Fun and well themed for this time of year! Had great fun playing it.

Awesome game fun whould rate 1000/1000p

Great game, definitely going to check out Dart as I've been looking into doing web games & JS isn't cutting it for me.

What a fun game, excellent presentation! For some reason my arrow keys didn't show instructions the first time I played so I didn't know what I was doing. Next time they did, and got the idea.

Really like the lighting effects, getting darker as you go and the torch lighting at the end. Nice and smooth too, Chrome only at 9% on my desktop PC. Straightforward use of the actual theme, but the snowy Christmas theme is really great.

Truly amazing. Like an Atari game mixed with Space Harrier. Awesome work. Well done.

Looks the part but gameplay-wise isn't great. You need a great deal of luck with the random generation to get anywhere above 700 points before the minute is up. The tentacles? Goop? stuff seems a little out of place as well and I'm not quite sure what benefit collecting it does. However it is fun to play a bit and it's very impressive that it's done in Dart and HTML5.

The tentacles are because of Cthulhu, of course. To use the goop, and to get closer to being able to beat the game, hold the jump button and tap the chop button.

The game and the graphics are really cool.
But I think the concept is not that original.
But you're still the best programmer I've ever seen in my entire life.

I think it looks great, but it's basically spamming S while using arrow keys

Hahahaha, very cool!
I played it alteast 10 times, and only won a couple, it's pretty time consuming.

The art is fantastic, you always do a good job on art :)

"This is Player. Santa used up Player's time. But Player is cool with that"

hahahaha, nice, nice.
-ENDESGA

Compelling. The controls felt very tight and nicely tuned with a real pop to them. Very readable graphics and the sound adds a sense of gravitas to proceedings. Jolly and complete, thanks!

Always nice to see a Christmas game :) the controls are easy and the game is fun... and very addictive.

Very well done (but of course)

So hard.I made child sad :'(

Great!

Really nice game ! Congrats !

Very nice game, also impressive considering you made this in ~24 hours

I played the early version of this game that you posted on Twitter, I think that this game is really fun, although I am having terrible performance issues? I am sure it's my end, but I am only getting like 3FPS at best. The older version that you put up on Twitter played fine though. Nice work. (I did not rate this game as I feel the performance on my machine is not an accurate representation of this game.)

Cool ! I love the theme, It was really nice to watch you coding the game. Awesome work :)

fun game! I couldn't beat it, though... perhaps a strategy I am missing :-).

has a nice finished quality to it -- I love the subtle animations on the title screen... even just having the snow fall adds a nice mood.

Please rate mine, if you have the time.

Grats notch that was a pretty awesome aside from the fact that I suck at collecting wood :)

Saw some of your stream while I was making my game, nice job, the final product turned out pretty good. My biggest complaint would be that the game isn't all that 'fun' as it's pretty much just key spamming, but I really like the actual look of the game.

Also, the sounds didn't work on Firefox for some reason, had to switch to Chrome to hear them.

I made chlid so happy, and it only took me exactly 60 seconds :) Pretty good game, I like the 2d-3d art style, really repetitive though

Overall, I enjoyed it. I found it to be a little repetitive, but still quite fun. Good job :D

Hey Notch! Great work this weekend! Thanks so much for streaming your effort! :)

Pretty hard game!

Game was grate (as always). Interesting concept too. Only problem is it is way to hard.

Fun, but the controls hurt my hands!

So this is what Santa is doing the other 364 days of the year. :D

Seems you must mash pretty hard to win. Impressive technical scores though.

Nice idea but the gameplay seems a bit repetitive.

It's pretty difficult to keep up with the sun, but the game is really good in every other respect. The graphics are very impressive!

Hey Notch!
+ The 3D runner looked quite awesome.
+ Liked the instructions in the beginning.
+ Loved the Night effects. Reminded me of Enduro!

- No sound? awww :-(
- This game gave me carpal tunnel syndrome :-P Maybe holding S you can continuously attack?

Thanks for the game!

Thanks Notch. I've been doing games in Dart for a little bit more than a year and I felt quite lonely with a maximum of only one or two other people creating games in Dart. Thanks to your stream and this game it'll probably be different at the next Ludum Dare.

Also thanks for your stream. Seeing that you still kept coding when I wanted to sleep made me stay up and keep coding too. Thanks to that I was able to finally finish a game in this LD.

Last but not least, this game encourages me to take a dive into WebGL :).

Fun game, but my wrist hurts from failing to much.

