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SANTA'S DEATH SQUAD by paperjack

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made by paperjack for LD 43 (COMPO)

The evil Greench have stolen Christmas and Santa is pissed.

Santa's little helper gnomes are not very good fighters, but they are armed with unwavering belief in Santa, the Christmas Spirit and jackets filled with high explosives.

They know they must sacrifice themselves in order to rescue Christmas and make all of the rich children in the world happy. Set forth, SANTA'S DEATH SQUAD!

Controls:

WASD to move the Head Dwarf (with the little crown).

CLICK ANYWHERE to KAMIKAZE

Press M to MUTE MUSIC

Windows https://paperjack.itch.io/santas-death-squad
Source code https://github.com/paperjack93/ld43
HTML5 (web) https://itch.io/embed-upload/1166217
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/santas-death-squad

Ratings

Overall 109th 3.727⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 85th 3.705⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 73th 3.705⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 54th 4.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 252th 3.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 274th 2.9⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 41th 3.738⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 212th 3.225⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

Jannick Larsen
03. Dec 2018 · 07:56 UTC
it didn't really want to open when i opened it. i heard music and then the game ran in the background..
🎤 paperjack
03. Dec 2018 · 08:03 UTC
@jannick-larsen No window appeared when you ran it?
Jannick Larsen
03. Dec 2018 · 08:04 UTC
@paperjack no, i could see it in task manager but not as something that had a window, more like a task running in the background.
Amanda Priest
03. Dec 2018 · 08:06 UTC
This was so fun. Love the flinging of the "death squad" haha. The only issue I had was with the controls. Sometimes at the beginning when I still had most of my squad, it was difficult to change directions and I was stuck for a few seconds up against walls etc. Really enjoyed it though. Awesome job.
Darylsteak
03. Dec 2018 · 08:36 UTC
Fun little game with a silly concept, nonetheless I liked it. I also like the challenge that was moving the entire squad and not accidentally driving half of them into one of those spinny red boxes.

"This is a problem"

![Untitled.png](///raw/5ee/c/z/1cb51.png)
🎤 paperjack
03. Dec 2018 · 08:41 UTC
@jannick-larsen I made a webgl build - https://itch.io/embed-upload/1166217
C1FR1
03. Dec 2018 · 08:43 UTC
the tossing animation for the gnomes is hilarious. Movement was a bit awkward tho. The music played very quietly for me, but when I turned up the system volume I enjoyed it.
Jannick Larsen
03. Dec 2018 · 08:48 UTC
@paperjack Thanks, i finally got to play it! :D
i like the graphis, the walls are stretched and it is very easy to see.
i like the sound fx, but they are a bit to low.
i love the idea with the sacrifice! it's fun to just blow up the world with gnomes.
the movement was a bit weird though.
Fnissalot
03. Dec 2018 · 08:55 UTC
The game was fun but the movement was sometimes unresponsive which made it feel frustrating after a while. Flinging the gnomes was great!
Antti Tiihonen
03. Dec 2018 · 09:39 UTC
The gnome flinging! Such a tasty mechanic. The gibs strewn across the snow was super grim but funny. I could have played more but the unresponsive controls sucked some fun out of the game for me. The visual humor, and the graphics overall, were the highlights of the game. :thumbsup:
Daniel_Abeleira
03. Dec 2018 · 09:42 UTC
Nice game! I like the art
Owen Davies
03. Dec 2018 · 09:54 UTC
Like the game, it was hard to control due to the leader of the pack mentality. Still I love the graphics and its something new that I've not played before. Good Job!
mzhovnach
03. Dec 2018 · 10:02 UTC
Great idea! Pretty funny, but when the army is sliding it makes a bit difficult to control them
🎤 paperjack
03. Dec 2018 · 10:35 UTC
@antti-tiihonen @fnissalot @mzhovnach @c1fr1 @amanda-priest
I tried fixing the movement to be more responsive and less slidey but it actually made the game less fun. I suppose the ingame reason is that it's a gaggle of angry drunken gnomes so of course it's going to be hard to control them :D
ManTou
03. Dec 2018 · 10:45 UTC
Very fun! I really love this game! But just a little difficult to control.
Sun-Wukong
03. Dec 2018 · 11:27 UTC
So much fun lol! Movement controls are wonky but everything else felt perfect. Also the fun of launching exploding gnomes!
Barrier
03. Dec 2018 · 12:16 UTC
I really like the idea of having a big mob to sacrifice. The controls are a bit wonky but really good job anyways!
Game-mon
03. Dec 2018 · 16:52 UTC
A really, really fun game! I love the way you used the theme of sacrifices, that was a good idea. Such an interesting mechanic. It would have been awesome to have some explosion sfx, though. Anyway, congrats! :D
ytaha
03. Dec 2018 · 20:28 UTC
Fun game. The movement is a little hard and you might improve the graphics a bit but overall it was fun. But you really should have to use slow motion in this game. There was a gif you send in the discord and it just looked awesome in my opinion :smile:
🎤 paperjack
04. Dec 2018 · 07:31 UTC
@game-mon have you tried the .exe ? The gnomes do explode with sfx :)