Quasimodo's Christmas Caper

Quasimodo's Christmas Caper is a new arcade-style Christmas themed platform game for the Commodore 64 home computer.

This game is the first of 3 spin-off games featuring the Quasimodo character from the currently in development game Hunchback Redux*, also for the Commodore 64 (*provisionally scheduled to be released in 2023).

The objective is to guide Quasimodo through 12 Christmas-themed levels clearing all the snowballs and collecting precious stars and collectables which will appear throughout, whilst avoiding the many obstacles and Happy Little Elves.   Warning! The Elves don't stay happy for long going about their business - if you take too long clearing the snowballs, they will magically turn on Quasimodo and become Naughty Little Elves looking to stop him with their snowball guns.  And watch out! lurking in the wings is an evil snowman called Boris who will be out to try and thwart Quasimodo from completing his Christmas Caper.

Current game features v2.48 Release 2:

• 12 Christmas-themed levels filled with collectables and obstacles to avoid along the way.
• Hidden Bonus level.
• 3 levels of difficulty.
• 'Widescreen' mode.
• In-game music.
• Loading screen/music for tape version of game.
• Single player - joystick only in Port 2.
• Works on (PAL Only) Commdore 64s/128s, VICE 3.4+, CCS, Ultimate64e, MiSTer (FPGA), TheC64.
• Digital .PRG, .D64 and  .TAP download (Other digital formats may follow). NOTE: .TAP version will be released slightly later than .PRG and .D64.
• Free updates for any bug-fixed versions.
• Separate game instructions PDF file.

Further planned features:

• Native Commodore 128 version (2023).
• NTSC Commodore 64 version (2023) - this may be a cut-down revision due to limitations in NTSC mode.

SPECIAL NOTE TheC64 PAL system users: There is a bug in the firmware of TheC64 which may cause games to play at NTSC 60Hz speeds by default.  Quasimodo's Christmas Caper is designed to run at PAL (50Hz) speeds.  To resolve this issue, factory reset TheC64, reboot and then select 50Hz and save the settings.  Then re-run the game. Switching between PAL and NTSC via the menus doesn't save the change unfortunately.  It will affect all PAL games, not just Quasimodo's Christmas Caper.

Please report any bugs in the comments section.  There may be some quirks I already know about and have noted down to fix in a later release.   Thank you.

Quasimodo's Christmas Caper - An rwx designs game.

Coding, Graphics, Sound FX and Music by Robert Wilson.

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