--Control-- 1/ Pass snowballs to the left with the left click 2/ Throw snowballs in the air with the space key. Hold longer to throw higher 3/ Move your mouse to catch the ball with the other hand. 4/ go to 1/ 5/ try to multithread, your hands can only hold one ball each
-- Challenge -- Try to juggle 10x time in a row. On each level you have to choose a penalty
-- Survial -- Juggle the longer possible with 3 snowballs.
I love this entry! That snowman is adorable, and the juggling controls, though difficult-sounding at first, work surprisingly well in practice. This game put a huge smile on my face!
Wow, this is really beautiful, and it's simplicity the gameplay is really fun (and hard!) and works very well. I kind of wish this could be played with just the mouse, but otherwise everything is superb! The otherwise high quality makes the music's simplicity stand out a bit, though.
That's an instant favorite and a 5-stars entry right there! :D Easy to understand, hard to master, with a ton of gameplay adjustments to make each experience unique. Not to mention the really cool graphics and insane level of polish... I especially really like the snowman's face :) Great job Ben!
Top notch entry again this time around. =) High degree of polish, lots of clever game modifiers in challenge mode, beautiful animations and art everywhere (not least of which on the snowman's face). The groovy "GAME OVER" graphic was my favorite.
I'm not even sure what I could criticize. The mechanic's hard, but not unfair. It took me a couple of plays to develop a strategy, but I settled on pressing, holding, and releasing "throw" and "pass" in unison.
Lovely art and highly polished. Feels like a finished product. Controls great too, giving me no chance to blame my inability to juggle onto the controls. Awesome. :)
@sanguine Ouch ! You're right !!! T_T I shoudl have check at least one juggle tutorial before working on it. Now I can't help thinkinh on how I could create control for the real one :D
This is the best Ludum Dare game I've ever played!
I juggle all the time in real life and this simulates it super well! Adding all of the extra challenges, getting to pick two between levels, very sweet. I can't believe the snowman blew up on losing!! XD
My *only* criticism is I noticed that when the screen shakes, there's no background on the top.
The music, sound effects, and graphics are super charming. Amazing job! :D
Perfect, amazing game, awesome graphics and music addicting and even polished as a final product best game I have seen so far ;) lots of stars for you ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
I'm blown away by this game. The life you put into that snowman is incredible, I love him! Such a fun mechanic that is difficult to master and spiced up with the challenge modes. This should definitely win in many categories. Thanks for the experience.
One of my top games of the Ludum Dare. Very unique concept, great art and animation, the gameplay is clearly explained. It's just really polished all round. The expressions on the snowman's face are priceless. Can't fault it really, other than it's probably almost as hard as real juggling. :P
The perfect Christmas Game :) Your GFX are amazing, and i'm totally amaze by your inverse kinematic arms Oo, in a ludum lol ! The game is a bit hard for me (cause a noob) maybe some magnetism to grab the ball at the begining could be great :)
Love it, this is the best one I've played by far. Really simple and addictive mechanic (like flappy birds), could really go far if you're willing to work on it more.
Looove the animations and graphics...and the gameplay is so much fun! Great game entry. We shouldn't have drunk the wine, what a mess ^^ We just shared it on Twitter :)
Holy Cow, I can't juggle in real life but you certainly made me feel like I could! The snowman with all his animations and expressions is simply incredible. Best art I've seen this LD so far!
Hi there. Dang that is frustrating. Can juggle three crosswise IRL, but could only get to 5 on this... the problem is starting up and getting into rhythm, would also help if character centre of a bigger screen rather than right on edge I think. The music is damned annoying after a while, went from regular 3's to 5's after muting speaker. Good job!
I really love what this is. That it lures you in with a 'mini-game' surface, then presents a truly unique task that asks more coordination than most games of that type. At first it was frustrating, but soon I adapted and overcame; the root of true fun. I had to close it as I was scared of how long I might stay there if I seriously tried to keep besting my score. Oh, and brilliant visuals, especially the execution of the snowman's head/face.
I... woah. I suck as much at juggling in games than in real life... but that's incredibly amazing. The amount of polish put in this compo entry... amazing. And original too. Great work :D
That is just freaking awesome. Outstanding even. There are some good games in this Ludum Dare, but this is probably the most original that I've seen so far.
I felt so proud of myself when I found that I was juggling successfully.
What an excellent game. The snowman's face is really well done too.
Very nice! The game mechanics are simple but feel very unique, and the game is incredibly polished for a compo entry! Not mentioning the incredible pixel art!
Very polished graphics and sound. Animation is great if you like juggling. Do you have to go through the whole tutorial to unlock challenges or survival?
Really good both gameplay- and aesthetics-wise! My only suggestion is that the survival mode should probably show your result at the game over screen. Made it to level 4 and managed to get 44 juggles in the survival mode! Best snowman so far too ;).
One of the best game of the compo. Awesome concept/innovation, very fun to play and replay, nice graphics and music. Outstanding that you created this in 48h only! :)
Awesome game!! I was impressed with the details, polishing, effects, and what struck me was the speaker snowman with a very well established and lively face (you probably made it by code, and was very well done)
Everything's awesome! I love it <3 <3 even though I can't manage the ten juggles yet it feels really polished and like it's my skill/timing failing (which it is)
WOW! This is definitely one of the best entries in the compo. Aside from the controls, it feels exactly like playing a GameBoy Color. 5-star game all round!