I like the visual style and atmosphere. The snow particles are a nice touch.

The gameplay itself is a bit monotonous, but perhaps with refinement it could be enjoyable. I feel like the density of objects makes it tough to see ahead and to plan, which makes the game feel a bit frustrating at times, but of course we can't always have what is ideal given 48 hours!

It's really nice but also repetitive to mash those buttons all the time. But I had fun for a few plays.

Game looks great as usual, however nice it looks and how smoothly it goes, there's very little replay value on there. There's no achievement feedback except for how many points you got and if you made the goal (which is incredibly hard, actually too hard). It quickly becomes boring although random placement, a really effortless addition to make this the *fun* game it could've been would be progressing onto new "levels", small variations in landscape, maybe some basic NPCs as hinders, upgrades or such, just something that tells you your effort is worth it! (Some new stimuli goes a long way!) You had loads of time to spare, so I don't see why you wouldn't try to make the game less minimalist, objectively speaking. On the other hand though, you made this game in a lot less than 48 hours, so it's still a tremendous achievement, but like I said, some very minimal additions could've made it that much more enjoyable because it's a fun concept. :)

So to sum up:

+ Graphics (incl. fx)
+ Humor (dry)
+ Overall feels and looks somewhat high-end.
+ Creative

- Overboard difficult to win.
- Painful controls
- Buggy collision resolution and world ticks.
- No rewards, variation or some sort of dynamic.
- Can't restart the run if I know I won't win.
- No replay value

Nice one, notch! Good game, but really difficult :)

Nice game

Nice :)

This is really good! The lighting and snow effects are awesome. Controls feel good as well!

Funny game. Not a lot of content, but very polished for what it is.

Great game! But I do miss some sounds and music.

webgl - nice choice! well done on getting a game in 3d within 2 days!

Nice game. I think games like this are funnest without a fixed time. I prefer having one life or an extendable time limit. That way your high score depends more on skill rather than on how the trees generated.

Others have said it's pretty hard, but I found it rather easy, won first time. I guess that not everyone picked up on how to use goop (hold a and tap s).

Good game! I really like the style of it. Reminds me a lot of Temple Run.

I liked that you tried an interesting perspective and an ambitious genre, so gave 5's in innovation, humor and mood (Christmas!). The weakest parts were the audio and theme (3's) but overall it was good and fun (4's) :) While the time spent on the effects is very cute, I think additional gameplay mechanics should have been introduced instead to make it more fun, such as up-down for speed, upgrades, or better score/point rewards. It'd be nice to have some background ambient sound/music, even if just blowing/whistling in a mike to represent cold wind. Great for entering :)

Really detailed (graphics, menu mostly). Looks great.
Nice audio.

Needs preventDefault on keydown to prevent type-to-search in Firefox!

Overall a pretty sweet game.

So funnny and so much fun :D !

Good game, good polish!

No sound it seems (firefox).

Fun game, but in the help menu you should explain what the goop does, still don't quiet understand what it does, either way good job

Excellent game! Would be even better with music.

Down with the tentacles!!!

Good game. Although it's just spamming a button!

The game looked great, but in terms of gameplay I didn't think that it was the best. At times I was hitting A and S randomly, which made me progress further than I was before, when I was trying to play properly. Some music would have made it a lot more engaging too!

fun

A nicely polished game. Hard to gauge depth and I would have lurved to hear a Christmassy jingle in the background. Otherwise, a merry old time was had playing this baby. :)

Pretty solid game, but it would have been nice to have some strategy other than spamming the attack button the whole way.

Very funny game !

Short, simple, efficient. I liked it :)

Wow... the implementation was probably easier than I think but that looks very impressive and polished. Can't beat it though, I'm a bad Santa :~)

I like the awesome graphics and the great atmosphere. Due to your interpretation of the theme the game is really short, multiple levels or stages would have been nice. Maybe santa has to chop wood around the world. But the only thing really missing for a christmas game is a christmas song.

Cool and really polished game. I think the theme was kind of.. "forced in" but I loved the humor so I forgive you...

Gathering the wood and killing the tentacles is pretty fun. I wish there was more to do, but I like the feel of the controls as well as the art in the game.

Hands got tired trying to beat this, great game!

Well rounded game; music would have made audio perfect. Good fun, could imagine it in an arcade.

This is incredible given time costraints - really top notch! (no pun intended) ;)

Considering your recent tweets about how many sprites you can render and still pull 60 fps, I'm disappointed that my screen was not filled with more sprites!

Well done, a stellar little game.

