Chaco
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We've noticed over the past few months that it's easy to forget that puffs can make ice over water whenever they die (whether by getting pushed into a monster, or into another puff, or an obstacle).

Some proposed visual changes that might make this a bit more discoverable or easy to remember:

- Make fluff and puffs light blue, instead of white, suggesting an "ice color"

- Make the dying animation include some sort of snowflake or "frost" animation, to more directly imply freezing taking place on that square.

Of course, further discussion is invited and appreciated.

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Xindaris
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Out of those two, I'd think the "freezy" death animation would be much clearer. I don't feel like the color being blue would have told me "it freezes things" any more than it being white does. I mean, mud, brains, and water skippers are all red but they don't melt things.

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Xindaris wrote:
I mean, mud, brains, and water skippers are all red but they don't melt things.

Beethro.