Ludum Dare #37compo

SANTA'S ONE ROOM

by cjke-7777

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.13

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.26

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.26

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%

Hit as many elves into the room as possible.
More elves = more gifts!

* Arrow keys to move

* A to hit the elves

* S to Jump

Tips:
* You can hit in mid air
* Once in, elves can't back out
* You can hit multiple elves at one time
* You can bounce elves off the walls

Source:

General Repo:
https://github.com/cjke/santa-room

Final Submission
https://github.com/cjke/santa-room/commit/1bf66caedf596639b695452546f3d2acd67294a4

Browser support
Tested in latest Chrome, Firefox and Safari.

CHANGELOG - Post submission
V1.1. Fixed instructions with incorrect letter for "jump". Previously read as "B", should have read as "S".
According to ludumdare rules its ok for small fixes/bugs - so I think changing the instructions is within this to indicate the correct button is ok.

Comments33

mpath12 Dec 2016, 02:58

it was s to jump on my keyboard

cjke.7777author12 Dec 2016, 08:02

Whoops good pick up!

slimabob12 Dec 2016, 09:32

Great and unique twist on the theme! Love the art style, and the music is fantastic. It's pretty challenging, but after a while you get the hang of it. I could see this being a game commissioned by Adult Swim or something of the sort.

Great job on making a fun, challenging, and addictive game.

cjke.7777author12 Dec 2016, 09:34

Thanks slimabob!

KJB of IBwWG12 Dec 2016, 09:34

Fun game! Nice polish too, and music. One thing I would change is make the controls all on one hand--up for jump and down for encourage, at least optionally. I like the slapstick execution of Santa's "encouragement" and also the production animation.

Zarkonnen12 Dec 2016, 09:34

An in-depth look into the brutal nature of capitalist labour relations.

batmanasb12 Dec 2016, 09:38

Nice graphics and backstory, but the gameplay is uncomfortable. The angle you throw them at is awkward.

MacDocBros12 Dec 2016, 09:38

That was very funt o play! Good job :)

Aliencargo12 Dec 2016, 09:41

Super impressed! Pretty graphics, plays great and sounds great. Fun level design and overall high polish!

SoerenBachNielsen12 Dec 2016, 09:47

Yes! I saw this on the blogs and wanted to play this! Love the artstyle and simple gameplay! Very nice with different levels as well. :-)

cjke.7777author12 Dec 2016, 09:50

@Zarkonnen Haha - exactly my thinking, well almost (https://twitter.com/cjke7777/status/807836062286422017)

Thanks KJB, batmanasb, MacDocBros, Aliencargo and SoerenBachNielsen!

JackDTaylor12 Dec 2016, 09:59

Amazing entry! Love the music, graphics and the whole idea of punching elves into the hut. This is solid 5/5.

JK500012 Dec 2016, 10:26

What a great christmas game. Give it more levels and I will be really super happy.

Sawtan12 Dec 2016, 11:09

This game is hilarious! Love it, kicking the elves around as they deserve, great overall feeling on this one! Good job!

Vadim Ivshin12 Dec 2016, 11:38

Nice graphics, it reminded me of good old Lemmings.

cr4zyt3rry12 Dec 2016, 12:52

Really fun game to play! great gameplay, fantastic art and sound assets

xesenix12 Dec 2016, 18:53

Really fun game i have noticed that it works a lot smoother on chrome than on firefox. I have checked your source code maybe you could use more sprite sheet instead of keeping all images separately? Good work!

TolMera12 Dec 2016, 21:35

Audio really suited the game, really nice.

When I landed my first bunch of elves in the Workshop, and saw the explosion of Red, Green and White I thought I had killed my elves :)

Overall this is a really cool game! excellent entertainment.

panu12 Dec 2016, 22:59

Lovely little xmas game with great graphics. I think it would have benefited if the shareholders were to set a minimum production quota for each level.

Uliana Galich13 Dec 2016, 19:25

Smth really new and interesting

arhpositive13 Dec 2016, 20:17

Great idea and a really polished game. Finished it. Love the way Santa "encourages".

leo_p_mahon13 Dec 2016, 21:13

Press A to encourage hahaha.

Fun game, excellent pixel art, I love how santa waddles its really satisfying.

gontzalve14 Dec 2016, 16:51

Love your game very addictive and polished! if you can please play and rate my game thank you!

alfadur15 Dec 2016, 00:53

Nice blend of lemmings with action, feels both familiar and novel :)

BoltKey15 Dec 2016, 22:30

Loved the theme and execution. Great graphics and audio for a compo entry. But what is up with the controls? It is very counter intuitive. Why not just assign up arrow to jumping and space to hit?

cjke.7777author16 Dec 2016, 01:36

Fair point about the controls. Initially "up" was going to be a "look up", similar to sonic/mario of last snes/genesis days, to help pan around the environment - hence keeping the action keys keeps seperate. "A"+"S" seem to be a common alternative for web games, emulators, etc. It definitely doesn't account for alternate keyboard layouts for example. But you do what you can in 4h hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

cjke.7777author16 Dec 2016, 01:37

*48 hours

Dege18 Dec 2016, 01:15

Lol, poor elves! Graphics and sounds are nice, good job. I particularly liked the gift fountain that comes from the room when the elves are working.

Pietro Ferrantelli18 Dec 2016, 10:06

That was really fun compo entry, and pretty challenging ! The idea is lovely, really funny and pretty well executed and the pixel art is pretty eye-candy.

Pyrofoux18 Dec 2016, 12:28

Took me a little while to understand the goal, but after that it was very funny !

Asturk18 Dec 2016, 21:33

Great game with a very good pixel art and very fun and relaxing to play, the idea was really great for both one room theme and christmas theme as well, great job!

SinclairStrange19 Dec 2016, 13:25

This is awesome, really fun, game! I really like how simple yet challenging game it can be smacking all those elfs back to work. I love also how Santa wobbles when he walks. Overall fantastic stuff!

Almax2720 Dec 2016, 14:39

Awesome pixel art, and good use of theme. Hitting elves was a little unpredictable but that was part of the fun :D