A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis and published by Draknek. The game was released in 2015 for Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS.
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| Publisher(s) | Draknek |
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| Engine | OpenFL |
| Platform(s) | Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gameplay
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A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a grid-based puzzle video game 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
editA Good Snowman Is Hard to Build was created by UK-based independent developers Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis.[3] Its prototype was developed using Puzzlescript, an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine, in 2014.[4] The commercial release was written in Haxe and OpenFL[5] and released for Linux, OS X, and Windows-based personal computers on 25 February 2015.[6] A version for Android and iOS mobile devices was released on 9 December 2015.[7][8] A Nintendo Switch version released on 2 September 2021.[9]
Reception
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| Metacritic | 93/100[10] |
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build received "universal acclaim" from professional critics, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic.[10]
A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build won the award for "Best Character Design" at Intel Level Up 2014.[11]
References
edit- ^ Rich, Rob (10 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build Review: Easy to Love". GameZebo. Archived from the original on 14 August 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Slater, Harry (14 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - Yup, but it's a lot of fun". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Matulef, Jeffrey (22 December 2015). "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build rolls onto iOS and Android". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Interview with indiegames.com". A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build. 30 April 2014. Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
- ^ "Showcase". Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ Matulef, Jeffrey (19 February 2015). "Sokobond dev's latest A Good Snowman is Hard to Build gets a release date". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. 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. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build – iPad". multiplayer.it. 29 December 2015. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
- ^ Whitehead, Thomas (2 September 2021). "Nintendo Download: 2nd September (North America)". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 17 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
- ^ a b "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Hall of Glory". Archived from the original on 26 August 2018.
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