Santa's sleigh has broken down and needs repairs! As chief mechanic, it falls to you to collect the necessary parts to fix it!
In this game you will need to venture into the floating mountain tops to retrieve Santa's Sack of Generosity, and visit the Elf Propulsion Labs (EPL) to obtain the Wonder Drive that power's Santa's sleigh.
Controls:
Move with the d-pad / arrow keys.
Jump with x.
Grab and throw items with z/c/o.
Note: to grab items you must be standing directly on top of them.
Music is "Carol of the Bells" on pico 8 by Gruber.
Thanks to @bikibird for organizing the advent jam and to the Holiday Jammers for playtesting and encouragement! (... are these my Christmas Jammies?)
I'd love to see some fast completion times! My personal best is 2:03 with 3 deaths.
Dec. 25: Updated to have a few secrets. Look for unusual bricks in the EPL.
By hooking onto the edge(image) and then throwing, you get softlocked.
Ah yeah, I was trying to think of ways to reset that room because it's pretty easy to softlock by throwing it the box over the top. I decided to leave it since you can reset so close to the beginning, but I guess by hooking on you could actually get out safely but be soft-locked the next time you're there. I'll think a bit more about a fix :) Thanks for checking out the game!
i cant even get past the second screen as nothing seems to work to get the jump ...
You have to put the present on that little ledge and jump on it to get out of the second room
Winning the game 1st run was nice and easy.
The following exploration runs were pretty miserable :
after finding the gifts stash, I searched for secrets everywhere. There are a lot of suspicious candidate places all over the map, some requiring precise throwing of gifts across screens.
By counting tiles, you can know there's some space to the right of the elf saying it's the end of the line. No it's not, you can go further to the right when you get the drive...
After a lot of searching, gift transportation all around the map, and a few softlocks where I fell between walls of gifts, I'm finally giving up. Could I get a hint about the use of the gift stash ? (Please tell me it's not to troll explorers)
Here are a few screenshots of my failed attempts.
The music sounds a little like Ballblazer at one point. I like it!
@RealShadowCaster and @thePixelXb_, thank you so much for playing and exploring! I honestly didn't think anyone would go looking for secrets and I'm really honored that you did. I feel a bit sad that there was nothing for you to find, but I'll make an update tomorrow to add some secrets (look for version 9, since there aren't any intentional ones in version 8). I also completely understand if you don't feel like coming back to it after having explored without reward.
Thanks again for spending time with the game. Really tremendous exploration strategies (counting tiles and figuring out how to clip when picking up objects).
Happy holidays!
@RealShadowCaster and @thePixelXb_: A bit late, but there might be some secrets in the current version. I will say that you don't need to shuttle presents from the stash around (honestly). You should talk to the elves in the EPL again :)
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