fun game just a little hard to understand the instructions and what the flying elf does

I cute Christmas theme and I love buff Santaur.

YOLO!

At some point, it gets way too hard to stay afloat unless you spam the space key, and that's not really fun. But other than that I like it, the idea is neat, the graphics are really good looking, and the music is also pretty nice.

Excellent music and art. Gameplay-wise I didn't really have a reason to stop spamming packages, or move left/right.

I first thought it was a balance of presents I had to disperse, until I realized I could just spam it. Good game though.

320! Took 3 tries to avoid getting killed, but worth it!

Fun game

i'm looking with envy at your graphics, it's pretty :D
check my 'Drunken Soviet': https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/drunken-soviet

Nice! Especially loved the silly sense of humour and the chirpy sounds!

Your game Santaur Special Delivery is a really cool idea and really puts the theme of “The more you have, the worse it is”, into a really cool game. I enjoyed the game a lot and the idea of having to constantly keep moving to avoid the elves presents is really cool

Pros:

The audio of the game was really nice and made the game had a nice and happy mood to it which I really enjoyed
The Idea of the game was really fun and interesting.
The concept of having to decide whether allowing the extra presents or not because they both have their advantages

Cons:

I think you could have explained how the overall mechanic worked a bit better.

Overall this was a really nice game and you should be proud of what you achieved. :)

Great graphics, music, and general atmosphere. A couple issues with the gameplay made it less fun than it could have been for me:

1. Spamming the spacebar got annoying quick. Even after I figured out you could avoid the elves, it didn't seem like there was ever any reason to *not* be pressing spacebar except for brief moments when dodging elves, so why make the player do it manually in the first place instead of just constantly dropping presents at a set interval?
2. The physics seemed odd. When you're not pressing left or right the presents dropped straight down relative to the sleigh, retaining the same momentum as the sleigh flying through the sky, but when moving left or right, they didn't inherit momentum from the sleigh's movement. This made aiming at the houses counterintuitive. Also, sometimes presents would just unpredictably shoot out in some random direction.

The graphics and audio were great and worked well together. As others mentioned, though, the gameplay was a bit disappointing. There really wasn't any reason to not spam the spacebar at all times. Still, pretty good work for a game jam!

loved the santa and really liked your take on this style of game. The art is kind of crude but in a way thats visually pleasing. the controls could use some tweeking maybe but other than that this is a solid game and one of the few christmas themed ones :D

SAAANNTAAUUUR! Christmas just got that much more awesome!
There wasn't really any incentive not to just spam space bar and carpet bomb the houses, but I still had fun doing so. Great music, great visuals, and I enjoyed the game's sense of humour too

Like the music, centaur Santa is fun as well as the graphics style. They might have been more simple structures repeating as it got boring really quickly, but time constraint is a thing so I understand.

Also as others mentioned just spamming space is not really fun, especially when the gifts have some velocity when thrown as well, which makes it kinda harder to aim, so just spamming till you make it.

Overall a good jam entry, good job!

Those are some nicely varied and colourful graphics. You rocked the X-Mas-theme, indeed!

I also like "Santaur", which is odd and weird and I kinda like Zentaurs.

The gameplay is smooth, though the collisions are a bit on the imprecise side.

The arcade-y sound is quite neat, gives me a pleasant retro vibe!

cute art and nice music. but it seems keep throwing the presents can always win the game.

I like the art style and music. And the theme fit the time very well. Nice job!

Maybe a bit hard later but that kinda fits so... no complains.

probs just a problem for me but it randomly froze for me in the start so I couldn't realy play the game

Really funny art, I was able to do well just with the space bar before I figured out the other controls. Great entry though, I hope to see Santaur again!

@frederikja163 dang, if the web build is giving you trouble try our windows build :smile: rock that space bar, spread the cheer haha

It takes awhile to get the hang of aiming, but I suppose you don't want it to be too easy. I love the graphics and music. I've never heard or thought of a mythical Santa/reindeer hybrid. Very creative!

Nice use of the theme and current season. Did a double take on the name too because I naturally read it as "Clause" - lol.