===== IF THE GAME GOES DOWN, TELL ME AT @RHY3756547!! =====
One screen of almost unmanageably insane chaos! I'm not even sure I have a story for this game.
Shoot the other players with snowballs without crashing your Wicked Sick Hover Snowboard! You have two minutes to rack up points by performing flips, shooting down other players and most importantly, not dying! Use the jump mechanic extensively to dodge bullets and chase other players.
Invite your friends! If you have no friends, invite your family! It's no fun by yourself... :(
=== INSTRUCTIONS ===
Left hand over QWER+space, right on mouse! Click to shoot snowballs.
Rotate CCW: e Rotate CW: r Jump: space Toggle Zoom: w Scoreboard: tab
=== POST COMPO FIXES ===
8/12/2014: - Optimized pos sync netcode. - fixed K/D display. - fixed respawn on joining session in progress (initially spawned you in wall) - added simple HP display down at bottom right; it just looked like you got hit randomly sometimes. - fixed jump misfiring - rehosting on rpi, let me know if there are any problems - firefox printing a box character after every single message - fancy page
9/12/2014: - fixed player position packets to only send when necessary! 5 players active at once should no longer DDOS the server with 300 packets per second (yikes!), now it's between 5 and 25 per second depending on what the player is doing.
=== LIBRARIES USED BY CLIENT === - glMatrix - uh, the default canvas stuff?? does that count
=== MODULES USED BY SERVER (node.js) === - ws (websockets) - connect (used for http host) - serve-static (also used for http host)
It might take a little work, but I can greatly reduce the load per player using a few optimizations. Right now there are 60 (yikes!) packets per player per second - that can easily be reduced to 1-5 depending on how active the player's fingers are. :P
Really impressive! Good to see other people playing also :D Cool idea :D Maybe there should be a tricks only server, where I dont get smashed, good job anyways :D
Really great competitive fun here. I can see there being a decently high skill ceiling which would be why the dev #rekt everyone from the stream. Solid in terms of graphics and audio. Difficulty is a non-issue because it's a symmetrical competitive game. Good show!
Extremely fun and addicting! Awesome music! My highest rating so far. :) Only "bad" thing is when two players spawn inside each other, but that hardly takes away from the FUN!
Thanks yokcos! I've been playing a few competitive multiplayer games recently, which is where the inspiration for a hard-to-master game like this comes from. Ideally it would be great to have multiple levels to play against people on.
Oh hey Rhy, it's scratchisthebest. I think I remember you from somewhere. You made "Summer"?
Played by myself for a little bit. My best score is... -250 xD
The map didn't feel designed very well, I would often gravitate towards the top of the room. Some kickback on the snowballs would be a funny way to control yourself slightly in the air too :)
Music is bumpin' and I like how everything is so boingy :) graphics are really cute too. Networked games are daring for 48h, good job :)
I've considered kickback - I feel that it would make it way too hard to shoot people. (it's already very difficult! perhaps you didn't try it if you were playing solo)
I would love to see this game being played by 20 to 30+ people at a time. This would be the epitome of chaos.
Absolute perfect multiplayer setup. :) Props for getting that set up during a weekend! Most people only dream of multiplayer functionality when participating in a 2 to 3-day event! :D
The only thing I could possibly suggest would be better visibility for each individual snowman in the form of right-off-the bat different colored hats maybe? Or different colored names? But that's pretty much it. :)
The different hats have to be chosen at the start! The zoom mode which is on by default makes it easy to see who you are, but I do agree that it probably needs some sort of indicator on respawn for the full view.
Cool game! But controls were a bit hard to master and we die A LOT, sometimes I got suicide while in air as well. Using scrolling doesn't fit the theme either I think. Anyway, cool entry and nice music!
