Well, Mike ran in to problems getting ldjam.com working properly with about 12 hours left in the Compo, so this is the backup plan.
Hit as many elves into the room as possible.
More elves = more gifts!
* Arrow keys to move
* A to hit the elves
* S to Jump
Tips:
* You can hit in mid air
* Once in, elves can't back out
* You can hit multiple elves at one time
* You can bounce elves off the walls
Source:
General Repo:
https://github.com/cjke/santa-room
Final Submission
https://github.com/cjke/santa-room/commit/1bf66caedf596639b695452546f3d2acd67294a4
Browser support
Tested in latest Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
CHANGELOG - Post submission
V1.1. Fixed instructions with incorrect letter for "jump". Previously read as "B", should have read as "S".
According to ludumdare rules its ok for small fixes/bugs - so I think changing the instructions is within this to indicate the correct button is ok.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 60% |
| #6 | Humor | 4.26 |
| #15 | Fun | 4.13 |
| #28 | Overall | 4.05 |
| #34 | Graphics | 4.26 |
| #40 | Audio | 3.86 |
| #56 | Mood | 3.86 |
| #120 | Innovation | 3.67 |
| #238 | Theme | 3.74 |
Comments
Great and unique twist on the theme! Love the art style, and the music is fantastic. It's pretty challenging, but after a while you get the hang of it. I could see this being a game commissioned by Adult Swim or something of the sort.
Great job on making a fun, challenging, and addictive game.
An in-depth look into the brutal nature of capitalist labour relations.
Fun game! Nice polish too, and music. One thing I would change is make the controls all on one hand--up for jump and down for encourage, at least optionally. I like the slapstick execution of Santa's "encouragement" and also the production animation.
Nice graphics and backstory, but the gameplay is uncomfortable. The angle you throw them at is awkward.
Super impressed! Pretty graphics, plays great and sounds great. Fun level design and overall high polish!
Yes! I saw this on the blogs and wanted to play this! Love the artstyle and simple gameplay! Very nice with different levels as well. :-)
@Zarkonnen Haha - exactly my thinking, well almost (https://twitter.com/cjke7777/status/807836062286422017)
Thanks KJB, batmanasb, MacDocBros, Aliencargo and SoerenBachNielsen!
Amazing entry! Love the music, graphics and the whole idea of punching elves into the hut. This is solid 5/5.
What a great christmas game. Give it more levels and I will be really super happy.
This game is hilarious! Love it, kicking the elves around as they deserve, great overall feeling on this one! Good job!
Really fun game to play! great gameplay, fantastic art and sound assets
Really fun game i have noticed that it works a lot smoother on chrome than on firefox. I have checked your source code maybe you could use more sprite sheet instead of keeping all images separately? Good work!
Audio really suited the game, really nice.
When I landed my first bunch of elves in the Workshop, and saw the explosion of Red, Green and White I thought I had killed my elves :)
Overall this is a really cool game! excellent entertainment.
Lovely little xmas game with great graphics. I think it would have benefited if the shareholders were to set a minimum production quota for each level.
Great idea and a really polished game. Finished it. Love the way Santa "encourages".
Press A to encourage hahaha.
Fun game, excellent pixel art, I love how santa waddles its really satisfying.
Love your game very addictive and polished! if you can please play and rate my game thank you!
Nice blend of lemmings with action, feels both familiar and novel :)
Loved the theme and execution. Great graphics and audio for a compo entry. But what is up with the controls? It is very counter intuitive. Why not just assign up arrow to jumping and space to hit?
Fair point about the controls. Initially "up" was going to be a "look up", similar to sonic/mario of last snes/genesis days, to help pan around the environment - hence keeping the action keys keeps seperate. "A"+"S" seem to be a common alternative for web games, emulators, etc. It definitely doesn't account for alternate keyboard layouts for example. But you do what you can in 4h hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lol, poor elves! Graphics and sounds are nice, good job. I particularly liked the gift fountain that comes from the room when the elves are working.
That was really fun compo entry, and pretty challenging ! The idea is lovely, really funny and pretty well executed and the pixel art is pretty eye-candy.
Took me a little while to understand the goal, but after that it was very funny !
Great game with a very good pixel art and very fun and relaxing to play, the idea was really great for both one room theme and christmas theme as well, great job!
This is awesome, really fun, game! I really like how simple yet challenging game it can be smacking all those elfs back to work. I love also how Santa wobbles when he walks. Overall fantastic stuff!
Awesome pixel art, and good use of theme. Hitting elves was a little unpredictable but that was part of the fun :D
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it was s to jump on my keyboard