Tiny Wings showed me that a mobile game could be beautiful – it could be a piece of art. At the time I wasn’t into gaming at all – I had left that behind to be a “grown up” for the last 7 or 8 years at the time. Jordan and I were tossing around the idea of making a snowboarding game after he had insisted I played Tiny Wings for a bit. We started working on Alto’s Adventure back in late December of 2012. And that’s how Checkmark, our first app at Snowman was born. I picked him up and we chatted about it, and then went back to my place and started sketching out ideas.

I was driving and immediately pulled over and called Jordan – said we needed to meet. I remember when I had that “lightbulb” moment. I quickly learned that the creation process in Apple’s Reminders app was quite cumbersome, and that it could be done a better way. I was using Apple’s Reminders app during the iOS 5 developer preview, and fell in love with location-based reminders. We had tossed around the idea of making an iPhone app for a while, but never quite had a solid idea we wanted to run with.įinally, in mid-2011, I had an idea I really wanted to see through. We’d both worked together before a few times back in high school, and had always wanted to work on something again. Challenge your friends.I started Snowman in 2012 with my longtime childhood friend, Jordan Rosenberg.Discover six unique snowboarders, each with their own special attributes and abilities.Test your skills with 180 handcrafted goals.Chain together combos to maximize points and speed.Easy to learn, difficult to master one button trick system.Fully dynamic lighting and weather effects, including thunderstorms, blizzards, fog, rainbows, shooting stars, and more.Procedurally generated terrain based on real-world snowboarding.

Fluid, graceful and exhilarating physics-based gameplay.

Journey across the beautiful alpine hills of their native wilderness, through neighbouring villages, ancient woodlands, and long-abandoned ruins.Īlong the way you'll rescue runaway llamas, grind rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders – all while braving the ever changing elements and passage of time upon the mountain. Join Alto and his friends as they embark on an endless snowboarding odyssey.

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