starvingindie 2019-10-07 21:48
This was a fun little game. It reminded me a lot of Katamari Damacy! Great job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Snow Ball
By akusan, kingofnova, ManuGamesDev, StefanStgs and cryptex
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 335 | 3.65 | 38 | |
| Fun | 77 | 4.00 | 36 | |
| Innovation | 467 | 3.30 | 36 | |
| Theme | 340 | 3.63 | 36 | |
| Graphics | 558 | 3.51 | 36 | |
| Audio | 310 | 3.48 | 35 | |
| Humor | 570 | 2.68 | 35 | |
| Mood | 409 | 3.51 | 35 |
This was a fun little game. It reminded me a lot of Katamari Damacy! Great job!
Katamari Damacy in auto-scroll! Less to think about, tenser action... But the collect/get hit condition is not so clear, sometimes my ball radius would seem slightly bigger than the tree and I would still get hit... Maybe because trees are not spherical?
Collect or get hit, it's all or nothing, so it would be nice to have a neutral threshold where you don't collect but you don't lose radius either.
Not losing one's score when losing radius is good to track one's progression though.
At the end I got pretty big and as I was approaching 1000 I thought I would finally be able to collect big trees and houses... But as I hit a tree of similar height, I lost all my radius. Fortunately the score stayed around 800 so I could reach 1000 as a small form still. I stopped at that point at it seemed it would take time to become big again, and if there is no scripted end I should stick to my own objective anyway.
The game has still a good mood and is fun to play with a short session thanks to the subtleties of gravity on the mountain, I just reduced the Fun score a bit because of the radius issue.
Fun! Diabolically difficult though. Well done.
Very satisfying to pick up various debris and grow! Pretty difficult to keep up with but very fun overall!
Simple yet so efficient ! What to say exept good job ? Congrats guys !
I like the idea to grow with differents objets for the theme. Very fun!
Very fun game. The way things stick to you and then kinda just merge with your ball is really well done. The game is super hard, and gets harder the larger you get. I never made it past the 30. Well done in general though. Music fits the game very well.
A simple concept, executed well. Definitely not the kind of game I can finish in just a couple of tries. On occasion the size reset after hitting something felt a little harsh, losing that much progress. The art is basic but clear (though this game feels like it *needs* snow getting knocked off trees and buildings that you roll into), and the music is pleasant.
Its a bit confusing as to what items you can and can't pick up. I was around 50 points and i picked up a small house, but i ran into a bench and was knocked back down to 20. I enjoyed the background music!
Very well made game, the controls are super-satisfying, and the katamari style build up looks perfect.
I struggled in a few places to read the upcoming terrain change. Bit of extra shading/shadow, maybe. Minor stuff, great entry.
This is a simple and pretty fun little game. Both the music and graphics is good. It is a bit difficult to see when I am bigger then the objects I collected. Overall a pretty good jam game.
Really fun Katamari-like game :) It's nice but sometime I find unclear which objects are good to pick and which are too big... But overall a pleasant (but hard) experience!
I LOVE Katamary and your game is super cool! Tried a lot of times but didn't managed to finnish it. I think that crashing into something bigger is too punishing. But very cool entry
Such a cool concept, 10/10 loved the gameplay and the concept was amazing!
Simple and fun but a little confusing as to what is safe to pick up and can't always read which way the ground is sloping. Great job.
I enjoyed playing the game :smiley: I also really liked the idea that everything "sticks" to the snowball, it looked very funny after I ran over a house :sweat_smile:
Sometimes I was able to fall out of the play area, so maybe you can implement some colliders at the edges to prevent that.
Here is my final snow ball size :wink:
Final snow ball size
nice game! It was kinda cool to get bigger but I think you should set a bound for the horizontal.
Super addictive! Reminds me of that old windows game "Ski Free" from back in the day. Dig the ambient music as well. Great work!
Nicely simplified Katamari Damacy. Played a few times, couldn't find myself winning :( Overall all fits together. Considering size of your team I'd have pushed for more in diversity of gameplay/content. That's being nitpicky for a jam setting though.
I won :D Super cool entry. Simple idea but well executed :3 The art style is great and fits the game perfectly. i wish I could have kept on running over things once i got past 100 tho ^^
Perfect take on the theme! And quite hard to master. Spent with it waaaay longer that I originally thought I would and still want more :) Great job!
This is fun! It was really good to feel my power increase as the ball gained size. The objects that were obstacles initially (houses and trees) eventually became ball food. Very cool.
Loved it. My only gripe is too steep hills, going uphill would blend too well with the "normal" snow and suddenly change my direction and going downhill would accelerate me so much I would have no chance of surviving. On the other hand life would be quite boring without such small and sudden challenges (just ran into the ridiculous hill twice), haven't beaten it but will (man once I got 30 within 2 seconds but got too overconfident ;_;)
That was a really lovely small game. I had really fun playing it and liked that it was built in an endless fashion. I played it with no loudspeakers around so I can not rate the sound quality. At first I didn't have any introduction on how to play the game and what it is about but once found out I had a lot of fun moving down trees :) The Restart screen didn't seem to work for me (browser) and I had some landscapes where there was simply nothing but snow which was a bit annoying. But Overall it was simply very well done with the Terrain deformation, procedural generation (at least it feels that way) and the overall game play feeling.
Really well done!
A pretty solid game in design, visuals, concept and theme! I really liked! Congratulations!
really enjoyable, kinda with hitting an boject that was too big didnt take quite some much size from you went from 90 to 1 from 1 tree, a very fun and well polished little game though
Love the game ! Would have love to play for more time once 100 reached ! Good work !
I can easily see this becoming a very sucessful mobile game, it has the right mix of difficulty and enjoyability. I think my only complaint would be that for such a lively and fast-paced game, the aesthetics don't really match the energy: the things you can pick up aren't very colourful, and the grey colour of the snowball kind of makes it look like a ball of dirt. However, solid gameplay and an overall good time to play - highly addictive.