A pleasant leadup-to-xmas experience I had this year

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I saw that topic about xmas movies. Considering my massive cinema diet, it’s perhaps odd I don’t tend to watch xmas movies at xmas. (Maybe I’ll watch my Terrifier 3 Blu before I go on holidays.) But this kind of talk made me think I might go play a xmas IF. So I plucked out Adventuron game Day of the Sleigh.

It has graphics, it’s fun, it has Santa, and it has some qualities – like achievements and some random elements – that could help make it an annual play.

-Wade

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Well, wtf. Thanks to you I just discovered AdventuronJam 2020 (bit late to the party, yes), exactly when I wanted to fiddle with some TA with graphics…

… And there seems to be a lot of them in there! Just completed both the cute game by Dee Cooke and the one that won, that… well, one needs to play it.

Thanks for the nice xmas gift, Wade!

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That was a really strong event. I have lots of thoughts about it. TLDR: pick any of those twelve games. There’s minimal parser wrangling, but it is very worth it.

I liked all the entries when I wrote reviews for each and particularly liked Deck the Halls Gieves and Santa’s Trainee Elf even though they placed bottom-half. There’s a lot of overlap including one entry about the Winter Solstice which seemed particularly apropos with COVID feeling like its own sort of night. When talking with BJ Best about Twelve Days One Night he said it was a sort of throwaway idea (I’m paraphrasing from memory) but it worked well for me, making compact fun of a Christmas carol I never liked.

On seeing Jimmy’s Party Foul, the last-placed finisher, I laughed at the jokes I remembered from it. It’s not particularly subtle or deep but it is genuinely funny! And I guess someone had to get the wooden spoon, and the author is still creating games, so they weren’t bummed about their placement.

I’ve replayed Day of the Sleigh and submitted a solution to CASA as a part of my quest to get to 150 points because I knew I’d enjoy working through it again.

Agreed. It’s one of those “play it but I won’t tell you why, it’s more powerful to figure it out” affairs.

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