A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build

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A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
File:A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build.jpg
Developers
  • Benjamin Davis
  • Alan Hazelden
PublisherDraknek
Designers
  • Benjamin David
  • Alan Hazelden
EngineOpenFL
PlatformsLinux, OS X, Windows, Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch
Release
  • Linux, OS X, Windows
  • 25 February 2015
  • Android, iOS
  • 9 December 2015
  • Nintendo Switch
  • 2 September 2021
GenrePuzzle
ModeSingle-player

A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis and published by Draknek. The game was released in 2015 for Linux, OS X, Windows, Android, and iOS.

Gameplay

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The player (black figure, referred to as a monster) and a snowman, missing the top snowball

A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a grid-based puzzle video game 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

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A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build was created by UK-based independent developers Alan Hazelden and Benjamin Davis.[3] Its prototype was developed using Puzzlescript, an open-source HTML5 puzzle game engine, in 2014.[4] The commercial release was written in Haxe and OpenFL[5] and released for Linux, OS X, and Windows-based personal computers on 25 February 2015.[6] A version for Android and iOS mobile devices was released on 9 December 2015.[7][8] A Nintendo Switch version released on 2 September 2021.[9]

For the game's 10th anniversary in 2025, the Itch.io release of the game permanently moved to a 'Pay What The Temperature Is' pricing model, where the price would be $1 for every degree Celsius it is in London according to OpenWeatherMap's tracking, updated every hour. For example, if the temperature was 2.5 degrees Celsius, the price would become $2.50.[10] If the temperature in London drops below freezing the game will become freeware.

Reception

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A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build received "universal acclaim" from professional critics, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic.[11]

A Good Snowman Is Hard to Build won the award for "Best Character Design" at Intel Level Up 2014.[12]

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