Holiday Halfpipe by Marcus Otterstrom


Grind, flip, and dunk while delivering as many gifts as you can in this Santa Claus Snowboarding game!
The goal of the game is to score as high as you can. You earn points by doing tricks such as flips, wheelies, and big air time! But don't get too greedy - hitting your head will end your run.
Click here to play in your browser: https://lemorrows.itch.io/holiday-halfpipe
Controls
| Key | Action |
| ------ | ----- |
| A/ D or ←/→ | Rotate |
| SPACE | Jump |
Tips
- Holding
SPACEwill make your jump higher - You can press
SPACEwhile over a chimney to double jump (gift jump) - The game speeds up over time, making survival more difficult with each second that passes. Playing safe to survive is usually NOT the way to reach high scores.
Credits
Music
"Christmas Rap" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Audio effects
Public domain from https://freesound.org/
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Programming
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Art
@mirriu
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| Link | https://github.com/MarcusOtter/Ludum-Dare-53 |
| Link | https://lemorrows.itch.io/holiday-halfpipe |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/holiday-halfpipe |
Ratings
| Overall | 241th | 3.908⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 95th | 4.066⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 649th | 3.276⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 289th | 4.184⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 301th | 4.118⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 231th | 3.731⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 382th | 3.77⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
definitely has the vibe of the dinosaur game in chrome, but with more fun and humor. I love the sound effects, and the randomization of the level made it a really replayable experience.
It was a lot of fun playing it, although I seem to be a lot worse than some of the other players here. The sound effects were nice and the graphics looked super polished.
The randomization definitely screwed me over a few times - at least that is what I tell myself :D
My only suggestion would be to emphasize tricks even more heavily, so that a player can't avoid them - At first, I thought this was an endless runner where you only got a point for every chimney you passed, so I wasn't doing anything but angling myself to the slope of the roof I was going to land on next. It wasn't very fun to play this way, but I think that if you're playing for a high score, that might be the optimal strategy (assuming you had enough patience), because it was extremely safe. The tricks make the game so much more fun though, so I would try to figure out some way to force the player to engage with them - Otherwise, they might self-sabotage their own fun while trying to go for a high score :)

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1809503221?t=5h9m6s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
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HAHA! Fun game! When I got the hang of it couldn't stop making flips! Gonna keep the link for the holidays season. Good job!
One thing I'd like to see added is some form of combo system where the more (and different) tricks you do in a row the more points you get (could also do point multipliers for keeping a long streak going).
Nice work :santa: !
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love the parallax background
Just like some players, i initially played only jumping across the roofs without caring for tricks until i notice they give much more points.
Loved the graphics and nice parallax! Also the music is pleasant to hear (would love play this game on Christmas)
Overall, a great game! Good job!