Santamaku
A downloadable game for Windows
Santamaku: Dark Rudolph Days
Santamaku is a danmaku game starring Santa Claus. (Hence the name.)
Shoot and dodge your way through three intense levels and three intense boss fights on your quest to save Christmas from zombies!
Originally created for a secret-santa event a bunch of years ago, Santamaku has been around for quite some time but never seen a public release until now. Only one person (outside of me and my test players) has ever played it! It's basically a Christmas-themed Polybius! Do you have what it takes to get past the game that nobody has ever beaten? Or will you get mind-controlled by the game and join the zombies? Only one way to find out!
This is a slightly updated version with a new OGG soundtrack and some balance tweaks to the scoring system and the final boss difficulty.
Features
- No traditional Christmas carols in the entire soundtrack
- The most unreadable font I've ever drawn
- A screen full of flashing bullets that will damage your eyes permanently and might trigger seizures
- Really short
- Forces you to play with mouse and keyboard
- Weird and wonky hitboxes
- No continue system, you gotta start the entire game over if you die
- One bullet type
- No power-ups
- No unlockables
- Hours of fun!
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Hello, 🙂
My name is MadShmupper and I'm part of a group of developers working on porting games to handheld Linux devices. Our project is named PortMaster, and we have an active Discord server in which you are very welcome to come check out any time.
For the past couple of years, we've added a nice amount of Gamemaker games to various Linux devices.
We at PortMaster, firmly believe in reaching out to content creators/game authors like yourself to ask for consent in distributing their free game files within a ready to run port in PortMaster. Without your consent, the user will need to manually add their game files.
It would be fantastic if you could grant us permission to include your data.win and .ogg files of Santamaku within a packaged port as a ready to run game.
May we distribute the game file/s in question, please?
Your game would undoubtedly be a most excellent addition to these handheld devices!
Especially in a "ready to run" format and especially for this time of season 🎅
You will of course be properly thanked and noted as game author/maker. PortMaster will be responsible for the ports maintenance should any be needed. However, as the creator, you are welcome to come check us out and have any say you'd like involving said port.
Please note that we are not looking to take monetary profit, nor take credit for having created, any of the games we port. Our primary goal is to introduce more games to our beloved handheld devices, and showcase the creations of excellent devs such as yourself.
I'll close this by thanking you for any consideration that you may lend towards our request!
THANK YOU🎩
Best regards, MadShmupper & Everyone at PortMaster
I have the Linux export license for Game Maker so I could handle that myself, I just didn't realize there was a demand for it - this game gets an average of less than 10 downloads per year.
(Also Christmas season is over already so it feels a bit late bringing this up NOW, lol - I guess that means I have about 12 months to do this though)
Also note that this game requires a mouse, the device shown off in your previous posts looks like a GBA SP without a touchscreen or a second stick so I don't think Santamaku would even be properly playable.
While it indeed does not play on only dpad, It's playable on devices with analog controls using gptk. I apologize for asking late but it's still winter so I felt it still counts😀. I hope you decide to port it in the future and I thank you for your time and decision. I will refrain from porting it, and I can erase the one I have on my device🙂
Best regards, MadShmupper
Well, the unbeaten streak of this game remains intact after my attempt (I could have given it more attempts but I was fearful for my brain)! I had a lot of fun though!
Even if you didn't manage to beat it, you did a pretty good job for someone that's new to bullet hell games! Also, you're the first person I've seen that managed to pronounce my name correctly, so props for that as well :P