RE-SANTA by Thygrrr
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:globewithmeridians: Play in Browser (HTML5)
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:globewithmeridians: Play in Browser (HTML5)
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:star: Christmas is such a drag! :snowman:
Years ago you realized your two best friends always gave you gifts that would have been better for each other.
* So you decided to cut out the middle man ... *by becoming the middle man! **
:gift: Collect presents & re-gift them to your friends! :shrug:
Try to find the matching gifts that make everyone content. Face the reality of inappropriate gifts and blatant favoritism. The more friends you have, the worse it is!
They suspect nothing and are happier than ever! And you have much more disposable income left to spend on bad habits and lottery tickets. It's a win-win! (figuratively speaking, as you haven't won anything in the lottery yet)
:tada: Procrastinate another year and do it all over again! :champagne:
YOU'RE A WINNER if you have 12+ friends and celebrate the perfect Christmas (everyone happy)
YOU'RE A LOSER if you have no more friends. (just as in real life)
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:sparkles: Credits :sparkles:
RE-SANTA is a whimsical Ludum Dare Jam entry for LD40, made in 72 lazy hours, many of them spent procrastinating or working on things that didn't really need doing at that time
And it was fun! Yay!
- Code by StuartMD & Thygrrr
- Art by Thygrrr
- Music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com
Please enjoy, and let us know how you liked it!
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Ratings
| Overall | 79th | 4⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 467th | 3.428⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 28th | 4.118⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 95th | 4.125⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 26th | 4.651⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 97th | 3.907⭐ | 77🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 69th | 4.027⭐ | 77🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
And the gameplay itself is great too!
My fave game so far.
"My new year's resolution is 300x300"
The storytelling is so nice too and even if I don't like to re-give my gift in real life, i can do it in your game for a long time ^^
Also i love the jokes in every yer resolution, it make me continue playing :P
One of my favorite game so far !! I love it
And Merry Christmas !!
The game also ends if you make everyone angry. Just give your first two friends their own gifts back and see :D
Strategy spoilers:
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- it helps to take notes about people. the phone is only a marginal planning aid.
- take some time to tidy up your gift pile before you hand out the last gift
- the sweaters and names show you what colors they like
- if their hair is in a gift color, they will give that color 80% of the time
- if their hair is a natural color, they'll give random gifts
- some people give shitty gifts every now and then. we can't all be perfect...
- first you need to get more friends by making as few people angry as possible
- shape your group into a circle of friends that's varied enough so that your gift stash stays varied enough, too
- you can make friends unhappy a few times, as long as nobody is angry, you will slowly get more friends
- that means you can dump shitty or wrong gifts on good friends a few times
- it's often necessary to get rid of people who don't fit your friend circle
- that means it's a good idea give shitty gifts straight back to the person who gave them, because they keep giving shitty gifts every now and then if you allow them to come to your parties
- the only reason not to give back a shitty gift is if your party needs more friends or everyone could be happy that year
I wish there was a way to keep notes in-game, was fun nonetheless. Great job!
-Graphically really interesting, it works a lot and is readable.
-Dialogues are funny, the new year's phrases are much cool
-Have an interesting concept, needing memory and good gestion : Maybe a little repetitive, but it's the concept, and honestly that was covered by the funny reactions I had when I did shit
Overall, a really nice performance, the best of the jam's Christmas-themed games I played for the moment. Full points on art, a real good idea !
Still trying to figure out how you do this on Unity (being a Unity person myself).
Gameplay is simple and easy to understand without any need for tips and tutorials. Also very fun to play as well. Good Job!
The final color values that are blended with a sweater texture as color map.
Sadly, part of my math is wrong so in some resolutions, the pattern slides a little, and it jitters in the fireworks scene, fortunately that's the only moment when the camera Y position is > 0.
I love the wool Ambiance. You made a great Job
Great job !
The gameplay is the only thing which didn't really capture my interest, it gets repetitive quickly, and I didn't really feel the consequences of bad decisions.
Very well done!
You CAN lose by making everyone angry. The game unfortunately has a strong equilibrium thanks to the new influx of friends. We originally had three "lives" but since the game can take a long time (there's even an easter egg regarding time...), we decided that as long as you have friends, you're ok. Just as in real life!
Great idea about the phone, it was the original plan but it didn't fit on the screen. I should just have put a mouse-over or button somewhere that would slide it in.
I might build a greeting card version of the game to send to friends for christmas ^^
I think at least something like SFXR and GarageBand need to be used to fairly expect to qualify for sound/music voting. Jukedeck is just too easy.
* Add a Highscore of some sort
* Give points for happy friends
* Take points for unhappy friends
Everything else is nicely done!
You win when you have 12 friends and make them all happy.
When someone is angry (eyes x'ed out), they won't be your friend anymore.
You lose when you have no more friends. (it rarely happens but it can happen)
Great advice on the scoring :)
I use Linux, so I tried the web version - but I can't play it there because parts of the game are cut off on my (rather small) screen size, and even though it has scrollbars, scrolling only shows half of the cut off parts :/
Edit: @cenullum - I owe you one, I didn't realize with the new Unity that the engine is in a separate DLL. And there I was surprised that the game was far below 20 MB. Updated the downloadable zip archive to include that file. Sheesh. The one time I have a chaotic desktop, and I overlook something like that.
The graphics are fantastic - give the game a unique festive feel
The knitted graphics are the best for this christmas themed game, I love them!
The game wouldn't quite go full screen for me or fit on my screen in another way, so I had trouble reading the instructions.
Great game and idea!
Wonderful work, and I am very curious how the thread-look was acheived.
I really liked the entry. It was funny (with some of the new year sentences being straight hilarious), fit the theme perfectly and the graphic style matched the game. The characters looked funny, too.
My only nit-pick would be that after a while it could end up being a bit repetitive. I'm not sure if introducing other kind of restrictions (shape, size,...??) could help this.
Anyway, congrats on an amazing entry!
CONGRATS!
At first glance, i loved it. After playing for awhile on full screen, it made me a bit dizzy though. I think it'll be nice if there are multiple layers involved here. So for example, the characters are a layer above the background and thus make texture is a bit different.
Other than that, nice concept and game :grinning:
And I don't know if it's wanted but the date loops back to 1971? I went to 1978 and just gave up. I didn't know you could actually win the game.
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You found the E3 - the Epoch Easter Egg. It is a play at the fact that Unix timestamps overflow in 2038.
Thanks for playing so long... The game is quite hard to win and also almost impossible to lose. I didn't want to change this post jam because it would be adding more features. Though I could just have simplified the victory condition.