Thin Ice
A downloadable game for Windows
Thin Ice is a game about guiding a cute bunny across a dangerous frozen lake while mapping out and avoiding weak thin ice. The game works much like classic minesweeper. The game generates a grid of tiles which can either be safe or weak.
When stepped on, all tiles (except tiles that aren't surrounded by weak tiles and the weak tiles themselves) reveal the number of surrounding weak tiles. In this game however you control a character, which limits how you can discover tiles and the goal is not to completely map the weak tiles, but to get across the lake to safety.
The game was made for the "My First Game Jam: Winter 2020" and marks as my second ever jam game.
I truly hope you enjoy my game and would love to hear feedback on the games itch.io page : )
Controls:
Arrow keys to move.
R to retry.
Esc to close the application (the window close button works too).
Enter to start the game while in the menu.
The game has been built using my own game framework written in C++
and uses the following helpful libraries:
SFML
GLEW
STB IMAGE
STB IMAGE WRITE
GLM
Also there are some sound effects by InspectorJ downloaded
from freesound.org.
Download
Install instructions
1. Download "Thin Ice by Jere Koivisto.zip".
2. Unpack the file.
3. Run the executable "Thin Ice.exe"
If you're experiencing any problems getting the game up and running, please leave a comment on the games itch.io page.
If you get an error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)" make sure you have x86 Visual C++ Redistributables and OpenAL installed (their installers can easily be found on your steam folder at steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared/_CommonRedist/.... Chances are you already have them installed).
The game might get flagged by your antivirus software, however this is a false positive and you can safely ignore it.
Comments
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The game looks very nice, the animations are very beautiful and the sounds are also very good. But there sould be some safe tiles at the beginnig of the game because there are sometimes where I take a step and immediately die.
Thank you so much for trying out my game and for your feedback. The game has now been updated so that the first row now only contains safe tiles.
Small update. Fixed a bug that caused movement to be interpolated wrong on framerates below 144hz. As a result of this, movement should be significantly smoother and faster on 60hz.