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If I Can Just Mine 5000 Crystals From This Weird Snowman Planet They'll Let My Daughter Go Free

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness373
Humor2433.16
Innovation3083.35
Audio5062.68
Mood5932.92
Theme6563.38
Graphics6622.93
Overall7242.95
Fun7382.73

Comments

lexgear 2014-12-09 05:06

Lonely mac user :(

davient 2014-12-09 05:06

Cannot download... 404s

march 2014-12-09 05:08

The whole story in the title :D

catwheel 2014-12-09 05:09

Honestly, it's hard to tell what to do here :/

landosystems 2014-12-09 05:09

I have no idea what I'm doing... needs moar instructions :)

holgk 2014-12-09 05:10

I couldn't figure out how to play it! A tutorial or at least a description would be nice.

boltz-game-studios 2014-12-09 05:11

I just get "Default Property warnings and errors:
Error: CDO Constructor: Failed to find /Paper2D/MaskedUnlitSpriteMaterial"

and 7 or so similar errors on startup.

Not sure how you get more energy. More instructions would probably help.

cxsquared 2014-12-09 05:34

This game has an old school ps1 kinda vibe and I like it. The voice overs are really funny.

HelkeGames 2014-12-09 05:54

Pretty fun and unique concept! I liked the voice

jrap 2014-12-09 06:05

Best game title so far.

asaratha 2014-12-09 06:22

i have no idea what im doing

zxeno 2014-12-09 06:48

Pretty fun. Unique use of the theme. The snowmen were hard to kill/manage sometimes. Took a bit to figure out how to move the crystals into the furnace. Best title so far. Good work!

kierygeek 2014-12-09 07:03

I'll never be able to watch Frozen the same way. (No, I don't want to build a snowman, I want a crystal!)

hundredhundred 2014-12-09 07:32

Ahaha i like the concept of having to multitask, however i find it too hard. Overall nice entry!

soron 2014-12-09 07:38

It's amusing(ly futile), but the UI needs work. It was a bit laggy for me, and hence hard to mine or burn crystals - although I also heard my fan spin up, so maybe it's just unoptimized (I'm on a laptop, although it *usually* handles modern games well).

davient 2014-12-09 08:03

Canyou put up another mirror? I cannot download from that link for some reason

dalbinblue 2014-12-10 04:15

Neat idea, a little clunky though. Couldn't figure out how to replenish energy (though burning crystals would work, but that just did heat for me), so the game ended quickly unfortunately. Good use of theme, and I like that you had the courage to do voice overs (not a lot of people would do it).

kirbytails7 2014-12-10 06:57

Oh, shoot, you can overheat! Fun game.

flashlight 2014-12-10 07:31

I understand the game lol!

This game is a very interesting try about putting parallel work into game. Replying to the above comments about "don't know how to play", I think you simply need to try the operations covered in the instruction :D

The feel of shooting at the snowman is not that accurate, where I think you may try to improve if you working on this idea further.

Great job!

snickersnacks 2014-12-12 20:59

Difficult to understand at first, but reading others' comments helped. Nice entry! :)

empyrealhell 2014-12-15 06:18

Interesting game. It seems impossible to win, and I don't even see a counter so I'm guessing that's not really the point, but either way it's entertaining to see how far I can get. Once I got the hang of the movement it wasn't bad, though circling at high speeds with my mouse gets tiring on the wrists after a while. The phrases that the snowmen say when you kill them hint at a deeper story here, and it would be interesting to incorporate some of that to expand the gameplay in some meaningful way, but as it stands it's still an interesting game.

lapskaus 2014-12-15 08:22

I kinda like the multi managing thing. As far as i can tell there's no end goal or any form of score keeping which would have been nice.

sigfig 2014-12-16 02:25

For anyone confused about an end goal:

You can win the game by mining 5000 crystals from this weird snowman planet.

There is a numerical score labeled "energy". If you cannot see it, there is probably a text rendering bug we haven't been able to reproduce yet.

cmweiss 2014-12-19 03:13

Nice game! I dig the multitasking a lot, and I think the concept was fun. It would be nice to see how many crystals I've collected if at least to judge how well I did.

Also, I'm not sure if you should be able to win this game, but it doesn't feel like it. If you are, then it's practically impossible. Other than that, it was fun!

sumgato 2014-12-26 09:38

Interesting game, but it was very laggy to me, and each time I opened it it appeared a message with something like "Error: CDO constructor", althrough it let me play it. I'm using Windows 7 with a 3.20 GHz processor, 4GB of RAM and nvidia GeForce 315 graphics.