Software:A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
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| Developer(s) | Benjamin Davis, Alan Hazelden |
| Publisher(s) | Draknek |
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| Platform(s) | Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is a puzzle video game created by Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis. The game was released in 2015 for personal computers and mobile devices.
Gameplay
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is a grid-based puzzle video game similar to Sokoban that tasks players with helping a featureless monster to build snowmen. Snowmen are built by stacking three snowballs of decreasing size. Rolling small or medium-sized balls over snowy ground increases their size. Building all snowmen in a room unlocks adjacent rooms which are all part of a hedge maze.[1]
Players can undo one move at a time or reset a room.[2]
Development and release
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build was created by UK-based independent developers Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis.[3][4] Its prototype was developed using Puzzlescript, an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine, in 2014.[5] The commercial release was written in Haxe and OpenFL[6] and released for Linux, OS X, and Windows-based personal computers on 25 February 2015.[7] A version for Android and iOS mobile devices was released on 9 December 2015.[8][9] A Nintendo Switch version released on 2 September 2021.[10]
Reception
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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build received "universal acclaim" from professional critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[11]
References
- ↑ Rich, Rob (10 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build Review: Easy to Love". https://www.gamezebo.com/2015/12/10/a-good-snowman-is-hard-to-build-review-easy-to-love/.
- ↑ Slater, Harry (14 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - Yup, but it's a lot of fun". https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/068577.
- ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey (22 December 2015). "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build rolls onto iOS and Android". Eurogamer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-12-22-a-good-snowman-is-hard-to-build-rolls-onto-ios-and-android. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ↑ "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build press kit". A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build. http://agoodsnowman.com/press/. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ↑ "Interview with indiegames.com". A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build. 30 April 2014. http://indiegames.com/2014/04/interview_a_good_snowman.html. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ↑ "Showcase". https://www.openfl.org/showcase/.
- ↑ Matulef, Jeffrey (19 February 2015). "Sokobond dev's latest A Good Snowman is Hard to Build gets a release date". Eurogamer. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-19-sokobond-devs-latest-a-good-snowman-is-hard-to-build-gets-a-release-date. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ↑ Brown, Mark (10 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to a Build turns festive frolics into a tricky logic puzzle". Pocket Gamer. http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPad/A+Good+Snowman+Is+Hard+To+Build/news.asp?c=68545. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ↑ "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build – iPad". 29 December 2015. https://multiplayer.it/giochi/a-good-snowman-is-hard-to-build-per-ipad.html.
- ↑ Whitehead, Thomas (2 September 2021). "Nintendo Download: 2nd September (North America)". https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/09/nintendo_download_2nd_september_north_america.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. https://www.metacritic.com/game/a-good-snowman-is-hard-to-build/critic-reviews/?platform=ios-iphoneipad. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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