The Inevitable Snowman by LaneDavis
https://youtu.be/1CdOpxuN3b8
Your snowman is melting in the antarctic sun, and a swarm of flaming felines is arriving to quicken its demise. Collect snowballs and throw them at the snowman in order to keep it looking frosty in this action-arcade game!
Features: - Collapsible ice platforms that sink as you cross them and melt as fire-cats get near - Collectable snowballs that you can throw at the snowman to replenish it or throw at fire-cats to defeat them - Two types of fire-cats that try to ruin your day by throwing fireballs at your snowman and melting the ice platforms - Difficulty progression - keep your snowman alive for as long as possible to get to the top of the leaderboards - Collectable hats!
Listen to the soundtrack here!
Developers: - @Edward-Dassmesser - @JoeyRosicka - @LaneDavis - @bitCulture - @tate-brasel
Sound Effects & Music: - @bitCulture
Art: - @trevormccauley - @rachel-mcsherry - @phil-lesnar - @Kaley
Controls M/K: - WASD to move. - SPACE to jump.
- MOUSE 1 to shoot/throw snowballs.
Controls GamePad: - LEFT THUMBSTICK to move. - RIGHT THUMBSTICK to aim. - L1/R1/A to jump.
- L2/R2 to shoot/throw snowballs.
| Windows direct download | https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1clIwQ4CD-4hJNSKUd1q4HY5BfMyYrUhZ |
| Mac direct download | https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h4IClHVH2B3tLrabXaYR1DxeLJ0C5g78 |
| itch.io page | https://jam-a-llamas.itch.io/the-inevitable-snowman |
| itch.io page | https://jam-a-llamas.itch.io/the-inevitable-snowman |
| Link | https://theinevitablesnowman.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/the-inevitable-snowman |
Ratings
| Overall | 81th | 4.109⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 104th | 4.031⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 214th | 3.797⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 158th | 4.156⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 43th | 4.609⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 14th | 4.453⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 484th | 3.283⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 321th | 3.839⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 35🗳️ | 57🗨️ |
The art and VFX really very well done. This game had a ton of juice. I just loved how it looked when the ice platforms cracked. The music was also excellent. I think the difficulty curve was a little steep for me. Maybe you could alleviate this by backing off on the initial spawn rate of the kitties, and/or increasing the abundance of snow? I found it really tough to get past the 1:30 mark. But, maybe that's fitting for the theme haha.
Splitting your snow between the snowman and cats was also clever, and it really allows the panic to set in when deciding how to manage that resource later.
Really nice job!
The mechanics are solid, the art is lovely and the audio is outstanding (it even has interactive music! beggining very calm, then gets more intense with time and when you lose returns to soft).
It took me a while to discover the double jump, and sometimes the character didn´t jump when it was going in diagonal. Maybe creating bigger platforms would be a solution to that. It is also difficult to hit the dragons, I struggled a little to be very precise shooting to them.
The idea of having the same action for healing the snowman and attacking the dragons is very clever, you resolved two problems in one action.
Fantastic work, hope you guys continue the development of this game. Congratulations for the entry!
That being said love the visuals and especially the audio. You really have dedicated sounds for everything. My favourite is the crunch when jumping onto the ice-platforms.
One problem that might stem from the cutout artstyle is actually hitting the firecats when they are to the left or right. Im pretty sure you have actual 3d hitboxes overlayed but it makes aiming very difficult nonetheless.
The pace is very fast and you get overwhelmed pretty quickly as i feel. Thats ok though and forces more action oriented play. (Btw im the current record holder - not bragging or anything xD)
Its a really really good entry! It would be a shame to only get <20 votes.
The game also looks very beautiful.
Especially the main menu looks like a lot of effort was put into it, with all the animations etc.
It's a difficult game but I enjoyed it :)
The audio visual elements of this game are virtually peerless (though some animation on the characters would be nice), it just needs attention in the balance department.
Music and graphics are very well done. All in all an enjoyable game.
Thanks again for playing and for the useful comment 🙌
Everything is juicy and polished, from the main menu to all the fx and the music climbing up with the difficulty
Very well executed concept as well, the fact that we have to choose between shooting cats and the snowman, that we can shoot the snowman from afar, the the snowballs have an aoe, the spawners close when we jump on them... Really well done!
However, I think the difficulty climbs too quickly
Also, the jump is HORRIBLY INCONSISTENT, at least it was for me, my character would often just stop its jump midair without any reason despite me continuing to press the jump button (Which usually made the jump rise higher & longer) and not having used my second jump, it looked like an intended mechanic but I couldn't figure out how it worked and it make the game way harder for me
All in all it's an incredible complete game, you could almost sell that lol, congrats.
I did 3:24