Winterland is a short game where you control a polar bear cub and her mom through a dangerous ravine. It just so happens that these particular polar bears have rockets on their backs! Have both bears dodge obstacles by moving left and right (A/D and J/K for the cub and mom respectively).
Play it one player (two controls each bear.. keep them together for easier play) or play with a friend! It was designed for one player to control both bears.
Enjoy!
Running the game: Unzip and run StartGame.bat. If you are Windows and it complains about missing prerequisites, run the UE4PrereqSetup_x86.exe file. This installs DirectX prerequisites.
Behind-the-scenes: Art, music, programming done by http://twitter.com/zknet. Story, idea and main menu UI done by my wife. This was my first go at completing something in Unreal Engine, so it was a great learning experience. Per the usual, we didn't do nearly as much as we would've liked, but that's the nature of these things.
I will be attempting to publish a Linux version as well.
The camera changing angles was a bit disorienting at first. I would have liked just a single player mode, since having to control both is confusing at times.
Love the idea, especially the rockets. I feel like this would be waaaaaay more fun if I had someone to play it with as a two player game but there's lots of fun to be had with the challenge
Wonderful! I love the concept, the low-poly and monochromatic graphics, and it's fun and interesting to play two characters at once, especially mother and cub. Excellent!
Simple, but a bit too hard with only one player. I think you should either take out the second bear or do something else when it isn't coop. Other than that, thumbs up :)
A counter/scoring system is definitely something I wanted to get in there. I thought about sneaking it in there at the end, but I didn't want to risk breaking everything. :)
This was a very neat game! I love the art and the simple play style. I felt so bad every time the polar bears would hit something. Poor baby polar bear just didn't want to stay close to it's mom ... :P
It was a bit challenging to control four keys but it wasn't too bad.
This was so cute! Bookmarking it for "stuff to play when I have a friend over". It was confusing at first when bends came up though, I wasn't sure if I had to move to go around the corners or not. Maybe some kind of visual indicator that the polar bears follow an overall path?
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Beautiful
+ Nice and clean
+ Simple and neat
Con:
- The curves confused me to where I should go, but then I just got use to it
Obs:
o Played alone, a bit confusing but managed to play
Great work!
Unfortunately, I uncoordinated hand-eye
lol
It'd be nice to have a counter of how far you've gone, so I could more easily compare runs and work towards getting as far as possible.
It was a bit challenging to control four keys but it wasn't too bad.