Gift Wrapper

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.58
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.16
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★65%
Santa has created a special super-sticky lollipop to help him gather the loose presents in his workshop. Little did he know that the formula also made the lollipop sentient! Can it grow large enough to crash out of the workshop?

Gift Wrapper is an arcade-style katamari-like, where your lollipop GROWS bigger as you stick to items, allowing you to stick to bigger items.

The planned game was much bigger, with you leaving the workshop to engulf penguins and polar bears in the north pole, stealing Santa's reindeers, then falling from the sky to terrorize a city. Alas, this is all i had time for.

TWO-BUTTON CONTROLS:

*Up directional key / W / Z: Move up.

*Down directional key / S: Move down.

Game made in Unity; artwork made in Photoshop; music made in SunVox; sounds generated in Bfxr.

screenshot

Comments16

joekinglake
joekinglake14 Dec 2015, 20:08
Nice mood going on! A nice take on the Katamari idea. I like the mood you have :)
AranHase14 Dec 2015, 22:05
Nice use of the theme, I never even thought about katamari!

Simple, but well done. My only little feedback is that in Katamari we can experiment collecting different things, as if we try to pick something larger than we can pick up, the punishment is very light. So forcing a restart every time we hit a bigger object may be a little too harsh...

but overall, really good submission, I had fun with it...
pjimmy
pjimmy17 Dec 2015, 10:34
nice and cute, cool concept, love the toy references, well done
carlsommer
carlsommer19 Dec 2015, 03:02
It was pretty fun! I liked how both themes were incorporated, and I loved being able to wrap up dogs and drag them around with me : )
lurils21 Dec 2015, 15:47
Well done, seems well balanced too, never seemed like I didn't have anywhere to go. Really fun
hpearson2
hpearson222 Dec 2015, 03:01
Nice little game, I like the multiple control scheme and it prevent the browser from jumping all over the place. The music is quite sharp.
michidk
michidk24 Dec 2015, 01:48
Really fun!
unprompted24 Dec 2015, 20:43
Naaaaaaaaaaa nanana nana na na na Katamari Damacy.
DDRKirby(ISQ)29 Dec 2015, 02:22
Hehe, glad to see someone taking this spin on the theme.
Xanjos31 Dec 2015, 02:05
Pretty fun 2D interpretation of Katamari.
Dreyan2 Jan 2016, 01:16
Cute game, nice use of the theme, fun ^^
ac74 Jan 2016, 01:57
Very innovative! This is the best way I've seen the themes combined. You struck a very nice balance with the difficulty.
DecayConstant
DecayConstant4 Jan 2016, 02:08
Nice use of both theme elements! :D
Also, thanks for listing the tools you used, I have to check out SunVox!
mockthebear
mockthebear4 Jan 2016, 19:25
The only think that i dont like its S to go down and Z to go up XD
NightShadow0
NightShadow0author5 Jan 2016, 02:02
Thanks for playing, rating, and leaving feedback, everyone!

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