Really smooth controls and a lot of fun to play, quirky idea too. :)

Watching Notch create this on twitch.tv was the best part.

I had expectations and Notch delivers!

Difficulty is a bit high but this is a good game notch. Well done!

Overall very well put together, the graphics were very nice, but I didn't find that I could play it more than a few rounds without getting bored.

Great entry, would love to hear some frantic music behind this. The graphics are fantastic too!

Very good small game from a great master. Thank you for interesting live coding.

Poor, poor Child... No presents for you.

I prefer TypeScript (which I used for my entry), but it's good to see a big name using a JS transpiler.

Simple but fun, and the graphics are great for the time limit. Nice stuff, but it got a little repetitive after a while.

Only notch would make a game with trees.

Nice graphics and an interesting mechanic. Good going.

Great presentation and art. Fun gameplay and very interesting.

Awesome

Great game.

Love it!

It was a neat game. I really liked the concept but I wish you'd have had more time to put in sound.

My god! That's such fun game! and Hard!!! I can beat ridiculous fishing, but this one... man...

Overall, very good. Game play a bit repetitive though.

Nice experience - not just beacuase you are Notch :)

Solid game, get's a bit repetetive

Well, the theme reminds me a bit of 10sec one. It was hard to everyone to came up with very original ideas. The game lacks a bit of fun and music. I like pixel art graphisms. It serves tour game well.

Nice idea with the daylimit and i like that you choose dart to implement it. I think LudumDare is always good to learn new things.

a nice little game with nice mechanics. but I didn't expect anything else from THE indie game hero!

I like the pixel style. :-) Funny and small game. :-)

I enjoyed this :)

Fun game!

I liked it but it wasn't enough :c

Good game, but it's a bit too difficult.

Nice game, but I didn't like the controls too much. Arrow up would be much more intuitive for jumping. But anyway, this game is very good.

I made a child sad several times, then looked at screenshot where he was happy. It was enough for me.

a fun christmas game awesome

Very pleasant, too difficult for me.

Awesomely themed, great visuals, and a real challenge. Child says thumbs up!

A fun game that shows your technical expertise with pixels. Good luck and Merry Christmas!

Very nice game, good use of the theme. Very nice difficulty as well, and fun to play, though I'm still not sure what exactly the goop does.
Also nice title.
Good luck and keep at it!

It's a game! Sorry to say, but I wonder how much the lack of music brings down my general score. No music gives a low audio rating, of course, but it also decreases the mood a bit, since the graphics and especially the lovely effect of nightfall approaching were really quite pretty, and in the end it also brings down the fun - a catchy track could have done so much for a game like this.

Along with graphics, on the other hand, I gave you a high score on the humour – you had me at the game's title.

I must say, you really should've made the up arrow key be the jump button instead. My brain didn't work properly when it came to jumping and chopping with the same hand, for some reason.

A game, I suppose. Music, and at least to my sloppy brain, better controls, would've boosted the score, definitely. Perhaps you could do what I did about the music this time around, if you want to work on your own but can't make music, which was to let Wolfram Alpha generate some for me: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/

Liked the 3D graphics used, and I found the obviously simplified grammar amusing. However in my opinion, using time as a way to connect the theme a weak concept.

Nice entry! I had fun with it.

How do you play it?

It took me a while to realize how essential goop was to winning the game, but I finally beat it with 53 seconds!

Sh*t I keep making child sad.
Amazing how well is runs though.. only dart and html5, nice work.
5 for graphics, mood and audio.

I don't like the graphics much at all; the color choices are very unappealing. I don't find the gameplay to be fun either. I like Christmas though.

I find the gameplay and aesthetics really underwhelming. It's a complete package that functions well, but there's not much to think about in-game, and as mentioned above, the colors are either overly saturated or not at all, with no hue-shift in the shading.

I hope this doesn't come off as 'hating' simply because you're Notch, I have a ton of respect for your work.

D-e-X already gave you a good feedback so I won't repeat what was told. Just a note about sounds : they end to be really annoying. I'm not sure how to fix it, but maybe a more quiet sound for the jump and a stronger visual feedback would allow the same comprenhension without the annoyment.
Good overall, I liked it. Thanks for the game !

Really cool little game! (And bravo for being a Dart pioneer).

Loved the art of the game. Are the purple trees a reference to Day of the Tentacle?

What could be improved:
- more entity types
- stupid AND/OR catchy music

Also, in a totally different topic, I Love you Notch <3

Nice game but a bit difficult.

