❄️ Snow Yourself ❄️

From "Project ideas I'd like to collaborate on"

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Snow Yourself is a game where you play as a pile of snow! In each level you reshape yourself to match a given target shape, and maybe solve puzzles along the way/explore the world.

Snow Yourself is a game where you play as a pile of snow! Reshaping yourself to solve each level @godotengine #Godot4 pic.twitter.com/zHnGxfssdj

— SnowYourself (@Snow_Yourself) April 12, 2023

Example of a puzzle below, where some snow is "frozen" to the ground. You can't get it off, but you can connect to a larger piece to "transfer your consciousness" free

Some pieces of snow are frozen/stuck to surfaces. How do you get yourself unstuck? You have to transfer your consciousness to a bigger pile!#screenshotsaturday #godot pic.twitter.com/BEwIDtIiGl

— SnowYourself (@Snow_Yourself) June 17, 2023

Notes

• My main creative goal is to explore the joy of "playing with snow". A lot of what gives me faith in this project is that, even without any goals or levels, it's fun to grab the snow, to reshape it, to roll it, to break it.
  • An offshoot of this could very much be just a sandbox where you make little snow creations and share them with friends
• The other really fun piece of it is playing with shapes. I think it would be really fun to make the snow more malleable: you can break pieces, or combine pieces, or freeze two pieces together etc. So, given a target shape, there may be multiple ways to construct it.
  • At this point it becomes really creative, because you're given a silhouette of the shape you want to make, and you have to think: can I do this with the objects I have? is there something in the environment I can use? or can I re-combine my current pieces in a new way?
  • Potentially even leading to solutions that the developers never expected!
• What is the intended scope? I think perhaps half the content size of Baba is You? Maybe closer to Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery in terms of focusing more on narrative / ambience?

Current status

Paused, mainly looking for an artist.

There is a web version that was made in a game jam. Does a good job exploring the idea but physics are a bit janky, and puzzles are generally frustrating/don't quite make good use of the mechanic

Twitter account with some WIP videos.

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