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A jam submission

Snowman RunnerView game page

2D Monochrome Platformer game about Winter and Gifts
Submitted by 0xNil — 2 hours, 11 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#183.2223.222
Polish#442.5562.556
Overall#492.7002.700
Art#532.8332.833
Music#592.5002.500
Theme#642.3892.389

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

HostSubmitted(+1)

maybe the real snowman runner are the friends we made along the way ⛄️

Submitted

Nice platformer, thought the hitboxes could've used some tightening. I needed a volume control for the music.

Developer

Thank you for playing. Music/SFX control is a good suggestion.

Submitted

Straightforward platformer with a nice presentation and a good balance of challenges. The music wasn't terrible but it felt a bit repetitive and grating at times, especially when struggling on a particular area. There was a decent amount of genre staples throughout that kept it interesting. I'm not sure there was a theme tie in to offering, but a nice submission all the same.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for your rating.

I wasn't really inspired for the music, but I guess I did something nice for the last level.

For the "offering" theme, it's the gifts collected (I hadn't time to implement everything).

Submitted(+1)

I had a lot of fun with this one, played thru it twice. You make good use of the limited hazards, like where you have to jump between ninja stars to dodge oncoming bullets, real nice.

There’s two adjustments I would make to the hero’s jumping: 1, jumps shouldn’t re-trigger when you hit the ground again if you hold the button throughout. And 2, the jump ought to cut short when you release the button. Gives the player a bit more control.

The graphics are great, they read nice and clear, but if you spend more time on it, it would add a lot to animate the hero.

Developer

I'm happy you enjoyed my game !

I thought much about the 2 things about the jumps.
As I wanted to made it as a speedgame, it looked me better to do the re-trigger.

For the Variable Jump and the Sprite animations, I was out of time, as it's my first game jam, but it would have been a real improvement.

Submitted(+1)

Everything looks so frozen icy, even birds are frozen in the air. The game is nice and simple, well done.

Developer

Thanks for playing !

(+1)

Very Nice and Addicting Game 0xNil even  tho i have a couple of suggetions maybe if you add a "Respawn" Point that would be Really nice because if you die once you have to Redo the Whole Level which is just 😭 And also add a Duck Opinion that the Snowman can duck for example when Dodging Snowballs Would be nice if you added those Thanks ! 👍

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the return !

Submitted(+1)

Made it to the end, pretty good platformer !

I liked the difficulty curve, the game could improve with some polish like a death  animation, and for getting less frustration it's possible to reduce the hitboxes of the obstacles (even if they're shorter than the sprite of the threat), for the last course I got hit a lot by the floating spikes even though my body wasn't on them

Even if the gifts were direcly on the road of each tracks, It was pleasing to gathering them to finish the levels !

Nice job !

Developer(+2)

Thanks for playing and return :)

As I'm beggining in game developement, I didn't have time to setup another hitbox than rectangle.

When I was designing the levels, I a bit forgot about the gifts, but it's true : it would have been a bit funnier if they were sometimes hidden orin a pit.

Submitted(+1)

You can keep the rectangle hitbox, but you can make them smaller than the sprite, this way it's less punishing and frustrating to run into them (and if you want to keep the difficulty, you can make the objects by themselves bigger)

Yes ! It can be a good level design training to make levels where you have to explor a bit more to find the gifts, but by doing so you loose the runner aspect of your game, maybe something like Geometry Dash where the objectives are on an alternate route

Good luck continuing on the game design road!

Submitted(+1)

A nice and charming platformer! It could use some polish on the movement and maybe a death sound.

Developer(+2)

Thank you !
I made the death sound but I needed to rework the room switching to make it work (had no time for it).

And yes, for movement, it would look smoother if I'd added an acceleration.

Submitted(+2)

I'm soo bad at platformers so I wasn't able to finish it but I had lots of fun playing it regardless! Good job!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing !

Submitted(+1)

Finished it.

Developer(+1)

GG !

Submitted(+1)

Really good simple game. The level design was quite good, but I felt that levels 5 & 6 were too hard, or spiked too much in difficulty compared to the rest. Really cool game though, well done!

Developer(+1)

Thank you.
I wanted to add difficulty as you progress, but as the game is pretty short, and 1 and 2 were tutorial, it was hard to find the right fit.

Submitted(+2)

great game, cute snowman

Developer(+2)

Thank you !

Submitted(+2)

The game is really cute ! I liked the pentatonic tune haha ! I'm pretty bad at plateformer, sadly I wasn't able to make it to the end :o

Good job !

- Michael from Studio La Piraterie

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your playing and return.