Christmas Games.
Let's pause here, until the music puts a smile on ya dial
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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 directory 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?
- Forest Zone?
- _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ Zone?
- _ _ _ _ Zone?
- 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.
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.
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.
And A Special Merry Thanks To
Clyde, Dylan, Ian, Nikki, and Zeiya.
