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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1025 | 3.862 | 3.862 |
| Overall | #1384 | 3.529 | 3.529 |
| Enjoyment | #1694 | 3.276 | 3.276 |
| Creativity | #1952 | 3.448 | 3.448 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In this game, the player races using a snowball that gets bigger and smaller depending on their actions. They can use this to their advantage (or not) to gain speed and momentum depending on their size.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Robinhood76 from freesound.org
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Comments
Great style and presentation! The colors are beautiful! I also enjoyed the main gimmick of sacrificing one advantageous thing for another, in this case snowball size and speed for an attack. It reminds me a bit of the game I helped make for this jam in that way, sacrificing resource to help get more resource (which was partially inspired by F-Zero's mechanic of sacrificing shield to get a speed boost).
Adorable bear with great animation. Great sense of speed. Smacking the competition with snowballs is great fun. Only thing I was confused about was the aiming being a bit off somehow. Really nice job!
We had a similar idea about the snowball scaling, haha, but your artwork is so good! Love it.
Thanks! We did have a similar idea! I enjoyed playing your game as well.
Gorgeous visuals and fun gameplay! Had a good time throwing snowballs at everyone. Wish there were more levels!
This is not the first game about a giant snowball that’s rolling, and for sure it won’t be the last one.
But yours is the best I have seen.
Good game.
Thank you :)
The art was really good, especially on the starting menu!! I thought this was a cool interpretation of the theme, and I thought it was neat that shooting served multiple purposes. It would be awesome to see what could be done with some more levels as well!
Thanks!
music is amazing - i like the physics, i could not win it was very challenging haha
Thank you :)
nice style! took me some time to understand how to make the snowball smaller, but it really makes sense if you think about it!
Thanks :)
I really loved the aesthetic of this game, and I think it's a super cool concept where you have to optimize your ball size for speed. Similar to another player, I got softlocked after my ball got too small while going uphill, but otherwise I think it'd be a cool party game with friends with some more polish and if you had more levels and obstacles for the player(s) to deal with!
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Thanks! These are some great suggestions, it could definitely be fun to race and throw snowballs at your friends.
The art is really well done, I love the painterly aesthetic <3 The idea of the snowball getting bigger or smaller in relation to the speed is also cool. I noticed I got stuck at one point when I didn't have enough speed to go up the hill and had to reload the whole game page myself, but otherwise a lot of fun! Great job!
Thanks for your comment! We ran into that issue, but sadly ran out of time to fix it.
Super pretty artstyle love that game is enjoyable and satisfying to hit the other snowmen
Thank you!