SnowFall by FredericRP

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made by FredericRP for LD31 (COMPO)
SnowFall is a game like TowerFall, but you are a snow man, and you throw snow balls !
You have a limited amount of them, but it refills after some time.
The unique level allows to teleport and has 4 shields that you can use to protect yourself against the other.

- Multiplayer : SnowFall is multiplayer only, that means you have to play with at least one friend (or your cat, or your dog..).
- X360 Controlers : the game supports currently only X360 controlers, I hope you have at least two of them !
- Unity 5 : I tried the beta of Unity 5 for this project, so I hope you will be able to play it on your computer.
- Snow flakes : If you don't enjoy the game, enjoy the snow flakes falling, following the wind, in the background

INPUTS
Left stick : move around and choose the shot direction
A : jump
B : throw a snow ball (you have 3 of them, each one respawn after 1.5sec)

You can stick to any platform and wall jump.
You can get one shield by landing on the red gifts : once you have one of them, you will open the other gifts but won't improve the shield (but you can take another one after losing your first one).

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Ratings

Coolness 30% 1987
Overall 3.00 749
Fun 3.24 405
Graphics 3.13 533
Humor 3.06 233
Innovation 2.69 856
Mood 3.07 429
Theme 3.71 404

Feedback

Tinimations
08. Dec 2014 · 13:14 UTC
Reminds me of towerfall indeed.
Fnkee
08. Dec 2014 · 13:27 UTC
I have to controllers at home. I'll be sure to fetch them (as well as a buddy) and rate it later on. Looks fun! (:
louis.denizet
10. Dec 2014 · 11:00 UTC
Towerfall is a good idea and it works very well with the theme, always fun to play with friends ;)
Hempuli
11. Dec 2014 · 01:10 UTC
Sadly I don't have a controller :(
peterthehe
11. Dec 2014 · 17:47 UTC
Inspired by towerfall? Nice game
SinistraGames
12. Dec 2014 · 13:14 UTC
Nice! This is quite towerfall-ish, as you said. And I am a big fan of that game. I like that you were able to actually put in a charaxter select thing with multiple players, did that take a lot of time creating?

Two things that I would consider first fixes if you would work on it in post:

The force movement based on current speed for the double jump. (you cna jump really high if you double jump instantly after first jump).

And rather use a trigger button for attacking, so you could utilize the free fingers already on the controller! :)
freaknarf
12. Dec 2014 · 13:22 UTC
I can't select any swnowmen it seems to get stuck when confirming :(
calavera
13. Dec 2014 · 10:30 UTC
Minus points for snow man >_>
🎤 FredericRP
15. Dec 2014 · 21:55 UTC
Thanks for your comments !
I wish I would have more time to play more games, it seems there's a lot of good games here (ok, so now I've got more tabs opened on my browser..)

@SinistraGames > the jump was kind of buggy indeed. I've uploaded a new release post compo that change some behaviors so you can really double jump, hang on walls, and really choose your character.
I did not use a trigger to attack because one of my colleague has lost a phalanx and can not use them, so he wouldn't play it !

@freaknarf > can you tell me your configuration ? Also: you must at least confirm 2 players to be able to launch the game as it's multiplayer only. First time with controllers, sorry !

@calavera > there's 4 snowmen, do I have 4 minus points ? ;)
Sharky
16. Dec 2014 · 03:20 UTC
No controlers :(
ShellfishGames
18. Dec 2014 · 13:34 UTC
Would really like to play it, but only got one controller, so doesn't seem possible. :/
maxmetallica
28. Dec 2014 · 02:50 UTC
nice game
Pepelumen
29. Dec 2014 · 23:27 UTC
Nice! But it's hard to control, I can never land where I want.