(Submission for the 2024 Judica Me Game Jam III: The theme was "The Cold" and the rules required only using in-engine visual assets)

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CONTROLS:

Click on spaces to move, attack, or swap to another snowman.

Use Tab to select the next snowman.

Use Space to end your turn.

Press V to access game settings.

WASD to move camera and QE to rotate camera.

HOW TO PLAY:

Snowball Court is a grid-based combat game where you must build snowmen to protect your QUEEN from evil red snowmen (you don't want to know where the red comes from). Build and upgrade snowmen before each fight, then try to defeat all the enemy snowmen!

On your turn, you may MOVE each unit up to its speed and make a melee ATTACK with it. Some snowmen can make ranged ATTACKS, but doing so immediately ends their turn.

If a snowman ends its turn without attacking, it will GUARD, taking half damage from any attack until its next turn.

Be careful! If one of your snowmen falls in battle, it's gone forever! And if your Queen falls, it's Game Over!

STRATEGY TIPS:

• Orange lines indicate that your snowman is in range of an enemy archer! They like to attack whenever they can, so be sure to take cover!
• Be sure to build a mix of snowmen. Use Brutes and Guardians to slow enemies down, giving time for Assassins and Archers to deal damage.
• Don't be afraid to get your Queen into the action! She can be very helpful as long as you keep a safe distance from enemies.
• HP boosts restore HP as well. They're handy to use on badly wounded snowmen, but keep in mind if you give a unit an HP boost you can't boost its ATK or Speed!

Just one question remains: Do you want to build a snowman?

CREDITS:

Footsteps in the deep snow.wav by tosha73  -- License: Creative Commons 0

JM_IMPACT_01a, JM_IMPACT_01b, JM_IMPACT_01c  - Snow on cement.wav by Julien_Matthey -- License: Creative Commons 0

Winter Wind Mash-Up fast 2 by a23spyro -- License: Creative Commons 0

Whoosh by qubodup -- License: Creative Commons 0

Fanfare 2 - Rpg by colorsCrimsonTears -- License: Creative Commons 0

“The Ice Giants”, Dance Monster”, “Magistar", “Hiding Your Reality“

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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