Deep in the night, the gingerman awakes to climb all the way up to where the mighty star shines so bright.
Beware of the fire of the candles and use the christmas balls to reach the top. There are only a couple of levels everyone should be able to master.
Edit (2014-12-12):
Please use the Web link if you prefer to use keyboard controls (arrow keys). When the game is embedded, all keyboard input is swallowed by the embedding page. Sorry for that. Pointer input was primarily meant for touch devices.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 62% |
| #277 | Graphics | 3.54 |
| #320 | Humor | 2.86 |
| #424 | Fun | 3.22 |
| #546 | Innovation | 3.14 |
| #599 | Overall | 3.16 |
| #600 | Mood | 2.89 |
| #1032 | Theme | 3.08 |
Comments
Some may say the animation is simple, but I just love walking, celebrating and even burning Gingerman :-) !!! Great game !
Strange controls; it might have been worth explaining them (or using something a bit more conventional). Nice theme and very appropriate graphics.
The controls are a little weird (I don't know if i like or not ^^). Anyway, the game is fun (the graphics too) and a bit challenging :)
Interesting controls, the mouse only thing actually works.
Cute graphics nice tree generation.
Some Christmas-y music would have been perfect :-)
Nice one, easy to pick up and get into even though the controls aren't conventional.
Interesting game. Nice graphics, and mastering the unusual control scheme represents the core challenge. Fun to play, it'll be nice to have more level / propos in a post-compo version!
Hi there. Managed first two levels, third one always burnt after first bauble. Shame no xmas soundtrack. Nice graphics. Weird but intuitive control scheme. Good job!
This is lovely. Gingerman is awesome. I'm your greatest fun! ;))
Cute little game, great idea and I really dig the art style. Wish you could have used arrow keys or wasd for movement and jumping through.
I WON!! It's an adorable game!! And I liked the innovative way to control the main character.
Nice graphics and cool animations. I just wish it had more levels hahaha :P
Good work! :D
Great little game! Felt like the controls would suit mobile devices well.
Simple but sweet! I love the pixelart and palette, and feel like such a pro dodging flame on those last couple levels.
Nicely done!
Short but sweet. Very solid entry and good level design. Shame there's no sound though (Also the gingerman deaths are pretty funny).
very nice, straight forward little game. that last level was quite difficult to line the final jump up but got it in the end.
When I saw the first tree I thought... man, that's was really easy, are you kidding me? But when I up the level at the next tree, I fell in love with that cookie buddy. Then I arrived to the last one and when the game says... You won... I was expecting for more levels... so... DO MORE LEVELS NOOOWW!!! Love it :D
Hey, I thought your game was really sweet! Very relevant to the time of year, now I'm kinda hungry. :I Some audio would have been nice, but I quite like what you have already - it's actually rather pleasant after the extremely hectic games I've seen so far. Well done, I enjoyed it!
Simple, beautiful and very very charming. Some polish would be nice of course (title screen, sounds/music etc.) but what's here is very enjoyable.
Hmmmmm so it was made *for* touch? Keyboard works much better though the touch potential is there.
I was very excited when I thought the levels were procedurally generated. But when I realised they were not I got less excited :P
But a cool effort :) Pretty :)
Made it to the end. I appreciate the atypical platform setting, and think it worked out well. Graphics were cute, and the levels were fun, though a bit repetitive. I was hoping that more game mechanics would be introduced.
It took me a few seconds to realize I had to click the mouse, or hit space to respawn. is there a reason you didn't want to auto-respawn after dying?
@Tuism
Actually I tried to procedurally generate the levels but that didn't work out too well. That's the reason there are only four levels :) Generating a well balanced but increasingly challenging distribution is quite delicate.
@zatyka
No, I just didn't realize because I was hitting space all the time while developing. Auto-respawning will be definitely in the post-compo version.
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Control is great. Theme so fun. Congrats. It's fun