Mares eat Oates and does eat Oates, and little lambs eat ivy. Watch out for the mares and the does Oates. Happy Birthday Hitler.

No rule is better than a bad rule. And you'll notice I suggested we use Santa Hack's rules, instead of one that exponentially expands the size of code necessary to create a game.

Also, you'll notice that Eric Johnson and GullRaDriel dont' have any avatars.

Oh -- Happy Birthday, Mark!

I hope I can come up with something before Christmas, but no guarantees.

Krampus Hack sounds cool

Woot! :party:

What are you talking about? I have an avatar.

I think, and this is just me, since we're very late in the game here, we should greatly reduce the scope/rules of the hack. Here's what I propose:

1. Assign a commissioner of this event
2. The previously mentioned times are fine (start 16th - end dec 25th)
3. Every participant list their machine's specs and OS
4. Use an online "secret santa" organizer tool to assign participants to the person they are making a game for
5. If one cannot make a game for a person due to their target's specs/OS per #3, the commissioner can reassign
6. Make a game using whatever tool. Preferably allegro, but unity, Unreal Engine, game maker, game salad, whatever else are fine too. You can also just make an update to a game you already have.
7. Each participant commits to attempt to play their game gift and provide some kind of review on this thread

Maybe this could work for #4: http://www.secretsantaorganizer.com/

That's disturbing... I feel like I'm in a mirror universe...

I keep thinking I posted something, but it's really my alter ego!

I'll do it.

The Finnish word for Santa Claus is joulupukki, which literally translates to Christmas goat. Joulupukki was originally the Krampus character, not Saint Nicholas. Also in Sweden they used to have a Christmas goat. At that time, both julbock and joulupukki could be dressed in a black fur and a goat mask. Then they forgot the word julbock in Sweden and the character became more like the Coca Cola Santa and was called jultomten (Christmas Elf). The Finnish equivalent also became more Santa like, but kept the goaty name joulupukki.

So yes, I vote for Krampus.

I was thinking of just using Allegro 5.

Well, I assign GullRaDriel as the official commissioner in that case and henceforth excuse myself from any function :p

However, I would like to announce my formal participation: I prefer source code which compiles on Linux and uses Allegro as a dependency. And should I finish my entry it will use Allegro and I will provide only the source code (which will have been tested under Linux).

Here are my thoughts:

SantaHack - classic, classy, but would be unofficial
JollyHack - actually would like this one
KrampusHack - cool, dark, same as SantaHack but different. Would like this one
JingleHack - not sure what this would be, to be honest

[edit:]

The rules to SantaHack are thus. Essentially, it's based on the "Secret Santa" concept where everyone pools their names into a hat. Each participant then draws a name from the hat without revealing the name that they have drawn. As that person's Secret Santa, you go and get a gift for them, wrap it up, and deliver it to them in stealth.

In this case, the gift is a game.

That is yet to be determined BUT here is our only known reference (link credit to Elias) to the official SantaHack rules (from '09 no less).

Same here:

I announce my formal participation.

I prefer source code which compiles on Linux or Windows and uses Allegro as a dependency. And should I finish my entry it will use Allegro and I will provide the source code and a windows binary.

Still not 100% clear on what the rules are exactly. And when will I know who I'm making a game/gift for?