By some miracle of creation, a snowman has come to life and is trying to kill anyone who crosses his path! Fortunately, his only weapon—the snowball—is enticing people to join the snowball fight. Play as the Raging Snowman and clobber as many kids as you can in 60 seconds!
This game was made, using Stencyl, in (a lot less than) 72 hours for Ludum Dare 33. I was originally planning to enter it in the Compo, but I didn't have Internet access for the final hours, and the game wasn't ready to be entered anyway. The extra 24 hours gave me much more time to polish the gameplay, but I still ran out of time for sounds, music, terrain, and more characters. Oh, well; I'll add those in the post-jam version. And next time, I'm going to plan to finish in eight hours so I can actually finish the game. :)
Controls: - WASD or arrows to move - Mouse to aim/fire - R to restart - P or Q to pause/unpause
Hints: - You shrink when you throw a snowball, and grow when you're hit by one. - If you get too big or too small, you'll suffer the consequences! - You deal more damage when you're big. - Face shots deal more damage, as well. - When the 60 seconds are over, you gain points for being small and lose points for being big.
Any feedback is appreciated. Have fun!
P.S. As a thank-you for commenting, I'll rate your game! (Assuming it does not contain offensive or adult content.) :)
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5193. The head shots definitely make a difference. This reminds me a lot of your toaster game from last LD. I agree that the big/small mechanic is very nice. It is a neat concept to balance getting hit, damage, possibly losing and point adjustments after 60 seconds that way.
Puny humans, your feeble attempts to kill me only makes me stronger!!! Interesting game, I liked the idea of snowballs coming at you are like just ammo for you to throw back at them. The graphics were also very nice, and this was just flat a fun game to play. :)
Like the idea of getting bigger/smaller, thats a nice dynamic. I found it a bit difficult to see the actual snowballs from the particles effect, perhaps could have been a different way to do that. Shame you didn't have time to add some sound effects/music too. But its a nice little game.
Thanks for your comments, everybody! I'll make the particles smaller and semi-transparent in the post-jam version.
Also, if you would like to share your score with the world, play on Newgrounds and click the Leaderboard button at the end of your run: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/662637
Interesting how much my gamestyle changed after I read the instructions, because at first I naturally assumed that the hitting makes me weaker, but it doesn't make sense in the context of snowman, doesn't it :D Not bad, fun clicking browser game for those empty timeslots in work :)
I liked getting hit to let my snowman grow. Cool game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/0AIZTu6ja8E
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The particles made it difficult to see the snowballs though.
Also, if you would like to share your score with the world, play on Newgrounds and click the Leaderboard button at the end of your run: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/662637