Johnny Platform Saves Christmas

[eMTe]

Colourful Christmas-themed game, featuring wicked elf and 100 levels of platforming fun. Comes straight to you from the developer of Clockwiser and Pushover remake. Formerly commercial, now freeware!

Developer: Ishisoft

http://ishisoft.com/archives/28

[Chroelle]

It looks fun, so I might gie it a go at some point.

[Chroelle]

It has some funny ideas, but then again, nothing really NEW. But I was amused for a run-through. It got hard somewhat fast, and a specific move rolling off robots head killed me off in one level - lost 5 lives to not being able to do it. That annoyed me quite a bit because I was just starting to enjoy myself, and here I was being stopped from progressing... Not amused.

[Pater Alf]

It got hard somewhat fast, and a specific move rolling off robots head killed me off in one level - lost 5 lives to not being able to do it. That annoyed me quite a bit because I was just starting to enjoy myself, and here I was being stopped from progressing... Not amused.

*Sigh* It seems these are bad times for hardcore gamers. Even our game testers change from ambitious retro gamers to whining-for-success-casual gamers . In the good old times you lost 5 lives before the game really started...

[Chroelle]

The annoying thing about it was that there was a flow right up until that point. I have nothing against hitting a wall, if I can feel the terrain getting harder and harder, but all of a sudden it was all down to wether my controls responded at that precise milisecond...

[Pater Alf]

I will try it out soon and let you know if I feel the same way. Judging from the screenshots the game looks pretty interesting and polished.

[eMTe]

Game freezes between 5th and 6th level. Looks like a bug. Ill try to find solution in web, otherwise I must consider it unplayable.

[Pater Alf]

Can't get the game to run under Windows7. Installing .net and XNA didn't help and also using the compability mode didn't work...

[eMTe]

Will you find an opportunity to run the game under XP? I wonder if you'll face the same problem (crash after 5th level).

[Pater Alf]

Not this weekend, but I could try to connect my old XP computer again next week and try to run the game on that (quite unstable) system.

Hm, writing about it makes me think if I should use my old computer to set up a XP, 2000 and 95 partition, so I could use it to play some old games that doesn't work on modern systems.

[Zyx]

Not this weekend, but I could try to connect my old XP computer again next week and try to run the game on that (quite unstable) system.

Hm, writing about it makes me think if I should use my old computer to set up a XP, 2000 and 95 partition, so I could use it to play some old games that doesn't work on modern systems.

Virtual machines, people! Virtual machines!