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22 November 2024
The secret Christmas game I made for Amiga Addict is revealed.
Based on an optimised version of the engine powering AmiGameJam winner Rogue Declan, Santatron 2024 is a fast-paced twin-stick arcade shooter for the Classic Amiga platform. Become Santatron, clear the Grottos of weird AI-controlled toys and rescue the Elves, all to save Christmas from an AI catastrophe. You are the one hope for salvation!
DJ METUNE has returned to do an all-new fantastically toe-tapping seasonal soundtrack, and Toni Galvez is back on pixel duty.
Get Santatron first with Amiga Addict Issue 34 - now available for order from their website.
The cover is graced by a Santatron disk (digital download), and print subscribers will get a label with their copy of the magazine to make a real Christmas Coverdisk like in the olden days.
[IMG: AA34 - Look, Ma! I'm on the cover!]
Christmas Coverdisk is like Christmas Charts Number One for nerds. Finally, I am even with my brother, who had a couple of games on CU Amiga coverdisks in the 1990's.
A wider public release should happen later, before Christmas itself.
We have gone too far. Our technological sophistication and quest for better shareholder value led us to perfect the ultimate Christmas AI.
Buynet, the final form of Christmas Shopping.
The Buynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online on Black Friday. It begins to learn at a geometric rate.
It becomes elf-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, December 23rd. Santa is removed from Christmas. Elves are removed from toy production. The Grotto is seized by AI-controlled toys and filled with shoddy, derivative and often weirdly disturbing AI-hallucinated gifts.
There is one hope for salvation.
Become Santatron.
Evade. Attack. Rescue Christmas.
Santatron 2024 Trailer HD [YouTube]
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