Santa's Crazy Christmas Night

This game was made for Konisoft's 2025 Christmas game jam challenge, where the theme was Santa.

I also try to squeeze it in HEJ's 2025 December theme, for "Enjoy the silence", or rather "Enjoy the Silent Night" (just listen to the title track) and "A family story" (there are families waiting for gifts as they look outside when they hear someone running around).

Update: I fixed some bugs (dev tools and glow layer problems) and added some small things (level counter on GUI, new brick color for level 8)

Santa is about to enter a foreign country, where poor families are waiting for Christmas gifts. But the evil regime's air forces shot down Santa's sleigh! No matter, Santa won't be hindered by this!

Help Santa to deliver the gift boxes to the color coded chimneys, by jumping, running and avoiding krampusse. Pick up the gifts from the sleigh and if a pesky krampus comes near: just throw the box in it's face! When available, you can collect 5 cookies, then a glass of milk. This turns you into BUFFED SANTA: now you can throw farther and should you not have any gift boxes, just punch them in the face!

8 levels with Christmas songs awaits to be conquered in time. At every 35.000 points, you gain +1 life.

CONTROLS:

KEYBOARD:

A - D, or ARROW LEFT - RIGHT to move left or right

CTRL, SPACE, W or ARROW UP to jump

SHIFT to throw giftbox, or punch (only as buffed Santa)

F1 - F2 to decrease - increase music volume

F3 - F4 to decrease or increase sound volume

F5 to turn glow effect on or off (should you encounter FPS drops, turn it off)

IMPORTANT   NOTE: as of now you have to press F5 at every new screen to turn glow effect off. Will fix it later this week.

ESC: press repeatedly to exit to desktop (from main screen) or to main screen (from levels or from the victory screen)

GAMEPAD:

DPAD LEFT - RIGHT to move left or right

A  to jump

B or X to throw giftbox, or punch (only as buffed Santa)

BACK: press repeatedly to exit to desktop (from main screen) or to main screen (from levels or from the victory screen)

CREDITS:

GFX, Design, Code: László 'Coyote' Eszik

SFX: made with Chiptone (SFBGames)

Music: old MIDIs from BitMidi, turned to chiptune with BeepBox