Candle, post-pre-prototype
This game I am make
Is very difficult.
I have found a somewhat satisfactory method of doing the melting
Which is an important thing to do
but the alpha blending, she does not blend.
Very annoying.
However, one of the major technical hurdles has been crossed, albeit in a manner that some might consider crappy.

This version is shiny and melty. These traits are preferable.
The shiny boy, he melts the ice. He is very hot but not in sexual way.
Now I have a thing I can show you, I tell you a little about what I want this project to be. Red box is boy; I know he does not look like boy, but you understand. Red box is walking in snow when big rock fall out of sky. He fall asleep, as most young boys do when hit with big rock. When he is awakening, he is on rock (is different rock) in bottom of big ice cave. This is unusual, but not as unusual as that he seems to be more immolated than is common in a boy of his age. So okay, this rock it set him on fire. For all that he feels pretty good. But he is stuck in bottom of ice cave, and in order to get out he has to climb on ice. Ice and fire are not super big buddies, so he has troubles you see. This is the plot at the beginning. Some things happen later, but this is not important now. Is difficult enough to make ice melt, you see.
whoa.. that’s a really cool melting effect!