Christmas Games.

Introduction

Hello thank you for your interest in my Christmas games.

Every year I get very excited about the annual kris kringle / secret santa game making event at Glorious Trainwrecks. Each participant is asked to provide a list of things to inspire their game, and a randomly chosen participant is chosen to make something using whatever they wish from that list and elsewhere. I thought it would be fun to do something similar for people who gave me money on Patreon, so I asked people to give me a few key words and… it took me nine months to get them all finished D:

They may not be my best games, but they are the games I worked on the hardest, and I learnt a lot making each one. There's a little love in each of them)

➽ Here's a playlist of some of BBSoft's favourite Chrissy tunes.

➽ All me Chrimbo games are available in one pack on itch.io.

Games

Merry Catamitesmas

Controls

• Walk = W, A, S, D.
• Jump = Space bar.
• Look = Mouse
• Reset = Esc.
• Quit = Delete.

Description

Can you find all four zones?

1. Forest Zone?
2. _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ Zone?
3. _ _ _ _ Zone?
4. C _ _ _ _ Zone?

Notes

Made for the thecatamites, via the Glorious Trainwrecks event Klik & Klaus: Sekret Santa Klub 2013.

Game's page on Glorious Trainwrecks.

Also talked about on the "Performance Spaces" page.

Suggestions

• water temple
• playable innards
• being hit by a car
• applebottom
• octopus enemy
• tickled to death by an octopus
• octopus with applebottom
• ambiguous stone structures
• world maps
• x to smoke
• cotton wool for clouds
• character names consisting of a single syllable repeated twice (lolo, door-door, wonder momo)
• character names ending in an o or a y (frollo, poky)
• aeroplane mode
• the mystical forest
• bloody brains and guts
• cool ray gun
• frogs
• frog world
• cloud zone
• frogs with applebottoms
• haunted house
• ax maniac

Merry Coristmas, Sergio

Controls

• Walk = W, A, S, D.
• Look = Left arrow, Right arrow, PgUp, PgDn.
• Reset = Backspace.
• Quit = Escape.

Notes

Made for Sergio Cornaga, for Klik & Klaus: Sekret Santa Klub 2014.

Game's page on Glorious Trainwrecks.

Suggestions

• cute things
• dream world
• "atmospheric"
• slice of life
• gravity falls
• micro metroidvania
• or more general exploration
• or basically any style of game
• make a unique 2-8 colour palette
• or draw all the graphics on paper
• or do some other weird art style
• just make the game you want to make

Merry Christmas, and a Huggy New Year

Controls

• Jog = W, A, S, D.
• Walk = Left Shift.
• Grab = Left Ctrl.
• Jump = Space bar.
• Reset = Backspace.
• Quit = Escape.

Description

Can you can find the s e c r e t ?

Notes

I started making a pretty language for this but didn't get it into the game :(

Made for Hugs, for Sekret Santa Klub 2015.

Game's page on Glorious Trainwrecks.

Suggestions

• blind contour drawing
• handwriting
• complementary colours
• shareware DOS games
• low resolution games with inexplicably high resolution title or game over screens
• unusual aspect ratios
• multiple views of the same scene
• investigation
• discovery
• ambiguity
• mundane things
• made-up languages
• adaptations of things from other media
• spaces based on real places (however loosely)
• Z-grade movies
• voiced sound effects
• utopia
• non-violence
• peppermint tea

Mango Game

Controls

• Roll = Arrow keys.
• Reset = Backspace.
• Quit = Escape.

Description

YOU ARE A MANGO.

Notes

Music is from... it was playing outside my window during Tết celebrations.

Made for Dylan.

Suggestions

• Mangoes

Touch Love

Controls

• Left hand movement = W, A, S, D.
• Right hand movement = Arrow keys.
• Reset = Backspace.
• Quit = Escape.

Notes

Uses Split Screen Audio Unity 3D add-on by LunaArgenteus.

Made for Clyde.

Suggestions

• Can mine feature the song Touch Love from Master's Sun? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9muwZpwg4

Animal Meadows

Controls

• Move = W, A, S, D.
• Look = Mouse.
• Jump = Space bar.
• Back to menu field = Alt + Left arrow, or your browser's 'back' button..

Description

A bunch of different ideas in Ian's Vertex Meadows.

Notes

For Ian.

Also availible online at blueberrysoft.ryliejamesthomas.net/games/Animal Meadows/.

Suggestions

• monkeys
• fish
• birds
• tadpoles
• cockroaches
• elephants

Careful Felt

Controls

• Pitch = W, S.
• Roll = Q, E.
• Yaw = A, D.
• Thrust = R, F.
• Look = Mouse.
• Shoot = Left click.
• Reset = Backspace.
• Quit = Escape.
• SECRET = ?

Description

Defend the Careful Felt against interlopers.

Notes

This is probably impossible! Please read the included README.

For Nikki (sorry it took forever).

Suggestions

• Teenyboppers
• Rhizocarpous
• Eels
• Anthologise
• Covinously
• Lingonberries
• Expediting
• Little
• Uproar
• Fanwork
• Fluffy

Merry Cake-flavoured Chisrmas

Description

A Hypermedia adventure. Click on things.

Notes

Actually pretty light on crimes, pardon me!

Contains French subtitles

Made for TheCakeFlavor, for Sekret Santa 2017.

Game's page on Glorious Trainwrecks.

Game's page here.

Suggestions

• prosthetic limbs
• neon and bubblegum and pastel and velvet
• quirky sound fx
• stolen assets
• endless
• crime
• french subtitles
• arbor day

Merry Very, Very Belated Yuletide, let-off-yulios

Description

A Hypermedia adventure. Click on things.

Notes

Content warning for depictions of torture and captivity.

Made for let-off-studios, for GT Sekret Santa 2016 (Not finished till 2020)

Game's page on Glorious Trainwrecks.

Game's page here.

Suggestions

• retro-inspired
• explosions
• googly eyes
• power-ups and/or upgrades
• a high score table, online or local

Acknhohohowledgements

• All I Want for Christmas is You cover by formeldeharv.