OK, it's nice. First couple of play throughs I was thinking this is impossible. I'll never get that much wood. Then I read the instructions :-D

So a nice little added depth by adding the goop.

I like it. Also good classic Notch art-style.

Very well played. That's an addictive game. I played several times, and I will again !

Not the best product made by you, but still awesome.. :D

Amazing amount of polish for such a short development time. Game feels very smooth and is fun to play.

Pretty fun and flawless game, but I really suck at it. ;)

Notch make game. I like game, I rate game. Now Notch play and rate my game :)

This was a lot of fun and has neat mechanics. I've yet to make the damned child happy, but I'm trying...900 so far.

Ok, child is happy. Christmas is saved. Whew.... :)

Love the look and the sound effects... seems super hard, though. I don't get the purple trees--is that a secondary goal?

Very nice concept and polished. I like the graphics and sounds and as well, the gameplay is good although I think it's hard. How did you decide where to put every object? is it generated ramdonly?.

It's so hard! Can't get enough wood!!

Truly funny and entertaining! Really liked your English.

it doesn't work on firefox

Great polish here. Looks and feels great, though it's punishingly difficult to win (I didn't).

There's a game-breaking bug when playing in my default browser, though. You're not preventing key events from bubbling, so they trigger typeahead find for me in Firefox. The first time I hit 'a', it brings up the search box, taking focus away from the game. To fix, just call .stopPropagation() and .preventDefault() on the key events you want to consume. It's an easy thing to overlook. =)

No sound in Firefox on OS X. Looks like the game doesn't even try to load the WAV files?

-mildmojo

Simple but fun. I liked the graphics and the sound.

oh gawd! I can't smash keyboard faster

Hey Notch. Cool game. Saw the stream... but I suck at your game... Like webGL... hmhhmhm okay I try to beat your game again ^^

Good entry. A fun game with simple controls. Poor children :(

Hey Notch! Your game is very nice. Can you tell me where have you leaned Dart and WebGL? Thanks in advance

Simple. But Very Fun Indeed. Well Done Sir.

Nice webgl graphics! And I really enjoyed the twitch stream.

This is tough!
Nice game.

I like the game, the trick to winning is to know exactly what you need to do to kill the tentacles and to use the gloop when you have it. Very well polished game.

Im sorry, but i dont find it any good. Its an ok game, dont get me wrong, but nothing too interesting.

Super fun game, great job!

Quite funny, but very difficult to win. I could just be terrible at it though. Solid entry! :)

I really liked the game, but it's also incredibely hard :(

in the beginning it looks really fun, but actual gameplay is too erratic without much variety. and yes, I'd make a terrible Santa.

It's a very fun to play game but poorly connected with theme :<

A very interesting game but a bit complicated.

The goop seems a little OP
but I really like the artwork!

This is one of the best entries! You might be the winner of this LD :)

This a well done game, I can't say otherwise. I liked (your usual) "pixel-art in a 3D world" style. :)

But I didn't find the game fun at all... :(
I felt the game was only about mashing the 's' button... and that's it. I didn't feel compelled to keep playing it only for a higher score...

Nice entry in the sense that i was surprised by what this game turned out to be. The mechanic with the goop was very important to discover. :D I loved the menu's and the personality of the messages.

Good mechanics, but very repetitive

The gameplay is a bit repetitive, and gathering all the needed wood in just one minute seems nearly impossible. On the other hand, the graphics and the falling snow make a nice mood together.

Really challenging game. The graphics look great!
Treepunching ftw! :D

tentacles make santa lose wood D:

Very nice graphics.

Fun! I still didn't manage to get enough wood, the poor child.
Nice graphics thought.

Almost completed it last time! Anyways, great game, extremly polished and I like that it's christmas-related.

Great fun, really enjoyed it. To improve, I would add better sound, but I'm sure you are busy making updates for minecraft!

(I reeealy like minecraft, such a huge fan!)

After playing your previous, I have to admire what an excellent programmer you are! The games get better every time!

Incredible graphics and art style. Congrats. The mechanics is too simple for me but it seems to be very addictive. Great entry.

I like the procedural stuff

I decided to play your game, even though your game already has 370 because hey, you're notch!

Anyways I thought it was really fun! It was well lengthed as a jam game too. I always like the sound effects in your games :)

The controls were a bit off for me for some reason. And it moved too quickly for me. But maybe I'm just slow? Could have made do with some sound effects. But maybe that's just me. Neat idea.

0% coolness, it says? meh.