A little Christmas Story

[PandaMaru]

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A little Christmas Story​

 
Idea: Yukimura366
Production: PandaMaru
Translation: Seikre
 
Engine: RM VX Ace

Genre: Adventure, Shortgame, Casual
Playtime: 15-30 minutes
 

Download: V.1.5.

Link (without RTP, 20,9 M | Link (, with RTP, 207 M

German Version (V1.1. without RTP, 20,6 M !Down for Reupload after Bughunting!

A thief has stolen all gifts from santas storage and now Christmas hangs in the balance and all of santas helpers are going to pass out of exhaustion.
Now it's up to you to find the thief and to return the presents. Not only to safe the nerves of all employees, but the holidays all togther!
 

It is one of your typical sweet little christmas stories, in which you interact with your surroundings simply by pressing Enter.

The game was made for the rpgmaker-vx-ace.de Adventskalender 2013.
 

Screenshots:

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Credits & Thanks

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:: Credits :: A littlte Christmas Story :: rm-vxace-shortgame

Idea
   yukimura366

Production
   PandaMaru

Originally produced for the rpgmaker-vxace.de-Community Adventskalender 2013

I thank everyone who`s time, effort and ressources went into this project.


::Graphics::
Enterbrain (Rm VX Ace & XP RTP)
PandaMaru - Titlescreen, Tilesets, Chars, Faces, Windowskin
Schnecke - Snowy Doors, Snowy Autotiles
Gmork - Christmasdeco-Tiles
Celianna - Bakery-Tiles
Saturine - Reindeergirl-Char
Crazy_Leen - Bobbel Hat-Icon
Mizusazanami Tsukura - 2k-Char, 2k-Face
D*M - 2k3-Char
Archeia, Oceans_Dream & D*M - XP-Chars, XP-Face
Jalen & Pentagonbuddy - Santa-Char

::Music & Sounds::
James Edwards
     "A Merry Christmas" - Titlesong, Pub
     "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" - Ending
Enterbrain
     "DS Coldest snowy country" - City
     "DS Pleasant travel" - Santasworkshop
     "DS Sacred place" - Church
mparsons99
    "snow crunsh2" - Walkingsound

::Scripts::
Gmork - Menue
Moghunter - Weather_EX, Anti_Lag
TinyMine - Pop Up Item
Lemony - Sound Emitting Events
Galv, Yanfly & Quack - Region Effects
Formar0153 - Fade In BGM
modern algebra (rmrk.net)- Fix Picture to Map

::Translation to English::
Seikre - Translation
Susan - Spellcheck & Bughunting

::Additional thanks::
yukimura366
     I used his idea for a game he could not finish
     and remade it from scratch.
     The idea was just so cute.
Sketcy-Sketch - Idea for Mrs. Santa
Schnecke, CoffeeUser, Cerial, TüpKarthas Rewit & PandaKato - Betatester
Gmork - Custom made menue in the last 48 hours, lightmapping
rm-vxace.de-Community for the support
 

 

I hope you had fun.​

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year!​

 

[GEIYRYLE]

Interesting

 

[PandaMaru]

^^ I hope "interesting" in a good way.

 

[Mihel]

Hey Panda the first link gets signalled as malicious by Chrome.

 

[PandaMaru]

Strange. I don't get the same message. Somebody else? All Zip-Files are upped on Dropbox.

 

[EternalShadow]

Hey Panda the first link gets signalled as malicious by Chrome.

Select 'allow file' or go to your chrome downloads and select to unblock the file.

 

[nio kasgami]

Panda...this story seem awesome and simple haha! 

I love it! 

 

[Mihel]

Select 'allow file' or go to your chrome downloads and select to unblock the file.

I know how to download the file, thanks   I was reporting it because some people who are not used to this kind of problem might be turned off from downloading the game if they see it flagged as malicious. Technical issues discourage potential players.

@Panda who are the siblings and the little one? Hints plz ;A;

 

[PandaMaru]

@Mihel

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That text refer to a line of trees with 3 big and a little one near the shop.

 

[Indrah]

*cracks knuckles*

You should not have done that hon. I hope your game is ready to get torn apart if it pleases me not mwahahah

Theatrics aside. Didnt read. A game by pandamaru? Im playing dat **** on PRINCIPLE, just try and stop me >D

Will LP it one of these days and leave you some notes.

 

[Doobles]

Possible spoiler question...

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Can someone shoot me a spoiler or message of what happens to the elf when you report him?  I just skipped it and returned the presents, and I feel like I missed something.  

 

[PandaMaru]

@Doobles

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Don't worry and sorry, but there is nothing you have missed.

