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Clickmas Countdown Day 2: TDC Xmas Compo 2005
News posted 21st December, 2024 by Joshtek  

It is now Day 2 of the 7 days of Clickmas. Today's present is a trip back to The Daily Click Christmas Competition 2005.

A number of these games were already on Kliktopia, but half a dozen were not so I've either downloaded them from archive.org or found that they were in my backlog of games to add to the site.

I have added this game collection to The Click Museum, updating the relevant entry page to fix most of the entries to link to where they can be downloaded from The Daily Click and/or Kliktopia.

Click here to check out all of the 2005 competition entries.

Here are the top 10 listable games from that competition:

1st: 386/500
The Elf Brothers
CREATED BY: CYS
MORE INFO: HERE!

CYS's Final Fantasy-esque battle engine blew us out of the water, and the gameplay was addictive and funny. A perfect recipe for winning! CYS wins a copy of the now renamed MMF2: Developer.

 

2nd: 385/500
Christmas Conquest 2
CREATED BY: Snerlin
MORE INFO: HERE!

Life can be bitterly cruel. Snerlin misses out on the top prize by one point. Normally I wouldn't do this, but because of this potentially evil twist of fate, a special consolation copy of MMF2 (Standard) has been arranged for Snerlin - time to celebrate :)

 

3rd: 380/500
Christmas Stone
CREATED BY: Hishnak
MORE INFO: HERE!

Coming in at a very respectable third place is Christmas Stone by Hishnak, a platformer which was liked by all. Sadly, no prize, but you get respect - which is infinately better than a copy of MMF2. Well... perhaps not.

 

4th: 361/500
Little Santa Little Adventure
CREATED BY: Scaneider
MORE INFO: HERE!

A small exploratory platformer from Scaneider. The game was deemed as a whole as being of a high standard, but it was also considered to be very hard - maybe unfairly so. Still, it's really worth looking at.

 

5th: 357/500
Barfer Sickmess
CREATED BY: Zapper
MORE INFO: HERE!

5th place; a very nice shoot-em-up - one of the rare games that isn't actually a platformer! Barfer Sickmess has all the trimmings - fun gameplay, a co-op mode and a running demo if you leave the title page running. Despite these traits, many judges thought that the code was shockingly disorganised.

 

7th: 353/500
Santa Hanta
CREATED BY: Claudius Bartmuß
MORE INFO: HERE!

Scraping in just below Radix entry, this game is great for a quick ten minute blast. Santa Hanta is arguably the most well presented game in this competition which shows a great deal of professionalism.

 

8th: 342/500
Robot Santa
CREATED BY: Ben Mercer
MORE INFO: HERE!

Pretty much a pure destruction simulator, and in eighth place is Robot Santa by Ben Mercer. This game fell down primarily on the lack of a Christmas theme.

 

9th: 331/500
Dungeon TV Christmas Special
CREATED BY: Hayo Van Reek
MORE INFO: HERE!

So where were the Christmas references again? That was the question asked by most of the judges that really knocked down this fun twist on the Sokoban-style gameplay. D'oh!

 

10th: 327/500
X-Mess
CREATED BY: Blueberry_Pie
MORE INFO: HERE!

Highly Gameboyish platformer with flawed jumping and plenty of penguins.

 

11th: 322/500
Silent Night
CREATED BY:Dustin Gunn
MORE INFO: HERE!

Stealthy platformer with some Metal Gear Solid parodic references. Sadly it falls just short of the Top 10, but still a very worthy game.

 






Posted by Joshtek 21st December, 2024

Please let me know if you have any of these missing entries:
14) Christmas Michi by George Lambert
16) Quest To Save The Christmas by Perttu Tuovinen & Jaani Kekalainen
18 ) Muksi's Xmas by Borgi
19) A Santa Story by Reno McDonald
 
Posted by Tzahov 21st December, 2024

The game by Stuart Browne seems to be missing too.
 
Posted by Joshtek 23rd December, 2024

Nice catch Tzahov - Santa Claus Rescue Squad by Stuart Browne is also missing.
 


 



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