Ludum Dare #31compo

Snowman Ski Jump

by stevehb

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.88

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.36

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%

Snowman Ski Jump!

I liked the snowman theme because it's seasonal, so I wanted to make a game that still included that.

In Snowman Ski Jump, you build a snowman by rolling snowballs down the ski jump ramp and collecting items in the air. The larger (bottom) snowball can collect sticks for arms. The smaller head snowball can collect charcoal eyes, a carrot nose, and a top hot.

After you roll the bottom and top snowballs, your resulting snowman is scored, even if he's in pieces!

Perfect score is 1000.

Also note:

Snowman Ski Jump has no graphics assets. All the graphics are procedural, meaning they drawn by feeding vertices and colors to the renderer. Wanted to do a lot more with this, but ran out of time. Also no sound for the same reason.

The game is kind of tricky. Just press 'R' to restart and try again.

Comments19

zulubo8 Dec 2014, 03:00

Liked the idea, but could have been enhanced with more creative visuals/ audio. Nice overall, though, I can see a very fun game in this!!

Gaspard_8 Dec 2014, 03:56

So freagin' hard, but the core idea seems nice, like above, could use better graphics.
I had no sound, I hope I'm note missing something since the above comment spoke of audio...

Fanttum8 Dec 2014, 04:19

Kinda fun but also had lots of bugs. The ramp literally disappeared one time...

devshawn8 Dec 2014, 04:27

It was fun, but definitely a bit buggy.

OccamsRazor8 Dec 2014, 04:30

Pretty cool idea, I enjoyed it! Took me forever to get a successful one built :P

dokidoki8 Dec 2014, 04:35

I like the idea, but I wasn't able to build one. :(
After a few plays I kept getting "__gwt$exception: <skipped>: Cannot read property 'b' of null (typeError)"

internetspaulicy8 Dec 2014, 04:36

I did manage to strike a few poses. I was not able to impress the judges though.

imaginarymonsters9 Dec 2014, 14:14

This is really fun as is. Something about it really reminds me of crane prize machine games. Great work!

Drtizzle9 Dec 2014, 17:41

The platform disappeared sometimes, and sometimes the snowballs rolled of the platform.

It is also extremely hard :D

Technically well made, could use some improvements.

redoxkun9 Dec 2014, 21:17

Is very fun, nice idea!

peterthehe10 Dec 2014, 18:03

Reminded me of some Happy Wheels custom levels

DrGeraud10 Dec 2014, 18:11

Neat idea !

TriSquare11 Dec 2014, 01:11

I like it good job, It runs good but has a lot of bugs, my ramp sometimes glitches or something and the stuff flies through and I need to reload the game, anyway very nice

Elemental Zeal Games Studios13 Dec 2014, 00:21

Oops, broke it when I got the first ball to balance just on the edge of the other side of the platform.
Other than that, really neat entry. Well done!

chaosed013 Dec 2014, 16:09

Solid mechanic, but maybe a little too difficult. Also ran into a few TypeErrors.

Integershift15 Dec 2014, 23:08

Best I could get 449/1000 Good game I ran into a few bugs and got some errors pop up in the bottom interesting Idea though. Only thing missing was some better graphics but other than that a fun game.

pht59x17 Dec 2014, 20:20

Funny use of physics. However, the gameplay is a bit repetitive and slow.

Scam22 Dec 2014, 14:59

I really didn't understand this until I re-read the instructions. There is not much to play, but I get the idea.

NeiloGD30 Dec 2014, 01:28

This is pretty great. The visuals were good, worked really well, some sound would have been nice. Sadly it did seem to be a little buggy (sometimes the slope would vanish, colours would mess up, etc), but other than that great job!

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