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A jam submission

Santa's Little HelperView game page

A small narrative retro game made for the Festive Jam 2023
Submitted by Nokacu44 — 14 minutes, 55 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#23.7783.778
Visuals#63.8893.889
Fun#63.6673.667
Theme#73.7783.778
Overall#83.4263.426
Festivity#113.4443.444
Audio#182.0002.000

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The oniric story of a christmas elf

Controls to play:
WASD to Walk --- Ctrl to Attack --- Space to Jump

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Super game. Caught me off guard with the blood particles. Took me a while to work out how to defeat the second boss.

Submitted

😍 Started playing your game and thought, 'Oh, how cute!' Then, the twist totally surprised me - poor little elves! 😂 Loved the innovative idea and the gameplay is super fun. 🌟 The art style? Absolutely charming! Great job, really enjoyed it!

Submitted

This is a very neat little game. I love the combat system and the platformer at the same time, it leads to a difficult game. The pixel art look really good, and the particles are really clean. I was kind of hoping for a horror game in this jam, and I found one!

Submitted

Once I got to the santa I couldn't figure out what to do. I really liked the snowmen melting effect. The game was prety laggy playing it in html though. I think a part of that was the particle system used for blood from the elves in that second screen.

Developer

Yes, I am aware of the lag due to particles, I trusted my PC too much! However I agree that I should have given some advice on how to deal with Santa...you should hit him with the candy cane and somethin interesting will happen. Thanks so much for the feedback!

Submitted

Oh I'll have to check it out again. How do I switch back to the candy cane?

Developer

When you pick up an item, in the bottom left corner of the screen there's an indication to which number the player must press to select it.

Actually their purpose is not very clear XD