X-mas Time

Welcome to the world's first Advent calendar for Gameboy:

Christmas is in danger. Travel back to the Advent season of 1989 and help Santa get rid of the chaos from back then. In 24 days you have to find gifts, clean up microplastics, fight Krampus and bring back peace to the North Pole. Only if you succeed, Christmas can be saved for all times.

Controls:

• D-PAD / ARROW KEYS = Move
• A-BUTTON / Alt = Interact / Jump
• B-BUTTON / Ctrl = Cancel / Run
• START / ENTER = Start game / Menu
• Estimated completion time: ∼2 hours

This project was made by two german guys as an advent calender for our wifes. It was our first time making any sort of video game. Now we decided to depersonalize and translate it to publish our first game. A few notes:

• The are 24 days with an estimated completion time of 5-10 minutes.
• Game will be saved every day.
• New Day will begin after restarting Gameboy / Emulator / Website and continuing.
• The Download contains ROM files in german and englisch language as well as files for the Analogue Pocket plus a printable Box if you want to flash the game on a cartridge.
• The game was made for Gameboy Classic
• It is an Advent calendar, so we recommend playing it daily from December 01 to December 24. But of course you can play it whenever you want to.
• When flashing to a cartridge you need to have MBC5 with working battery because this game needs to save games.

Credits:

• Snowland Tileset by Dagon (https://im-dagon.itch.io/snowland-gameboy-tileset-16x16)
• PixelPete'sArtAssets by Pixel Pete (https://petermilko.itch.io/pixel-petes-art-assets)
• GB Studio Community Assets by Ember Bland (https://github.com/DeerTears/GB-Studio-Community-Assets)
• GBStudio by Chris Maltby (https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/blob/develop/LICENSE)
• Dark Forest Tileset by Cluly (https://cluly.itch.io/gameboy-style-dark-forest-tileset)
• Forest Tiles by PixelMech (https://pixelmech.itch.io/gb-studio-tiles)
• GameBoy Style Home Interior Tileset (GBtilesheet4colours) by MonkeyImage (https://monkeyimage.itch.io/home-interior-tilesheet-gameboy-styled)
• Modular Houses by GibbonGL (https://gibbongl.itch.io/modular-game-boy-houses)
• Krampus inspired by XXDownToEarthfooXX (https://www.deviantart.com/xxdowntoearthfooxx/art/Krampus-8it-Pixel-Art-903493627)
• Cover generated with Dall-E2 (OpenAI) (https://openai.com/dall-e-2)