Santa's Gifts

Help Santa deliver gifts and make friends with his reindeer.

Santa has been sued for labor abuse for his reindeer, and his sleigh is about to be repossessed.

Help Santa distribute gifts and regain the trust of his reindeer, so the Christmas Reindeer Syndicate will take away his lawsuit.

This is a game made for Cozy Winter Jam 2022.

Programmed in a few hours, in QBasic, for MS DOS, from scratch.

Update DEC/3/2022: NEW VERSION with objetives, cities to visit, and game over condition!

Retro game

Made in QBasic, source code available, and compiled for MS-DOS or Windows

Old school!

Source code available!

Wanna learn a easy way to make retro games?

This source code is very easy to read, fully commented and compiles for Windows or MS-DOS with free tools!

Give it a try!

It's interesting that the whole game is a single code file, there are no external resources or bloated libraries or anything like that.

I generate everything procedurally in the same code.

There are also some old-school tricks to make the graphics work, like flipping pages, and using few colors, among other details.

Timing for modern CPUs with old QBasic was also a challenge. I hope you enjoy it, send me comments!