You can see the little fellow in the endscene with all the others and a *drop*-emotion.

He would be reported, but what his punishment might be is part of your imagination.

@Indrah

Please, be gentle. It's a little Fungame, made in one week. Don't expect to much.

 

[Mihel]

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He should be forced to listen to Grandpa talking about his youth for the whole evening.

 

[nio kasgami]

I currently downloaded the game and I will test it..

and I will judge if vampcat will spare your life or not 

lol no no I bet I will love it : >

 

[Susan]

Great adventure style game with beautiful mapping and tiles! ^^

Expected nothing less from someone who makes fantastic tiles and sprites!

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- Cute Christmas based story.

- Beautiful visuals and environmental effects with a well made gameplay.

- Nice work with the change of character appearance indoors and outdoors depending on[SIZE=14.4444446563721px] the clothes he wears [/SIZE]and the relevant comments.

- Love the cameo appearance of past RM heroes and the puns.

Bugs [game spoiler alert]:

- Approaching the first cutscene at the town center from the south causes the game to freeze after the cutscene's completion.

- The two men do not leave the town center properly (they are stuck after moving a few steps south and suddenly disappear after the cutscene's completion).

- Either the variables, or the text is wrong regarding the number of presents found.

- There is a message in the inn about the player should not be going behind the counter. It seems to reoccur at random near the counter.

- Talking to the grocer again immediately after obtaining the vaseline causes the game to hang.

- Talking to the grocer after already obtaining the vaseline still triggers the vaseline scene.

- Talking to the grocer after already obtaining of all the required ingredients will trigger a conversation that implies the player does not have any of the ingredients.

- Talking to the barkeeper after obtaining the mulled wine but before giving it to the drunk triggers the scene again, but without the item reappearing.

- The "Title menu" option shows "Titelmenue" (Dutch).

- If you like, I can PM you regarding some typos.


A lot of thought and effort was placed into making this game. ^^

Highly recommended for everyone to try out even if it isn't Christmas!

 

[PandaMaru]

Thank you Susan very much!

Yes, PM would be nice.

Very strange... a lot of this bugs didn't appear in my testplays and the german version or the tests of the translater.

Either the variables, or the text is wrong regarding the number of presents found.

Where?

I will try to erase this bugs as fast as I can.

Can't trigger the following bugs. Does anyone else has these bugs?

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- Talking to the grocer again immediately after obtaining the vaseline causes the game to hang.

- Talking to the grocer after already obtaining the vaseline still triggers the vaseline scene.

- Talking to the grocer after already obtaining of all the required ingredients will trigger a conversation that implies the player does not have any of the ingredients.

 

[Susan]

Sending you a PM. ^^

 


Regarding the variables it only appeared in one place with the elf in Santa's storage.

I have included it in the screenshots so that you can investigate it further.

 

Regarding the grocer bug:

- The first bug is trigger when talking to the grocer again immediately after obtaining the vaseline (without leaving the shop). I think it happens because of the "set move route" command, since the travelling merchant is already standing next to the player.

- The second bug happens after obtaining the Pineneedle oil and the vaseline (but not the peppermints). You can obtain an endless supply of vaseline.

- The third bug happens after obtaining all three ingredients, but before giving them to Rudolph. Again, you can obtain an endless supply of vaseline.

The second and third bugs are not important, but they can lead to the first bug which can cause the game to hang.

 

It happened on three different new games. I restarted twice because I thought the travelling merchant was blocking the way to one of the presents (fireplace).

 

[Kes]

I don't have any of the bugs which Susan mentions, other than the one with the elf in Santa's storage, but what I do have is phenomenal slowdown every time I approach or cross the lower open space with no snow and a well just north of the gate.  Once I'm through that area, walking speed picks up again.

Sadly, having clicked everything in sight, and gone into every building, I am missing one present - so much for my exploring skills!!!  I have the "I've got enough information" trigger, but I suspect without that last present the naughty elf will not appear. Sigh!

 

[PandaMaru]

Jeah, the performance lag a lot caused by the snow-weather + sound emitting + step effects. Nothing I can do about this And nothing I would use for a bigger project once again.
Susan gave me a large list to do. I will fix it as soon as possible.

 

[Susan]

@ksjp17 :

Need a hint? ^^

@Pandamaru :

I'm so sorry! Now I feel like a bad person here. T T

What can I do? I don't look for bugs. Bugs find me. [SIZE=14.4444446563721px]-_-[/SIZE]

[SIZE=14.4444446563721px]Anyway, I didn't experience a slowdown on my computer.[/SIZE]