Arctic Antics

by miltage
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.34
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
You are an arctic researcher. You have accidentally dropped your life's work on orcas and its pages are blowing across the ice.

Collect as many as you can before you are murdered by the ravenous orcas you love so dearly.

Use ARROW KEYS or WASD to skate.

UP - Accelerate
DOWN - Brake
LEFT/RIGHT - Steer

You can make sharper turns if you slow down, but keep moving if you want to stay alive.

TIP: The whale sometimes predicts your movement, so it's best not to skate in long, straight lines. Evasive maneuvers!

Thanks for playing!

Comments66

CaptainKraft
CaptainKraft28 Apr 2014, 02:15
Once again you manage to win my heart with beautiful art and clever gameplay. This game is very well made. Great job!
sharpcoder
sharpcoder28 Apr 2014, 04:45
Great job! It's short, sweet, and elegant. I love the interesting gameplay mechanic.
IAmSpencer28 Apr 2014, 08:11
Loved the pixel art. The 'ice' physics made it challenging to avoid being eaten, but that just added to the fun. Great job! :)
bazld28 Apr 2014, 12:18
Wonderful game, with excellent art. A little too hard (for me) at the start, perhaps make it a bit easier at the start?
martinysa031128 Apr 2014, 15:53
Very well done. graphics are excelent
43iscoding
43iscoding28 Apr 2014, 15:54
I enjoyed your game, simple, yet art and gameplay is pretty neat. P.S. I've been expecting u can cut off circles as u skate - would be even more hardcore ;D gj, tho
PapyGaragos
PapyGaragos28 Apr 2014, 16:58
Cute art and nice audio, I like that game. Does the whale try to kill you or was I just REALLY unlucky? It is super hard to avoid
pixelpig
pixelpig28 Apr 2014, 17:33
Fantastic game! Love the art to bits and the concept it very original. Awesome entry, be proud!
eldog
eldog28 Apr 2014, 17:35
Beautiful graphics: the fin shadows under the ice and the reflection of the skater are some of the highlights.

Fun too, nice skating controls. Got 15 pages back!
Jeffalisk
Jeffalisk28 Apr 2014, 17:38
Love how polished you've managed to get this in 48 hours! Great graphics, great controls, very moreish... really good work.
whalebot
whalebot28 Apr 2014, 17:43
Thanks to you, I now have a new least favorite aquatic mammal... Beautiful music, fantastic graphics, holy difficulty batman. You definitely have the addicting short game play element going for you. I managed to get 8 pages of my documents before giving up on studying orcas forever.
DragonXVI
DragonXVI28 Apr 2014, 17:48
Awesome little game :D Looks gorgeous and easy to play!
theholychicken28 Apr 2014, 18:12
WHALE
WHAAAAAAAALE
Cute and brilliant work!
Larzan
Larzan28 Apr 2014, 18:13
Great idea, beautiful gfx, nice music, effing HARD!!
Well done :)
Almost
Almost28 Apr 2014, 18:18
This is really cool. The art, music, and mechanics all feel pretty polished.

