Rudolf is such a jerk! I couldn't beat him.. I guess I ruined Christmas.

Animation is quite good... Did you use Spriter or something?

@plauk
Yes it's Spriter. Santas arms are just in a bit weird position.

Hehe I liked it. Wasn't expecting more phases.

Difficult! It'd be cool if, when Rudolph starts charging, you could hop on his back and it would confuse him enough to run him into the wall and stun him for a few seconds so you could get a few shots with the whip in.

Pretty solid for 9 hours.

I whipped him. Then things got really nasty :P !
Fun game!

Great! Nice graphics and animations and I had to laugh when the second phase started. Didn't expect that.

I can only imagine Santa thinking "Must I have to beat you into submission every year, Rudolph?" *Cracks whip* "Santa Claus is going to town, on YOU"

Cool game! Reminds me of a christmas themed mega man boss battle lol. Animations look really slick. Great work!

Rudolf was well 'ard! I guess no present deliveries this year then.... :)

If someone is determined to get those presents delivered. First form is relatively easy when Rudolf walks. You hit once and back up a bit and repeat. For the second phase it can be a bit hard to get that jump whipping to work but, one good place to do it is from the right side bale stack. Also the pattern is always the same.

Thanks for all the comments. Last phase is inspired by Dracula's second form in Castlevania 3

Echoing the praise for the smooth animation. The second form is tough!

Beautiful crispy graphics and fun gameplay! (Challenging but in the right way). Would be great with a bit of sound!

I looked at the game and I thought "another christmas game," but this game is really interesting and fun!
Congratulations!

This christmas, Rudolf becomes an evil disembodied head!!

Very hard, could not beat head. But had a laugh when that stage of the fight happened.

Second phase was a neat touch, feel like I should've expected it!

Neat little game! I like these kinds of games that are just a boss battle. Couldn't beat the second form though. Controls were a bit stiff too.

Why won't Rudolf let me beat him up...

Pretty hilarious! I agree with plauk, animation is awesome. Movement's a bit clunky, and I especially would've liked to be able to aim my whip upwards when Rudolf turned into a (SPOLIER!) giant flying demon head thing.

Anyways good stuff.

Bad Rudolf bad! :D

The game is rather hardcore but like the challenge. Controls seem a little bit "unresponsive" though.

First form looks like megaman classic bosses behavior.

Cool little game. I'm glad you made something with C2!

Wow this was tough. Anyway Merry Christmas to one and all, even psychotic reindeer

Hi there. OMG I killed Santa. Shame no sounds. Liked the pixel art. Good job!

Ahah, Rudolf is devil=) I hanged for a while trying to get him!

Really nice for a 9h game! Solid gameplay and good animations. One thing that bugged me was having no air control, but that was more than evened out by the fun I had smacking Rudolph. Good job overall!

I really liked the single boss battle, they're often some of my favorite LD games. It was lots of fun, but very hard. I finally beat the reindeer, thought I was finished, but was pleasantly surprised that there were more forms. Unfortunately, I never made it past the 2nd form... were there others? I think I would have had a better (and probably easier) time, if I could change my horizontal direction in the air. Was there a reason you didn't allow that?

Impressive for 9 hours. The spriter animations looked great. A very nice little LD entry.

@zatyka
No there was only two forms. The jump control is a some sort of tribute to NES Castlevania's I think :)

A bit sad there weren't sounds, this would have added nicely to the game.
Good job on the animations even if the control/timing felt a bit stiff because of it.

I laughed when I got to the second form.
Hard game to beat, I haven't so far, probably won't, but I recon a nice realisation and a funny idea.

Good job making this game in 9 hours !

entertaining and amusing game, great job!