You are playing the unicode snowman, who tries to avoid negative votes and to collect positive ones.
This is my first ever LD-Entry. It's nothing special and I initially planned way more (e.g. collecting votes while crawling) but that's all I was able to do in time. The game was made using the *awesome* Love2d (or LÖVE) framework. Sound effects were generated using bfxr (http://www.bfxr.net/), the music was generated at Fake Music Generator (http://www.fakemusicgenerator.com/).
Enjoy!
EDIT: A POST-COMPO-VERSION IS NOW AVAILABLE ON ITCH.IO! THE FEATURES INCLUDE: • improved menu • improved win/lose-screen • improved positive sound pitch • added timer • added own font • added optional speed limit • added easy way to add you own enemies! ##- MINI TUTORIAL - ##STEP 1: Make positive, negative and neutral version sprites of your enemy ##STEP 2: Put the sprites in the games "sprites"-folder (C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\LOVE\voteSnowman\sprites on Windows, ~/.local/share/love/voteSnowman\sprites on Linux or /Users/user/Library/Application/Support/LOVE/voteSnowman/sprites on OSX) ##STEP 3: Make a new text file inside the games "enemies"-folder ##STEP 4: paste the code found here (http://pastebin.com/zjW6M5Zz) into it, edit and save it. ##STEP 5: Start your game and you're done! • added sugar-cane-enemies • and probably things I forgot to mention... :P
Love the style (and the screen size). The Hitbox on the hanging votes could be a bit smaller though, sometimes I picked up a negative vote when I thought it had already passed me.
I really liked the music and graphics style! The game was pretty unique and fun. You should probably have added a losing condition but I guess time constraints are evil.
The game actually ends when all the votes given in RL habe spawned. If your final results are better than the one "whole game in one screen" had there'll be a "you-win-screen". If they're worse a "you-lose-screen" will appear. I wanted to add a votes-left-bar but I ran out oft time... ^^
The graphics are nice also music fits perfectly, and I love how fast you can go isn't limited... that's one speedy snowman. I quit it after a while, because nothing interesting was happening anymore and I was pretty far in the +, just read now, that there actually would have been a winning-condition.
Agreeing with @Meta-link about the non-existing speed limit, I actually sat through a whole revolution (the snowman moving one screen each frame)... Simple concept that plays well!
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Also liked how the screen was mega wide!
Love the style (and the screen size). The Hitbox on the hanging votes could be a bit smaller though, sometimes I picked up a negative vote when I thought it had already passed me.
The sfx for the positive vote collection is a little too high pitched though.
I quit it after a while, because nothing interesting was happening anymore and I was pretty far in the +, just read now, that there actually would have been a winning-condition.
And bonus point for the non caped speed :D
Next time, don't forget to set a maximum speed! Though, it was funny going so fast that there were many snowmen on the screen.
Nice mechanic and funny gameplay.
I like the graphic style!
Well done!