RUDI - an open source Christmas game

"On the Night before Christmas Eve, something went wrong... and there is only one reindeer to make it alright."

The elves were about to deliver the last gifts to Santa Claus. Unfortunately, they didn't notice that all the toys got lost into the starry sky... now it is on you to collect all lost presents to save Christmas!

"RUDI" is an open source christmas game. Experience fun and action in a living & graphically stunning world packed with passion and wonder, elves, sweet penguins, eskimo villages and lots of gifts to collect. Travel around the world with Rudi - the presents got lost everywhere. Each gift you collect adds a sleigh to your chain.. don't cross them! Santa will give you some delicious gingerbread cookies for every sleigh at the end of each level, so make sure to collect as many as possible!

Rudi is a game for everyone. Beginners can start promptly, without reading a manual. You will control Rudi with the cursor keys only. If you are a hardcore gamer, you will love it too, as some packets are really well-hidden and require a lot of skill to capture them.

As if that were not enough, we added a complete do-it-yourself game development workshop! Create your own games with the A7 game engine with ease and the help of this well-structured e-book. Learn about the development process, the game mechanics and its tricks. Code examples and pictures will guide you through it and make game development a pleasure.

One level demo fetauring the Northpole will be released on Christmas Eve 2007.

Developed by Christian Behrenberg in association with trisymphony.com. We support the Creatice Commons, therefore we use some music done by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) for the soundtrack. The game source is GPL licensed, the packed game distribution is free and the workshop is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Rudi
• Christmas
• open
• source
• Santa
• game
• development
• Behrenberg
• Acknex
• A7
• engine

[heelx]

Hello folks,

I am proud to announce that RUDI v0.1 has been finally released! You'll find the full game, the source (GPL) and the workshop (currently only available in German) on my website.

Best regards,

Christian

[bassyck]

When is your next project Christian?

[ohanselo]

lmfao!! good looking game. hehe neat one for the little guys. really well done.

[lebensborn666]

I like the shading, looks like radiosity, good work dude 5/5

[gahkgahkgahk]

what is your website then? :)

[josiahgeneral]

Looks really cool HeelX, you must have been working on this for quite some time!

[JulzMighty]

nice :) looking forward to its release

[bassyck]

Very nicely done! I love the visuals and music-it IS very cute!