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How I Rolled your Snowball: The Ultimate Simulator by vetch

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made by vetch for LD34 (JAM)
A simple, yet very addictive game.
We aimed at both themes, yet the pause button may have ruined the "two button control".
You play as a snowball, rolling down the hill, absorbing everything smaller standing in your way. Don't hit things bigger than you, as they will stop your roll. Beware: the bigger your ball is, the less control you have over it.
Can you reach the avalanche at 500 meters?

moving: right/left arrows
pause: p

Enjoy!




Made entirely in Phaser Framework:
http://phaser.io/

Dev: Vetch & Chenkof
Gfx: A. Kraszewska, Kirill Krysov
Sfx: Johan Brodd
Web http://zsl.d-net.ovh/JK/ld_35/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=63219

Ratings

Coolness 52% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.00 788
Audio(Jam) 3.00 513
Fun(Jam) 3.24 434
Graphics(Jam) 2.69 857
Humor(Jam) 2.40 651
Innovation(Jam) 2.63 840
Mood(Jam) 2.85 775
Theme(Jam) 4.26 71

Feedback

dekart
15. Dec 2015 · 17:48 UTC
The concept is actually very interesting and could be vey well suitable for a small mobile game. Collision detection, however, could be improved - trees seem to destroy the ball when visually they're now even closely touched.

I'd be glad to see this game polished and released as a small title - it has a great potential.
jcwelgemoed
16. Dec 2015 · 07:03 UTC
Nice entry. Personally I felt the snowball grew too slowly, making it grow faster would give more of an arcade feel I think. I also found it started getting "jerky" the further I got (maybe it was just lag I don't know). Overall cool concept. With some polish would make a nice little game.
Xeke_Death
16. Dec 2015 · 08:13 UTC
Fun little game...
Ran into trees that weren't touching me, I assume they have rectangle hitboxes...
kernel panic
16. Dec 2015 · 17:38 UTC
Good game, but something really needs to be done about those hit boxes, because they are too big for the images.
goodbadokay
16. Dec 2015 · 18:09 UTC
Nice, but I've got low framerates in this games
Kind of reminded me old Skifree game on windows :)
x92rwzb
16. Dec 2015 · 20:23 UTC
+ Nice music.
+ Good idea for a game.

- When you die and press "P" the score freaks out.
- Collision could have been better.
- Title screen freaks out after death.
- Small screen.
Aerohand
17. Dec 2015 · 06:46 UTC
awesome work! i love it!
daveh
17. Dec 2015 · 19:36 UTC
"Misc" is a pretty vague term. It's not clear what it applies to at first. It was fun and used both themes well. I liked how it progressed. Later on the performance really took a dive which hindered playability quite a bit. Nice music!
Echo Team
18. Dec 2015 · 00:22 UTC
Nice concept, but it wasn't really playable for me.
equiposalchicha
18. Dec 2015 · 00:23 UTC
The idea is good and it fits both themes. However, we think the collisions could be better. The audio, also, doesn't match it very well. We think it would be really fun if faster, but good entry anyways!!
JamesMowery
18. Dec 2015 · 05:21 UTC
No source code? :\
Decentsauce
19. Dec 2015 · 15:00 UTC
The heaps of snow look a bit too similar to the ground so it's kinda hard to see. Game was also very laggy for me so it wasn't easy to play.
psychonull
20. Dec 2015 · 20:19 UTC
Nice game. Cool idea and pretty adictive. There are some things that can be improve, like the collisions, but it's fun game overall. Good job!!
gallerdude
30. Dec 2015 · 16:34 UTC
Simple and fun. Learned far too late that tress aren't misc :(
Larzan
03. Jan 2016 · 23:54 UTC
Interesting concept and setting, you should try to polish it a bit more and publish it as a mobile game, that might be fun.