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Snow Grow: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ball by Brenden

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made by Brenden for LD 40 (JAM)

In Snow Grow your goal is to fulfill the only wish of a little girl on Christma; Make it snow! You play as a simple snowball, and as you roll down the mountain outside her village, you gain size. The goal is to crash into the town, and fulfill the girl's wish of a White Christmas!

My play on the theme was intended to be "The more there is, the worse it is (for them)". As you roll down the hill you will grow larger, but only if you're actually touching the ground. You can nudge yourself left by tapping A, and right by tapping D. The score represents how large you are. Finding a path that keeps you on the ground will net you more points.

Built using Unity3D. Music recorded using Audacity and a LTD MH-400 Series Guitar. Tree, Rock, and Roof models found via tinkersource.com. Textures found via google image search.

This was my first Ludum Dare! I intended to make this game as simple and small in scope as I could as I'm still new to Unity, especially Unity3D. More than anything I participated to motivate myself to complete a project, and I'm glad I did.

I didn't quite finish it, there's plenty of bugs and missing features but I still had fun playing it and I hope some of you do too!

itch.io page includes Windows and HTML5 builds.

Source code https://github.com/Mugmoor/Ludum-Dare-40
HTML5 (web) https://itch.io/embed-upload/686584?color=333333
Windows https://mugmoor.itch.io/snow-grow
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/snow-grow

Ratings

Given 7🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

Gus the Shark
05. Dec 2017 · 06:27 UTC
Is the music stuck? I like the idea of becoming a huge snowball but I wish there was more city bowling in the end section :grin:
Sozey
05. Dec 2017 · 20:18 UTC
Pretty fun, although the score text and numbers aren't next to each other.
blinry
06. Dec 2017 · 16:29 UTC
Hey, congratulations on your first Ludum Dare game! \o/ Good job on getting all the tools working, and on submitting a little game! :) I liked the ending, it surprised me! ;)

Have you ever heard of [Tux Racer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_Racer)? You might enjoy it!

It would be cool if you could hold down the direction keys to control the snowball, so you don't have to mash them a lot of times. The score doesn't seem properly aligned. The music loop is very short.
Eric Florio
07. Dec 2017 · 19:16 UTC
The idea is really interesting. I'd play more if the controllers were a little more responsive.
And an actual score would be great too.
Nice job!
🎤 Brenden
08. Dec 2017 · 20:32 UTC
I am working on fixing a lot of the issues and suggestions you guys have commented. I'll hopefully have a new build up this weekend for everyone! I'm in school and working full time so I don't have a lot of free time sadly!