Merry Christmas TDCers. I hope you are all having a lovely time, with good food, good company, and maybe evens some good video games...

To celebrate this festive period I've collated the entries to the 2002 TDC Christmas Competition which was judged by Chris Street (Circy) & Michael Hadzic (Shadowcaster). These games were all contributed to Kliktopia by Circy with the exception of Sephware's Christmas Chronicles which is courtesy of Alundra.

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Competition Results: TDC Christmas Competition 2002
🥇 1st	The Maniac Elf Beta by Ashley Linahan Chris (81%): "A very good game, this. Nice engine, lovely graphics and very Christmassy. Aside from the horrid Sonic 3 Ice Cap Zone music, that it. Excellent." Mike (83%): "This game is very fun and visually appealing. Excellent work by the author, I only wish it had more than one level, which would have warranted a higher score." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
🥈 2nd	Santa's Quest Demo by Max (Junkman) Chris (49%): "It's pretty Christmassy, but its extremely hard, ugly, and sadly not much fun." Mike (73%): "Christmassy and challenging. With some cool weapons, this game is fun to play, but could use a bit of an overcoat as the graphics are what brought the score for this game down for me." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
🥉 3rd	Christmas Shaft by Nioreh Chris (61%): "When I first played this, I thought "what a bunch of crap". Two hours later, I was still playing. It's extremely addictive. Good work." Mike (50%): "Fun and challenging, though can get a tad repetitive." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
4th	HoHo Bang by Death Reaper X According to the author: "This is a Bomberman-style game for strictly 2 players (so you must have, own or buy a friend).  The idea is to blow the other player up using present bombs!" Chris (53%): "A bomberman game, which is extremely annoying. Just above average :\ When I kill Player 2, the game ends up in a draw! The HELL?!" Mike (50%): "This game started off pretty good, but was very buggy. The elves that change your position do so frequently, and because you can leave the play area, I found myself accidentally walking outside when this happened and getting lost. Furthermore, the game always appears to be a draw, no matter who is killed." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
5th	Sephware Christmas Chronicles by Seph [JUDGE COMMENTS NOT ARCHIVED] Download from Kliktopia
5th	The Attack of the Christmas Goblins  by Klikmaster Chris (54%): "Hmm...this is alright, to be fair. Nicely drawn presents, but the game is extremely simplistic." Mike  (48%): "A strange concept, but challenging to play as the game progresses." Note: This game is lost media. If you have a copy let us know! See competition entry
7th	Santa's Adventures  by Chedich Chris (34%): "This is such a funny game, especially the music and the general idea of the platforming sections. Shame it's not particularly good as well. Needs a lot more work." Mike (67%): "When I first opened this game I thought it looked a bit dodgy, but it actually turned out to be pretty fun, and at times challenging, particularly in the last stage where you have to navigate through the busy skies and drop presents into all the houses." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
9th	Santa's Crazy Christmas by Weston L According to the author: "The idea of this game is to put you in Santa's suit, and you  would have to deliver presents to houses all around the world while still trying to keep quiet not to wake the family in the house." Download from Kliktopia
10th	Revenge of the Savage Zombie Jesus by Chris Bristow According to the author: "The aim is to suck the brain energy out of innocent civilians while trying to get from one end of the course to the other." Chris (44%): "A nice idea, but its impossible to avoid getting shot by the cops, and its far too hard. Aside from the Jesus reference, this game has no Christmas qualities whatsoever." Mike (36%): "Not a huge amount of gameplay here, it's basically: walk along, press shift, press control as fast as possible for 5 seconds, repeat. The help says to avoid being shot by policemen, but because they lock on your position, and you walk relatively slowly, your always hit two or three times before you can get close enough to inflict damage." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
11th	santas X chrismas by Nick of All Trades (Jonick Art) Chris (29%): "Pretty awful, to be honest. Terrible graphics, chances are this will NOT win. Better luck next time." Mike (34%): "Perhaps I missed something, but does the 5 minute intro have anything to do with the actual game? Not a great deal of gameplay, rather repetitive after a few minutes." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry
12th	Foot 'n' Mouth 3: Xmas Version  by Pete Nattress Chris (39%): "I hate to be harsh with this one, because it had potential, but I found it to be extremely simplistic and fairly boring :(" Mike (19%): "This game didn't really provide any challenge; one would expect at least the speed of the targets to increase over time, though I saw no evidence of this. The multiple weapons made no real difference apart from the sound effect." Download from Kliktopia See competition entry