What a solid little game! Very cute. Charming. Great vibes. The music felt a little sparse and repetitive, but had some good builds, and the rest of your sound design was spot on. 

It is easy to make stealth games that are tedious or boring, but this was fun and engaging the whole way through! I'm actually glad I got a GAME OVER near the end, so I could see what horrors end up chasing you down the corridors.

Great art, music, sound effects and writing! I felt slick the whole way through. Nice job :)

really strong entry. the stealth feels tense without being frustrating, it is really fun to also be running after the kids. the presentation is super polished. amazing gorgeous art, expressive animations, and fun sound design all around. very very nice work!

There was a ton to like about this game.  The artstyle is great and the premise is wholly unique for this jam, I'm pretty sure?  I liked the abrupt switch from slow, deliberate stealth to a madcap dash to escape when you get caught or set up the tree.  I think all of my criticism rests mostly with the bear traps, which are just the absolute worst.  Unless I missed some mechanic to disable them, they seem to be unavoidable damage checks at times?  But even when they aren't, their hitboxes are ginormous and the minigame to get out requires you to spam the move keys which mean you often break out of one then immediately accidentally move into another (and the minigame takes significantly longer if you only spam one or two keys to try to avoid this).   Then they get combined with ice..... 

But all the other traps are all really fun and the stealth itself is really well done.  It's easy for stealth to feel like a slog or be really unforgiving but I think this game mostly manages to avoid this.  Very Slick.

Great presentation and sound design! The stealth mechanics were also really slick, and I really liked that tripping over the Legos results in the Family Guy fall pose. lol

Great job all around!

very very well done! super polished and very fun!

Ho ho ho! This is a good game, what a gift! Loved the serious jingly bell music, and the graphics were great! Really liked the mechanic that when you got caught you had the chance to stop the kid or just try and beeline it for the objective, not having it be just instant fail was a real nice choice! And since the floor is absolutely covered in bear traps and legos, it makes it so neither choice is trivial. Great stuff! 

a really really lovely game. all it's missing is an obnoxiously difficult mode to complete the metal gear solid experience.

the art in particular is astounding, the enemy ai was good and didn't bug out as much as i thought it would for such a short game jam. the music and sound design also made it feel very simulationy. the levels also featured some stunning interior design, like that room with three toilets shoulder to shoulder facing a door.

if i had to offer feedback (and i kind of do) i'd say a bit more could be done to make the levels feel different, that the dialogue system wasn't used as much as it ought to have been, and that the ui could use a bit of work. with all that in mind, this is probably the best game i've played for this jam :)

Woooow very impressive! The art is beautiful... animations are simple and so effective... wow!!!

Took me a while to realize how to use the ducks, because i had avoided them early on. once i did, it was a very nice stealth experience! the audio didn't work great on my browser(chrome) but but i didn't notice any other bugs. great work!

Cute game, cool characters, overall aesthetic is A+. The music and sounds were really fantastic too. 

Okay I initially had some issues getting prone to work without the game closing, but I scrolled down a bit and saw your comment on the alternate control scheme so I went back and gave it a shot and sure enough it fixed the issue!

Genuinely this was such a cute game, the first time I slipped on the duck I actually laughed out loud at the animation. Also the music being a mix of Christmas music and stealth/action music was perfect. Seriously this took me by surprise in the best way. Great job!

This is so fantastic! The quality is amazgin and the gameplay is so fun! It feels so smooth and I love how simple it is to grasp. You guys should be very proud of yourselves.

I really enjoyed the sound design and animations. I had a lot of trouble seeing what was going on in the dark sections.

I love how this game has such careful balance that it overcomes the stealth design problem of encouraging the player to play out your mistakes. Trying to run after the kids down the halls is a lot of fun!

Great art, I was confused about the objective at first, but then I died to the drones haha

Urg.. Colonel I'm trying to sneak around, but I'm dummy jolly and the jingling of my bells keeps alerting the children.  Very enjoyable, I like how convince the children not to rat you out by promising you'll make yourself easier next year to trap.

Yes! More!!! 10/10

Christmas! in February?! Yippie! Can’t get over the peter griffin falling down the stairs pose for when you slip on toys!

Great game with lovely music and cute animations