Elfie is tired of being Santa's slave. Elfie is tired of the endless piles of toys for all the snotty kids that somehow managed to get on Santa's "nice" list.
The rules of Santa's Workshop are clear: if you try to escape, you will be captured... dead or... dead.
The rules of Santa's Workshop are clear: if you try to escape, you will be captured... dead or... dead.
Software used: Procreate, Photoshop and Unity
About the jam and the results
This short game was made for the ScoreSpace Jam #23, where the theme was "Survival" and had to include a leaderboard.
The game ended up ranking overall in the 29th out of 138th place and aesthetic wise ranked 15th place, and the game can be played here.
The gameplay of Elfie Murderino is to escape Santa's Workshop in the least amount of time and without losing lives. To better convey the feeling of survival the levels are hard and filled with various obstacles, from Nutcrackers and Furbies to various types of candies and deadly lasers, that are designed to kill Elfie.
Character and enemies
The main character in this game is Elfie, an elf who's tired of being treated as a slave for Santa Claus and wants to run away from the workshop.
Enemy wise what made more sense for the game was creating an army of elements usually associated with Christmas, like Nutcrakers, and an unsettling toy (but that still would remain cute) as the Furbies. The Nutcrackers are more assertive and rigid due to their nature, while the Furbies are more rouge-like, they have a cute and fluffy appearance but on closer inspection there are little details that make them more menacing, like the bloodied candy canes.
Gameplay screenshots
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