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Follow my ski-gnal! by Ansible

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made by Ansible for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

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You are the guide in this downhill slalom race. Your teammate needs you to signal commands so that they can see the way.

Control both players, move through all the flag markers, get to the finish line and avoid the trees!

MUSIC- "Game Music Loop 5 XtremeFreddy"

Skiing SFX - my freezer

Finish line: Find out how many flags you passed correctly and get your time at the end of the race. FreeSki mode with random spawns available at the end of the course. Hit R to restart anytime!

Inspired by Vision Impaired Paralympic slalom racing.

Screenshot 2026-04-20 202847.png

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/follow-my-ski-gnal

Ratings

Overall 650th 3.226⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Fun 531th 3.242⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 391th 3.435⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Theme 580th 3.403⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 678th 3.097⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Humor 221th 3.383⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Mood 623th 3.283⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 40🗨️

Feedback

jver422
Apr 21st · 02:39 UTC
sorry, it just crashes to a black screen before I can finish reading the controls :(
🎤 Ansible
Apr 21st · 08:31 UTC
@jver422 thanks it's working on Chrome on Windows and Mac plus Safari.
Please give it another go and rate!
500
Apr 21st · 14:04 UTC
The art style is so amusing, making up for the other shortcomings
glem-fumeno
Apr 21st · 14:12 UTC
Driving in factorio made my brain lag so much and I felt as if the controls were reversed. Very cool idea and artstyle.
Tesseus
Apr 21st · 18:29 UTC
What a crazy game, it's wonderful. I am proud of my 1:34 time and 83 cleared results. Fun take on the theme and the sport as well. Great aesthetic too, hitting the nostalgia bone.
🎤 Ansible
Apr 21st · 19:41 UTC
@tesseus thanks so much <3 (good score, be proud)
Boudichon
Apr 21st · 19:49 UTC
Very easy to understand how to play right away but still a challenging gameplay. The guy in the back ate quite a few trees, but I enjoyed my run :smile: Very nice entry!
LDJam user 141701
Apr 21st · 20:04 UTC
Easy to understand, but hard to play! I failed pretty heavily, even when I got a second player involved.
Eugenik
Apr 22nd · 02:20 UTC
I really like the concept of having to actively guide your teammate through the course. It captures the fast-paced, slightly frantic energy of a race. This was a fun take on the whole downhill experience!
shores
Apr 22nd · 18:06 UTC
Where's that yeti? Also dang difficult, but in a good way! Good job!
🎤 Ansible
Apr 22nd · 20:39 UTC
@shores
![yeti.png](///raw/b79/f3/z/725c1.png)
Kerdelos
Apr 22nd · 22:28 UTC
Okay the art style of the characters is peak skying in the 90s, love it !

I'm really bad at the game though ahah. (Having an azerty keyboard does not help but the problem is probably between my keyboard and my chair)

Well done ! Too bad I couldn't reach the yeti !
🎤 Ansible
Apr 23rd · 07:40 UTC
@kerdelos oops I totally forgot about other keyboard layouts! thanks for playing +1 difficulty

(Also the yeti I just drew for fun, it's not in the game unfortunately)
HerzogVonWiesel
Apr 23rd · 09:54 UTC
A very fun and interesting twist on a classic of the 90s. Great hitting the slopes two at a time!
nkvz
Apr 23rd · 13:30 UTC
so interest vibe.) fun visual. nice work.))
Soothsayer
Apr 23rd · 22:59 UTC
These sort of two-character mind-twisters are always fun, I've made one myself in the past. This one was good fun, had charming art, and is very challenging. I really enjoyed it!
Shernik
Apr 24th · 15:29 UTC
It's really unusual and quite difficult in a good way.
zakchaos
Apr 24th · 22:22 UTC
thouroughly enjoyed, and was excellent use of theme, made me nostalgiac for orld ski free, very impressive feel and mood, Excellent job!
ACartlidge
Apr 24th · 23:06 UTC
It made me laugh trying to control both at once, for some reason my brain decided my left hand should be giving signals backwards and I had to fight that. I think the best decision you made here was recognizing this game could be crazy frustrating and not making you have to start over for hitting things. It would have been a totally different experience if not for that. Nice work!
bigfatgua
Apr 25th · 08:32 UTC
"Familiar controls for both hands, but combining them is a total brain-twister. It's so clunky in the best way possible—love it!
PanDuplan
Apr 25th · 18:21 UTC
Very original take on theme lol. Could hack controls a bit by moving characters as close as possible and just pressing buttons simultaniosly. Well polished map design btw
vydra
Apr 26th · 07:01 UTC
Nice gameplay. I was completely broken after a lot of tries.
Iluvatar
Apr 28th · 19:16 UTC
Me: "This is gonna be easy, I mean how hard is it to just press both WASD and Arrows?"

Also Me 10 minutes later: "Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"

Seriously now, this game has no right to be this fun and challenging. I love it, I love the SKI vibe from the classic game, and the smooth gameplay. It was pretty hard, but the concept is really cool!
🎤 Ansible
Apr 28th · 21:04 UTC
@iluvatar haha thank you <3
🎤 Ansible
Apr 28th · 21:06 UTC
@panduplan true, I should have punished that! thank you
Raivk
Apr 29th · 20:29 UTC
Really great idea! Hard to coordinate BUT it's so cool! Love the concept.
Pastry chef
Apr 29th · 20:30 UTC
Wow, I am absolutely terrible at this :)
Surfa
May 02nd · 16:50 UTC
As with pastry-chef I was terrible at this game. But it was very charming. I really like the graphics and overall concept, it fit the theme well. Also it was very topical with the Winter Paralympics that ran recently.