Snowman Ski Jump by stevehb

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made by stevehb for LD31 (COMPO)
Snowman Ski Jump!

I liked the snowman theme because it's seasonal, so I wanted to make a game that still included that.


In Snowman Ski Jump, you build a snowman by rolling snowballs down the ski jump ramp and collecting items in the air. The larger (bottom) snowball can collect sticks for arms. The smaller head snowball can collect charcoal eyes, a carrot nose, and a top hot.

After you roll the bottom and top snowballs, your resulting snowman is scored, even if he's in pieces!

Perfect score is 1000.

Also note:

Snowman Ski Jump has no graphics assets. All the graphics are procedural, meaning they drawn by feeding vertices and colors to the renderer. Wanted to do a lot more with this, but ran out of time. Also no sound for the same reason.

The game is kind of tricky. Just press 'R' to restart and try again.

Ratings

Coolness 36% 1818
Overall 2.81 943
Fun 2.88 752
Graphics 2.36 1012
Humor 2.63 451
Innovation 3.27 441
Mood 2.55 882
Theme 3.40 802

Feedback

zulubo
08. Dec 2014 · 02:55 UTC
Liked the idea, but could have been enhanced with more creative visuals/ audio. Nice overall, though, I can see a very fun game in this!!
Gaspard_
08. Dec 2014 · 03:51 UTC
So freagin' hard, but the core idea seems nice, like above, could use better graphics.
I had no sound, I hope I'm note missing something since the above comment spoke of audio...
Fanttum
08. Dec 2014 · 04:14 UTC
Kinda fun but also had lots of bugs. The ramp literally disappeared one time...
devshawn
08. Dec 2014 · 04:22 UTC
It was fun, but definitely a bit buggy.
OccamsRazor
08. Dec 2014 · 04:25 UTC
Pretty cool idea, I enjoyed it! Took me forever to get a successful one built :P
dokidoki
08. Dec 2014 · 04:30 UTC
I like the idea, but I wasn't able to build one. :(
After a few plays I kept getting "__gwt$exception: <skipped>: Cannot read property 'b' of null (typeError)"
internetspaulicy
08. Dec 2014 · 04:31 UTC
I did manage to strike a few poses. I was not able to impress the judges though.
imaginarymonsters
09. Dec 2014 · 14:09 UTC
This is really fun as is. Something about it really reminds me of crane prize machine games. Great work!
Drtizzle
09. Dec 2014 · 17:36 UTC
The platform disappeared sometimes, and sometimes the snowballs rolled of the platform.

It is also extremely hard :D

Technically well made, could use some improvements.
redoxkun
09. Dec 2014 · 21:12 UTC
Is very fun, nice idea!
peterthehe
10. Dec 2014 · 17:58 UTC
Reminded me of some Happy Wheels custom levels
DrGeraud
10. Dec 2014 · 18:06 UTC
Neat idea !
TriSquare
11. Dec 2014 · 01:06 UTC
I like it good job, It runs good but has a lot of bugs, my ramp sometimes glitches or something and the stuff flies through and I need to reload the game, anyway very nice
Elemental Zeal Games Studios
13. Dec 2014 · 00:16 UTC
Oops, broke it when I got the first ball to balance just on the edge of the other side of the platform.
Other than that, really neat entry. Well done!
chaosed0
13. Dec 2014 · 16:04 UTC
Solid mechanic, but maybe a little too difficult. Also ran into a few TypeErrors.
Integershift
15. Dec 2014 · 23:03 UTC
Best I could get 449/1000 Good game I ran into a few bugs and got some errors pop up in the bottom interesting Idea though. Only thing missing was some better graphics but other than that a fun game.
pht59x
17. Dec 2014 · 20:15 UTC
Funny use of physics. However, the gameplay is a bit repetitive and slow.
Scam
22. Dec 2014 · 14:54 UTC
I really didn't understand this until I re-read the instructions. There is not much to play, but I get the idea.
NeiloGD
30. Dec 2014 · 01:23 UTC
This is pretty great. The visuals were good, worked really well, some sound would have been nice. Sadly it did seem to be a little buggy (sometimes the slope would vanish, colours would mess up, etc), but other than that great job!