The Game

Mini Santa is a retro style 2D platformer.

Explore 5 unique levels filled with secrets to beat the game.

The Jam and Game-Idea

This game was made for the Secret Santa Jam 2023 in the duration of one month.

In this jam you write a letter to a Secret Santa (a jam participant) and you receive a letter from your giftee (another participant). Then you make a game for you giftee based on their letter.

My giftee for this jam was Charbomber. Their wish was for a game that not only looks and sounds retro, but feels retro.

So I tried to channel my inner 1980s game dev and try to create a game based on a different mind set of game design.
I'm not sure how well I managed to do that but I still had a ton of fun creating this game and I hope you have fun playing it!

Credits

Mini Santa is made with Godot 3.5.1 - https://godotengine.org/

The Santa spritesheet was made by gamesbyangelina on OpenGameArt.org - https://opengameart.org/content/santa-sprite-sheet-8-bit
(And slightly modified by me.)

The Song "Jingle Bells 8Bit" was made by Tim Beek - https://timbeek.com/royalty-free-music/jingle-bells-8bit/

The "Ark" font was made by somepx - https://somepx.itch.io/pixel-font-ark

The Level Screen background image was generated with Novel AI Image Generation - https://novelai.net/
and then modified by hand.

All other graphics were created by me using Aseprite - https://www.aseprite.org/

All sound effects were created by me using Bfxr - https://www.bfxr.net/