Really creative entry! the main mechanic is super fun, and i like the fact that the ice golems start crying to indicate that i‘m big enough to CRUSH them. very cool made me feel like a snowball

Wow, amazing game! I love the visuals, and the game feels a lot like Celeste! Maybe you could add a little bit of acceleration and/or deceleration to make the gameplay feel even more realistic.

Really great fun. The difficulty is a tad harsh in places, but causing a little frustration is obviously intentional to fit with the story. The mechanic is cool, the art is nice, and the dialogue is inspiring. Top stuff, well done.

Absolutely amazing game with an amazing concept :) 

this is probably the best way you could've taken the theme :)

I like how polished this is. The size change concept is cool, feels like it should have been in last years GMTK jam. The dialog system is impressive for ten days. Only suggestion is to add some bg music.

That was really really clean, with a nice thought game design, and a really creative idea of a mechanic, it is simple, but everything works around it and it doesn't feel gimmicky! Also I don't know if it was on purpose, but I saw a great message in that mechanic too: sometime in life you have to work on your own growth first before committing into a seemingly harsh task, as sometime you have to wait to be in the right state (of mind hehe). it's ok to take some step back, it's ok to wait for the right time 🦾

thank you for passing by my rating section, I'm happy I had the chance to discover your game!

So good, especially for a first game! I would love some more checkpoints cause it's pretty annoying to have to run thru the whole level before you can continue.

Overall fun game with good art!

Wow, what an incredible entry, and a first time game jam entry also! The mechanics of the game were very unique with the rolling to grow and the jumping to shrink and I love how they work together seamlessly to not take away from the gameplay. The art is also incredible and I loved the dialogue/story moments throughout the entire game. I can definitely see this game expanding into something more and I hope you spend more time adding onto it in the future!

This game was so fun and cute! The presentation and sound design were all clean and cohesive. I especially loved the mechanic of growing/shrinking and that there were benefits to both (larger = can crush things, smaller = can jump higher), so the main strategy element of the game was moving between big and small. I did find it a bit hard and punishing at times and I think some checkpoints would help a lot to ease the difficulty. Other than that amazing job, especially for your first jam wow!

I liked this short game :)

I think my favorite part is the message the game tries to give to the player because it reinforces it with the difficulty of the game and doesn't stay in just dialogue of the snowman

Also the in the 3rd level at the end I thought it was a difficult part and the snowball says something about it haha, I like that is aware of it but as it says, the process at the end feels rewarding and in some way it can be felt at the end of the game when you pass the last segment

About the difficulty, I liked but I didn’t like much the ice golems only because it’s a bit hard to roll over them in some situations, it adds some difficulty and that’s nice, but I think the only place I didn’t like their placement was in the second level at the start and the last one, outside that, those are a nice touch and don’t feel unfair most of the time

The platforming feels nice, the jump animation is good, also the snowball size mechanic is fun and I like that it actually matters and can, it can lead to some variations of the gameplay or even the implementation of little puzzles in some part of the level playing with the weight of the snowball, like those falling platforms

I really like the sfx of this game, those are great! The atmosphere is amazing, no music, just windy mountains and you rolling around, it can be a bit risky not putting music on so it's great that the mood of the game could pull this in a good way

And well, I already said that I like the message that the game tries to give, the path can feel something like is described here and it’s nice that at the end the cycle repeats

Thanks for sharing your game, this was a nice short experience that I could see as a more complete game if more levels are added haha

And congrats on finishing your 1st jam, keep doing games! :D

This might be a contender right next to The Contract for me to be honest, it is just perfect! The storyline, sound design, mechanics and pixel art just blend perfectly! I love that the collision boxes are not overly punishing and that the feedback you get from everything around you is simply perfect! It was really fun to play this and I can't wait to see what more you'll create! Amazing work!

I loved the aesthetics and feel of the game! the pixels are perfect. The setting and self.-improvement theme is reminding me of Celeste <3. Just the right amount of particles! SFX are very well chosen too!

Outstanding, specially considering this is your first game jam!

Cute art, so pretty! I liked the weight mechanic, very interesting! Keep it up!

Super cool game! It reminded me of the GMTK Game Jam 2024 theme (this could've been a winner if you had made it for that jam lol) I really liked the art style. The spikes were a little too big, and having to redo the entire level after losing wasn't ideal, adding checkpoints would have really helped. But overall, it's a super clean and nice game!

Very nice game. Sounds effects are perfect. At your age I was putting super chargers on cars not building games. Granted that was in the late 90's. Well done over all!

Very beautiful visuals and an interesting, unique mechanic! But here are a few issues I noticed:

1. In my opinion, the levels are a bit too long, and starting over after dying doesn’t feel great. It would be nice to have checkpoints throughout the level.

2. The spike collision seems a bit too large.

3. I didn’t really like the moment where you approach a springboard and spikes fall from above, even though you can’t see them beforehand.

4. Simply scaling up the snowball sprite creates an issue with inconsistent pixel sizes (pixel mismatch).

I really liked this game, I think if you added when you are very big that when you get hit by the ice golems you just shrink instead of imediatly dying, also the art and music is very impressive and polished

The ambience and the artstyle was very good, and the snowball SFXs were amazing! The lack of checkpoints made restarting levels 2 and 3 just to die in the same chokepoint a bit annoying to me >_<

Game was fun overall, good job ^_^

Really cool idea. A bit tough for sure, maybe making the golems more predictable would be nice. Great game!