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Frenzy Snowman Smasher by runvs

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made by runvs for LD31 (JAM)
The satanic evil snowmen are attacking. You are doomed. Your end is nigh. The only thing you can do - make it hard for them. Try to beat your local Highscore!


Controls:
Move by WASD or the arrow keys.
Point your gun towards the enemy using your mouse.
Shoot with the left mouse button.
Reload with the right mouse button.

Unfortunately the flash version tends to slow down very fast, so please consider using the native builds.

For those who like it a bit harder: http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_Web_hard

A short GIF of the game in action:
http://i.imgur.com/33eOfTg.gif

Those are the tools we used:
* Haxe/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel
* FlashDevelop as our IDE
* Google Docs for our game design document
* Teamspeak and Hangouts for communication
* Aseprite for pixel work
* Cubase 5 and SFXR for music and sounds
* git/Bitbucket for version control
* Pizza

Here's a timelapse of the game being created (from Laguna's point of view):
http://youtu.be/CEbTo_Fw5TA
Web http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_Web
Windows http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_Windows
OS/X http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_OSX
Linux http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_Linux
Source http://j.mp/LD31_FSS_Source
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=29172

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.00 679
Audio(Jam) 2.87 438
Fun(Jam) 2.98 555
Graphics(Jam) 2.90 671
Humor(Jam) 2.59 505
Innovation(Jam) 1.89 980
Mood(Jam) 2.87 632
Theme(Jam) 3.44 606

Feedback

Mossy Frog
08. Dec 2014 · 12:17 UTC
Really fun game! I love thee kind of survival shoot outs. The only thing I would say is that it was a bit too easy to go on forever, the only reason I died is because i got greedy and tried to grab loads of upgrades from the middle of a massive mob :P I think you should have limited ammo, and one of the upgrades could be to refill it. The music was really good as well! Very nice entry :)
rabbit
08. Dec 2014 · 22:17 UTC
Really easy for this kind of game.

Also, as one of the 600 top down shooters submitted, you should really try to make it stand out.
GeeItSomeLaldy
08. Dec 2014 · 22:21 UTC
Entertaining. I played it until my computer slowed to a crawl with all the snowmen on the screen.
Cheshyr
08. Dec 2014 · 22:26 UTC
I played this for far longer than I expected. Really fun game. Nice work!
drludos
09. Dec 2014 · 00:56 UTC
Nice top down shooter. Quite polished, so nothing to complaint, I had fun playing it and I enjoyed the music and overall gameplay. Congrats!
BTW, can snowmen actually bleed? :)
🎤 runvs
09. Dec 2014 · 11:42 UTC
Only the evil satanic snowmen do. :)

Thanks for playing and rating!
Lolwned
09. Dec 2014 · 17:27 UTC
Nicely done! Wish it was a bit harder though. Had fun nonetheless.
deadpixelsociety
10. Dec 2014 · 00:12 UTC
Overall this was a well polished entry into TDS genre. Everything was smooth and game play was pretty solid. My only major gripe is that combat started out sooo slow paced as I had only the pea shooter until around 500+ score. I was ready to quit early (with a much more negative view) and then some weapon power ups began to drop and the fun level started to rise a bit. Regardless, well done!
🎤 runvs
10. Dec 2014 · 17:40 UTC
We've created a harder version. You can find it in the description above.
Pestel Crew
10. Dec 2014 · 19:33 UTC
The concept is not new, but I like the style
Aske
10. Dec 2014 · 19:35 UTC
Neat game! But i would like to see some sense of progression. But the shooting feels really tight, though!
pcmaster
10. Dec 2014 · 19:36 UTC
Playable! Shots often dot hit targets and fly through...
Belvar
10. Dec 2014 · 21:15 UTC
Fun and smooth gameplay ! The lack of increasing difficulty makes it a bit boring after a while though.
Myyyvothrr
10. Dec 2014 · 21:48 UTC
Was really fun to play, liked the art style! Movement and weapons controls felt good.
It got stuck two times in the reloading state, I think it happend when I got a powerup while reloading, but not always.
mrexcessive
11. Dec 2014 · 11:00 UTC
Hi there. Liked the slow chasing snowmen, did not seem much of a threat early on, but got tricky. Only one shot was a pain, presumably there's a powerup but didn't get that far. Good job!
Kim Sjöberg
12. Dec 2014 · 07:47 UTC
Well made overall. Nice powerups but the shotgun seemed to only hit 1 regardless of hitting with all 3 bullets. Pretty nice art. My high score was around 3700, those snowmen ganged up on me eventually :P
blackmagic
12. Dec 2014 · 08:02 UTC
Excellent shooter with enough power ups to keep wanting to play further. The web version didn't slow for a single second on my machine. Very good job ! :)
6DownStudios
13. Dec 2014 · 01:47 UTC
Fun little survival game, with good movement and sound. Powerups were a nice mechanic, but I would've like to see a different kind of enemy. Well done!
🎤 runvs
13. Dec 2014 · 09:02 UTC
Thank you for all the comments!

Performance (at least on my machine) was undoubtedly better with native build versions (at least for large enemy/bullet numbers. There was not much time for optimization and I expect a bottlenec especially at list and collision handling.
cabezotta
13. Dec 2014 · 13:52 UTC
Pretty fun game! not so innovative, but good, i played like half an hour without noticing :D
ENDESGA
13. Dec 2014 · 23:44 UTC
Great little game :D
Floriaen
14. Dec 2014 · 03:35 UTC
All the links are dead... in fact http://j.mp/ is not found
🎤 runvs
14. Dec 2014 · 22:55 UTC
Hi @Floriaen
Those are just bitly links so we get a little bit statistic about how often the links are clicked. It can be that they go down sometimes, but are working (as i checked them right now).
Pleas try again and sorry for the trouble. Best, runvs!
freaknarf
21. Dec 2014 · 10:09 UTC
Cool :] another one brain damaged by evil snowman
Germanunkol
21. Dec 2014 · 14:12 UTC
3275! :)

Very fun. But I really dislike how I can't see myself. The color-scheme ist neat, but it makes it hard to distinguish the player from the blood...