Let me bring you my Kramp's entry: SantaToTheRescue.

My assignee is Edgar Reynaldo, and that was what I got about the gift:
"So, I'm in, and I'll be using Allegro 5. I prefer Windows XP or later, so Allegro 5 is fine for that. I may use Eagle, I may not, but if I do I will provide binaries so my proggie can be built from source. "
"I like dungeons. Bonus if there are dragons."
Edgar's signature says: "Bear in mind you do not have permission from King Piccolo to depart. In the in the event you do leave with out a signed waver from the King , you will be severely punished to the extent no amount of phoenix-downs would rebirth you."

So I made him a dungeon, where he'll have to rescue all the entrant.
There are things to collect to be able to finish the game.

I'm currently packing the thing, I'll edit to put it online before going to bed.

The controls:
-keys to move, key UP or SPACE to jump
-mouse cursor & left click to put a magic wall if you have any, righ click to get it back. Hint: don't leave blocks you don't need anymore. You'll need them later, maybe.
-LEFT or RIGHT CTRL: launch a Santa Attack. Unlimited ammo but limited range.

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Video of the gameplay:

-Monsters are quicker an quicker as soon as you hurt them
-Some can jump, some not. It's up to you to discover then
-You can delete magic blocks you didn't even put yourself
-You have to collect each entrant avatar or else the exit will not activate
-Magic blocks can help you to hide from an enemy

To build from sources: use Makefile and gcc for linux , MakefileW32 and mingw for windows. Allegro5 needed. I provided the dll's for w32 thought.

LINK TO 7Z ARCHIVE (DebianX64 testing bin + Win32 bin + sources + makefiles)

EDIT: Re-uploaded entry to fix a glitch in the number of teammate to rescue. A glitch in level loading force me to put a space after a rescue icon number, else it is not taken in account. Thanks Eric for pointing me the bug :-)

Thanks for trying !

The harder to rescue are in the upper parts. You'll have to use or erase some magic blocks to be able to get the last avatars.

EDIT: you were right, some icons weren't displayed. it's fixed in the 7z !

The bouncing part was left there intentionnaly, because it was some fun during the event to test giga high levels and see everything bouncing. So let's consider it a wanted glitch ;-)

Thanks for the feedback Eric. I would never have though of using bouncing only to finish the game ^^

I didn't achieved all I had planned, hence there is no sound, a very basic interface and no menu/credits/...

On my draft there was more than one level and I had planned to dispatch all 12 entrants on 3 levels. I wanted an horizontal one, a vertical one, and a huge last one. I only did one huge level with everything inside it ^^

If you want to edit the level's data, it's in DATA/Levels/level1.txt and works as following

Thanks Gully for making me an entry. I've been sick the last few days and haven't been able to do much of anything. I'll play when I get time.

Hey Gull, I tried to compile but there were a few too many complexities to sort out.

• There were some Linux flags and depreciated headers ( fatal error: 'malloc.h' file not found )

• removed the *.o files

• used -framework OpenGL over -lGL

• fatal error: 'linux/limits.h' file not found so I tried removing the -DLINUX flag but then it defaults to WIN which does not work on my Mac.

I'll give it a go on my Windows machine when I get back home tonight.

One of my big dreams is to have a simplified Allegro build tool that compiles the project on all systems.

One night Santa was drinking hard liquor when he got a call from his friends asking him to pick them up from a party with the koopas. In his drunken stupor he misinterpreted it as a cry for help, got his trusty shotgun and scrambled for the koopa house. In his drunken rage he blew every koopa away with the pixie boomstick. Only too late did he realize his mistake, and when he did he placed himself in a cage to pay for his crimes:

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WoW, Siegelord made it into a novel ! Thanks for the play :-)

Elias: I wanted the player to crawl the level. I planned too much things, a luck I finally dropped things to at least finish something. I spent the last hours to polish the level. I've never done that much level editing before.
Thanks for the comments by the way.

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