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Winter Blast by sirival

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made by sirival for LD31 (COMPO)
The Winter is here and the angry snowmen have awoken from their sleep.

Your hero has dealt with them in the past. Can you survive their endless attacks once more?

Your goal in Winter Blast is to kill the enemy snowmen for as long as you can. You move around the arena with WASD or the arrow keys, and you aim with your mouse and Left Click to fire.

The game gets progressively harder and you can unlock a shotgun-type weapon later on.

Post Mortem:
- I wanted to do more weapons but ran out of time.
- I wanted to make more power-ups but ran out of time.
- I wanted to make more enemies but guess what? I changed my mind.

I made the game using the PlayCanvas WebGL engine, PhotoShop for the UI and textures, NanoStudio and Audacity for the music.

Follow me on Twitter: @vkalpias
Web http://apps.playcanvas.com/vaios/ld31/winterblast
Source https://playcanvas.com/vaios/ld31/code
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=29447

Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall 3.49 275
Audio 3.39 174
Fun 3.32 342
Graphics 3.44 334
Humor 2.64 446
Innovation 2.20 1093
Mood 3.02 464
Theme 3.73 385

Feedback

Felladrin
08. Dec 2014 路 03:24 UTC
Great game for 48 h! It's fun and all thematic! Good use of the screen space.
Kulomin
08. Dec 2014 路 12:47 UTC
Nice to play!
Yrasin
08. Dec 2014 路 12:47 UTC
Cool game with nice graphics. It's very challenging and fun to play!
馃帳 sirival
08. Dec 2014 路 12:53 UTC
NOTE: Game will look / play better if you go full screen by clicking on the full screen button on the bottom or by playing here: apps.playcanvas.com/vaios/ld31/winterblast
lisac
08. Dec 2014 路 13:18 UTC
Great game! I was very impressed by the smooth controls and gameplay. The audio is nice too.
Dohxis
08. Dec 2014 路 13:19 UTC
Really great game!
yodamaster
08. Dec 2014 路 13:20 UTC
Hm, opens a site and then nothing happens. When I click the logo, their website with a lot of games opens. Where's your game?
wooltech
08. Dec 2014 路 13:20 UTC
Nice, runs smoothly and looks the part.

I just can't help wondering how jet propelled snowmen don't melt :)
bazld
08. Dec 2014 路 13:21 UTC
Fun game - gets nice and challenging.
馃帳 sirival
08. Dec 2014 路 13:22 UTC
Hey @yodamaster - if that happens maybe the game didn't load for you. Try again here: http://apps.playcanvas.com/vaios/ld31/winterblast
馃帳 sirival
08. Dec 2014 路 13:24 UTC
Haha @wooltech yeah that's a good point! Magic snowmen I guess?? I was just looking for an excuse to use particles!
Kim
08. Dec 2014 路 14:49 UTC
Looks good, nice music and effects. Good challange! Smooth controls/movement. I enjoyed it!
unnamed1334
08. Dec 2014 路 21:07 UTC
The game is fun if playing as intended. The audio is great. My biggest problem with the game is that by using total time as a score system, the best strategy is to not shoot anything and stay on level 1.
馃帳 sirival
08. Dec 2014 路 21:47 UTC
@unnamed1334 thanks for the helpful comments! Yeah that's true I didn't think about that. To be honest the score system was very last minute. The good thing is that I could easily change it to be your total xp or level :D
aare
09. Dec 2014 路 11:25 UTC
Good enemy variety. Really like the snowman propellers - hilarious :P
Rocketship
09. Dec 2014 路 11:25 UTC
Haha very addictive game, I would've wanted to see some kind of a leveling up-thing here but in any case very fun!
bobombe
09. Dec 2014 路 11:25 UTC
I really like the snowmen with reactors ^^.
It's pretty polish and fun. I just would have like an higher fire rate ...
hectorhon
09. Dec 2014 路 11:30 UTC
Level progression somewhat uneven, but otherwise, it's totally playable for a game made in such a short time. Keep up the good work!
馃帳 sirival
09. Dec 2014 路 11:39 UTC
Hey @Rocketship thanks for the comments! Yeah there is XP and Levels and I wanted to do perks and skills per level but just didn't have the time :D
馃帳 sirival
09. Dec 2014 路 11:40 UTC
@hectorhon yeah each level requires 20% more xp than the last level (totally arbitrary percentage).
馃帳 sirival
09. Dec 2014 路 11:40 UTC
@bobombe did you get the shotgun? Spawns at level 5 :)
pixzleone
09. Dec 2014 路 16:03 UTC
Very cool!
Poupi
09. Dec 2014 路 22:40 UTC
Nice work! We made an arena too ^^
S0rax
10. Dec 2014 路 20:45 UTC
Great music and I like this type of gameplay, the atmosphere is very cool
mrexcessive
11. Dec 2014 路 11:23 UTC
Hi there. Really nice presentation. Fairly generous until about 90 seconds in when gets pretty impossible quickly, reached 120 seconds in the end. Like the music as well as little touches like the jet exhaust on the player character. Good job!
chakitp
11. Dec 2014 路 13:31 UTC
Game is Nice to Play. But I would Liked it More, if would get Some score or bonus on killing enemies..
JavadocMD
11. Dec 2014 路 16:38 UTC
This is a solid game: I like that there's a progression of enemies, wave arrangements, power ups, and so on. This kept the game fun for longer. Well done! I'd like to see a bit more gameplay innovation and a stronger application of the theme.
MintArcade
13. Dec 2014 路 14:10 UTC
Really nice. Like your approach on the snowman theme ;)
Crosstales
15. Dec 2014 路 12:54 UTC
Funny and challenging game. Graphics and sound are nice too.

Well done!
erik
15. Dec 2014 路 21:34 UTC
This is a pretty solid little shooter. A couple of areas to improve: The bullets being fired were hard to see, and the results of shooting felt insubstantial. It's also hard to tell what the upgrades and collectibles are doing.
asobitech
16. Dec 2014 路 16:23 UTC
Snowman wasn't the theme, no matter, you can make a single screen game with a snowman in it ;)
Nice one.
馃帳 sirival
17. Dec 2014 路 09:04 UTC
Hey @asobitech! Yeah I know but the snowman was the theme on everyone's hearts I think :P
ovenchips
19. Dec 2014 路 13:09 UTC
This is definitely my favourite LD game made with PlayCanvas. Very cool!! So polished.
sP0CkEr2
26. Dec 2014 路 17:15 UTC
nice game there - more powerups would be nice - great job