Xmas Game with Gideros

aditya

Hey people,

Been a long time! We are releasing a game for Xmas this year 'Haunted Xmas' which has been entirely developed with Gideros.

Inspired by the story 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, first published on 19th Dec 1843.

You play as the miserly ghost of Scrooge, who loves nothing more than his beloved treasure. But what happens after you die? You come back and haunt everyone who tries to steal your treasure of course!

Protect your treasure and scare the Humans away using your magical, ghostly powers.

totebo

Is it out yet? Link!

aditya

We are submitting it on the app store. Google will be live next week. Will share both links here

jdbc

LInks?

john26

Wow, love the idea and the gameplay looks great as well. Looks like Scrooge relapsed into a miser again after the 3 ghosts visited him in A Christmas Carol! Maybe the ghosts should be in chains "bound and double ironed"!

But it's great to see a game with a funny whimsical backstory. Something that used to be common when games were distributed on disk but not so much on the app stores. Looking forward to it!

aditya

Bound and double ironed, yeah. Like scrooge saying "awright guys, take a break jeez". :-@

We have put in the 3 ghosts, they roam around in the game sabotaging Scrooge (you) and saving the humans. You feel like killing em until you realize they are already dead.

Tom2012

Hey that looks absolutely awesome. Just in time for Xmas!

How did you tackle the path finding in your game?

aditya

Thanks Tom!

We used Jumper to implement astar and heavily tweaked it for our gameplay. Big shout out to @Roland_Y for creating this library.

totebo

+1 for Jumper, it's awesome. Used it in Miner Z.

aditya

The game is out today As promised, here are the download links:

Apple: http://buff.ly/1k9K4Jd
Amazon: http://buff.ly/1IfH0qN
Google Play: http://buff.ly/1QwwE8P

PAC

FUN game and gfx.
Just a thought: would like to hear a sound when a 'power' piece isn't placed because it's off the path. My finger hides the piece so I can't always tell if it got placed. And I'm too busy grabbing another one to look.
NICE JOB!

aditya

Thank you for the feedback @PAC!

The next update will have that sound in it.

john26

I played and reviewed it. Not sure what the ghost actually does to be honest. It seems fairly easy to kill the humans by repeatedly placing pieces in their way, didn't seem to be much strategy to it as you have unlimted pieces. Perhaps this changes later. I also didn't notice much difference between different pieces tbh.

aditya

Thank you for the review John!

Your placed piece is wasted if the ghost touches it. Ghosts work against you and try to save the humans.

Pieces unlocked higher up kill the people much faster. Each piece triggers a very different reaction from the characters.

I would love to hear more of your feedback / suggestions. Would be great if you can email aditya[at]loongames[dot]com.

Appreciate your support and time you are taking out for our game.