Snowing in the wind

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.22
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.59
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★39%
First Jam for us, it was fun and we did manage to deliver something kinda enjoyable so hurray!

Snowing in the wind is a 2d maze game with a single level evolving over time.
Help the snowman to reach the red flag and beware of the evil dark snowmen and the awesome monkey bombs!

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Controls: arrow keys to move, and that's it.
Hint: the bombs tend to drop close to you, use it against the enemy.
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Sound effects are taken from freesound.org, and music is by Robert del Naja, so we opted out of the audio category.
Everything else by the Awesome Nuclear Monkeys.
See the copyright details in license.txt

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Comments16

woz9 Dec 2014, 10:15
Pac-Man with a snowman, awesome
Florent9 Dec 2014, 16:46
Couldn't run it on Win 7 32 bits.
I get the error "The version of this file is imcompatible with your version of Windows. Check if you need a 32 bits or 64 bits version.
ForeignGuyMike
ForeignGuyMike9 Dec 2014, 16:48
I lost it at the you lost screen. Pretty hard though. It looks like the maze generation you used didn't have cycles. Makes avoiding the bad guys kinda difficult if they're in the way.
Kwask9 Dec 2014, 17:11
I really enjoyed this, for some reason it struck a chord with me. Great work for your first jam!
AwesomeNuclearMonkeysauthor9 Dec 2014, 17:22
@Florent: windows executable is 64 bit only. I apologize for this issue, but you can still run it if you have python installed. Just download the source code. I'll talk to my partners to see if this issue can be solved.

@ForeignGuyMake: yes, the maze generator prevent cycles. If you're having an hard time with black snowmen try to make them killed by a bomb (bombs spawn at most 3 steps from you, so move close to a black snowman and wait for the bomb)

Thanks you all for your comments!
klianc099 Dec 2014, 17:28
Certainly not bad, but incredibly difficult. The difficulty is not bad, but I think it's a bit too luck dependent.
After several times of spawning and immediately getting caught by a evil dark snowman, I had to quit. Wouldn't have been so bad if it wouldn't have taken so long to restart.
Alendro
Alendro9 Dec 2014, 17:51
Fun game, always enjoyed the pac-man esque gameplay
HuntTheWumpus
HuntTheWumpus9 Dec 2014, 19:52
Pretty hard, but the snomwan sprite is cute :) Liked how you got teased with the simple level at first.
puppetmaster
puppetmaster9 Dec 2014, 21:15
It's looks boring, but it's very funny to play!
Need to get an achievement when killing 5 black snowman at once! :-)
Mr MadCat11 Dec 2014, 17:58
Quite nice game. A bit too hard for me ;) I got trapped by the evil snowmen way to easy. Cool idea.
DarkCart
DarkCart13 Dec 2014, 11:14
Snowman Pac-Man. Awesome!
Sharky18 Dec 2014, 05:03
fun, but glitches at the screen change, and when the bombs spawn you go invisable and can't tell what your doing.
sorlok
sorlok23 Dec 2014, 01:25
Cool take on the theme, but I found the hit detection to be a bit spotty. Neat game overall!
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