The Worst Noel
A downloadable game
When Santa loses his naughty/nice list, the worst person who could stumble across it is the kid who's right in the middle. Because his destiny could go either way...and it's up to you which it is.
A Christmas game made for the Sleigh the Competition jam! https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/sleigh-the-competition-2023-chr...
- Every name is a pun
- Earn naughty or nice points depending on how you deal with people and things
- Several types of puzzle to keep your grey matter sharp
- Almost completely pointless snowball creation/throwing system that exists only to show off Trihan's coding skills
- Three endings depending on your score at the end
- A dog! You can name him!
- Did I mention the dog?
- Fully voice-acted narrator
- Easter eggs, secrets and jokes galore!
- This is a bullet point
- THERE'S A DOG
- Several blondes that are not at all there to bribe a judge
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Very cool game and great job! Lots of little things I liked about it. Loved the click and drag mechanic because that has a lot of possibilities. The only game I was unsure about was the security puzzle, but I figured it out the second go around. Lots of cool concepts and humor. I was nice the first time and then super naughty with a -20 score. There are a bunch of things in here I definitely want to try to figure out how to do. Congrats!
What I'd ideally wanted originally was 5 endings: neutral, 2 good and 2 bad, with thresholds of -15, -5, 5 and 15 points respectively (with neutral being anything from -4 to 4). Unfortunately time caught up with me and I pared it down to 3 endings, and the thresholds are -5 and 5, so you can get the good/bad endings *super* easily.
I tried to get the perfectly average ending, but then I tested the snowball mechanic so much I accidentally knocked over a bin. :D Then I decided I'd go chaotic evil instead <3 <3 Had fun!
Really fun puzzles and mini-games! The narration also added some flavor to the story! :D Really cute premise and I love the idea of deciding for Christopher is he'll be on the nice or naughty list. :D <3 Of course, we wanted to give him presents so I played the nice route. :D Got 20 points, so I don't know if that's a win lol. Very great job for this nice entry! (PS: Thank you also for giving me and Berry permission to have your character in Heroes of the Seasons soon)
The hilarious narration was SUCH a great touch to the whole experience and made me laugh many times. I very much enjoyed this game jam. It's re-playable too, so of course I did that to see the different endings.
The developer mastery was fully on display here with all the fun mini games. I like how the game doesn't take itself seriously and that tends to do wonders for the gameplay.
The endings were a little lackluster as I was hoping for a bigger bang given how good the whole game was.
Yeah, most of the production gumption went into the stuff leading up to the endings. By the time it came to implementing those I didn't have much left in the tank. XD
This was a fun short game. Love the narration, the art is cute and the writing is really on point. I thought the premise worked well with the theme and the entire game has a vibe that reminds of the old school stop motion holiday animation specials like Rudolf and Frosty. Very wonderful job. I got the good ending, but I'll replay this for the Naughty ending as well.