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	The 2005 Christmas Coding Competition was a success. Our goal was 20 entries and we received 21 but we had no idea the quality of the entries was going to be so high. The competition was to have a demo and a game category but only one demo was submitted. Great work on all the entries and I wish I only had the resources to give out more prizes. The left over cash from the demo prizes will be used to buy the top 5 a compo T-Shirt. (I will just paypal them the cash and they can order the shirt or pocket the money...although how they could pass up such a sweat shirt is beyond me) Just wanted to say thanks to www.ndshb.com for unknowingly letting me steal the wonderful screen shots.	Sponsored by NEOFLASH

	Title Santa's Chimney Challenge Rank 1 Author Ian Jeffray & Dave Flynn Prize $70 Cash + MK3 512 Graphics 9 Fun 10 Sound 8 Music 9	Lira: Now that's what I like to call, an entry! Looks like a commercial game and i had fun while playing it! 4 thumbs up! Dovoto: Knew within moments that it was going to take the prize. Controls felt fluid and the game was challenging and entertaining. Polished. Great job!

	Title Christmas Challenge Rank 2 Author Nagame Prize $30 Cash + MK2 Graphics 10 Fun 8 Sound 9 Music 9	Lira: Now that's a fine looking game! Blast elves while listening to oldies music with a retro game port! Dovoto: One could tell a lot went into making this entry. Great graphics and smooth sound made for a fun (if soon repetitive) entry. I think had this entry had a more interesting plot it would have taken first place.

	Title Xmas Breaker Rank 3 Author Peter "blasty" Geissler Prize Passme Graphics 7 Fun 8 Sound 0 Music 8.5	Lira: I love those kind of games! Nice pixel art on the upper screen, and chip music! Dovoto: It may have been cheap a entry (his words not mine) but it was the one I played the most. My wife and I spend a good half hour trying to get the best score (she won). A blatant rip-off of a pc game but well done and fun. Could have used some sound effects and a bigger playing field.

	Title Holiday Holiday Revolution Rank 4 Author Henk Boom Prize Passme Graphics 7 Fun 8 Sound 0 Music 9.5	Dovoto: Probably the most surprising entry and defiantly the most innovative use of the stylus. If I had any rhythm I probably would have marked it even higher.

	Title Balance Rank 5 Author Seddy Prize Just a T-Shirt (sorry :) Graphics 7 Fun 6 Sound 5 Music 9	Lira: Amazing! From the creator of WOTR This game was so hard to play :D Dovoto: I made it to level three before the wife got tired of hearing “DOH!” and I had to move on. This would have been number one with a little refinement. This game has such potential and of all the entries it is the one I want to see updated most.

	Title Jumalauta Rank 1 Author Jumalauta Prize $70 Cash + MK3 256 Graphics 1 Fun 0 Sound 0 Music 1	Lira: A demo? Dovoto: Yep.

	Title Xmas DS Rank Damn Good Author Maximilien Dagois Prize Pat on the Back Graphics 5 Fun 8 Sound 4 Music 7	Lira: You gotta love pixel art! Dovoto: Definitely different. Actually my wife’s favorite (I think mainly because she doubled my score). I had it in my top 5 list for its great and unique use of the stylus.

	Title TOWP Rank Damn Good Author Aron Prize Pat on the Back Graphics 8 Fun 7 Sound 4 Music 7	Lira: Reminds me the mini-game in Super Mario 64DS. I think that more obstacles should've been added. Gets boring pretty fast. Dovoto: Hmm..had a hard time with this one. Lots of trouble seeing the screen and making the ball move. Might have been better if the ball was on the top screen.

	Title Lily Rank Damn Good Author nhut & nesgba Prize Pat on the Back Graphics 9 Fun 9 Sound 10 Music 10	Lira: Comments Fun adventure game, looks like a real commercial game and it got me playing for several hours Dovoto: Were we playing the same game?? Looked great but could not find any purpose to the game (ie enimies to shoot with my pretty bow) and encountered a few glitches with the arrow graphics.

