Holiday Halfpipe

Neat little game :) I like it a lot, kinda addictive! I got to 6550 score. Really like that you added gift jump, and wheelies make it gambly in a good way!

Very nicely done! Highly polished complicated physics gameplay for a weekend, I'm seriously impressed with the programming. The art is also fantastic! I think I might be terrible at it, after 20 or so attempts my high score was 5000. :sweat_smile:

definitely has the vibe of the dinosaur game in chrome, but with more fun and humor. I love the sound effects, and the randomization of the level made it a really replayable experience.

Didn't expect to play a Christmas game at this time of the year, but here goes :)
It was a lot of fun playing it, although I seem to be a lot worse than some of the other players here. The sound effects were nice and the graphics looked super polished.
The randomization definitely screwed me over a few times - at least that is what I tell myself :D

Very fun game! It's a fun little game, I loved seeing all my tricks written on screen like old school Tony Hawks! The physics is very well done, especially for a week-end project! Amazing!

This is a very polished and fun to play game :) although I didn't expect to play a Christmas game this time of year, it definitely kept me a bit cooler with the temperatures slowly creeping up these days.

The physics of doing tricks and jumps felt really good - I loved how generous you were with what counted as a death so that you could really experiment and express yourself as you were riding around! It would have been really easy to count any minor bump against a chimney as a death, but they way you can vault over them with well timed jumps meant that I felt free to play around and do tricks, and only worry about landing somewhere on a roof. I spent a run popping a wheelie on every roof just for the fun of it, and it felt really good!

My only suggestion would be to emphasize tricks even more heavily, so that a player can't avoid them - At first, I thought this was an endless runner where you only got a point for every chimney you passed, so I wasn't doing anything but angling myself to the slope of the roof I was going to land on next. It wasn't very fun to play this way, but I think that if you're playing for a high score, that might be the optimal strategy (assuming you had enough patience), because it was extremely safe. The tricks make the game so much more fun though, so I would try to figure out some way to force the player to engage with them - Otherwise, they might self-sabotage their own fun while trying to go for a high score :)

@koolruz thanks for the feedback! The speed (and difficulty) ramps up over time, and after 90 seconds it's quite difficult to stay alive. We think the optimal strategy for highscores would be to do as many tricks as possible early on, and perhaps play a bit safer (but still doing flips) in the late game. Our highscore is currently 73,500 which was not achieved by playing safe :wink: But emphasizing the tricks is a good idea. I added a short sentence to describe that the goal is to earn as many points as possible, and that points are earned from tricks :)

Wow, this one is nicely done! The music and sound effects are great, and the graphics are nice and clean. The random level generation works really well and the steadily increasing speed feels like a good challenge. Reminds me a bit of Alto's Adventure but this one definitely has it's own unique identity and feel. Nice work all around!

Pretty fun and engaging simple game.

Really well executed, great job making a game you can jump into and have fun with immediately, and learn the finer points as you go.

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1809503221?t=5h9m6s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

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Cool little game! Love the idea. You nailed the physics(jiggly and fun) and the mechanic is well executed and polished. This really adds to the whole game. I enjoyed the multiple goes I had at this game. Nice job!

I got 7950! I really liked parallax background.

Excellent! Highly polished. Love the abstract Santa character. I like that you stuck to a minimal scope for the jam and made it great.

HAHA! Fun game! When I got the hang of it couldn't stop making flips! Gonna keep the link for the holidays season. Good job!

Fun little game! Got a highscore of 19250 :) Really liked the art and all the sounds!

One thing I'd like to see added is some form of combo system where the more (and different) tricks you do in a row the more points you get (could also do point multipliers for keeping a long streak going).

Nice work :santa: !

The music and visuals are so polished!

Simple and sweet! I like the chimney jump mechanic, and of course the very nice art. Some kind of combo multiplier would be cool, it does seem like the balance is currently in favor of safe, consistent play and I'd like to get some big points for big risks!

Nice, simple and addictive game. The Christmas concept is very nice. I liked a lot the art and the mechanics of the game! Good job!!!

Yeah really fun! Lots of personality and smooth gameplay. Love the santa voice. Reminded me a bit of the old indie classic "Icy Tower"

really really fun game. santa's voice is hilarious. i loved the parallax background. great game and merry christmas!

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Very nice game overall. The graphics and visuals create a good atmosphere. You created a simple game that is fun to play, I enjoyed it. Good work!

This is a crisp little game, good jam content.

@kesha11s And so I took that personally

nice game!
love the parallax background

Absolutely an amazing take on the theme, and you killed it with the actual execution.

Really fun! Sounds are just perfect. Snow effects are amazing. Just couldn't coordinate the rotation with the jump, so I just ended up jumping. Cool mechanic where you get a little more air time when delivering presents.

fun game, Only 230 days and 13 hours for Xmas

Pretty addicting gameplay. Simple and well executed. Really enjoyed the game. :)

Reeeeally nice game. I hope I remember it to play it on christmas. :smiley: Totally like the idea, controls are really nice and easy to learn and totally fitting graphics and sound/music. Maybe an updated version for christmas with more levels or some addition? Pleeeease? :smile:

Web build loaded very slowly for me but it was worth the wait. Fantastic concept and the controls are rock solid. I have broken many necks.

Absolutely incredible! Had much fun on this!

Just like some players, i initially played only jumping across the roofs without caring for tricks until i notice they give much more points.

Loved the graphics and nice parallax! Also the music is pleasant to hear (would love play this game on Christmas)

Overall, a great game! Good job!

Very fun to play and nice graphics! It reminded me of Steep

Really fun, gameplay is easy to understand (but hard to master), graphics work well for this kind of game. Great job

Really fun gameplay :D Easy at start but after a few moments it gets challenging :D Great game :-)