Contributors:
XMark
Fooolking
Description:
Blorp Zingwag is an elf who has solved many mysteries in the north pole. He was responsible for stopping the theft of Santa's naughty/nice list five years ago, and three years ago was instrumental in tracking down "frosty" the killer snowman.
But now Santa's workshop is in a panic. Boinky Flingzobbo, one of the most dedicated assembly line workers in sector 834, was found with a candy cane driven through his head. It is up to Blorp Zingwag to solve this mystery before Christmas!
DEVELOPMENT LOG:
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January 2, 2004: It's finished! Download that sucker right now!
December 30, 2003: I'll be busy all day tomorrow, so I decided to finish everything tonight. Fooolking and I are staying up late tonight piecing the game together.
December 27, 2003: From the way the dialogue and scripting is going so far, it looks like I'm going to have to slap a coarse language/mature subject matter label on the game. Hee hee hee, this game is so messed up :)
December 21, 2003: Almost done the physical world, though I'm going to have to make a few more tiles first. The rooms I have left to complete are the reindeer stables, Santa's office, the storage room, and the elf workers' dormitories.
December 20, 2003: Today was the milestone I set for myself to get the entire physical world finished. Whoops. Well, I'm 65% of the way there anyways, not too bad. I got the initial scripted sequence where you first talk to Santa pretty much complete. I'm not going to give away too much, but I'm going to shatter a lot of childhood illusions about Santa Claus :)
December 12, 2003: I've mostly been concentrating on tile and sprite artwork. Now, I'm not a sprite artist and I make no claims that I am, so don't expect to be amazed by the quality of graphics. It won't look pukingly bad, though :)
December 5, 2003: I now have all three requirements for the game. I just finished adding footprints, for all entities walking onscreen actually! They disappear when you leave the map but I just chalk that up to fresh snow falling :)
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Review by Rooter on 02-01-2004
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| Heh, pretty good. The engine really isn't amazing or anything but the game was well put together, quite amusing. Definitely the best of the games submitted for this compo, IMO. |
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Review by Georg on 03-01-2004
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+ : The story was very good and amusing. I really liked the humor in it. I was happily suprised by a nice cut scene. The music was also very good and added a lot the game's atmosphere.
- : The graphics were not so good and could be improved a lot by adding shadows and `lightning' on objects to give it a better 3D perception. Something else that I'd do to make it less artificial is to pixelize more, to give the objects a more `rough' surface. I thought most of the maps to be too empty for their size. I'd either make the maps smaller or more interesting objects/graphics in the area's to get rid of the empty feeling. Further more I thought the story to be a little too predictable.
Conclusion: I think this is overal a good game; I finished it and really like playing it. I wouldn't classify it as an RPG, but as an adventure though. |
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Review by wildcard on 07-01-2004
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| Nice game. I liked the music and completeness; the two different endings were good. Quite a lot to do and see, only minor gripe is the sparseness of the main overhead map but it’s the north pole anyway so not major. |
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