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Bad Santa

By catburton

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness357
Theme2453.47
Humor2472.89
Fun2843.00
Overall3872.94
Innovation4952.59
Mood5532.42
Audio6071.19
Graphics6202.22

Comments

kroltan 2012-12-16 23:17

The cops are ragingly fast! They should be like 1.3x Santa's speed.

singpolyma 2012-12-17 00:16

Fun, and quite difficult

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-17 03:21

Love the idea! Surprised it hasn't been done sooner. Also like the blueprint-aesthetic :)

the-jack 2012-12-17 07:01

Great work, lots of variety. If you're going to have players reading text before starting, might as well toss in the controls there IMHO.

zedutchgandalf 2012-12-17 10:38

It took a while before I figured out you can run. You could have shown that in the text at the beginning, imo :)
I like the game, though!
Also, some kind of sounds/music would have been nice.
But overall, it's great fun =D

biped 2012-12-17 19:09

Really fun idea.

xbelanch 2012-12-17 19:13

Hilarious! especially when you see the cop that runs towards Santa!

finalmirage 2012-12-18 00:09

It would be cool if there were "hide spots" where you could bolt to if you've been spotted by the cops so you could avoid them if you make it there. Neat concept and it plays out well, nice job!
P.S. If you stand still when the cops chase you they'll leave you alone after a few seconds and you won't get caught. :D

edocentrique 2012-12-18 00:45

Okay it was really cool and there is the most efficient policemen i've ever see ! I think they're robots or something because i only escaped them twice. Good job !

quantumvm 2012-12-18 00:49

More difficult than I thought it would be. The controls feel really nice. But it took me a while to figure out you could run :D

georgebroussard 2012-12-18 01:10

Cool idea. Missed the controls on screen so didn't know you could run. Re-played. Pretty fun. Should be able to out run the cops when running so you can get away and restart. Should probably aggro other cops if you're being chased. Good stuff overall and enough potential to keep adding to this.

aare 2012-12-18 01:13

yeah, +1 for hide spots. It is a nice game though. And funny idea to :P

ilo 2012-12-18 01:51

Nice concept and the core mechanic of sneaking around was surprisingly fun!

jmoraguiard 2012-12-18 07:54

Difficult as hell, maybe I'm too willing to steel other's presents hehehe. AI looks nice for the NPCs wandering inside houses. Maybe it would have been cool a sound meter while moving, or vision cones. Sometimes i thought i was covered but they got me. And some policemen never stop chasing me! :O When that happened it was impossible to continue :/. Another thing is that in this game is good to scape in zig-zag hehehe, if you go in diagonal, both speed sum, so you run twice faster ;). Nice idea and good mechanics! :D

xsmalldeadguyx 2012-12-18 11:08

I found a portal gun but I couldn't use it!

atomic 2012-12-18 20:43

Better graphics and an evil Christmas song would bring this into the top 5 easily. It's fun and hard, I might not have been able to finish the first list if I hadn't found a relatively unprotected house and camped there.
Can I have a Flux Capacitor for Christmas? Please?!?!?

jujule 2012-12-19 08:42

Santa arrested buy angry policemen. Excellent.
Is it possible to loose the cops ?

hypp 2012-12-19 20:31

Fun, but hard!!

seconddimension 2012-12-20 13:46

Whoa, fastest policemen ever! The sneaking is cool, I would have liked the option to move the camera a short distance independantly of Santa, so I could scope out the area before I moved

dr_soda 2012-12-27 06:13

Indeed, those policemen are fast. I noticed that they lose interest if they can't spot you "in time" but they move so fast that time window is too narrow for Santa to fit through most times. ;)

azurenimbus 2013-01-05 21:07

I like the idea and the potential of the game, but you need to spend some time on the controls. It's way too slow to move, especially to escape when someone is chasing you.