Ronimo Games has released the pilot version of Snowball Earth released. The Utrecht developer has a year to the game worked, but couldn’t the publisher find in the sea wanted to go with the then still very young spelstudio. Ronimo had later success with Swords & Soldiers and Awesomenauts.
Snowball Earth was the final project of Joost van Dongen and his fellow-students, who together Ronimo Games have set up. The spelstudio spreads the playable prototype of his first game through bittorrent. Van Dongen light in a blog post the history of the game, which, in 2007, was known under the name Ice Magnet.
The prototype of Snowball Earth has long load times, the bugs and it is best to play with an Xbox 360 controller, warns van Dongen. Despite a working prototype and interest from publishers, managed Ronimo not to conclude a contract so that the game could be made. Van Dongen blame this on the fact that Snowball Earth is the first game from Ronimo would be and that the objectives for the game were ambitious.
After a year of work on Snowball Earth was when young spelstudio access to Wii devkits. Ronimo considered the game to be ported to Nintendos game console to publishers to convince them that the studio work brilliantly, but decided not to do this and to focus on a new and smaller game. That was ultimately Swords & Soldiers by Ronimo itself was released via WiiWare. Due to the success of the game appeared in Swords & Soldiers also the PlayStation 3, Android, iOS and on the pc for Windows, OS X, and Linux.