and dad was drunk as a skunk.
That's when he heard a sound downstairs...
Download Santa Shooter to delve further into this story of benevolence, misunderstandings, alcoholic beverages and a loaded gun. Will Santa escape the intoxicated and inbred father? Will the irresistably jolly intruder receive a full serving of lead? The only way to find out is to
Santa Shooter is freeware!
Note: no installation is required; just run the executable.
- Santa Claus!
- A gun!
- Father Christmas!
- A blinking Christmas tree!
- Did I mention a gun?
- Ol' St Nicholas himself and a gun!
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To be a bit more serious: this is a Christmas greeting from me to you! May your nuts be tasty, your jolly holiday very jolly, and may your Christmas loot be plentiful. If you receive any gifts you don't need, feel free to send them to me. Especially if they include video games or books about dragons. Dragons are nice.
Okay, I wasn't planning on updating this page, but I had to add this part: the current hiscore for Santa Shooter is a whopping 72423! Seriously, I have no idea how this is possible to get. The theoretical maximum score is 75000, and that is literally impossible to acheive. Congrats to Pätr "Treefinger" for having way too much time on his hands while he ought to be working!
- The character graphics are derived from GIF animations from ARG! Cartoon Animation Studio
- The bitmap font is derived from Binary Therapy's oldskool2 sample in the BlitzMax package
- The death screams are taken from an MS-DOS freeware fighting game, and I have no idea at all what the name of the game was!
- The music is loosely based on the recording of Sissel Kyrkjebö and Tommy Körberg performing Julen är här (Christmas is here). Technically I might well be breaking copyright laws by making this poppish instrumental version, but if you won't tell anyone, I won't either