A downloadable game

Santa is delivering gifts around the world, all goes well until he goes to his last destination: the Northern Territory. Santa’s sleigh explodes, he falls out of the sky and lands in the outback. Even in face of such adversity, he decides to continue on foot to deliver gifts, trying to his best to navigate the outback and survive the deadly wildlife. 

Deliver as many gifts as you can before time runs out… or worse…

Controls:

  • Movement: WASD
  • Pause Menu: Esc
  • Attack: Spacebar or Left Click
  • Dash: Left Shift or Right Click

Art Credits: 

The Characters, Objectives and many UI elements were designed and created by the lovely digital artist Skye Lavelle:

The Enviromental art (Fauna, Rocks, Ground) was created and given to us by the NT artist Sonia Martignon:

Download Instructions:

Latest Version:

  1. Download 'SOGR v0.12 - Latest Version.zip' file and unzip it
  2. Run 'Santa's Outback Gift Run.exe'
  3. Enjoy!

Game Jam Version:

  1. Download 'Santa's Outback Gift Run - Game Jam Version.zip' file
  2. Unzip that file
  3. Run 'NT Game Jam 2021.exe' 
  4. Enjoy!

Known Bugs:

Latest Version:

  • Dash Ability Icons don't work yet.
  • There is an occasional lighting glitch when a new light source is activated in the scene for the first time.

Game Jam Version:

  • Status Effects don't go away (it broke last minute ;-;)
  • After returning to the main menu from the gameplay, the quit button stops working. To quit either alt+f4 or click play and use the in-game pause menu (esc) to quit (The pause menu works on the tutorial page as well).
StatusReleased
Release date Dec 31, 2021
AuthorDeclan Smyth
GenreAction, Survival
Made withKrita, Unity
Tags2D, artgame, Christmas, northern-territory, outback
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse

Download

Download
SOGR v0.12 - Latest Version.zip 99 MB
Download
Santa's Outback Gift Run - Game Jam Version.zip 92 MB

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