Update: Added a post-jam version with a few more presents and 3 minutes of play time. Aside from that the versions are identical, but please rate according to the 48h version. Thanks for playing, happy holidays!
It's Christmas eve and Santa's busy with all the kids' letters. Since he can only read English, he acquired a robot translator named O.N.E. (Objective Noun Exchanger) to translate the foreign letters. However, O.N.E.'s translations are rough at best and Santa has to decode their meaning. Because no matter how bad the translations are, Santa doesn't get the letters; he only gets O.N.E.!
ActionScript 3 + Starling in FlashDevelop. Quotes from http://ackuna.com/badtranslator Artwork hand-drawn and edited in Photoshop, plus TexturePacker and BMFont. Music made in SunVox; it was meant to be just a christmas song but i was having so much fun that it got a bit wild, for better or for worse.
Ha, Funny idea for a game. I dig the game overall, but there are so few different gifts, that it becomes very easy to rapidly pick the right presents after you have figured out each's description. perhaps items could have multiple descriptions to throw the player off a bit?
Yeah i did intend to make more presents to break the repetition but ran out of time. Multiple descriptions never crossed my mind, that would've been quicker to make. Thanks for playing!
ha! a really nice idea for a game. i wasn't sure why there were 3 people on the side though...does it make any difference which one you click on or can you just click on one guy every time?
Funny idea, really liked the music and pencil sketch art. Biggest complaint would be that after awhile it became easy to pick out the gifts. More presents please! I dug it, good job!
Awesome work! TIL the actual name of google translator is O.N.E. :P I really like the handdrawn graphics. My final score was -1, but it was really fun anyway :D
Fun idea, not sure how it relates to the theme really. But it's an interesting and enjoyable mechanic in short bursts and would be good for educational minigames. Great music and graphics for 48 hours!
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Thank you all!
TIL the actual name of google translator is O.N.E. :P
I really like the handdrawn graphics. My final score was -1, but it was really fun anyway :D
Good sountrack and graphics. I like it ! ;)