Overview

How to Snowball? is about snow, and its balling capabilities. As a small ball of snow, your objective is to progress through each level, moving up and down ramps, balancing across planks, and collecting as much auxiliary snow as possible.

Core Mechanics

The game starts with the snowball the size of a golf ball. Players control the ball with wasd/a controller stick, and can collect snow by rolling over patches of snow. This snow then becomes part of the snowball. Any non-snowy surface like grass reduces the snow on the player's ball, and it appears back on the ground. Players can re-acquire this snow by rolling back over it. The objective of each level is to get the player's ball, however big it is, to the end. Players are awarded scaling points for having as big a snowball as possible. Some levels require the snowball to be of a particular size to progress (e.g. a small hole, or a jump requiring mass to cover.) Each level requires a number of puzzles to be solved, and the snowball may also need to push objects around or perform other physics-based tasks to complete various puzzles.

Style

The style of How to Snowball? is one of humour and lightheartedness. The levels themselves are reminiscent of all kinds of locations - a suburban house, a log cabin, a shopping mall carpark, etc. The snowball itself narrates its trip, with various voice lines triggering depending on what the player passes by/interacts with. The environments themselves are colourful and vibrant, allowing the player to enjoy interacting with the area around them visually as well as mechanically. The game features relatively calming music as well, ensuring that the player is also able to relax and enjoy themselves snowballing through challenges and levels.

It's a Snowball with a face. Much like the one intended for this game.