The original "Blitz Snow Craft" prototype

Yeti Tournament is the contnuation of a game I originally started to code back in 2003. Over the winter break, I developed a small snow fight game to be played in death match mode and with some fun items. This has been the origin of yeti tournament—although, back then, there have not been no yetis.

It already contained the big snowballs that can roll over antagonists:

Also, there was some kind of rocket-launchery weapon:

You could mount sleighs and turrets, which are not around in yeti tournament any more.

And some icicle cross bow:

In many respects, the new version of the game deviates from the original mechanics (I hope for the better). But if you look closely, you might notice it’s been using the original snowball sprite (upper right corner of some of the 2003 screenshots) and a variant of the fir:

Funnily, the very first feedback in 2003 https://www.blitzforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=210&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 asked me to add more blood:

Cool - Mach aber Blut rein *g*

Others replied that it’s cool to for once have a game with no blood:

Ich würde eigentlich eher nicht mit Blut herumsudeln. Ist doch schön wenn eine Idee auch mal ohne Blut gut ist. Und die hier finde ich gut.

And as of today, Yeti tournament remains comparable un-gory and stays this way :). However, just yesterday, I made a huge graphical change: I created new trees—after 20 years!