Nice and well polished game. The AI was a pretty good challenge and felt decently smart. The music remixes were really good too. The fact that you could pit the AI against itself is a great addition. At one point I pit 2 AI Cirnos against each other, and they both made the exact same decisions and ended up knocking each other out, ending the match in a draw. One thing I would say is that I feel like characters should have more health in general. I found the best strategy was to just go in and hurl snowballs at the opponent until I won, since they'd run out of health so quickly. Matches should go on long enough that I'd feel more compelled to set up a base, plan attacks, etc. Otherwise, really good job!
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Challenge | #12 | 3.943 | 3.943 |
Audio / Music | #13 | 3.886 | 3.886 |
Use of Theme | #14 | 4.257 | 4.257 |
Overall | #15 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Visuals | #17 | 4.143 | 4.143 |
Concept | #20 | 3.971 | 3.971 |
Gameplay | #20 | 3.743 | 3.743 |
Story / Writing | #52 | 1.486 | 1.486 |
Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This is a very cute and interesting snowball fighting game! The music and environment is very pleasant, and the art is super adorable. The control scheme was a bear to figure out for me, which impacted my ability to play... though Cirno as an AI also made life hard, she's got a Howitzer for an arm. You folks did outstanding work with making the computers competent, which is something that's hard to do! I genuinely like what you're doing here.
I'm kind of amazed by the AI Programming. It works really well. The game is also a ton of fun, with great graphics and music to go with it. I'd say this is one of the best games of the jam. Great work!
This is a really cute game for a snow fight.
You select a character with a special ability, and then you try your best to defeat your enemy, by grabbing a snowball and hitting them with a left mouse click.
This was awesome! The AI was honestly pretty damn good at what it does. The gameplay mechanics are very nice, though the Ability seems to charge up too slowly for using it to be viable? I loved playing as Nitori and building icewalls everywhere I go, though cat-and-mouse with two Cirnos was also pretty funny.
Also, attempting to create a ice-prison for yourself (highly possible for Nitori) makes the game lag massively. I guess it's an AI pathfinding issue?
Overall good work on the game!!!
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