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Tom Khas loves ice cream so much that he takes on the job of frozen dessert
customizer at the famous Cold Comfort Ice Cream Parlor.
Sadly the job turns out to be far from how he envisioned it. With ice cream servings so massive they must be prepared in a sub zero environment, and hygiene so bad it wouldn't pass any scrutiny, Tom ends up by himself in a gigantic freezer, preparing the treats outside the customers' view.
Work would be much easier if Tom was left alone to do his thing. Unfortunately, he has to contend with ice cream ant spiders, lazy and erratic freezer gnomes and an extremely demanding work pace. With no kind of job security, any mistake could be enough to get him fired.
Since we had so much fun in the previous 72h GDC that same year we gave this a go too, despite having less than two days to finish our entry.
Hoping for a retro theme we wanted to make a synthesis of Pac-Man, Asteroids and Billiards. When customization unexpectedly won the theme vote, the game setting changed drastically, but the game mechanics stayed interestingly close to the original plan.
Not quite the success of Euchmich it still came in first for graphics, second for sound and completeness, and third overall.
This version is more stable than the competition release and has several bugs fixed, removing the need
for the various performance controls of the first version. The gameplay remains the same.
