{"author_link":"\/author\/runvs\/","author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","comments":[{"author_name":"Mossy Frog","author_uid":"39222","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1418041020,"text":"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 :)"},{"author_name":"rabbit","author_uid":"26967","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1418077020,"text":"Really easy for this kind of game.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Also, as one of the 600 top down shooters submitted, you should really try to make it stand out."},{"author_name":"GeeItSomeLaldy","author_uid":"40246","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:26pm","epoch":1418077260,"text":"Entertaining. I played it until my computer slowed to a crawl with all the snowmen on the screen."},{"author_name":"Cheshyr","author_uid":"20497","time":"Dec 8, 2014 @ 10:31pm","epoch":1418077560,"text":"I played this for far longer than I expected.  Really fun game.  Nice work!"},{"author_name":"drludos","author_uid":"29773","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:01am","epoch":1418086560,"text":"Nice top down shooter. Quite polished, so nothing to complaint, I had fun playing it and I enjoyed the music and overall gameplay. Congrats!\r<br\/>BTW, can snowmen actually bleed? :)"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 11:47am","epoch":1418125320,"text":"Only the evil satanic snowmen do. :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Thanks for playing and rating!"},{"author_name":"Lolwned","author_uid":"39119","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 5:32pm","epoch":1418146020,"text":"Nicely done! Wish it was a bit harder though. Had fun nonetheless."},{"author_name":"deadpixelsociety","author_uid":"3308","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:17am","epoch":1418170320,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 5:45pm","epoch":1418233200,"text":"We've created a harder version. You can find it in the description above."},{"author_name":"Pestel Crew","author_uid":"47507","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:38pm","epoch":1418239980,"text":"The concept is not new, but I like the style"},{"author_name":"Aske","author_uid":"21356","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:40pm","epoch":1418240100,"text":"Neat game! But i would like to see some sense of progression. But the shooting feels really tight, though!"},{"author_name":"pcmaster","author_uid":"44796","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 7:41pm","epoch":1418240160,"text":"Playable! Shots often dot hit targets and fly through..."},{"author_name":"Belvar","author_uid":"28450","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:20pm","epoch":1418246100,"text":"Fun and smooth gameplay ! The lack of increasing difficulty makes it a bit boring after a while though."},{"author_name":"Myyyvothrr","author_uid":"6391","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:53pm","epoch":1418248080,"text":"Was really fun to play, liked the art style! Movement and weapons controls felt good.\r<br\/>It got stuck two times in the reloading state, I think it happend when I got a powerup while reloading, but not always."},{"author_name":"mrexcessive","author_uid":"20788","time":"Dec 11, 2014 @ 11:05am","epoch":1418295600,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"Kim Sj\u00f6berg","author_uid":"44790","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 7:52am","epoch":1418370420,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"blackmagic","author_uid":"16703","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 8:07am","epoch":1418371320,"text":"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 ! :)"},{"author_name":"6DownStudios","author_uid":"39552","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 1:52am","epoch":1418435220,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 9:07am","epoch":1418461320,"text":"Thank you for all the comments! \r<br\/>\r<br\/>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."},{"author_name":"cabezotta","author_uid":"19862","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 1:57pm","epoch":1418478720,"text":"Pretty fun game! not so innovative, but good, i played like half an hour without noticing :D"},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Dec 13, 2014 @ 11:49pm","epoch":1418514240,"text":"Great little game :D"},{"author_name":"Floriaen","author_uid":"4562","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 3:40am","epoch":1418528100,"text":"All the links are dead... in fact http:\/\/j.mp\/ is not found"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Dec 14, 2014 @ 11:00pm","epoch":1418597700,"text":"Hi @Floriaen\r<br\/>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).\r<br\/>Pleas try again and sorry for the trouble. Best, runvs!"},{"author_name":"freaknarf","author_uid":"46874","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 10:14am","epoch":1419156540,"text":"Cool :] another one brain damaged by evil snowman"},{"author_name":"Germanunkol","author_uid":"26426","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1419171120,"text":"3275! :)\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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..."}],"images":["ld31\/29172-17077a5f9cce06f9858236bead81ef67.jpg","ld31\/29172-afe48e275b1ac5d58d1b295d77290088.jpg","ld31\/29172-92218e3ec0a786b56b74f1ed6807eea0.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_Web","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_Windows","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_OSX","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_Linux","text":"Linux"},{"url":"http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_Source","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14785","g_author":"29172","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"14815","g_title":"Frenzy Snowman Smasher","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"679","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/29172-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/29172-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/29172-shot2.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"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!\r\n\r\n\r\nControls:\r\nMove by WASD or the arrow keys.\r\nPoint your gun towards the enemy using your mouse.\r\nShoot with the left mouse button.\r\nReload with the right mouse button.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately the flash version tends to slow down very fast, so please consider using the native builds.\r\n\r\nFor those who like it a bit harder: http:\/\/j.mp\/LD31_FSS_Web_hard\r\n\r\nA short GIF of the game in action:\r\nhttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/33eOfTg.gif\r\n\r\nThose are the tools we used:\r\n* Haxe\/OpenFL\/HaxeFlixel\r\n* FlashDevelop as our IDE\r\n* Google Docs for our game design document\r\n* Teamspeak and Hangouts for communication\r\n* Aseprite for pixel work\r\n* Cubase 5 and SFXR for music and sounds\r\n* git\/Bitbucket for version control\r\n* Pizza\r\n\r\nHere's a timelapse of the game being created (from Laguna's point of view):\r\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/CEbTo_Fw5TA","title":"Frenzy Snowman Smasher"}