Collecting snow (XXL clumps of snow for some reason)

Rolling snow ball into more snow to make it grow larger. (Appears after you collect a certain  amount of snow but is initially much smaller than the one in the screen shot).

Roll two balls into one another…

Bam. You made a snowman.

The idea of the game is that for some reason an infinite number of bullies will be coming from the woods to hurl snowballs at you and make you cold and upset. To fight back you throw snow balls at them, and make them cold and upset (genius I know ). If you have the time, you can make some items to help you out. So far this will include:

• Camp-fire: Keeps you warm (essentially healing you) but melts snow. Can be used offensively to take snow away from bullies or defensively to heal you.
• Snowmen: These will come alive and wander round, pelting bullies with snowballs. They will melt over time depending on temperature (day/night cycle, fire, or maybe a bully who uses firecrackers). As they melt, they will shrink, and throw smaller (less damaging but faster) snowballs. You can keep them cool by throwing snowballs at them, or use them as cover.
• Snow walls: A simple wall to crouch behind, no snowballs will hit you if you are crouching and the ball has passed over a wall. These will also melt over time, but there’ll be no way to keep them cool (not planned yet at least). May add two types, tall and short. You could stand behind tall ones and not be hit at all, but you wouldn’t be able to throw snowballs over them.

That’s all I have so far, and most of it isn’t implemented.

If you were wondering how it fits the theme, there’ll be one map which fills the entire screen, and no scrolling or anything, so it kinda works. Weirdly enough, I had most of the idea after the theme had been announced, it wasn’t just a happy coincidence that the theme fit the idea I had before the start. My idea before the start (assuming snowman would win) was a puzzle game where you have to roll a ball around as cover to not get hit by balls, but you had to take a certain path so the ball wasn’t too large to fit through a gap or so that you had the right timing to not get hit by snowballs (there would be people would throw a snowball at the same place every third/(any number really) step).