Snow Grow by johanw123

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made by johanw123 for LD34 (JAM)
A mighty cry echoes from the mountain, a Yeti's roar of freedom. Vibrations echo through the range, snow groans and creaks and, squirrels hold on to their nuts as a solitary snowball makes begins its brutal descent.

Experience the freedom of mouse OR keyboard controls. Roll down the mountain and grow into an unstoppable engine of destruction, those critters wont know what hit them!

But watch out! Only the purest snow sticks together, if you dirty yourself too much your rampage will be at an end...

A, LMB – Move Left

D, RMB – Move Right

A+D, LBM+RMB – Jump


NOTE:
Fullscreen resolutions looks weird with the UI on the desktop builds, WebGL fullscreen looks fine tho.

Ratings

Coolness 26% 2073
Overall(Jam) 3.40 435
Audio(Jam) 3.47 266
Fun(Jam) 3.53 231
Graphics(Jam) 3.20 639
Innovation(Jam) 2.87 696
Theme(Jam) 4.20 94

Feedback

batmanasb
14. Dec 2015 · 23:59 UTC
For scrolling games it's best to put the player near the edge (top edge in this case) so that they can see what's ahead.
arzi
15. Dec 2015 · 10:09 UTC
That was fun and the sounds were great!

It was a bit difficult to see whether you're on the ground or not from the top down perspective, though.
kopa
15. Dec 2015 · 13:31 UTC
That's some great feedback. Thanks to you both! //one of the jammers
EwChap
15. Dec 2015 · 14:02 UTC
Fun concept. Nice sound clips. Was a little tricky to notice you were being thrown up in the air some times. Once I realized that was happening it all made a lot more sense. Nice entry.
tyrants.not.found.team
15. Dec 2015 · 14:12 UTC
Great atmosphere and gameplay. Great sounds for when you hit the squirrels. A lot of fun!
Cheers,
Zazine (Tyrants-Not-Found team)
SidewalkSleeper
15. Dec 2015 · 14:13 UTC
I would've like a bit more color. The concept is really fun, though.
crucknuk
15. Dec 2015 · 14:20 UTC
Nice use of both theme! Maybe you should put the player closer to the edge because you can't see what is coming if you go too fast. Good job!
justinooncx
15. Dec 2015 · 15:15 UTC
Pretty fun game, although the instructions are BLOODY hard to read.
zenmumbler
20. Dec 2015 · 21:25 UTC
As we all know, games with snowballs picking up stuff are completely amazing. *cough* Lookin' good.
hunttis
28. Dec 2015 · 11:48 UTC
Great stuff, once I got hang of it.

Don't know if it was just me, but the yellowish font on the white-yellowish background was almost illegible. Consider using something with a bit more contrast :)

Would've loved seeing the caught items stick out from the snowball :D
JoshyOshKenoshi
04. Jan 2016 · 16:02 UTC
I'm not sure what just happened! There was lots of screaming... and blood! :P