Submission to the 2024 Pico-8 Advent Calendar.
A Christmas-themed text adventure.
Help Santa deliver the last presents of the night before Christmas. Make sure all the children in the house have their wishes fulfilled. Follow Christmas tradition for extra satisfaction.
There are four endings: two story endings, depending on whether you fulfilled the childrens' wishes, with two variations depending on whether you followed the Christmas tradition.
Controls
- Up/Down: Scroll text, or move the pointer between options
- 🅾️ button:
- In non-interactive screens, press 🅾️ to continue. If the text is longer than one screen, you'll have to scroll to the end before being able to continue.
- In reading mode, press 🅾️ to start exploring.
- Otherwise press 🅾️ to select an item or action.
- ❎ button: Abandon current menu and return to previous.
Via pause menu:
- Restart game
Credits
Game by @dredds.
Music by @Gruber.
Modding
The source code is uncompressed so that the game is easy to mod. You can make your own adventures by changing the game world database (tab 6), action and event rules (tab 7), and the pointer, borders and title image in the sprite sheet. You can make more extensive changes to the user interface by changing the functions in tab 1 and the game mode objects defined in tab 3.
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