You play as a snowball, trying to Knock 'Em down some Trees. And you get bigger as you knock down more trees, allowing you to knock down some even bigger trees.
Controls:
WASD to Move
It's admittedly a way too simple game. It's my first attempt at Ludum Dare. I tried to do everything by myself to qualify for the compo, but got too distracted during the weekend to finish on time, so it's a Jam entry.
I attempted to use Blender to create some low poly trees, snowball and terrain. Recorded some pretty annoying Christmas song (no lyrics, because it's lyrics is copyrighted, but not the tune) and edited it in Audacity. And once again, Unity (just Basic) as my game engine.
I'm tripping snowballs. Crazy music :P Are you actually allowed to do that since all content has to be original and that is a real song your singing? A fairly good entry.
What a sweet audio :-) Nice idea, you can improve it, by making snowball rolling down the hill, feeling of speed, and getting larger after taking more snow, that would be funny!
@duon44 I thought about adding an HUD map (but that would be more than 1 screen >.<) @wdebowicz that's a great idea! :) @khahem I see your point about the polys thanks for the comments and liking the audio :)
I love the music! Simple game, but pretty polished. The trees that are too big don't appear to be any larger. And the camera makes it a little difficult to play. You might consider more 'pinball bumper' action on the trees to make it a little more chaotic and hard to avoid obstacles. Overall, I like it.
@ben_pxlplz I was halfway done with planting trees before i realized that I should just aim for the snowball to keep moving forward, it would be simpler for the camera that way too.
Really nice first entry, I really like the low poly style of it. Funny that you chose to sing Carol of the Bells. You can always search for royalty free music if you're entering the jam :P .
Good that you got the collisions to still be functional while changing the transform.localScale too.
I really like the title of the game. The music is really cheery and its fun to do as the title suggests. I was able to knock 36 trees. That is my personal best. I think I can do better but it it gets really tricky to spot knock-able trees after while. But thats my only complaint really :)
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Linear10 Dec 2014, 16:32
Hey, heard you had trouble making trees, so I made you a little tutorial:
I like the graphics! I Included it in part 5 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/-qEX6yeW8uQ
But when the snowball gets too big you can't see where you're going, so it would've be nice if the camera moved away from the snowball.