The player character moves automatically through procedurally generated landscapes towards the right side of the screen and the player can only control when to jump.

A sequel, Alto's Odyssey, was released in 2018.Īlto's Adventure is a side-scrolling endless runner snowboarding game. Pocket Gamer awarded the game their Gold Award. Reviewers praised its art style and sense of atmosphere but criticized its gameplay as unoriginal. Īccording to review score aggregator Metacritic, the game received universal acclaim from critics. On July 8, 2016, the game was released for the Windows platform. The game was released for Android on February 11, 2016. In September that year, Snowman announced that Alto's Adventure would launch on Android and Kindle Fire. The game was released on February 19, 2015, initially for iOS devices. The game was made to emulate the ethereal atmosphere of snowboarding, and was inspired by Ski Safari (2012), Tiny Wings (2012), Jetpack Joyride (2011), Journey (2012), Monument Valley (2014), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000), and Windosill (2009).

Snowman, a Toronto-based, three-person indie development team, previously worked on productivity apps before Alto's Adventure. The player taps the screen to jump and perform tricks (backflips), and works towards goals, competitive high scores, and upgrades. The player-character automatically moves to the right of the screen through procedurally generated landscapes. Some members, regrouped as Snowman Games, recently launched an exclusive title for Netflix.Alto's Adventure is a 2015 endless runner snowboarding video game developed by Team Alto and published by Snowman (iOS) and Noodlecake Studios (Android). There’s no release date yet, as the title is currently in active development, but it’s far enough along for a trailer. “In many ways, sheep herding is in our DNA and we really wanted to do justice to this timeless tradition and tell a story that could only be told in this way.” “ Summerhill is an entirely new IP that aims to build on the themes that we care about most as a studio,” writes Land & Sea founder Harry Nesbitt. You’ll also be herding and corralling your sheep along with your trusty dog, all while honing skills to tackle “increasingly more complex puzzles.” The narrative is wordless but the dev promises it’s rife with 'themes of duty, companionship and morality.” On the gameplay front, the dev promises “fluid herding-based gameplay” and “gentle problem-solving,' along with a narrative mystery regarding the landscape’s ancient past.

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