Amazing! Loved the art style and love the dialog. Extremely well put together game.
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Winter E. Gumdrop: Mystery of the Missing Gingerbread Men's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Cozy Winter Vibes | #7 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Fun | #7 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Overall | #10 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Presentation | #25 | 3.867 | 3.867 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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really loved the dialogue and art, and i kept dying in the water :') really enjoyed this!
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Fluffy Friend FinderI liked this entry. A pretty fun Metroidvania with an amusing noir story behind it!
I thought the graphics pleasantly portrayed a wintery feel. I really liked the snowman’s jump, as well as how he switches to a skateboard for movement after he’s half melted!
I kinda wish the dialog had a way to quickly skip it. I encountered the water bug a couple times and it was annoying having to play through the parts of the game I had already gotten through because of having to wait for the dialog to finish displaying. Over all, this was minor though.
Great work! If you’re interested in watching a rando, I played this on stream recently
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Skate - N - ScoreWe just watched it! Thank you so much for your feedback -- I had plans to address the camera's location and fine-tune the movement speed, but we didn't have enough time. As for the dialogue, there is a way to skip it, we just didn't have time to make it intuitive (it defaults to LMB, haha). You also noticed the dirty trick I had to pull to get the ending screen to work, which is hilarious! The water collision bug and subsequently that dirty ending screen nonsense have been patched and that patch will rollout asap. Thanks for playing! :)
P.S. the music wasn't original, it was all from Pixabay (free to use, no attributions, etc.) -- still, we'll be including a credit scene and crediting the artists when we rollout the patch.
Wow, nice art and writing! I had a bug where my character was doubled after exiting the bar. And when i dropped in the water the game over window was hidden and only shown after i entered the store.
But overall pretty nice, well done!
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FrostflameThis was awesome, I loved the dialogue and it made be want to keep reading and exploring the level. The snowman detective sprite is awesome, too.
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Cozy GlobeWow this was really good! I really liked the story (esp the ending) and the visuals are so nice too.
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Cold Out 64This is pretty amazing for a 3-day project! The art and animations are really well-made and so is the writing. The script was so entertaining. I also found the bug to be pretty amusing. I honestly wanted to see if I could finish the game with two Winters running side by side but everything else was too broken for that to be possible. So I restarted and finished it proper
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Snowcat BuildingThe presentation is really good. I love the snowman's animation. The dialogues are really funny and enjoyable. Great job on the game!
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Let's decorate the Christmas tree!"This wasn't the first bridge I'd burned." Hilarious. Great humor. I hit that colliding-with-water bug and it did all sorts of weird things to my playthrough. I could walk left and see the death screen you set up, a second snow man started following me around, and other weird things. I love the snowman jumping animation. I am really surprised you let him live at the end.
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Mad SantaCopy/pasted from the review on page to here for Jam reasons:
"Such a cute game! The writing is adorable (especially the gangster crows), and I love the artstyle something fierce. There are few bugs with the water being traversable and a giant "GAME OVER" white screen showing over 3/4 of the general store when you enter if you fell in the water, opening a second instance of the game over the top of the pre-existing game. I could play 2 snowmen at once. Then, after reaching the boy, he hit the door, the instance played a second time, and then the game hard crashed back to my main menu. It's such a shame too because it would be a fantastic game if not for the fatal issues."
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