Winterland by Zknet

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made by Zknet for LD34 (JAM)
Theme: Two-button controls

Winterland is a short game where you control a polar bear cub and her mom through a dangerous ravine. It just so happens that these particular polar bears have rockets on their backs! Have both bears dodge obstacles by moving left and right (A/D and J/K for the cub and mom respectively).

Play it one player (two controls each bear.. keep them together for easier play) or play with a friend! It was designed for one player to control both bears.

Enjoy!

Running the game:
Unzip and run StartGame.bat.
If you are Windows and it complains about missing prerequisites, run the UE4PrereqSetup_x86.exe file. This installs DirectX prerequisites.

Behind-the-scenes:
Art, music, programming done by http://twitter.com/zknet. Story, idea and main menu UI done by my wife. This was my first go at completing something in Unreal Engine, so it was a great learning experience. Per the usual, we didn't do nearly as much as we would've liked, but that's the nature of these things.

I will be attempting to publish a Linux version as well.

Ratings

Coolness 74% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.45 384
Audio(Jam) 3.00 513
Fun(Jam) 3.32 380
Graphics(Jam) 4.05 191
Humor(Jam) 2.91 361
Innovation(Jam) 2.97 631
Mood(Jam) 3.29 451
Theme(Jam) 3.42 731

Feedback

juaxix
14. Dec 2015 路 23:23 UTC
Soft, clean, wonder
Theropod Studios
15. Dec 2015 路 01:14 UTC
Simple but a lot of fun
antonuklein
15. Dec 2015 路 01:45 UTC
Simple and clean, although it's hard to see where you're going in 2560x1080 res.
馃帳 Zknet
15. Dec 2015 路 01:49 UTC
Thanks for the feedback. I'll check the higher resolution.
Xinelu
15. Dec 2015 路 01:49 UTC
i wish i could give more then 5 stars!!!
Beautiful
gkxd
15. Dec 2015 路 01:51 UTC
The camera changing angles was a bit disorienting at first. I would have liked just a single player mode, since having to control both is confusing at times.
pvtroswold
15. Dec 2015 路 01:57 UTC
Wow I wish my pitiful laptop could handle this game! It's really a very pretty thing to see. I love your interpretation of the theme as well.
SpiritJZL
15. Dec 2015 路 02:02 UTC
Nice game, but I have to say I use 4 buttons to control...
BudaDude
15. Dec 2015 路 02:03 UTC
Love the idea, especially the rockets. I feel like this would be waaaaaay more fun if I had someone to play it with as a two player game but there's lots of fun to be had with the challenge
nihilaleph
15. Dec 2015 路 02:06 UTC
Pro:
+ Nice and clean
+ Simple and neat
Con:
- The curves confused me to where I should go, but then I just got use to it
Obs:
o Played alone, a bit confusing but managed to play

Great work!
ErinMcBride
15. Dec 2015 路 07:18 UTC
It's so pretty! I like how the ravine curves; it's a nice twist on this genre of game.
adsilcott
15. Dec 2015 路 07:20 UTC
Wonderful! I love the concept, the low-poly and monochromatic graphics, and it's fun and interesting to play two characters at once, especially mother and cub. Excellent!
vahab
15. Dec 2015 路 11:22 UTC
very cool! very fun!
gogo199432
15. Dec 2015 路 13:42 UTC
Simple, but a bit too hard with only one player. I think you should either take out the second bear or do something else when it isn't coop. Other than that, thumbs up :)
fpwong
16. Dec 2015 路 02:15 UTC
Overall style is really nice, lacking a bit in the single player game play.
iantttianttt
16. Dec 2015 路 06:48 UTC
I like simple
Unfortunately, I uncoordinated hand-eye
lol
rjhelms
16. Dec 2015 路 07:11 UTC
Love the premise. This is really challenging.

It'd be nice to have a counter of how far you've gone, so I could more easily compare runs and work towards getting as far as possible.
馃帳 Zknet
16. Dec 2015 路 17:54 UTC
A counter/scoring system is definitely something I wanted to get in there. I thought about sneaking it in there at the end, but I didn't want to risk breaking everything. :)
Squid Blink Games
17. Dec 2015 路 05:15 UTC
This was a very neat game! I love the art and the simple play style. I felt so bad every time the polar bears would hit something. Poor baby polar bear just didn't want to stay close to it's mom ... :P

It was a bit challenging to control four keys but it wasn't too bad.
VitasaMode
18. Dec 2015 路 10:45 UTC
Cool game. I wish the UI was soft as well to match the aesthetic of the level and the bears.
teeth
20. Dec 2015 路 08:15 UTC
This was so cute! Bookmarking it for "stuff to play when I have a friend over". It was confusing at first when bends came up though, I wasn't sure if I had to move to go around the corners or not. Maybe some kind of visual indicator that the polar bears follow an overall path?
randomhuman
02. Jan 2016 路 23:48 UTC
Collision detection's a bit off, but it's a fun idea and controlling both bears at the same time is a challenge!