For the time being, you are able to test out the games by holding the space bar and b at the same time you press the green flag. Then follow the instructions in the program launcher. The music won't play - but that is normal as that is a feature the Christmas UI handles. Click the activity you want to play, as long as it is the matching day in December. Remember to use the scroll bar in the main menu to navigate the advent calendar In the Santa and Elf Hair Dresser, select the tool you want to use, then use it on his beard or hair. The controls are also similar in Christmas Paint In most games, click and move your mouse, or press the space bar and see what happens.
Most of the new features in this version have been moved over and improved in the original Christmas Countdown game. This is the first rewrite of this program ever, so again,there have been many changes from previous years. The games have been completely rewritten so they take up less sprites per game. Swapping out games is now quite easy, it uses this sort of modular backend engine to allow this. 0.1: +Santa Selfie +Christmas Pong +Christmas Paint - this unfortunately is worse than the paint from 1.4. 0.2: Changed Christmas Pong appearance to more closely match that of the original 1.4 edition of the game. +Heavilly Improved, Smarter Santa Chat game 0.3: -Uses UI based on Christmas Countdown 2020. +Improved Christmas Paint by switching to the Paint Pro 2 engine from waterOS. The Memory Match and Present Slingshot games were built to be directly portable into this new engine. +Ported Memory Match from the original game. +Ported Present Slingshot from the original game. 0.4 Alpha Transitioning to 2021 UI
