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Cancel Christmas!

By tompudding

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation124.16
Coolness371
Audio693.40
Overall863.57
Fun943.46
Humor1283.26
Mood1763.18
Theme2713.43
Graphics3662.94

Comments

hapistorique 2012-12-17 07:06

Nice game ! The hero is lacking animations, but the voice acting is the best thing I heard in 2012 ! :p

parapup 2012-12-17 15:41

Nice this was different and as Hapistorique said lacked the animation.

ramuh 2012-12-17 18:59

Seems nice. But I couldn't figure out where to go or what to do

somfunambulist 2012-12-17 19:01

Ingenious gameplay, very difficult.

sir_json 2012-12-17 19:18

These puzzles are nice and the first game I found with voice acting :D

edocentrique 2012-12-17 19:19

Funny hacking skills ! Also, i laughed hearing voices :D

angela 2012-12-17 23:07

I don't think the puzzles are working for me. I got through the first one, but couldn't get the others. I went to your site and entered the answers from the walkthrough, but still got access denied. It could TOTALLY be user error though. This was challenging and fun to play. Props.

pillbrain 2012-12-17 23:28

Love it, but it really is hard, nice job Tom :P

kevincorrigan 2012-12-17 23:43

I like this one its difficult but really quite fun, good job.

tompudding 2012-12-17 23:43

I'm beginning to think I might have slightly misjudged the difficulty of this game :(

bipolarmike 2012-12-17 23:47

I really enjoyed this one!! Well done sir, well done!

dwrensha 2012-12-18 00:04

I love anything with in-game code. This was great.

fussycashew 2012-12-18 00:34

Pretty awesome, I got stuck pretty early though. Had to get some help :P

zenmumbler 2012-12-18 00:46

Got the first 4 letters and just brute-forced the last one and yay it worked! Cool idea, nice execution. Music indeed got annoying quickly, thanks for the off switch, nice voice samples.

zenmumbler 2012-12-18 00:51

Also, re: your walkthrough. To get answer 2 you can just enter the following in any browser console window and get the answer instantly, no math skills required! Brute force FTW!

for(var i=0; i<9999; ++i) { if (((i*77)+1435)%385600==124173) console.info(i); }

slushy 2012-12-18 12:02

Very cool!

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 16:59

Cannot get that tune out of my head.

udrian 2012-12-19 08:43

Seems like a nice entry, really like the voice acting ;P.. Though it is very hard to solve the puzzles because I have a different keyboard layout than the one in the game so I don't know where the keys are supposed to be! xP

BeigeBox 2012-12-19 19:44

Wish there was a Mac port... OH WAIT, THERE IS!

Ported to support Mac OSX 10.7+. No dependencies needed, just unzip and run the app.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k1uuigubc7jh8wo/Cancel%20Christmas%20Mac%2010.7%20and%20up.zip

logun 2012-12-20 09:57

I don't know if I am the only one with this problem, but your .zip have problems on my PC. Can't play :'(

jomomomo 2012-12-20 23:49

Can't play windows/linux games. :-(

hnjslater 2012-12-22 15:59

Brilliant game. Nice and hard.

pl0xz0rz 2012-12-28 13:24

Good puzzles and audio!

cosmologicon 2013-01-06 22:07

I had a lot of fun with this, but yeah it's going to be extremely difficult for people with no hacking background. I got to try my first-ever SQL injection attack! (It didn't work, but oh well.) The terminal interface could have used a bit of work. A few times I found my cursor in a weird place overwriting previous attempts. It made it hard to work with. I would also have liked to have the terminal and the code view side-by-side.

dj_pale 2013-01-07 22:49

Nice (and hard!). Could have used some hint mechanism ;)

superdisk 2013-01-07 22:49

I, too, brute forced the Modulo thing.
The SQL attack didn't work for me. I tried multiple times your walkthrough for that problem, but still no dice, with the response:

Unknown character "'"
I think this is the ' located in your original SQL query, so I couldn't change it :(

rawbits 2013-01-07 23:23

The idea is good and the goal is alluring.

I couldn't do anything than open the front door and listen to Santa. No clue what to do! I saw that there is a walkthrough but this game isn't that good to make me read...

cryovat 2013-01-07 23:35

One of the C quizzes was a bit too much for my tired and flu.ridden brain to handle, but definitely coming back to this one when my head is a bit clearer.

This is probably the most original take I've seen on the theme. The puzzles I did get were great brainteasers, and I was impressed by how authentic the SQL bit felt.

I also enjoyed the music. Great work! :)