Weihnachtskalender.de

Video Game

January 2005

The "Weihnachtskalender" is a digital advent calendar packaged as a screensaver. For every day in December until christmas it tells another 3D comic story of the main character Paul Schubert and his family. The product is an adgame and can be freely downloaded from www.weihnachtskalender.de.

Challenge:

Three short loops of well known christmas songs that can be played as background music. Since this is a casual downloadable adgame, the file size was fairly restricted and loops had to be short. The sound of the music had to be simple and playful.

Solution:

We created a simple version of the traditional christmas songs "Jingle Bells", "Silent Night" and "Morgen kommt der Weihanchtsmann". The arrangements were kept very simplistic, while trying to give them a contemporary feel. The loop length for all songs was kept well below 60 seconds.