Having the orca appear right in front of or next to you is terrifying.
fserb28 Apr 2014, 18:33
I really enjoyed playing this. Good job! :)
zell200228 Apr 2014, 18:53
This is fantastic! hard, but beautiful
SiENcE28 Apr 2014, 19:17
I love it!
igwb
igwb28 Apr 2014, 19:34
+5 for whales.
No, seriously, it's amazing. It took me a few tries to figure out how to get moving the way I want, but then it was just pure fun.
bazoo
bazoo29 Apr 2014, 00:22
I liked this. Cute gfx and quite polished game.
Jared Sartin29 Apr 2014, 02:01
Love it! Gonna come back and play more soon!
jonsul29 Apr 2014, 08:38
Great game. It's fun trying to figure out the whales logic. Nice concept.
allurious
allurious29 Apr 2014, 10:08
This game is amazing! I love the premise and it's super polished for a compo entry. Audio is really suitable, plus the orcas are gorgeous. Nothing wins me over like a hungry orca.
SoupWithBits
SoupWithBits29 Apr 2014, 10:15
Doesn't get much better than this
nxT29 Apr 2014, 10:35
The ice-skating mechanic feels so satisfying!
nesis29 Apr 2014, 15:33
I love it, great art, music, and gameplay - a cute and simple game that's just challenging enough to be fun. Bravo.
Raiyumi
Raiyumi29 Apr 2014, 17:08
Nice game, I love the graphics!
NightShadow0
NightShadow029 Apr 2014, 17:12
Hah, this is really cute, and the gameplay feels just right. Nice work!
dmcfarline29 Apr 2014, 19:24
Really nice feel to this, great graphics too!
_adamturnbull29 Apr 2014, 19:46
Loved this! Great graphics and fun gameplay. Nice job :)
AmmarAlsharekh29 Apr 2014, 19:54
Simple and nice , I like reflection in ice
stoo29 Apr 2014, 21:50
I really like this! It's nicely implemented, fantastic mechanic and the music has an icy feel to it. I am also completely rubbish at it!
Martin_Monosys29 Apr 2014, 22:16
Really nice game, but a bit too difficult for me. Yeah, I guess I suck at games...! ;) Still, very cute, and a nice soundtrack, too. Looking very professional!
Secret_Tunnel29 Apr 2014, 23:19
Very cool concept! There's not much to it, but it was very fun to control. I think the past few 3D Mario games have proven that we need more ice-skating games.
Dreii
Dreii30 Apr 2014, 03:10
Very elegant very pretty :) Id take it out on a date anyday!
peo
peo30 Apr 2014, 19:57
Very well done in all aspect :) The best I did was 4 pages!
It would be cool if there was a way to anticipate the killer whale, or maybe I missed something.
WhiteVoidia
WhiteVoidia1 May 2014, 02:13
So much fun! The whales always seemed to cut me off :P
The controls, music, and art style are perfect for this game.
alvarop1 May 2014, 08:59
Beautiful game. Very cool and subtle use of very well known mechanics (?). I enjoyed this a lot!
Fox_in_sox1 May 2014, 15:49
I remember playing ice levels in old platformer games and really hating them. But you managed to remove the bad and make the idea of ice skating in games fun. Yes, it's true the game is hard, but I enjoyed it. Also thumbs up for the pretty graphics.:)
bombjack
bombjack1 May 2014, 20:19
very addictive! great job!
KeyMaster
KeyMaster1 May 2014, 20:35
Really really nice entry, I'm amazed that this already is a completely finished game! Nice and simple mechanics in combination with great art and sound! Great work :)
Tuism
Tuism2 May 2014, 23:23
Very cool! I love the graphics and the gameplay, some real tension in those turns! Well done! Every little bit of communication was really good. TENSE! Good one!
Merrik4 May 2014, 01:33
This is very charming! I really like the sound track a lot.
I found the whale attack a little unavoidable at times. I might be missing something but I feel there could be a little more warning before the attack.
Spierek
Spierek6 May 2014, 07:26
Pretty fun :) It'd be nice if the wind could change directions in the middle of the game.
Bekokstover6 May 2014, 07:58
Feels and plays very nice. Tough to get more than 8 pages!
mechabit
mechabit6 May 2014, 12:50
fun little game
mortus
mortus6 May 2014, 13:41
That's super stylish! I love the mood and I love the mechanics! It's very hard though, avoiding the orca if it emerges right before you is nearly impossible for me.
ZYXer
ZYXer6 May 2014, 14:50
Am I really bad at this game or is it just really hard? I never got more than 4 pages.

Needless to say but great graphics, great sound and great game as a whole.
dector
dector6 May 2014, 17:00
Quite hard and very awesome. Smooth and sweet. Great job. :)
zkenshin
zkenshin6 May 2014, 18:35
Quite a solid entry. Nicely done. :)
GarethIW
GarethIW6 May 2014, 18:53
Whale of a time!
zebi24
zebi246 May 2014, 23:02
Love it! :)
mustaine
mustaine7 May 2014, 03:07
Love the skating gameplay. Very unique. Game is really challenging.
ethankennerly
ethankennerly7 May 2014, 04:14
Skating in figures to avoid the orca kept me concerned and alert! The rules of the orca, which seemed to predict my next position interested me. Also how the ice that I can skate on is removed, which makes it more and more difficult challenged me. If you continue to develop this, I didn't get to a moment where I felt I had accomplished something besides the time. I also didn't have much skill at catching papers, so began to ignore them.
lightsoda
lightsoda8 May 2014, 04:22
Love the feel of the skating, looks really nice too. Nicely done!
Catman
Catman8 May 2014, 16:57
Nice little game, very well made in all of its aspects. Great job!!
stvr
stvr9 May 2014, 17:23
Love it! Great art and sound, awesome concept, incredibly difficult.
Striwx
Striwx13 May 2014, 10:35
Very cool !
captainflimflam15 May 2014, 12:17
So cute! Nice1!
billhung15 May 2014, 13:34
looks simple, but quite hard. Like the BGM. And the graphics was very cute.
Anoarith
Anoarith19 May 2014, 00:38
Really nice game. Graphics and the music was really cute :)

Quite difficult tough because whales spawn really fast

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