Joymania Development

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[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

Finally, after almost 20 years, 'Santa Claus in Trouble' returned! 🎅 Help Santa to save the Christmas Eve! 🎄🎁
https://t.co/PUJDVjA6ih

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@helo123o Nice work! Regarding the texture misalignment: our vertices (32 bytes each) are optimized via integers. The UV coords are packed into 2x2 int16 (xy for two channels: base and overlay). Vtx format is: vec3f Pos; uint8[4] Tng; uint8[4] Nrm; int16 UVs[2][2]; uint8[4] BinNrm.

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@IndieGameJoe Hats off to such a principled insight!t!

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@OnSkullGames Beautiful art style - wishlisted!

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@Kappische Our little X-mas game is currently heavily discounted: https://t.co/XE9mAzn8SM

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☃️Steam Winter Sale started today and 'Santa Claus in Trouble' is 75% off! A perfect gift for 2.49 EUR / $2,49 USD 🎄
https://t.co/XE9mAzn8SM

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@JonasTyroller Games with compelling gameplay work even when programming or graphics are poor (see Dwarf Fortress).

Reciprocally, games with top-tier performance and great graphics but inadequate gameplay fail completely.

Programming and graphics are just the side dishes.

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

@SurelyNotRoblox Nope, sorry, I can't remember where Santa's voice originated.

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

Finally, after almost 20 years, 'Santa Claus in Trouble' returned! 🎅 Help Santa to save the Christmas Eve! 🎄🎁
https://t.co/PUJDVjA6ih

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

@POWERM_WAN Nope, sorry, I have no clue how to modify the game other than replacing textures or 3d models.

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

@POWERM_WAN That's a texture for a spin-off called 'Sinterklaas' released in the Netherlands back in 2002 or so. We forgot to delete it.

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@VPToad No, that's unlikely. It's not our IP anymore.
But we do work on other concepts (more to tell in 2025).

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

@DoctorFunfrock Cool!
And who is the guy on top?

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@chavalitocubano @Erarnitox Hey YoYo,
most likely, you think of an advertisement for the game "No Man's Land" which could have been part of the free Santa Claus back in 2002 (both games were published by CDV).

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@lisyarus ZIP doesn't perform well with compressed textures (which take usually the lion share of resources). We use LZ4 for much faster decompression times (about 10 time faster).

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@UBadler @Doubt Fully deserved! That art style is amazing. Reminds me a bit of the early Ultimas which explains all the positive vibes :)

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@AndiDev_ @intel Vermutlich das gleiche Thema: https://t.co/zGCvSxTnRt

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@wilnyl Very nice global illumination, how did you guys achieve that?

[Joymania Development @JoymaniaD]

@Erarnitox Nice to hear that you had a good time with the game.

Yes, the first game released in 2002 using our own DX8 based engine. For the remaster, we're using our own DX9 based engine which supports a high efficient GPU driven particle system. Meanwhile, we switched to Vulkan.

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@MehmetCangGuler Always add links to your Steam page to such posts or you'll miss a lot of people interested in your game.

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@delaigrodela Congratulations, you accomplished one of the most intellectually and creativity challenges. This achievement will be always yours.