Jingle Bell Rocket

by nucleartide

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Theme★★★★★★★★★★1.88

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Santa's quite immobile, so he needs a shoulder-mounted snow cannon to get around. A small, interactive toy for Ludum Dare 43.

Sadly, I didn't have time to mold the mechanics into a game. Would love suggestions for how to turn it into a complete game!

Controls

Use your mouse to move the cursor. LMB fires a snowball.

Genres: action

Tools: PICO-8

Comments5

DarkShinobi1003 Dec 2018, 18:31

The games a great idea and the music is a nice touch, you were asking for suggestions for how to make it a complete game. I was thinking yo could make it a platformer where Santa must move through the level by using the recoil from the cannon, could even have enemies that you can shoot. Overall it's a fun game and great idea, I look forward to what you do with it in the future.

Oceanosaurus4 Dec 2018, 16:36

Gotta love a Pico-8 entry! This mechanic has a lot of potential, I'm with the previous comment, it could work very well as a platformer where you have to collect stuff scattered around a room by cannon-jumping yourself around. Enemies could be there too as the cannon serves as a weapon (and one should be aware where to fire because of the recoil). Presentation-wise I think it looks great, would love to see more of this!

Hangacs5 Dec 2018, 07:18

Cool graphics and physics. It would be better if I can kill enemies with my ass.

royur5 Dec 2018, 08:46

I thought you can smash those green people with Santa big butt..

JoramWolters5 Dec 2018, 08:53

Ah this would have been really cool if you'd just included some more platforms.
Maybe sacc elves to feed your rocket launcher?

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