Snowing in the wind by AwesomeNuclearMonkeys

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made by AwesomeNuclearMonkeys for LD31 (JAM)
First Jam for us, it was fun and we did manage to deliver something kinda enjoyable so hurray!

Snowing in the wind is a 2d maze game with a single level evolving over time.
Help the snowman to reach the red flag and beware of the evil dark snowmen and the awesome monkey bombs!

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Controls: arrow keys to move, and that's it.
Hint: the bombs tend to drop close to you, use it against the enemy.
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Sound effects are taken from freesound.org, and music is by Robert del Naja, so we opted out of the audio category.
Everything else by the Awesome Nuclear Monkeys.
See the copyright details in license.txt

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1742
Overall(Jam) 2.79 837
Fun(Jam) 2.78 703
Graphics(Jam) 2.59 802
Humor(Jam) 2.67 449
Innovation(Jam) 2.22 923
Mood(Jam) 3.11 447
Theme(Jam) 3.30 711

Feedback

woz
09. Dec 2014 路 10:10 UTC
Pac-Man with a snowman, awesome
Florent
09. Dec 2014 路 16:41 UTC
Couldn't run it on Win 7 32 bits.
I get the error "The version of this file is imcompatible with your version of Windows. Check if you need a 32 bits or 64 bits version.
ForeignGuyMike
09. Dec 2014 路 16:43 UTC
I lost it at the you lost screen. Pretty hard though. It looks like the maze generation you used didn't have cycles. Makes avoiding the bad guys kinda difficult if they're in the way.
Kwask
09. Dec 2014 路 17:06 UTC
I really enjoyed this, for some reason it struck a chord with me. Great work for your first jam!
馃帳 AwesomeNuclearMonkeys
09. Dec 2014 路 17:17 UTC
@Florent: windows executable is 64 bit only. I apologize for this issue, but you can still run it if you have python installed. Just download the source code. I'll talk to my partners to see if this issue can be solved.

@ForeignGuyMake: yes, the maze generator prevent cycles. If you're having an hard time with black snowmen try to make them killed by a bomb (bombs spawn at most 3 steps from you, so move close to a black snowman and wait for the bomb)

Thanks you all for your comments!
klianc09
09. Dec 2014 路 17:23 UTC
Certainly not bad, but incredibly difficult. The difficulty is not bad, but I think it's a bit too luck dependent.
After several times of spawning and immediately getting caught by a evil dark snowman, I had to quit. Wouldn't have been so bad if it wouldn't have taken so long to restart.
Alendro
09. Dec 2014 路 17:46 UTC
Fun game, always enjoyed the pac-man esque gameplay
HuntTheWumpus
09. Dec 2014 路 19:47 UTC
Pretty hard, but the snomwan sprite is cute :) Liked how you got teased with the simple level at first.
puppetmaster
09. Dec 2014 路 21:10 UTC
It's looks boring, but it's very funny to play!
Need to get an achievement when killing 5 black snowman at once! :-)
puppetmaster
09. Dec 2014 路 21:44 UTC
Well done! :-)
Mr MadCat
11. Dec 2014 路 17:53 UTC
Quite nice game. A bit too hard for me ;) I got trapped by the evil snowmen way to easy. Cool idea.
ramyaanudeep
13. Dec 2014 路 06:09 UTC
great
DarkCart
13. Dec 2014 路 11:09 UTC
Snowman Pac-Man. Awesome!
Sharky
18. Dec 2014 路 04:58 UTC
fun, but glitches at the screen change, and when the bombs spawn you go invisable and can't tell what your doing.
sorlok
23. Dec 2014 路 01:20 UTC
Cool take on the theme, but I found the hit detection to be a bit spotty. Neat game overall!
maxmetallica
29. Dec 2014 路 22:28 UTC
really nice idea