SNOMAN by thecodermonkey

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made by thecodermonkey for LD31 (COMPO)
SNOMAN is a game about testing your own patience.

The snowman sits in a frosty field and you have to try and get him just 100m across it. How hard could it possibly be?
With penguins to encounter, rad jumps to ride and visits from Santa, it can get a bit tricky.

Controls are:
S and A rotate the head,
N and M rotate the body,
O rotates the "feet"

Feedback

rsergiu2003
07. Dec 2014 路 23:41 UTC
way to hard to play... took me a few moments to figure out how to play
csaunders
08. Dec 2014 路 03:14 UTC
Kongregate is being a pain and won't let me see the advertisement in order to actually play your game :(
scias
08. Dec 2014 路 03:38 UTC
It's a really cool idea using the letters "S,N,O,W,M,A,N" in order to control the character. However, it felt really awkward having to hold your fingers on all the spread out keys at the same time. This made the controls a bit of a double edged sword. As for difficulty i feel you know my opinion already, holy crap it's so hard, i made it a few meters at best. But thanks to the ability to very quickly retry and instantly be in action, it motivates you to keep trying, which is really neat! All in all, it's a cool game (pun intended).
jsspiegel
08. Dec 2014 路 03:49 UTC
Very hard! I really like the art, but I don't think you used the theme :(
馃帳 thecodermonkey
08. Dec 2014 路 07:39 UTC
This is why this theme is confusing, because I feel like it is a one screen game.
mrexcessive
08. Dec 2014 路 17:05 UTC
Hi there. I just could not figure out how to control the snowman. Needs an easy difficult level for the reflex challenged person like me... Nice winter sounds and 'splats' on dead snowman (which happened a lot).
Jan Peter (jpdev)
08. Dec 2014 路 20:20 UTC
It won't load in chrome and wants to install flash in firefox. Sorry, can't play/rate.
(other unitiy games work in chrome no problem - not sure if this is unity, thought so because of the kongregate comment.)
馃帳 thecodermonkey
08. Dec 2014 路 22:01 UTC
@Jan are you on Mac or PC? Mac and chrome are having problems with Unity, not sure why it isnt working for you. You might have to allow the plugin to run for kongregate? some people dont see the popup.
Gamepopper
08. Dec 2014 路 23:12 UTC
And I thought QWOP was ridiculously hard.
WatercressStudios
09. Dec 2014 路 03:57 UTC
As you had stated, this game does test your patience. With the control so spread out, it was very difficult to do much. In all honesty, it felt like a more difficult QWOP, but it seems like you were going for that. I will admit that it was kind of funny to see the snowman fall apart.
Empyrealhell
09. Dec 2014 路 06:48 UTC
QWOP was fun because even when you failed, it was funny to watch, and you felt like maybe you could get somewhere if you just did things a little different. This one misses both of those marks. The death animation is just two circles falling down, no crazy flips or bizarre ragdoll limbs flailing around. After about five minutes with the controls trying to suss out how to get him to advance, I ended with a high score of about 4 meters. I see what you were going for here, I just don't think you got the controls down well enough to pull it off.

The graphics are really nice though, and the sound effects provide just enough without being overbearing. It does seem like you intended this for a different theme though.
Dissiden7
09. Dec 2014 路 11:39 UTC
Looks lovely, but it's hard to the point of frustration.
After a handful of goes I still have no idea what I'm doing.

Good job though.
TriSquare
10. Dec 2014 路 13:08 UTC
This game is slightly confusing to me, and is brutally hard. Its a shame because your game looks nice and plays nice. Nice job on the game :)
OttersDen
22. Dec 2014 路 20:15 UTC
Very QWOP. Can't QWOP. So can't SNOWMAN. 6m is max. Well Done.
Chaoseed
23. Dec 2014 路 01:41 UTC
Oh, boy. The sequel nobody wanted! (kidding, kidding) Very slick animation and physics. I mean, I think; all I saw was the snowman, I never got far enough to see anything else. ;P Looks good though!