Snow Flipper

by nevercade

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.19

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Snow Flipper! 🐧

Live life as a tiny penguin in this short tycoon game!
Learn to fish, upgrade your gear, and sell what you catch to the locals! 🐟

Features:

- Penguins
- Catch fish
- Press shift to slide on your belly
- Upgrade your tools!

Controls:

- A + D / Left + Right -> Move
- Space -> Jump
- Shift -> Belly Slide
- Click -> Interact/Fish
- Scroll -> Select item (besides the fishing rod, items don't do anything, I ran out of time lol)
- Alt + Enter -> Fullscreen

Versions available:
- Windows (Download zip file SnowFlipper_V1_3.zip on this page)
- Web (GX.Games - Supports Chrome, Edge, Opera)

Stream the music from the game

I ran out of time to create some original music for this game, so I used some music from some older projects that didn't see a release! You can find all that music and more on my soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/nevercade

Watch a timelapse of the development from start to finish:

Have fun!

Notice: Please download V1.3, the latest version with bug fixes.

Changelog:

V1.3
- RNG adjusted to be more forgiving
- fixed iron fishing rod not catching salmon
- adjusted buy/sell value of some items

V1.2
- removed dev testing command

V1.1
- fixed text in upgrade menu was missing
- fixed penguins were requesting fish which you couldn't yet catch
- fixed sell menu showed incorrect pricing values

Comments30

spider__the second7 Oct 2024, 22:27

Great Game! Love the artsyle, the puffer fish reward text is bugged though, says 3 when you get 50.

nevercadeauthor7 Oct 2024, 23:12

Thank you! Yep, that was not supposed to be like that!! I've now fixed this bug!

Dimoseek7 Oct 2024, 23:44

Nice Game!

DongDong8 Oct 2024, 02:21

these penguins are so cute!!!!

JKazuk8 Oct 2024, 02:27

so frickin cute. The slide mechanic feels amazing and the animation is so smooth

Cam Moore8 Oct 2024, 02:31

This was cute and I loved the mood. I got the last fishing pole too! Something about the game made me wanna just stay and chill.

dennis1128 Oct 2024, 03:01

This game was really fun! The art was really cute

Frostbeak8 Oct 2024, 03:16

Adorable art, and I loved sliding around. And there's a fishing rod :D yay

Sutt008 Oct 2024, 14:48

The art style is cute but I couldn't get the fishing rod to work. Tried all the keys listed on this page and then some.

nevercadeauthor8 Oct 2024, 15:32

@sutt00 Yeah 😭 I ran out of time to create a tutorial hehe - clicking and holding on the water once you have a fishing rod should work!

Mibi888 Oct 2024, 16:53

Fun little game, but it was very laggy in firefox. The graphics are beautiful.

Rodgems8 Oct 2024, 16:56

Very cute penguin. Controls really nicely too.

Struggled with fishing on the left-side water - not sure if I was meant to be able to fish there, but clicking didn't work, but no issue other than that.

Wyvex8 Oct 2024, 16:56

It's a really cute game! I think there is a notable lack of a proper tutorial to teach you how to play and some more mechanics. Overall, really cool for a game jam. Also, the slide feels fantastic!

evindor8 Oct 2024, 17:06

Very cool game, and super cute penguins. Love the artwork!

SMielke8 Oct 2024, 17:15

What a charming and cozy game! I had such a delightful time playing it. Just a quick question—the fishing rod for 500, is that the final upgrade?

Wesel8 Oct 2024, 17:30

The art is really cute. It was a bit confusing on how to figure out how the fishing hook to work, but once I figured it out I was able to start catching fish. Really nice game!

FireFalls8 Oct 2024, 17:50

This game was so cute! I think something broke when I was playing the game because no options were showing up to sell the fish, but I enjoyed it regardless! The slide was super smooth.

stesim8 Oct 2024, 18:05

A relaxing and cute little game. Great job! Even though I'm not the biggest fan of pixel art, I enjoyed the art. I only wish there was a simple mechanic for the fishing instead of just waiting.

nevercadeauthor8 Oct 2024, 19:52

Thank you all for the feedback! It's so nice hearing you all enjoyed the game! I'm looking forward to adding new content at some point to a standalone non-jam version. Keep an eye on my social media @nevercade for updates ✌️✨

BruceZoom8 Oct 2024, 20:43

Very cute and cozy game!

Halgendy8 Oct 2024, 22:06

The movement system just makes me want to roll up into a ball of feathers :D I love the slight bounce and the expressions of the lil penguinos.

nevercadeauthor8 Oct 2024, 22:26

@cam-moore @smielke Thank you for taking the time to play to the end and getting that final upgrade! 💖 If you would like to spend more time with the game, maybe check out my YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@Nevercade) and if I get around to making a non-jam version with more to do, you'll be the first to know! 😎

@stesim Thank you! I think the pixel art came out quite nicely. I'd have loved to have added more of an engaging mechanic for fishing, I'll take this feedback on board and see what I can do to add to this in a future version 😊

@Sutt00 oh no, that's unfortunate! which platform are you playing on if you don't mind me asking - also, if you're using an older version, that could be it too - there was a bug on the initial upload where clicking the water itself wouldn't work and you had to click above it, but that should be fixed now! 🫡

@rodgems @firefalls those definitely sound like bugs! I'll need to look into that 🫡

barryrichter8 Oct 2024, 23:42

Very fun game to play and keep upgrading the rod. I loved the art style for everything and moving and grooving all over the map

DashVirus8 Oct 2024, 23:43

Such a cute game @nevercade. The art is really awesome. The game is simple, fun, and relaxing. I loved it. Of course there's no much to do, bu I enjoyed chilling with my penguins friends. Sliding is such a good idea, it make every action cooler ! If there are fex improvement you can think of, I'd say, making the double jump consistent (because it is clunky and difficult to use) and making sure penguins have a big enough gap between them in order to select them easily when the ice is crowded ^^
Other than that, I enjoyed the moment and the polishing level of the game (animations, tooltips, inventory count...). Great work you made ! ;)

PhoenixStroh9 Oct 2024, 00:44

Very cute game! Simple gameplay and a nice gameplay loop.

LDJam user 233110 Oct 2024, 00:40

Super cute, especially the sliding animation and the subtle squish when starting a slide! I love seeing fellow penguin games :D Immediately thought of this flowchart the moment I got the first rod:

zzangshil10 Oct 2024, 10:04

Love the design the penguins are soo cute

LDJam user 431210 Oct 2024, 16:24

Lovely chill and cozy little game. Only issue I ran into was that 90% of penguins wanted clownfish and no matter the rod it was the fish I caught the least. But even with that little issue it's still a super cozy game and the music does wonders for setting the mood. Great work :)

Fis12 Oct 2024, 15:24

nice graphics - I like the overall design and visualization of the message bubbles, the interface is well crafted!

Tyrannas13 Oct 2024, 19:28

Really liked your graphics and the belly slide mechanic ! It was quite pleasant to play! What made me quit the game (and maybe I didn't understand something) but I had a looot of fishes but the other pinguins would take ages to come back and I was taking so long to reach the 250$ for the upgrade... But overall nice little game !

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