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Ronimos Frozen Game Snowball Earth
October 23, in the year
of our Lord 2012 – Ronimo Games, the studio who created
Swords & Soldiers and Awesomenauts has released a playable demo
for their cancelled game: Snowball Earth.
In 2007, before the studio had officially been established, the
team had this big dream to create a full disc-based title for
the Nintendo Wii. During their student master year at the
Utrecht School of Arts, they worked on making this dream a
reality with a title called Snowball Earth.
Snowball Earth is about a robot boy who thinks he accidentally
started the last ice age. His robot masters have sent him to
Earth to undo his mistake and together with his robot doggies he
has been given the task to melt the earth. During his quest, he
discovers that he has been deceived: a large fridge
manufacturing company has illegally sold fridges to the yeti's
on earth, who can't get enough of snow and ice. Our little robot
hero must battle the evil polar animals, close all the fridges,
and prove his innocence!
The team at Ronimo worked on the title for over a year, but were
unable to find a partner to fund the project. In the end, they
had to stop development. Now, four years after the development
was ceased, Ronimo Games is releasing the playable demo for
Snowball Earth to the world. The demo is available for download
via torrent.
Fabian Akker, game designer at Ronimo: “Although it's a shame
the game never got a chance to see the light of day, we hope
people will enjoy playing the demo. Hopefully we will be able to
give the game a second chance.”
Read the full background story here:
http://joostdevblog.blogspot.nl/2012/10/the-history-of-snowball-earth-now.html.