Please get to work and knock out some small games for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Here are a couple quick ideas off the top of my head just to get you thinking:
Santa’s Rocketing Christmas Drop
Snowy winter scene with houses near bottom of screen. Santa and his new rocket powered sled are under player control in the sky above. You move left and right dropping presents down the chimneys. Miss too many times and you lose. For added challenge the reindeer are ticked off they’ve been replaced so occasionally throw a snowball up at you. You gotta dodge those.
The Quest For Christmas Light
Alas poor Rudolph’s nose is not so bright. He won’t be able to guide the sled on Christmas Eve… er… night. Yep tis true. Rudolph’s nose is barely glowing. Play as one of the elves in this action platformer. Reach the lair of the evil witch who cast a spell on Rudolph. Steal her spellbpook and return it to Rudolph to reverse the spell before time runs out.
Surely someone needs a break and wants to knock out some holiday games that I can enjoy while drinking eggnog.
Web Player version not that mobile nonsense. I need to be able to relax and play while drinking the eggnog. Not messing around with damn cell phone.
Ha ha! Where is the holiday cheer in that. Although admittedly it would be kind of fun. Lol And sadly I would not be surprised to find people have more interest in making a game like the one you described or one where the elves are zombies rather than a more traditional themed game. Lol
Come on put your eggnog where your mouth is! Sounds wrong, but you could at least still put up an eggnog prize to entrants old enough to enjoy it! Can you get non alcoholic eggnog for younger entrants?!
I think best way for me to do it is offer payment via Paypal or Amazon email gift card. Both should be available nearly everywhere. Then person could get whatever they want including eggnog.
After thinking about this a bit more. I figure most everyone here is wrapped up in their own projects. If I get enough time from my projects (or make the time) I’ll knock out some SIMPLE holiday games. Then post to share. Shouldn’t take long anyway.
Since it seemed like nobody wanted to make a game I decided to just knock out some simple holiday games myself.
Programming is always easy and I have ideas already in my head. So, as usual, graphics are the issue. Spending my lunch break locating sources for the graphics. At least cut down what I need to draw.
Found some good stuff here: https://openclipart.org and their license even covers unlimited commercial use.
So, if anyone wants to make a game for the holidays for your Unityers (or Unityites or whatever we are) and their families maybe you can use that site to save some time.
I just spent 90 minutes going through Christmas clipart at OpenArt.org
Grabbed many images that I thought would be useful for a Christmas game. Brought them each into Paint Shop Pro and removed the background. Then made sort of collages (basically sprite sheets) saved with transparent backgrounds.
Anyway, I figured I might as well let you all take advantage of my time and effort.
So, feel free to download and use for your Christmas games. Preferably in web player shared here with Unity community!
I grabbed this because I like the scene overall and the shadow style. So, basically just a design reference:
I grabbed this scene just because it looks cool and I want to try to keep it in mind when I actually get around to starting on a simple Christmas game or two:
From here on are various images that I feel will be useful for a Christmas game:
Okay, there you have it. This is by no means all of the great Christmas images they have available (free even for commercial use). But Lordy, I only have so much free time and this is enough to get me started.
Ah… just noticed I missed one line in my clean-up of the santa in a sled image. Ah well. It happens. Hopefully, some of you will find an image or two useful and feel inspired to make a Christmas game.
