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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Enjoyment | #642 | 3.711 | 3.711 |
Style | #905 | 3.921 | 3.921 |
Overall | #1186 | 3.596 | 3.596 |
Creativity | #2926 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You are a snowball that scales in size and speed as you scale down a mountain.
Development Time
48 hours
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We created all assets for the game.
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Love the art! The snowball's son is my favorite!
Good graphics great and idea but its a little bit to difficult
Heeeeeey, title twins! Love your game, it oozes with style and honestly it's impressive how polished you guys made it in 48h too! Playing this game reminded me of how I used to love the sled racing minigame from Club Penguin as a kid :D
And we have a WINNER!! 🏆 That was a core inspiration for this game, so well done on catching the vibe 👏👏👏
Super stylish, especially for 48 hours. Seriously impressive! I'd like to see how else the snowball size could factor into the gameplay if you develop this further.
Any suggestions?? We would’ve loved to add some more but we were stumped after our ~4hrs of brainstorming, so we stuck with what we had 🤔
Taking a page from Katamari Damacy's book, maybe new obstacles could be revealed as you grow larger. Like you'd need to avoid hitting birds or people riding a ski lift, etc. Or else you could just have the playable area expand and reveal new paths at a different scale as you grow larger. Though features like that would definitely not be trivial to implement because you'd need some way to dynamically switch level elements. Or maybe, if you get hit when you are big enough, the snowball could split into several smaller ones that you could control simultaneously (like the Double Cherry powerup from Super Mario 3D world), though only one ultimately needs to make it to the end. They could even recombine together to give players a chance to regain their lost size. The game is already polished and refined mechanically, but these might just be other things to explore.
Or you could go for something completely nonsensical... Like if the snowball gets big enough, smaller snowballs start orbiting it, or it accretes enough mass to become a small planetoid and it starts generating a magnetic field by rolling down the mountain... I'm mostly kidding about those, but since the game is already kind of goofy, maybe you can explore the behavior of the growing snowball in a more non-literal or wacky way.
In terms of presentation, it would also be cool if the music changed dynamically with speed or size. Even without changing anything else, I think that could really add to the tension of rolling at high speeds!
Gotta say these ideas didn’t pop-up during our 4hr brainstorm. If we end up expanding the game abit, these gems will definitely be in our next brainstorm. Thanks! 🙏
Cool idea! Love the character design B) It was a bit tricky to navigate, but it was fun!
putting sunglasses on a snowball is peak character design. fun game!
the vibes were immaculate, a fun take on the runner genre
I enjoyed this game ahah i played a few games before finding the hat !
This was awesome. It had lots of personality, and was just the right difficulty in my opinion; challenging, but not to the point of becoming frustrating. I admittedly have played similar games before, but this was very polished and well-made, so I still really enjoyed my time with it.
Such a fun game! I love the scooby doo esque sound effect for going on the ice, sent me every time lmao
amazing game with great balancing mechanic! loved it!!
also great mascot, the sunglasses were perfect
#snowballgang
Bingo. Scaling in size & speed also scales the difficulty, and if it’s too hard you hit something and scale down everything to balance it out 😎
#snowballgang (this is awesome)
Amazing! The style is so polished, i love it!
Damn this was a lot of fun. I would love to see this an infinite mode of this that gets harder. I loved the surf rock soundtrack very fitting.
Infinite mode is genius. 🧠 Props to our incredible music man @stonetapestudios , he’s an absolute legend 💪
Pretty fun, pretty visually, pretty awesome basically 🤌
Nice! and in 48 hours? You have my respect!
The about a DUDE who likes to COOL DOWN
HAHA COOL GAME! we made very similar concepts
Not super creative but enjoyable.
But let’s be real here. Did you find the party hat? 🥳
:-) I uprated you for the hat