point at the snowballs.
andreaswitzen
10. Dec 2014 路 02:34 UTC
"Your snowman is worth -158 points." Aww :(

Quite innovative actually! I liked it. The falling snowflakes and the sound also gives it some mood.
Jupitron
11. Dec 2014 路 14:00 UTC
Simple but effective game, it would be awesome if it had some levels to keep playing instead of restarting. Add some music please!
thopis
12. Dec 2014 路 12:23 UTC
Cool mechanics!I had fun making snowmen!
Tifu
17. Dec 2014 路 14:31 UTC
Nice idea, pretty hard to get the proportions right, but it feels like the right level of difficulty for this kinda thing.

Putting the instructions in-game probably helps, I know they are right there on the webpage, but people do pay more attention to things when they are forced to :P I played a few rounds just making weird upside down snowmen in as few shots as possible before I realised that wasn't actually the objective, and the game was a lot more interesting with the real objective :)