	Title Santa's Bad Luck Rank Good Author Jandujar Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: Nice intro, Somewhat boring game :( Dovoto: Loved the cut scene graphics and the sound effects. Definitely could have used a radar or map overlay of some sort. The game would have been improved by adding a time limit and increasing the number of presents and making the level a lot easier to navigate.

	Title Happy Holidays Rank Good Author John Lavigne Prize Pat on the Back	Dovoto: Well...it was a breakout clone...not much to add to that.

	Title Snowball Fight Rank Good Author Scarta, aka D.Amar Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: Early stages FPS. Dovoto: Good use of the bottom screen as a map overlay. Using the same textures on the walls and floor made it difficult to keep your bearing. Was fun for a short while but could have used a bit more….something

	Title Santarush Rank Good Author Malcolm Parsons aka Pepsiman Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: This game could be more fun with random generated levels and some sound effects. Dovoto: Thought what was going on on the top screen was great but it was impossible to see while tapping the bottom screen. Could have used a few more levels and some sound effects to let me know when I hit or missed.

	Title Snow Wars Rank Good Author laZmike Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: I love FPSs! So many playing modes, Was easy to play. Anyone passed the score of 5? :D Dovoto: Loved the target mode although it was a bit hard to use the stylus to aim and pull the trigger at the same time. Had the levels been bigger playing against the computer would have had such potential. As it was I felt a bit cramped in that small square room.

	Title Christmas Rush Rank Good Author Tim Liszak Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: Dovoto: Could have done with a bit of sound and music and a little more variety in level design but it was initially very fun to play. This was close to making it to my top 5 list.

	Title Operation Snow Rank Good Author FluBBa Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: Isn’t working on my DS/GBA. I've tried 2 different Flash Carts and emulators Dovoto: Worked fine for me and the other judges. If ever there was a game that should have been submitted on the DS this was it. It was well done, with cool graphics and decent game play but the 4 direction controls on the GBA made for an overall difficult to control game. Get a DS and port this thing over to the stylus!

	Title Snow Bash Rank Good Author Miguel Prize Pat on the Back	Lira: Reminds me one of SuperMario 64 DS's minigames - yay! Dovoto: For some reason this would not load for me the first couple of times I tried it. Once I got it going though I was greeted with spectacular graphics (arguably the best of any entry) and some interesting gameplay ideas. Could have used some sound and the snow ball was a bit hard to control. Intuitively I expected the snow ball to leave my hand at the angle I threw it and without sound it was hard to tell when I hit rodent. Very nice though.

	Title Santa's Sweatshop Rank Good Author Sumiguchi Prize Pat on the Back	Dovoto: A lot of interesting game play ideas were presented in this compo. This was definitely one of them. It was fun to play (if a tad bit easy) and well suited to the platform. If I had prizes for top 10 this one would have comfortably walked away with one. Love the art!!

	Title Crazy Christmas Rank Not Bad Author Benny Rebirth Prize Better Luck Next Time	Dovoto: I am not sure what it was that was off about this game…the graphics were great, and the game play had such potential but it was very difficult (almost painful for any length of time) to control. I think had we had an unlimited supply of always firing snowballs and could control entirely with the stylus this game would have been much more fun. Hope to see an update.

	Title Wintercube Rank Not Bad Author Scarta (aka D.Amar) Prize Better Luck Next Time	Lira: Rubik Cube for the DS. Nice - but the control type is hard to get used to. Dovoto: I felt this demo probably stretched the Christmas theme the most. A very interesting concept though. I think had the controls been refined and the cube rotations animated it would have made for a much more interesting (if rather non wintery) game.

	Title TXT Rank Not Bad Author David Monkeyboy Gilbert Prize Better Luck Next Time	Lira: How do you write with this thing? Dovoto: Never did get it to work on hardware. Played it a bit on the emulator but typing text using 2 buttons and a D-Pad was just not in me. This is another example of a game that would have done much better on the DS using a stylus keyboard for input. I wish I had the patience to explore what was likely an impressive textual adventure.

	Title Deer Rank Not Bad Author Jonathan Raymond Prize Better Luck Next Time	Lira: I don't get this game, really. Dovoto: Not much to say about this one. Interesting idea but was much too easy and much too limited.