Attack of The Killer Snowmen

Attack of The Killer Snowmen being promoted on the homepage of teletoon.com.

Title screen.

Brain Freezer is up to no good in the intro movie.

Instructions page.

Johnny Test hiding behind an ice wall to evade snowballs from the killer snowmen.

Johnny Test getting ready to attack. The 3D engine worked well with the animation and game strategy.

Once Johnny Test gets around the ice block, he is in a good position to aim, but is also vulnerable to attack from killer snowmen.

Watch out for the towns people! If you hit one Johnny Test will be stunned and lose energy.

What you see when you're hit by a snowball.

What you see when you're hit by a brain freezer's freezeball. You also can't move until the ice cracks and falls down.

The game over screen. The game featured social media integration via facebook wall posts and tell-a-friend.

What a facebook wall post looks like after playing a game of Attack of The Killer Snowmen. Within a month of the game's release there were over 10,000 facebook posts and 1,000 emails sent to friends.

Here's a sneak peek at what's going on under the hood of the game engine. Designing a level consisted of using a tool I built for editing visuals at runtime in Flash. Walls and targets can be dragged around from a bird's eye perspective, and then previewed from the normal game view. The green, red and blue dots represent targets that the snowmen can move to (green is a spawning spot, blue is a defensive position and red is an attacking point).

The game characters, graphics, sounds, levels and difficultly can be fully configured in an XML file. For example the speed, energy, aggressiveness, accuracy and ammunition for each enemy can be changed by simply editing a line.