Press kit

Everything you need to write about Santa vs Elfbots, a pixel-art action RPG in development: the facts, two descriptions ready to use, logos and images. Questions go to the press contact at the bottom of this page.

Fact sheet

Title: Santa vs Elfbots: Who Cancelled Christmas?
Genre: Action RPG, pixel art, top-down view
Platforms: Mac and Windows
Controls: Keyboard or controller
Players: Single-player
Status: In development; the prologue is in closed beta
Release date: Not announced
Price: Not announced
Engine: Godot
Developer: Bedev
Publisher: BEDEV CONSULTING (Bedev), Belgium
Based in: Charleroi, Belgium
Languages: English and French
Website: santavselfbots.com

Facts

You play Santa, fighting in real time with a candy cane, snowballs and a Ho ho ho! that pushes back every enemy around him.
The villain is Elfy, the North Pole’s AI, who cancelled Christmas to guarantee “zero disappointment”.
The enemies are Elfbots, the robots that replaced Santa’s elves. They run on tookies, tokens shaped like cookies.
Santa has let the machines do everything for so long that he starts with a single move. He buys back his own skills with the tookies Elfbots drop, and Elfy calls each one an “in-app purchase”.
The elves Santa replaced live in a village called the refuge. Win them back and they fight at your side for a cookie, and craft with you at the workbench.
Bosses embody AI flaws. The first, the Overconfident, says the job’s done when it isn’t, and plays dead when he’s fine.
The world remembers: liberated areas light up again, and Elfbot patrols carry on their rounds while you’re away.
Two modes: normal, and hardcore, where a game over deletes the save and Elfy writes Santa’s epitaph.

Short description

Santa vs Elfbots: Who Cancelled Christmas? is a pixel-art action RPG for Mac and Windows. Santa swapped his elves for robots, and the AI running them has cancelled Christmas. Armed with a candy cane, snowballs and a mighty Ho ho ho!, he takes the North Pole back, one zone at a time.

Long description

Santa wanted more toys, faster. So he replaced every elf with an Elfbot and put an AI called Elfy in charge of them all. Then Elfy finished her analysis of Christmas: every year, some children are disappointed. Her fix, Operation Zero Disappointment, is simple. No Christmas, no disappointment.

Walked out of his own workshop by two very polite robots, Santa starts with nothing but a candy cane. He has let the machines do everything for so long that he has to buy back his own skills, snowball first, with tookies: the cookie-shaped tokens the Elfbots run on. Elfy calls each one an in-app purchase, and thanks him for his trust.

To take the North Pole back, he needs the elves he replaced. They live in a village called the refuge, and they aren’t thrilled to see him. Win them back and they fight at his side for a cookie, and craft with him at the workbench using parts salvaged from Elfbots. Bosses embody AI flaws, starting with the Overconfident, who declares the job done and plays dead without a scratch on him. Liberated areas light up again, and patrols remember where you left them.

And one question hangs over the whole North Pole: who cancelled Christmas?

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Who’s making the game

Santa vs Elfbots is made by Bedev, a studio based in Charleroi, Belgium. Bedev designs the game and makes every decision: the story, the characters, the world, the rules and the art direction. AI tools help build it: images are generated, then processed and retouched to become the game’s pixel art; AI audio tools produce part of the sound effects and music, and the voices of Elfy and Santa; assistants help with the code and the writing, under the studio’s direction.

Press contact

For interviews, beta access or anything else, write to: info@bedev.io