T'was the night before Christmas, and Santa is already late delivering the presents. A heavy snowstorm has meant that the Christmas Factory where the elves work to make the presents has been cut off! Guide Frosty through a treacherous obstacle course to get a present, and deliver it to Santa so Christmas can be saved!

  

A spiritual sequel of the Commodore 64 game Frosty the Snowman/Frosty's Busy Night, created for the Pico8 Advent Calendar Jam 2024.

How to Play

⬅️➡️: Walk
🅾️: Jump (mapped to "Z" on keys)

Scoring

This game is a score attack game to try and get the highest score, here is how to score:-

100 points 
500 points (with 1000 points delivered to Santa

Every present successfully delivered scores a multiplier, but takes 100 seconds off the time to complete the run!

Credits

Based on Frosty's Busy Night by Richard Taylor & Steve Barrett for Commodore Power 1991.

Some ideas taken from Frosty the Snowman II by Joe Dixon/Beyond Reproach

Thanks to SmellyFishstiks, Dredds, Brandon & NarcolepticFrog for the testing and feedback.

Updated 12 hours ago
Published 11 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorRhys Wynne
GenrePlatformer, Adventure
Made withPICO-8
TagsChristmas, PICO-8, Retro
LinksDiscord, Bluesky

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