The Intern of Christmas Present
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
The Intern of Christmas Present is a comedic visual novel themed around the holiday season!
The Story
Pressie's faced many challenges in their tenure as an intern ghost of Christmas present, turning the hearts of many a Scrooge (and quite a few Grinches). Now they have one last trial to face before they can be promoted to a full-time holiday spectre, and it's their greatest challenge yet: Girl Dracula, sworn enemy of Christmas and adversary of all that is holly-jolly! Will they sway the daughter of darkness? Or will they be left facing a blood-red Christmas?
Features
- A 17K word story filled with silly choices!
- 3 endings (plus two bad endings)!
- Lovely, fully illustrated CGs!
- A thrilling cooking challenge!
- A Funny Crow!
- And more!
The Cast
Pressie
Persistent and dedicated, this intern ghost will do anything in their power to open Girl Dracula's heart to holiday merriment! Whether or not they succeed is up to you!
Girl Dracula
The mistress of darkness herself, Girl Dracula wants what any vampire wants; to rule over mortals through fear and power! She loves boasting about her great accomplishments and numerous vampiric abilities. But could there be more to her underneath the surface...?
Jen
A college student who, after going along with a summoning ritual one Halloween night, finds herself hosting Girl Dracula in her apartment. Though she's kind at heart, her patience with the little vampire has started to wear thin...
Erica
Jen's tall and spaced out roommate, Erica is a newly out trans girl who was behind Girl Dracula's summoning. Always easy-going, she doesn't mind going along with whatever the vampire demands of her. But how much longer will she wait for Girl Dracula to fulfill her promise?
(Wondering how this all started? Feel free to check out the story Vamp Me! in our Spooktober entry, A Trick and a Treat! But you can play this visual novel without any prior knowledge of it, so no worries!)
The Staff
- Crystal DeForest: Main writer, Ren'Py implementation, book illustration
- Sadie DeForest: Secondary writer, special illustrations (Air Gong logo etc)
- Alexandra Ferm (AlexandraIDV): Character design, sprites and portraits, illustrated CGs, editor
- Weiss: Editor
- Froey: Ambient sound
- Special thanks to Nikki
This visual novel has been specially made for the Winter VN Jam! Happy holidays everyone!
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Ok so first off, sorry I'm so late to this party, but finally started to work on our backlog and I just had to see what happened after "Vamp Me!"
And what happened was an absolute delight!
GD was insanely adorable, Pressie was so cute and Erica and Jen were wonderful and relatable characters to take this journey with. Even while playing in April the Christmas spirit was strong and I adored your take on the four Lords of Winter. Davis' presentation had me chuckling away.
And that was this game throughout. A wonderfully written and charmingly presented take on a modern Christmas.
I absolutely adore your style of game making with the humour and heart being the core of the game. You guys never miss!
The battle with my new nemesis the Crow was EPIC and all of the endings were so good lol.
Thank you so much for sharing this and can't wait to see what else you get up to. (Daisy Chain is on the to do list :D)
Amazing work!
Thank you so much! We're both so happy that you enjoyed it! ^^ We wanted to make something warm and comfy and perfect for the holiday season, and if it made you feel that way even in April, we must have done something right! Daisy Chain is a pretty big departure in tone compared to this and Vamp Me, but we're not finished with making comedic games yet! Thanks so much again for checking it out!
Oh, and we're happy that you liked the part with the crow so much; that was really fun both to write and to build in Ren'Py!
So. That's. How it went.
Nice to see what happened after their summoned GD lol
The game was very funny, and the characters so vivid. GD and Pressie were a blast, and that scene fighting the crow was just so good!
I've got the true ending... after getting ending 2 and 1. I was affraid I had gotten myself into a corner when I got the two bad endings in a row, but gladly you lot didn't go for that!
I loved how the game spins around self acceptance messages and concepts, as well as empathy for others and honesty. Truly, a christmas spirited game, with a spoiled brat who finally knew better!
Great job everyone!
We're both so happy you enjoyed it! ^^ Thank you so much for playing it!
I'm also happy you enjoyed the scene with the crow! It was a lot of fun putting that together. It was all because I was doodling in a spriting program at the time, and then I got the idea :P
With the endings, I didn't want to lock the player out of anything, because I wanted the game to be more laid back and casual. But there IS some special dialogue you get at dinner if you succeed at the cooking segment!
Thank you so much for playing it again! ^^