Snow Dodgeball

About the game

Snow Dodgeball is a top-down game of dodgeball between two teams of elves, yours in blue at the bottom of the field and the opponents in red at the top, with a line down the middle that nobody may cross. Five snowballs sit on that line at the start of the game, and when one is taken a new one appears four seconds later. Your elves run out by themselves to fetch them; you decide where to throw and when to dodge.

Each side has a row of presents that stand for its health: every hit takes 20 points of 100, so five hits and the team is out. A thrown snowball flies at a fixed speed, so the way to avoid one is to click one of your elves just before it arrives and make it jump aside; after a dodge, that elf needs half a second before it can do it again.

You play three matches against the computer, and each one is harder than the last: in the first the opponents hesitate and throw wide, in the third they go for the snowballs quickly and throw very accurately. At the end of a match you see your hits, throws and accuracy.

Playing it here

Click Play and the game starts in the page, with a small bar above it for the score, pause, restart and sound. It works with touch: tap to dodge and to throw. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.

Controls

A few things worth knowing

Dodge late. The snowball is fast; if you wait until it is close, the opponent cannot correct the throw.

Throw when you can. Only an elf that is holding a snowball can throw, so do not waste time: click as soon as one has picked one up.

Credits and licence

Snow Dodgeball is one of the mini-games of a holiday web app that Google published as open source (the santa-tracker-web repository). The code is under the Apache License 2.0 and the images and sounds are under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, credited to Google LLC and the contributors of the project. The game is the same as the one Google published: for this site only the page around it was replaced (score bar, pause, sound), fonts and libraries are served from this site, and links back to the original app were removed, so the page never contacts other sites. The licence texts and the list of changes are in the licence file of the game. This is an unofficial copy and is not made, endorsed or sponsored by Google.

FAQ

Is there a second player? No, you play against the computer. Three levels, easy, medium and hard.

What does "Snow Dodgeball" use for music? The sounds and music come with the game; use the Sound button in the bar to turn them off.