Snowball Fight!

We don't?

I do?

Okay, whatever! To the point!

In occasion of the - err - winter, we have been awarded yet another wonderful snowy game, with our favourite pastime - hitting Faeries with snow! Shame the Fountain Faerie wasn't there, I'd hit her all the time. With snow, I mean.

Err - sorry, the point of the game is NOT hitting the faeries. (pout) But still, hitting Adee with snow is just as fun! And that Kyrii judge from Rink Runner!

Now, in occasion of TNT's awesome game programmer(s?) new game, I decided to make another game guide for you hopeless players! Bow to me, you puny - err - never mind.

Now... the basics. (grin)

The Basics

Using your mouse - and that means your LEFT mouse button... y'know, the opposite of right - and Koug the Blue Kougra (yes, I made up this name too) you are supposed to throw snowballs at the Neopets and Petpets on the other side of the cool-colorful-stone-thing wall. That means no hitting Faeries, because then the game ends soon and you'll have to start ANOTHER game to hit them.

Err. Back to the point.

You start with 50 snowballs (which appear as 5 big snowballs, which each hit turn smaller and smaller and on the 10th hit they disappear), and that is the maximum of snowballs you can have. The game ends when you finish all of your snowballs. The game isn't timed at all and there are endless Neopets/Petpets/Faeries that keep on coming up and going back down a few seconds later if you don't hit them. Meaning you can just leave the game open on the background and stop whenever you want.

Hitting a Neopet or Petpet - you lose a snowball. Unless you threw a shoe on them, which in that case, you lose a shoe. (-cough- No, you can't throw shoes at them. You can take off your own shoe and whack it on the screen, but that's a bad idea)

Hitting a Faerie - you lose TEN snowballs (gasp!) which is bad. Ooh, yeah, bad. Baad. Fun, but bad.

Hitting Dieter the Polarchuck - you earn 10 snowballs. (More about that later)

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The points you get from hitting each Neopet/Petpet depends on how well you hit them. If you hit them on the face, or a good hit generally, you usually get 10 points, and on the Meepit you can get up to 20 points (I bet those nasty, evil Meepits controlled the game to make them be worth more). If you hit a Neopet/Petpet on the sides, or just barely, or not very well, you'll usually get 5 points.

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Dieter the Polarchuck. Oh, Dieter the Polarchuck. Yes, Dieter the Polarchuck. I must stop saying Dieter the Polarchuck.

This guy - err - thing - erm, Petpet - is occasionally spotted in the background, parachuting down to the ground. Your point - to hit him. Hitting him earns you 10 snowballs (meaning another big snowball on the left side thing). It's a bit hard to hit him though since he's pretty small (in the game at least) and far away.

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The wind. If you read the instructions (pah! Who needs instructions?) you probably noticed that at the end there was a line reading "A little hint: Pay attention to the wind!"

Now, that tip is helpful! Yeah, it really is! But you may or may not be wondering - how do we see the wind? How does that tip help?

First of all, you can see the wind according to the snow falling on the ground. Noticed it? Good.

Now, you probably noticed that it falls in some direction - sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes it falls straight down.

Now, how does this help us?

Well, if you can add one and one, you probably know that if the snow falls in some direction, snowballs we throw will fly in that angle too (well, that's not so true unless the wind is REALLY strong, but whatever) meaning if the snow is falling to the right, a snowball we throw will probably fly off to the right and land higher than what we threw.

So, how do we not let this annoying bit annoy us?

Simple! As the instructions read, pay attention to the wind. If the snow is falling left, throw the snowballs a little bit off the right side of the Neopet/Petpet => the snowball will fly slightly left because of the wind => the snowball hits the place. Voila!

Same with Dieter the Polarchuck.

Oh, and the direction of the wind CAN change, so keep on watching the snow falling to see the direction.

Some Info

There is a new level every 6 Neopets/Petpets you hit. Each level is a bit faster.

The characters move sideways while they're up.

The snowballs you throw either hit the character's face (in the same spot each time) or the side of them - it doesn't appear on the exact place you threw it.

The Phantom Orange-Shirt Guy - Oliver - the main (or maybe only? -shrug-) game programmer - appears rarely on the other side of the wall. He is worth 25 points when hit.

If you wait a while on the Instructions/main page, a Snowbeast runs out of the cave roaring. :D

Basic Tips

If you really read the basic part, you'd see that I did leave some tips, so these tips will be more direct and... err... tip-py.

1) Don't hit the Faeries. Really, I mean it. If you're so miserable from playing the game, just end it.

2) Try to hit the Neopets/Petpets as quickly as possible when they pop up - you never know when you may come to click them and at the very moment they'll go down and a Faerie comes up.

3) Try to hit Dieter (according to the wind) but don't waste too many snowballs or time on him, and keep an eye on the Neopets/Petpets popping up while you're trying to hit Dieter - hit them too!

4) The characters move, so click quickly! ;D

5) Use only one snowball at a time, even if you're sure you're missing the character. It's better to miss a Neopet/Petpet and hit another one later instead rather than throw two snowballs when you only needed one.

That's it, basically! :D I hope this somewhat basic guide helped you get on your feet and throw some snowballs!

Fip Note! Yay, another article! =) Anyhow, I wrote this article during this game was beta-testing, therefore it might have changed since then. If it had since the article was written and published, I'll -probably- write the changes on my lookup. :)