The Snowman from Hanoi

Our first game, The Snowman from Hanoi.

It all began with a new year’s resolution: we would finally create and publish our first computer game! We had previously made a couple of overly ambitious attempts at making a game that we never were able to finish. Based on those experiences, we decided to this time make a game with limited scope and complexity. After researching classical puzzles and games, we decided that the Hanoi puzzle tower would be a good fit for us.

To put our own twist on it, we would build the tower in the form of a snowman. We really liked the sound of «The Snowman from Hanoi,» but it did sound kind of far-fetched… But much to our surprise, a web search taught us that there was a snowfall in the Hanoi region in January 2016! So the project title stayed and went on to be the title of the finished game.

We used the Godot Game Engine for programming the game. The first sketches for the graphics were made in Procreate (iPad) – the final art was made with Affinity Designer (iPad).

Features

• Tower of Hanoi puzzle game
• Three difficulty levels
• High score based on number of moves and time
• Original art

Rules

1. Move only one part at a time.
2. Each move consists of taking the upper part from one stack and placing it on top of another stack.
3. Move only the uppermost part of a stack.
4. No part may be placed on top of a smaller part.

Credits
The music and sounds for the game are from storyblocks.com.

We quite like the finished result, and we hope you will download and give it a go. Enjoy!