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Snowball Storm
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About the game
Snowball Storm is a last-one-standing snowball fight. You and the other elves land with parachutes on an island of white hex tiles dotted with pine trees, and the water around it slowly takes the tiles away, pushing everyone closer together. Throw snowballs at the others, dodge theirs, and stay on the ice.
There are two modes: Quick Mode, a small arena with 25 elves, and Arena Mode, a large one with 100. All the other elves are controlled by the computer. The result screen tells you if you won (with the line "Winner winner, merry winter!") or lost ("Snow hard feelings!").
The map is 3D and drawn with WebGL, so it needs a browser with WebGL; the 100-elf mode asks more of the computer than the small one.
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 the map to move. Nothing is installed and nothing is sent to other sites; the best score is not saved.
Controls
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Arrow keys | Move |
| Space | Throw a snowball |
| Click / tap on the map | Move there and throw |
A few things worth knowing
Stay away from the edge. Tiles disappear from the outside in; the middle is the last place with ice.
Pick up the gifts. Wrapped gifts on the ground hold power-ups, such as a big snowball or a shield; grab them before the other elves do.
Credits and licence
Snowball Storm 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
Can I play with other people? No, it is a solo game against computer elves. Nothing is sent over the network.
Which mode first? Quick Mode: it is over in a couple of minutes.
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