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Snowballs Chance by Arowx

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made by Arowx for LD28 (COMPO)
The Smiths are away for a weeks holiday in the Sun but their prized family of gnomes need your help to survive more than just the freezing British winter.

Can you keep Bert, Irene and little Jack and Jill alive!

Turn Based Strategy mainly mouse based.

Left click on a gnome to select then select a direction to move or option from the bottom panel.

Snow Block building is a two step process, you build the block then select a direction to drop it there.

Move the mouse to the edge of the screen or cursor/WASD to scroll view and mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

In relation to the theme the gnomes only have 1 hit point!
Unity Web https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD28/SnowballsChance/SnowballsChance.html
Postmortem http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/16/snowballs-chance-just-made-it/
Source https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19148487/LD28/Scripts.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=680

Ratings

Coolness 48% 998
Overall 2.48 881
Audio 1.68 737
Fun 2.27 872
Graphics 3.96 84
Innovation 2.73 620
Mood 2.35 773
Theme 2.00 909

Feedback

Doubstract
16. Dec 2013 路 14:01 UTC
i really liked graphics
windwalkerranger
16. Dec 2013 路 14:07 UTC
Needs some explanation on how to play, it's easy to loose interest even against the wonderful graphics. I also couldn't get the connection to the theme.
馃帳 Arowx
16. Dec 2013 路 14:48 UTC
The gnomes only have 1 hit point and if you lose one it's game over. You have to save them all.
ThatGuy
16. Dec 2013 路 21:10 UTC
Well done graphics and interesting idea. The map is a little too big to keep my interest. I'm also not sure what everything did, like the mushrooms or the mush command. Regardless the game has potential, good job!
DrPrettyPatty
16. Dec 2013 路 21:12 UTC
Looks good! Unfortunately it runs too slowly for me (dual-core laptop 2GHZ, onboard graphics, 3GB ram) to be able to really play it.
Masadow
16. Dec 2013 路 21:13 UTC
Awesome graphics ! Actually a bit laggy when you scroll. It take a lot of time before really play ! Turns are a bit too long for my taste. I don't know if it's a bug, but when I chose to build a snow block, I couldn't do anything else the next turn. It keeps building snowblocks every turns :(
馃帳 Arowx
17. Dec 2013 路 12:19 UTC
The block building is a two step process, you build the block then select a direction to drop the block.
tobbez
18. Dec 2013 路 12:28 UTC
Nice graphics, sometimes it seems like the block get stuck on a character even after multiple turns. It seems a bit overpowered to be able to hit enemies all over the map directly and the was a bit slow for my taste.
van noctar
18. Dec 2013 路 12:29 UTC
Good graphics! The gameplay is hard to understand, but the ambience is here!
Ekilibr
18. Dec 2013 路 12:41 UTC
Great graphics, congratz !
madflame991
18. Dec 2013 路 12:41 UTC
Good graphics and it really has a Christmas-y mood to it. I was not exactly sure what to do in order to keep the gnomes safe though. Your game is very ambitious and has potential, but it needs some more detailed instructions and possibly a tutorial.
Benjamin
18. Dec 2013 路 12:43 UTC
The controls are very difficult to handle. When player have to choose a direction dont show a target, show the line starting from the character. Sometime the target was sticking to my cursor after I finished the action.
I also had problem building blocks. the block was most of the time stuck on the character and moving with him.
馃帳 Arowx
18. Dec 2013 路 13:48 UTC
Thanks for all the great feedback I am going to start working on a new version with improvements. Cheers. :)
olafsworld98
23. Dec 2013 路 01:58 UTC
oh well
馃帳 Arowx
28. Dec 2013 路 16:58 UTC
DON'T STOP providing your views and impressions, suggestions and thoughts!