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 
Platform(s)Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS
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. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  6. https://www.openfl.org/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. 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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