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Santa Claus

By victorcrafty

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor3012.50
Audio4202.21
Theme4633.19
Fun4992.67
Mood5242.37
Graphics5612.25
Innovation5722.12
Overall5782.63

Comments

victorcrafty 2016-12-11 17:45

A very good game

avocadosan 2016-12-12 06:13

The graphics are quite charming :D! Maybe is my skills but i cant get to the boss LMAO. Keep doing pls :3

asturk 2016-12-12 17:56

Good shooter game, i just think the santa claus difficult was kind hard, but good job, keep studing and doing even more games!

zarkonnen 2016-12-12 17:58

I somehow did not expect the boss fight. I was all like "this isn't too hard", and then - bam - santa!

eerongal 2016-12-12 18:00

Nice little game. Eventually enemies start spawning too fast, though, and with the rate of fire on the gun, you can't keep up. The art style was...uh...interesting to say the least.

magius96 2016-12-12 18:00

The game is quite simple, but also difficult. You'll often find that you just can't shoot fast enough to be able to kill all the enemies that are coming at you. You really don't have a choice but to take some of the damage. When you get to the boss, you have no way of knowing if you are even damaging him until the game suddenly throws up a pop-up saying you won. There needs to be a boss health bar, or some visual feedback when you damage him, like maybe he'll flash briefly.

yvanor 2016-12-12 18:14

Simple but intense game ! It would be even more fun with more content (different weapons, enemy animations), and the sprites would look better if their edge were better cut. The sounds are discreet but effective. Nice work !

artsicle 2016-12-12 19:28

Cool!

jacob-peltola 2016-12-12 19:32

really hard to play but pretty swell overall

slimabob 2016-12-12 19:45

Pretty simple, but the harshness of the audio makes it a bit tough to go very far

dalbinblue 2016-12-12 19:53

Nicely done! Two items I noticed; first, by the time you get all four, or even three different enemies coming, your shooting rate is no longer fast enough to shoot all the enemies, so it's just a hope that your life holds out before the boss. Second, there was no feedback on damaging the boss, and since the hit box was large, it actually looked like my shots weren't reaching Santa so I thought I might not be damaging him. Other than that, nice entry.

sn0uk 2016-12-12 20:17

It was fun to play, bit difficult but I won after a few tries. The player needs to know he
's hit something. I was sitting shooting santa for ages not knowing if I was even doing damage.

cyfixus 2016-12-12 21:43

dude, santa is an asshole

trashlord 2016-12-13 01:02

Simple and easy enough to keep interest and not being dropped. Not too long and not too short. Cool midget simulator. Positive expirience!

khud0 2016-12-13 12:15

Here's a quick tip which will improve your game:

Change image_xscale of sprites when they move according to their direction, so that you can at least prevent the guy from moving backwards.

potato-dog 2016-12-13 14:23

I like those wiggly legs aha. I wasn't sure I was ever going to murder father christmas, his bags just kept on dropping on my head! I flipped my lid when that first dragon came through the window. Good luck in the future! Potato Dog

tommakesgames 2016-12-13 15:14

Graphics were quite fun! But it was a little too repetitive. Not sure the theme was done too well here. Anyway, well done for taking part, and at least it had a Christmas theme!

polygonteam 2016-12-13 18:41

crazy game) I like paint art and ALT+F4 for exit!!) Nice!

quaternius 2016-12-13 19:27

I liked it! the boss was pretty hard.

goncalo-monteiro 2016-12-14 00:02

The boss is probably impossible...
And that walking animation :D

mrevilguy 2016-12-14 03:58

I figured out how to beat santa, just move with the rhythm of christmas so the bag don't hit you. bad santa! This game reminds me a bit of my previous LD entry. Good job overall!

philstrahl 2016-12-14 05:14

Well that got pretty hard pretty fast ;) Thanks for being so generous with the life bar, otherwise I woulnd't have made it to bad Santa

syrapt0r 2016-12-14 15:29

Nice entry! I really enjoyed playing this, it has a very good learning curve and the controls are intuitive. The boss is pretty easy once you figure out the pattern, but thats not meant as a negative thing. Good job!

mighty-buxx 2016-12-14 15:50

Good start. Keep going.

moonlightbomber 2016-12-15 07:00

You should try improving the hitboxes on Santa's bag attack. Also, please implement weapon upgrades.

stylo21 2016-12-15 08:32

Enjoyed the style, well done.

aster0id2000 2016-12-15 09:21

Pretty hard, a bit more work and it will be really good. Background music would be good.

tkachov 2016-12-16 05:34

Quite simple, obviously needs a lot of polishing, upgrading mechanics, graphics, audio, but already is playable.

jk5000 2016-12-17 10:31

A fun little christmas game. Well done.

mrwillowb 2016-12-22 05:53

Had fun.