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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #1 | 4.583 | 4.583 |
| Overall | #1 | 4.628 | 4.628 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.750 | 4.750 |
| Originality | #2 | 4.688 | 4.688 |
| Art | #3 | 4.646 | 4.646 |
| Music | #6 | 4.146 | 4.146 |
| Is the graphics 1 bit? | #11 | 4.958 | 4.958 |
Ranked from 48 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Amazing game, deserves first place. Congratulations
Hey, i loved this game!
Its simple yet really really fun and i like the roguelike aspect of it
The hats are so fun and its very satisfying to get a "combo" when you hit alotta enemies at once
I didnt encounter any bug and the replayability is just really good!
My max round was 19
You really prioritized polishing the game and it shows, the game is very clean and optimized.
I'm not sure how I feel about the gameplay, on one hand it's random perks / upgrades on the hats so it seems to give off that roguelike feel but then again you can't really gain anything for subsequent levels so it's more of an RNG aspect than a roguelike one, on the other hand every level (imo) is some kind of puzzle you solve by shooting snowballs in a specific order and direction, which makes me wonder if the RNG aspect really makes sense here, it definitely is a nice touch but I feel like it's missing something to really justify the game loop on a longer run, don't get me wrong you'll probably win this jam given how short it is but if you want to make this into an actual game it's food for thought for sure :)
One question that I do have: Is this inspired by Peglin or is it just coincidence?
Congratz on the game, it's dope! (please check out mine too :D)
Thank you for the feedback! We're definitely looking at improving and expanding the gameplay loop to justify the larger puzzle aspect of it.
And no, Peglin never came up during our brainstorming.
thanks for the feedback! Yeah I agree it’s approaching a real rogue-like, with some stuff but not entirely. I wanted to add a shop, but couldn’t squeeze it in with the deadline, so settled on random choice. Maybe in a future version it could be fleshed out more!
I managed to get the shop in for my game if you want to check it out! I have to admit it took almost 3 days to get it to work properly though so I was happy I cut back other stuff early, it really is a lot of work especially since it was my first roguelike haha
this was weirdly addicting. But I'm biased towards anything with hats.
Thanks! I had a lot of fun drawing the hats
The art is incredibly fantastic. The concept of the game is great too; loved the hats on the snowballs giving them powers! And oh man that theme is sooo catchy. Definitely one of the best games from this jam
Did you have to make the song so fire, I turned on the game on my phone just to listen some more
Bloody fantastic.
I love the snooker-like physics. Even the menu is great. I'd love to see where this goes with some tweaking!
Whoaaa this game is awesome! Love art and all the mechanics you managed to fit in. The rat king looked awesome when he jumped in, though he was a bit of a pushover. Might try endless mode next, great work!
wow great game! super fun and played the whole thing, the amount of polish and detail and everything is so cool! Great Job!!!
Very cool, very polished! I do think it's fairly simple to win and that the different tactics would be justified by the rats reacting and playing themselves but that would have likely been out of scope.
Thank you! More involved levels and rats are definitely something we'd like to add if we continue to update
OMG) very nice)
Appreciate it!
Wow! What an ambitious and well made game for such a short time. Really impressive. Graphics are beautiful. Was initially gonna critique the short music loop, then it changed with progression and was super impressed there too. Game feel with the controls and bouncing was great.
Only critique I can give is that it is too easy to really capitalize on it's mechanics. After a bit, I stopped even reading the upgrade cards or looking at arena, just clicked the cards random and fired at a random enemy.
With more time to design actual challenges to overcome I could see this being a legit full game!
Thank you so much! We really wanted to get the core experience polished and ran out of time for more complex scenarios but it's high on our list of things to improve upon should we continue making updates.
Very fun game, the concept is incredible and the art is excellent, Good game! :)
Thank you for the kind words!
Really addictive gameplay ngl
I found this game very charming, the cute art style matches how joyful the gameplay feels.
Thank you very much!
I really enjoyed this snowball brawler! The SFX were quite loud compared to the music so I would recommend balancing those later.
Except for that, a superb game!
Thanks for the feedback. I'll certainly give it a good mixing pass!