Pelt your friends with snowballs to win! Ideal for 2-6 players. The games characters are Do!, Pop, Bub, Commando, Lex, and Jimjim. Can you guess who is who?
This is one of our proudest games that is exhibited in the museum’s Lab section. Not only is the game exclusive to play at the NVM, it was created by our very own Creative Engineer – Joe Dickens.
It is fair to say that it is one of our most popular games among visitors! It’s popularity is frequently mentioned in reviews and testimonials!
The game was created using GameMaker with no code or programming experience! All the sprite animation was done using a technique called rotoscoping.
The Super Snowball Fight Party table was created specially for the game using small arcade sticks and Arduinos, a small, easy to use open-source electronics platform.
With 6 players, there’s a whopping 38 inputs (6 X 6 buttons + start + reset) so it contains 2 Arduinos to cope with them all!
Joe Dickens is Creative Engineer at the National Videogame Museum where he creates exhibitions and events. He is an event and venue manager, educator, designer, comedian and games developer. Joe created the videogame comedy crossover show ‘Gamer, Gamer’, which led to a regular program of local videogames events, educational shows and talks at Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies.
He has worked with a number of regional organisations to develop a strong gaming community, in 2017 as part of a team he won and award at Hack24 – a twenty-four hour coding challenge. Joe is also an avid collector and researcher of rare and unusual videogames ephemera, arcade machines, and peripherals with an interest in preservation and restoration of gaming hardware collections.
