Santa's Surprise
A downloadable game
'Twas the morning of Christmas Eve. The whole North Pole was preparing for the big night of present delivering and joy giving. Only Santa was nowhere to be seen...
He was out in the forest on a very important mission - to get a present for Mrs. Claus. She had always wanted a cute little puppy, but there was only one problem - the workshop didn't make any puppies!
So this year Santa ventured deep into the woods to meet with a local sled owner and adopt one of his adorable little huskies. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it to make the one he loves happy.
Nimble Saint Nick
Run, jump and fling yourself across exciting levels as you take control of a surprisingly nimble and positively jolly old man!
Stealthy Santa
Avoid detection as you sneak around, channeling your inner Solid Santa (including alert sound).
Questing Kris Kringle
Solve puzzles and engage in alternative play styles on your quest to surprise Ms. Claus.
Control the Claus
- Arrows / Analog stick / D-Pad: Movement
- Up arrow / A button / X button: Jump
- D key / X button / Square: Attack
- S key / RT / R2: Fling
- Down arrow / LT / L2: Crouch
- R key: Restart level
- Z key: Adjust resolution
- Alt + Enter: Full screen
- Escape key: Quit
Credits & Acknowledgements
Game Design, Programming, Art and Music: Pirate Shell
SFX: Pirate Shell + Various people on freesound.org
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Now on PortMaster! 🎩🕹🎮⛄
This is a buncha holiday fun!🤶🐶 🎅
Hello, 🙂
My name is MadShmupper and I'm part of a group of developers working on porting games to handheld Linux devices. Our project is named PortMaster, and we have an active Discord server in which you are very welcome to come check out any time.
For the past couple of years, we've added a nice amount Gamemaker games to various Linux devices. Although these devices have some limitations with OpenGL, games that use GLES2 and SDL generally run very smoothly.
We at PortMaster, firmly believe in reaching out to content creators/game authors like yourself to ask for consent in distributing their free game files within a ready to run port in PortMaster. Without your consent, the user will need to manually add their game files.
It would be fantastic if you could grant us permission to include your data.win and sound files of Santa's Surprise, within a packaged port, as a ready to run game.
May we distribute the game file/s in question, please?
Your game would undoubtedly be a most excellent addition to these handheld devices!
Especially in a "ready to run" format. The fact that Christmas is just around the corner, this would make a great addition to PortMaster and it's community!
You will of course be properly thanked and noted as game author/maker. PortMaster will be responsible for the ports maintenance should any be needed. However, as the creator, you are welcome to come check us out and have any say you'd like involving said port.
Please note that we are not looking to take monetary profit, nor take credit for having made/created any of the games we port. Our primary goal is to introduce more games to our beloved handheld devices, and showcase to the growing community, the creations of excellent devs such as yourself.
We're also branching out to other ARM platforms. We are growing🙂
Thank you for any consideration that you may lend towards our request!
Best regards, MadShmupper & Everyone at PortMaster
Hey there, what an awesome project! I'd love Santa's Surprise to be as accessible as possible, so feel free to port away :D It's really awesome to see my game running on a handheld, thank you for your amazing work.
Shoot me a comment / message when it's available, I'd love to know more. Also let me know if you need something else from me to ease the porting process.
Cheers and happy (early) holidays!
Wow! Thank you so very much! Happy holidays to you and yours as well!⛄🎩
I apologize it's taken me 3 darn days to see this message reply.
Your game will be a fantastic addition to PortMaster, especially for the holidays as it's this time of the year where many want to find a fun holiday themed game so I'm happy to have come across this one, and I'm thrilled that you've gotten back to me! You can come visit us and check out the port on discord. Please do come visit😃
While the game is running fine and looks fantastic on larger handheld screens, I am having some tiny minor issues with it rendering a 640x480 ratio for those devices with said screen size. Myself and another fellow dev managed to get it to render at 640 by using a tool called UTMT, but it then was blown up to where it cut the screen view. So I was going to leave it as is, without adjusting it, and then PR it after testing. It was due to simply be a user manually added port as I was unsure if I'd get distribution permission from you. But now that I have your most gracious permission to hand the game out via PortMaster, I'd be thrilled for you to come check it out and possibly give any advice or interaction you may feel that is best suited to the ports success!
On behalf of myself and the entire dev team and community, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Greatest Regards, MadShmupper🎩
Looks fun and eye candy.
I full on agree!🎩
This is legit one of the best Christmas games on itchio! Short and sweet. Really polished gameplay (although weirdly hard at parts), really beautiful graphics and storybook pictures, and nice music. All-in-all, a great li'l package! Thank you!
neat little christmas platformer! love the storybook style and pixel art