How do I play this game?
Your mission, if you chose to accept it, is to help Santa and his brother wrap all the Christmas presents in time. To be able to do so Santa has bought a machine that produces the presents that are written down on the wish list. There’s only one problem. Santa nor his brother knows how to control the machine. They’ve been able to turn it on but they don’t know how to set the speed for the machine. God knows what will come of this. Hopefully you’ll be able to lend Santa and his brother a hand in wrapping the gifts and sending them over to Rudolph to get them ready to be delivered to the children. You’re not allowed to drop a gift. If this happens, it’s game over for Santa and his brother.

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You’re supposed to position Santa and his brother in front of the conveyors that will transport the presents coming out of the machine. Santa is located to the left at the 2 in image 1.0. His brother is located at the 1. Once a present has reached the top (where Santa is located right now) he will throw it in the air in order to let Rudolph catch it (who is also displayed at the 2. Just above the 1 in the yellow light coming out of the machine you can see a teddy bear that’s just been produced. This is one of the presents. At the 3 you can see a present falling down from the conveyor. Oh noes! Santa’s brother missed one! We’re all doomed!

Hint: When the machine produces a present it will puff up some smoke.

What are the controls?
You can play this game using just the keyboard controls. You are to control both Santa and his brother by moving them up and down the ladder. You can do so using the following controls:

Q to move Santa up, A to move Santa down. P to move Santa’s brother up, L to move Santa’s brother down.

What’s the story behind this game?
We’ve been thinking about what would be a cool Christmas game for the year 2007. One thing that jumped in mind was an old game by Nintendo that was quite a lot of fun. It has Mr. Game and Watch as its main character and the goal of the game was to make mister game and watch transfer packages to the top along several conveyor belts. Basically this formed the concept for the game that’s been delivered to you right here. Instead of having a Mr. Game and Watch we now have Santa and his brother struggling to save Christmas once again. We hope you’ll enjoy it.

Hint: Try playing the game together with a friend.

I've decided to add some additional info about this game.

I forgot to mention that you can pause and unpause the game with the space bar. Remember that you cannot pause and unpause it very fast.

The other thing I forgot to mention is that this game auto adjusts its graphics to the framerate your PC can handle. So when you're playing and you notice that all of the snowflakes disappear, it is because of your framerate.
In the first framerate auto-adjust step the magic stars that tail rudolph will be deleted.
In the second step the snowflakes will dissappear.
The next thing will be the Factory lights.
And at last the game graphics will be set to LOW which means that anti-aliasing will be turned completely off.
Remember that this has nothing to do with your video card, but only with your processor speed and amount of RAM.

The game has 15 difficulty levels. At each level the rate at which presents appear will be faster. I will provide additional and more precise info below. The number between () indicated the amount of points needed before you reach that level.

Level 2 (25): 3 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 10% faster.
Level 3 (75): 4 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 20% faster.
Level 4 (100): 4 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 30% faster.
Level 5 (200): 5 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 40% faster.
Level 6 (300): 5 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 60% faster.
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Level 15 (5000): 10 Presents spawn and presents go a total of 500% faster.

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