This game is awesome! There is a small learning curve because the action is so fast paced, but it is an amazing experience. The graphics are great, the music was fun to listen to and it was well polished!It reminded me of mini ssx. Job well done.
oh, my god how cool it is! Well, that's what i call a game! It is pretty easy to play and fun and action involved. And multiplayer, so you can kick asses! That's freaking cool!
This is awesome. I have aready seen multiplayer games on LD but most of them was unfinished or not very playable. This is totally insane with 5 players, snowballs everywhere and ( lol ) 3 HP lifebar :D
That was intense, I'm glad the server managed to keep up! Thanks for playing, and thanks for the comments!
I originally intended for the level to fill the whole screen all the time, but the zoom was just too good after I implemented it to leave out. So now my interpretation is kinda "the level is the screen, zoom into the screen". :P
Super props to making a networked multiplayer game in 48 hours! I got a bunch of people in my stream to play and it was, as promised, super chaotic, but fun! I like that you chose to put a lot into feedback (like the flying snowman parts) knowing that this would probably be impossible to balance, good use of time :) Nice work!
Amazing game, there are too many good things to say about this. I like to leave some criticism on the games I played but you stumped me.... ummm.... maybe it would be nice if the zoom level saved between rounds (I'd have to press w at the start of each round). The game is not only fun but very well rounded, I'd be surprised if this doesn't get a high rating. It seems you interpreted the theme the same way I did, but your implementation is much better. Good work on this!
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zopper11 Dec 2014, 23:39
it's pretty fun, but unfortunately the creator can't over how good i am at his game
Enjoyed it, but I was the only one one the server. I imagine it would be a lot more fun with other people. Really like the music (sucker for chiptunes)
Lots of fun in multiplayer, and hard to master! The hectic music and simple graphics fit the gameplay very well, and it can be very funny, even if someone is beating you by 30000 points. Great job, I'll be coming back to play this one again some time!
Rad game! Probably the most enjoyable game of the compo. Online networking with a raspberry pi is great. Unfortunately it broke and I got disconnected. No matter, it's great fun.
My internet went down as we were talking - one of the bad things about hosting on a pi is that it's connected to my disaster router which gives up working every second day. It's back up now.
What a great game, and with online multiplayer too! Might have fit the ☃ theme a good bit better, but with the ability to zoom out to one screen, and the multiplayer "everyone plays on the same screen" interpretation, it works.
I loved the simple controls, the fast pace, the lively music, the silly art and character customization, and just the whole package. The controls were brilliantly simple... I think this could even be adapted for mobile, with a simple tap for jump and tilt for spinning!
I can't offer much critique, but I can offer some suggestions. I think it could benefit from tilt mapping to speed control while grounded, for some added control. Also, being able to safely stomp snowmen as long as your skis are facing them when you hit... maybe the skis even blocking shots? That all said, fantastic work!
Great work on this! Congrats on finishing a multiplayer game :D I love how simple it is, yet really fun (and difficult! Even solo, I am dying more than I should...)
One issue: On Ubuntu 14.04, it sometimes hangs after death (and sometimes before the match even starts - the first time I wanted to play, this happend, so I was confused and pressed all sorts of buttons).
At first I found it a little confusing that the ice makes you gain speed and that you can stick to the ceiling - but it doesn't hurt at all.
I'll try to check this out again with some friends!
(P.S. Thanks a lot for the the extensive feedback on our game as well. I wrote a response to it on our page and we already put in a lot of the changes you suggested.)
This is really great! The multiplayer makes it extremely fun to play, competing with the other players. The graphics are great, and the gameplay as well!
I saw, that was pretty sick! Looks like they had quite a bad experience with the game though - I forgot that people might have vertical screen sizes less than 768 :I also they didn't know the controls because they normally appear above the game! they also only played with like one person :(
This is pretty impressive. The game is fun, and challenging. Everything looks pretty good, and sounds pretty good. The controls are smooth. I wish there was a little bit of a wider range for landing cleanly. Great job.
Tou can play online (!)
However I suck at it. :D