A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

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.

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Developer(s)Benjamin Davis, Alan Hazelden
Publisher(s)Draknek
Designer(s)
  • Alan Hazelden
  • Benjamin Davis
Composer(s)
  • Priscilla Snow Edit this on Wikidata
Platform(s)Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch
Release
  • Linux, OS X, Windows
  • 25 February 2015
  • Android, iOS
  • 9 December 2015
Genre(s)Puzzle

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]

Reception

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build received "universal acclaim" from professional critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[10]

References
  1. Rich, Rob (10 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to Build Review: Easy to Love". GameZebo. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  2. 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.
  3. Matulef, Jeffrey (22 December 2015). "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build rolls onto iOS and Android". Eurogamer. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  4. "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build press kit". A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  5. "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.
  6. "Showcase".
  7. Matulef, Jeffrey (19 February 2015). "Sokobond dev's latest A Good Snowman is Hard to Build gets a release date". Eurogamer. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  8. Brown, Mark (10 December 2015). "A Good Snowman is Hard to a Build turns festive frolics into a tricky logic puzzle". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
  9. "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build – iPad". multiplayer.it. 29 December 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  10. "A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
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