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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Cozy Winter Vibes | #4 | 4.471 | 4.471 |
| Overall | #5 | 4.078 | 4.078 |
| Presentation | #10 | 4.235 | 4.235 |
| Fun | #21 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I loved the main game mechanic! Interestingly, it's actually exactly the same puzzle/platforming mechanic as another game in the jam: Snow Puzzle. It had a lot off potential... but I just couldn't manage to get through the slope level! I know exactly what to do, and I get very close, but after trying dozens of times, I just can't make the jump! A real bummer because I would have loved to play more. I adore the artstyle and vibe you all created, and I think the slippery slidy physics can work really well when the level design implements it correctly. I think with a few patches this game will be even more awesome. Thanks for participating in the jam!
The graphics are great. The BGM is perfect. The controls are really hard. Sometime snowball wouldn't connect with the snowman even though I'm not near the campfire. The gameplay is challenging but fun. I love the snowball jump mechanics. It is not often you get to launch a snowman up a mountain. Great game.
Thank you for your feedback. We are trying to improve with your feedback. Thank you for playing ou game :D
I think I got stuck when I fell on the first obstacle, but other than that I thought it was a great use of the theme and has a nice snowman building mechanic.
Thank you for playing our game, Glad you like it :)
I felt this game had a lot of potential but, sadly, I struggled so much with even the opening platforming that I couldn’t really progress to see the game proper.
I love the idea of the jumping mechanic! Combining with the other snow balls to form multi-stack snowman that you can launch off of is really cool! However, the very floating movement, for me, made it impossible for me to progress. I could get to the second platform, but every time I landed on that snowball I would slide off or launch off incorrectly, missing the next platform. This would be more of a challenge, than an issue, if it wasn’t for the fact that the snowball on that platform would fall off and then there’s no way at all to continue with the level. I literally had to exit to the main menu and try again to reset, which did not feel good at all.
Vibe, wise, the game definitely gave off a solid winter theme, and the graphics (what little I saw) looked well made. Sadly, the controls and constantly soft-locking myself in game made it mostly unplayable for me.
If you’re interested in seeing me struggle, I did stream my play of the game
On the first level I assume you mean if the snowballs fall off it is still possible to complete the level you can jump up to the first platform one down but we defiantly should have gave the player a bit more slack for the first level. And a restart key flew right past us that defiantly should have been added. But there is actually 0 way for you to soft lock yourself theres just a lot of times where it seems like you were softlocked
Just watched a bit of your stream yea it really didn't click for you really needed some type of text instructions. Sounds didn't seem to work for you some reason. Sorry for making P the key and not escape as well lmao
Nice winter vibes and cool mechanic idea! I found the platforming a little bit too difficult but other than that really nice. Very impressed you managed to pull off making a game with such a big team.
Thank you for your feedback, We are glad you liked our game :)
Really slippery gameplay but absolutely fitting to the jam :).
The jump mechanic with the snowballs is really cool but sometimes it felt like I can't jump high enough.
Haha thank you for your comment! The jumps were thought to be not too easy but also not too tough, and it seems (I think) we suceeded. I thank your review!
Couldn't figure out how to do the second level but props for making it through with such a big team! Especially the artists did a great job :D
Shame. Yea you just have to go down the ramp and quickly jump all the way across using the snowballs
I really like the extra jump snowball mechanic, reminds me of Yoshi in Super Mario World. The art style is great too! But I agree that the movement is definitely too slippery, and I also experienced a bug where the player can get stuck to a corner, and upon pressing space, it triggers the snowball jump. Otherwise, great job! :)
Yea we had noticed that you use a ball jump on the corner but it was just such a small thing and so late in where we didn't fix it but it is actually quite a simple fix for when we update this.
Cool platformer, but I would add a little less slippery movement, otherwise nice.
thankyou for your feedback!
Yea movement could have been refined we just never found the time. I also struggled with it sometimes overshooting a lot of jumps but it does make some things more interesting.
The snowballs are a really fun central mechanic and I enjoyed using them, though some of the platforming was very difficult for me or inconsistent, since your current velocity heavily impacts your additional snowball jumps. I love the art and music, great cozy vibes.
Very impressed that you managed to put this together with so many people and not have it feel like a jumbled mess!
I did get stuck on the first screen with blue snowballs because I had no way of getting up to the fire so that I could die, and the level was unwinnable because I had used them. A reset button would have been really nice!
thankyou for the kind feedback, we’ll be sure to look into the level being a softlock.
Yea you were supposed to spam jump with the snowballs to get up and if you wasted the blue ball then you could roll the balls under we did have a level to try and teach that you could roll the balls but I guess the presentation there didn't hit a lot of people
This is great feedback as game designer I appreciate this. Yeah we saw this issue in the early stages & definitely something that further work should address, thanks again! ⛄
crazy how you manage to put this together with a huge team like that.
Art and music is pretty good, The blue-ish pallete pixel art fits together really well. and there's detail in particles
The music is pretty chill, kinda reminded me of minecraft.
The mechanic is not explained because there's no tutorial so I don't even know if i'm doing things right to say anything about it. but the gist is stacking snowball to jump higher. which quite creative I think,
This game really need a dedicated reset button. because if snowball in high place fallen to the ground or disappear you're practically softlocked unless there's a fire or pit to kill yourself with
Edit :
as it turned out the intended mechanic (I think) is to push down snowball to the bottom and press jump really quickly to make it jump really high,
Except the final stage. I have no idea how to beat it. but I discover that high jump boost tech that can also be perform one from the ground without losing snowball by press jump button twice in a really short timeframe, this can only be perform by using multiple jump button almost at the same time (such as pressing W and up arrow), this let me bring the snowball from the upper area down safely to be able to stack enough to beat the level
sorry if this is a little too long, I got carried away, anyway good game.
Glad you figured it out but yea should have added a reset button so people could experiment quicker would have made the levels hit better
Yes, you are right, that was the intended game mechanic. We'll make sure to, on the game's next update, include a clearer explanations of the game's mechanics. Thank you so much for your kind words and constructive feedback, we do really appreciate it!!
Thoroughly enjoyed this game! I love a nice, polished game, and I'm shocked that you were able to scrounge together 17 full people for this. Congratulations to everyone. The gameplay is fun, the pixel art is crisp, the sound design on the snow is fantastic. You deserve nothing less the praise.
Thank you for playing our game. We are glad you liked it :)
Thank you for your critics. As one of the sound designers / composers of the team and the one that made the snow sfx i'm so happy to read you. Merry Christmas ♥
Good game