The Bottom of the Snow by Enver Arco

Controls
- [WASD/Arrow Keys] - Movement
- [Space] - Jump
- [E] - Interact
- [R] - Use Shovel
- [R] + [S] - Shovel down
- [N] Toggles smoother controls (player slides less etc)
Instructions
The Bottom of the Snow is a game where you play an eskimo in a snowstorm trying to protect your home by getting rid of snow and survive the harsh climate. * Sleep in the bed to refresh energy. * Use the fireplace to warm up * Eat fish to avoid starving * Items may be hidden within the snow * Befriend a seal! (and if you're nice to him you might even get rewards)
Post-LD Bugfixes:
- fixed the error from running low on energy/hunger/warmth
- fixed issues with dialog display
- fixed a bug with the fire
- fixed a bug where fish were displayed as gem
- fixed a minor animation issue
- fixed an issue with snow not being solid
Post-LD Bugfixes #2
- Fixed issues with showing dialogs
- Fixed a bug with jumping
- Fixed issues with the fireplace
- Added an option to enable easier/more balanced settings and display hints. This can be toggled via [N]
Team
- wogandmush
- substain
- vir
- enverarco
- ghostcat
- lehip
Ratings
| Overall | 1382th | 3.244⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1542th | 2.884⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 821th | 3.291⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1350th | 3.279⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 689th | 3.86⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 609th | 3.535⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 531th | 3.171⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 674th | 3.667⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 122🗳️ | 64🗨️ |
Charming :) Feels like it accurately represents what shoveling snow on the moon might be like
+ Seal
+ Survival aspects
+ Limited maps (I dislike getting lost on huge maps)
+ Audio effects were great
+ The combination of gameplay, audio effects and graphics set a nice mood.
- The survival aspects were a bit confusing at first
- on Chrome, the Unity loading bar doesn't go up at all *(possibly an issue on my end, happens with most Unity games)*
- on Firefox, the title screen shows and the first "level" loads, but it's completely dark. I can move around and interact, but only the text on the top is visible. Checking the console, it looks like there are shader compilation errors?
Also really liked how new trees grew each day and more snow piled up!
Impressed how many different mechanics are in the game and the music is really nice as well. Well done! =)
@enver-arco and rest of the team can you upload a downloadable version ?
EDIT: works without full screen with playable fps
I'm not that much into survival games, but I like the snow mechanic idea, this make everything a discoery.
Pixel art is quite nice too, and mood feets the game.
For flaws, i felt movement & gameplay too slow (but maybe related to my fps), and and contrôle are not that easy, the slide may be too strong
But I must say that the amount of snow generated is huge! This can be a problem of "repetition" later, as we have to "clean" most of the time "tons" of snow. And the amount of fish we found is very low. I couldn't survive more than 5 days - with a lot of effort cleaning the snow haha.
I say this because the game seems too cool for a "repetitive survival mechanic", which I imagine is not your intention.
That said, it's an incredible game. You could add some new sub-mechanics like "fishing" and find food more easily, "dig" faster or lessen the spawning of snow - maybe an 'power-up', idk.
Overall, i really enjoyed this game and will be looking forward for an update. Great work!
@twigg @niklas-zhaga @profan @frnknstn @jujuformatic @edouardlapoire @anuke @junamai @edur @pineapplegladiator @monninen @metapoua @ardorugus @mr-forty-two
We just put up a new version that fixes some issues and adds a new setting. This can be toggled via [N] (see description).
We also included a windows build for those of you who had problems with the WebGL version.
As many of you mentioned the slow/sliding movement, we did not have time to fix that during the jam, but we addressed it in the new settings.
One of the ideas was to let the player find out what to do. I feel like it's kind of hard to find out because of the survival part and I agree that some more instructions would have been helpful. We added a few hints within the new setting, at least.
@rein @locustjin
Since you've tested the game, we fixed the error (in a previous update) - although you probably didn't miss a lot, because the error only occured when one of the ressource bars went to 0.
@kepsert @tessahardin
You should find some fish (or something to trade for fish) within the snow - there is also a visual clue for these. At the beginning, you can find the seal on the right, next to the igloo, but he might be already buried in snow.
@ardorugus
We thought about making the soundtrack either more 'happy' or more 'sad/dark', but we (I) went with the latter because it fits the theme/story better
@lrvstudios
Thank you! There actually were plans for some of these ideas (upgrades, for example), but they just did not make it into the game due to the lack of time. :(