Story & Concept
Dionous Games Company
Direction & Game Design
Dionous Games Company
2D Graphics / Background Art
Elpida Panourgia
Cisco’s Original Character Design
Alexia Lougiaki
Character Design & 2D Animation
George Komiotis
Production
Dionous Games / 2016 – 2019
Cisco, a twelve-year-old boy, is smart, witty and occasionally a little stubborn. This year on December 24th, the night before Christmas, a strange call comes through his radio urging for help. On his attempt to assist he stumbles upon a strange glow he must follow, only to find out that Santa has been abducted. Holidays are at stake and Cisco sets on a quest to save Christmas. Not an easy task since this adventure will lead him through numerous challenging puzzles.
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Watch Over Christmas is a classic 2D point and click, third person adventure game. The story of the game unfolds within one night, the night of Christmas. The player of the game navigates through beautiful hand-drawn worlds in order to solve fun and challenging puzzles and find the truth behind Santa’s disappearance. The game is suitable for all ages and will be available for Win, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS.
The artistic style of the Watch Over Christmas game was inspired by the golden age of the 90’s adventure games. In Pencil Castle Pictures we created beautiful 2D cartoon style backgrounds and graphics for the three chapters of the game, the house, the forest and the spirit world. We also created the background art for the main menu and poster of the game. Great emphasis was given to the atmosphere created, the color and the lighting of the scenes, the exaggerated perspective and the cartoon style of the game. Our intention was to create a beautiful experience for all the players and especially children, who will navigate through our hand-drawn worlds inside the game.