Awesome graphics, great music, nicely challenging gameplay with a good learning curve, really polished. I can't think of anything to be improved except maybe adding other juggling patterns :P Amazing work!
Very impressive game, very well done! I've very recently started practicing juggling, and this feels very similar to it :) Really cool style, amazing animations and a great realization of a great concept. The tutorial did wonders, it made me go from barely being able to make one throw to actually being able to juggle. And the game modes just fit your theme perfectly. Very well done!
This is really good! I love the expressions on the snowman's face. The juggling felt very tight, and hard, just like real life. I could only get up to 5 or 6 in the tutorial, but alas I am no good at juggling with real stuff either. Nicely done.
This must be the best snowball juggling game I've played this year! But seriously, this is very well made. Love how the snowman leans to the side and has facial expressions and everything. Great work!
Fun and simple. I spent way too long staring at the snowman's nose on the title screen. Catching a snowball near the right edge of the screen was a bit difficult, especially when my mouse cursor accidentally leaves the game window so the left-click stops working, but that's mostly my fault I guess. Got a score of 111 on Survival :)
simple gorgeous! easy to learn hard to master, i really enjoyed the different variations of choices of challenges you've added to the game. Music goes well with the game and also loved the snowmans emotions really gave it the christmas feeling. well done!
Holy shit, amazing game. Really well thought-out, and equally well executed. Even more impressive is the fact it's done in 48 hours. I never would've guessed.
Cool, a juggling game! We juggle in real life too, I wonder if that helps :-) Got to level 7 after a few tries. The handicaps seem a bit unbalanced (silly bird and more balls seem so much harder than e.g. cheap wine or heavy balls), but that adds the (also attractive) aspect of luck to the game I guess.
You always make such great games, Benjamin! This one has super great art, and it's really fun, but I am as bad as it as I am at juggling in the real world (even without cheap wine). :)
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This is a perfect example of a Ludum Dare game. It is a really simple concept polished and expanded upon. So good!
I imagine it'd probably be easier to operate with the assistance of a mouse.
That swirly winter backdrop is amazing and the colour choices are perfect for the game.
I genuinely can't figure out if this is 3D to look like 2D or 2D rendered to look like 3D.
Thank you so much for making this game and I wish you the very best of luck!
Please get in touch via my Twitter as I'd love to see what other stuff you work on!
https://twitter.com/alexvscoding
Very beautiful finishing :)
I'm not even sure what I could criticize. The mechanic's hard, but not unfair. It took me a couple of plays to develop a strategy, but I settled on pressing, holding, and releasing "throw" and "pass" in unison.
I just love this snowman, the graphics, the animation, the music and I've never played a juggling game. Very cool concept.
That's the kind of game you want to play from time to time, with a steep learning curve and very rewarding progression.
Very different from your previous entries, but still, super solide :)
One of the best compo I played for this LD
But I think with a bit more practice I'll get there.
Nicely polished as well.
....beauftiful
....a chatchy soundtrack
....great controls
....simply awesome game
I juggle all the time in real life and this simulates it super well! Adding all of the extra challenges, getting to pick two between levels, very sweet. I can't believe the snowman blew up on losing!! XD
My *only* criticism is I noticed that when the screen shakes, there's no background on the top.
The music, sound effects, and graphics are super charming. Amazing job! :D
The penalties made the game kept the game from getting repetitive, and the audio really setup the mood.
Oh, and I've yet to talk about those gorgeous graphics...
Really well done! Congrats!! =D
It was very hard for me to get into a juggling flow but I'm getting the hang of this.
LD winner!
Great job ! =)
addicting and even polished as a final product
best game I have seen so far ;)
lots of stars for you ☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃☃
Your GFX are amazing, and i'm totally amaze by your inverse kinematic arms Oo, in a ludum lol !
The game is a bit hard for me (cause a noob) maybe some magnetism to grab the ball at the begining could be great :)
Really hard to beat also
The amount of polish put in this compo entry... amazing.
And original too. Great work :D
I felt so proud of myself when I found that I was juggling successfully.
What an excellent game. The snowman's face is really well done too.
She does not do it the justice it deserves.
Didn't really motivate me to keep playing, but that may be as well my personality.
along with other beautiful Ludum Dare games.
Cheers! :)
@pht59x yes, once again I made a very difficult game, I never learn... Even passing the tutorial is a challenge :D
Incredible amount of stuff packed into this one - the experience is magnificent, tutorial and all. WELL DONE :D
My challenge highscore is lvl.14
Really cool style, amazing animations and a great realization of a great concept. The tutorial did wonders, it made me go from barely being able to make one throw to actually being able to juggle. And the game modes just fit your theme perfectly. Very well done!
But seriously, this is very well made. Love how the snowman leans to the side and has facial expressions and everything. Great work!
I spent way too long staring at the snowman's nose on the title screen.
Catching a snowball near the right edge of the screen was a bit difficult, especially when my mouse cursor accidentally leaves the game window so the left-click stops working, but that's mostly my fault I guess.
Got a score of 111 on Survival :)