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“Dandelion Advent Calendar” is based on the children’s series on German ZDF. Having entered the game, we find ourselves in a superbly drawn location - a trailer decorated for Christmas, standing in the middle of a winter forest, but not a fake one, but quite residential and long lived in. You can walk around it and see what’s behind you, you can go up to the roof (there’s a piano there), you can step aside and look at the forest, or you can go inside. Locations are filled with active points, hovering the mouse over them causes various animations. Eagle-eyed players can start collecting tiny Christmas tree decorations hidden in the corners - everything found is sent to a box standing at the entrance to the trailer. If you enter the game in February, April, September or any other month except December, its content will end there. But on the first of December, when you hover the cursor over it, one of the active points will begin to glow with a star - here is the first “window” of the Advent calendar with the first gift. On the second of December another one will appear, and so on. It's date sensitive in the operating system and involves going through all the canons of the traditional Advent calendar. In total, twenty-four gifts await us here, each of which will also have to be found by carefully examining eight screens. These could be games, desktop wallpapers, postcard editors, collections of instructions for crafts and recipes, educational articles. Let's look at each: 1. The very first “gift” is a very simple editor in which you can create a list of desired gifts for Christmas and print it. 2. Illustrated audio story about the life of trees in the forest and preparations for the winter holidays. However, sometimes instead of a story, the postcard editor opens - you can select a background, draw, glue appliques, add inscriptions. 3. install a magnificent screensaver - a location with a trailer from the game, in which there is heavy snowfall. 4. Three instructions for Christmas-themed paper crafts. 5. Background information about Christmas characters in the German tradition. 6. And here is the first game - catch. By controlling a sock on a string, you need to catch all sorts of edible gifts. Chocolate and candy cane will bring one point each, fruit - three, nut - as many as five. But a bunch of grass will take away three points. The game lasts one and a half minutes, after which the result is summed up. 7. Crafts again. Now it is proposed to build a trailer from the game using cardboard and plasticine. 8. A set of wallpapers for your desktop. 9. Here we will be told how to create and decorate Christmas candles ourselves. 10. Various useful information. Here you can learn about snowmen and snowflakes, how to build an igloo, and where different animals live in the forest - the latter contains an interactive where you need to place animals on a scrolling panoramic picture. 11. First-person sleigh ride simulator (!), purely arcade, but very cute due to the fact that it is made in the same style as the rest of the game, and not in some 3D or pixel graphics. You need to collect gnomes and earn points by avoiding rocks, snowmen and Christmas trees. After three collisions, the game ends. 12. More crafts. We create magnets, vases and beautiful winter houses. 13. Another educational block with articles about what ice is, its properties, and so on. 14. We make Christmas tree decorations, glowing jars and stickers. 15. We make a small holiday message of a humorous nature in the editor. 16. First-person virtual shooting gallery. The goal is to defeat the snowman by throwing snowballs at him. At first the enemy is very nimble and skillfully dodges our projectiles, but after being hit by snow several times, he shrinks, loses his hat and stops moving, resigned to his fate. Then finishing off the snowman is not difficult. 17. It's time to make Christmas desserts. Recipes. 18. Quiz. 19. Here you can play a simple Christmas melody on a virtual piano. If you can, of course. 20. Gomoku with cookies instead of chips. You can play both with the computer and with a living person sitting next to you. Or with yourself. 21. A set of six electronic postcards that can be sent directly from the game by e-mail. 22. We learn about Rudolph the reindeer, about the peculiarities of celebrating Christmas in different countries (including Russia), and also listen to how to say “Merry Christmas!” in different languages - and in all except Japanese (because it is spoken by a different voice), it sounds with a strong German accent. 23. Background information on the physical properties of ice. It is even suggested that you conduct the experiments yourself. 24. Flying plane with a side view. You need to control the Christmas team, avoid crows, clouds and collisions with buildings, earning points by throwing gifts into pipes. |
