All the gifts and decorations are muddled up. Your task is to sort them out by finding them one at a time. In between you might spot who muddled them up. It won’t be revealed - you’ll have to reach level 13 and find the creature yourself.
The object you have to find briefly appears on your left, look at it, remember it then find it because it won’t show for long. You’re only allowed 2 clicks per time, so click carefully! (By the way, this isn’t in the game instructions, but you’re only allowed to click objects twice, if you click the screen there’s no penalty, so if you think something on the background picture is your object there will be no penalty for clicking it.)
Type of Game: Hybrid memory game and hidden object game.
Levels: 12 + 1 = to reach the bonus round you need to find every object on the 1st 12 levels.
Difficulty Settings: Three, determines your time and how many objects will appear on screen to confuse you. Level 1 is very easy, Level 2 is moderate, Level 3 you have to be very fast.
Time per level: From 45 seconds to 3 minutes depending on what level you chose and how fast you play.
Music: Two Christmas songs, bouncy versions of Jingle Bells & We wish you a Merry Christmas. You can turn off the music from the menu.
Sound Effects: Yes, these are helpful in letting you know you clicked a right or wrong object. They can be turned off from the menu.
Game Saves: No, but you can restart from the same level if you lose but if you close the game you always have to restart from level 1.
How soon will you get bored: There are enough random elements built into the game for you to not learn it and the computer is choosing out of 100 objects and you’re using 15 per level, so you can go a long while before it becomes familiar. Level 3 is written to be very challenging, especially if you want to get to the 13th level - if you try to master that it could keep you entertained for hours. Great animations when you win (or lose).
Game is packaged with an installer that will create a desktop icon for you. It comes with an uninstaller as well. The game does not write any registry entries, the installer only writes install and uninstall information nothing else.
Tested and working on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Warning: Game created for screen resolution 1024 x 768. If your screen resolution is set lower you would have to manually set it to this resolution before running the game. There is a toggle between window & full screen but since it’s created almost full screen there’s not much difference in size when pressed. It’s recommended to play it in full screen if your resolution is set to 1024 x 768. It’s a nice window size if your screen resolution is set to 1280 x 1024 or higher and I wouldn’t recommend full screen for this resolution (not necessary anyway). Game will open in full screen mode but there’s a toggle on the very first screen to switch to window mode.
Game preloads all the data so you have to wait about 2 - 3 mintues when starting the game but then there’s no waiting between levels for elements to load.
Like something, hate something, can’t figure something out? Feel free to e-mail me. I develop these games to learn from so any feedback is always useful.
When asked to Run or Save, select Save and save on your hard drive. After it is downloaded double click on the downloaded file and it will automatically install. The size is approximately 34 mb (Sorry, I didn’t want to reduce the resolution of the 2 musical tracks or the graphics to get a smaller download size - it’s worth the larger download.)
Credits:
Backgrounds & Props were either originally created by these artists or I’ve used a portion of their work or modified their original work to use in this game.
Angela Hensel 'aka' DarkAngelGrafics
Lucie Grenier
Davor Planinec (a.k.a -dp-)
Chrislenn
Makena
Atenais (Liudmila Metaeva)
Charisse aka Polyanthus
Tiago Fidalgo (DesignFera)
Tracey Shirkey aka Harvest Moon
YummKiss
classylady and ron
Angelika Holz alias Freda Fredriksson
Ilona Vozari (ilona), John Girouard (SkoolDaze) and Bez Boardman (Bez)
Images from iclipart
None of the graphics were created by me they were all selected from free or purchased royalty-free content providers. The aka bits are often their vendor names at the stores as credit is given in the same way their names are typed in their “readme” files.
I used so many small bits and pieces from so many collections that I may have left off a name or two from this list. My apologies. If you spot something you made, e-mail me and I’ll add your name to the list.
Except the boxes - the people I purchased it from are definitely credited above. (There are a few vendors at the moment selling identical box pictures .png)
Royalty-free Music:
Tracks purchased from Music Loops
Partners In Rhyme, Inc.