This game started out as an idea to make a single-screen survival game. The mechanics revolved around balancing staying warm and dry inside with the need to gather resources to stem the collapse of your roofs against an onslaught of snow.
We're a two man team, one of which has never tried to make a game before, and this proved to be quite a bit of work. What we ended up with isn't quite a game, but might be sandboxy enough.
The attached "tech demo" should run anywhere there is Java.
EDIT: I've changed 2 things: 1. the camera doesn't zoom in for building 2. you can't build at night
Most of the "features" were bugged because their physics bodies were mispositioned by scaling. The change wasn't significant, but was more than a typo. I feel we aren't in the runnings for anything serious, so I've changed the download link.
Cold was supposed to be based on how far you had moved through snow piles, but this system was replaced with snowflake damage so the demo player could die.
Fires didn't make it, but were close to implementation and would warm the player up, while providing some melting heat to snow piles
I hope to write a decent post mortem once I've rested from this ordeal :P
I couldn't understand the objective of the game and I don't know how I was meant to build a house? I didn't rate because I haven't played what this game has to offer by the way.
A lot of stuff broke last minute when we added the night camera zoom (all our physics bodies didn't scale). I'm working on patching it up so this is more playable.
Can't build any structures, the graphisms are great and i love the snow physics but i'm not rating yet because i can't realy play. Great job for a first try anyway ;)
Great attempt even if it wasn't finished, I can see some nice potential on this! also, included it in my random LD31 gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei_gJeG5cgM
Good luck with the rest!