Christmas Cricket Batter is a branded browser game where Santa is the batter. Players drag or swipe to swing, hit the ball into scoring strips marked 1, 2, 4 and 6, and try to score as many runs as they can in 60 seconds without losing three wickets.
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Christmas Cricket Batter is a 2D arcade cricket game that runs in the browser. Santa stands at the crease in a Christmas stadium at night, and balls come at him one at a time from the right. The player drags or swipes to swing his bat, and the ball flies off toward the edges of the screen.
The edges are the scoreboard. Strips line the left, top and right walls, marked 1, 2, 4 and 6, and a struck ball that touches one scores those runs. Black and yellow OUT strips sit between them, and a ball that touches one costs a wicket. So does a missed ball that hits the candy-cane stumps.
An innings is one continuous 60 seconds with three wickets. It ends when the clock reaches zero or the third wicket falls, and the result screen then shows total runs, fours, sixes, balls faced, outs and bonus runs.
It's built for a portrait phone screen. On a computer, the game sits in the middle of a snowy stadium-night background, and when the window is wide enough, two side panels appear: a product showcase box on the left and a campaign message box on the right.
Only a struck ball scores from a strip. A missed ball never does, and a struck ball that settles on the ground is a dot ball.
The swing takes one gesture to learn, and every shot is a small bet between a bigger score and a lost wicket.
Drag or swipe anywhere on the playfield and the bat swings from Santa's gloves toward your finger. First-time players also get a short practice round, with a ghost hand that shows the swing, then how to hit, how to go big and what to avoid. It can be skipped, and the browser remembers it was done.
A ball met as the bat sweeps upward is lofted toward the 4 and 6 strips. Flat, early contact drives it low into the 1 and 2 strips, and a still bat just blocks. On the right wall the 6 sits at the top and the 4, 2 and 1 sit lower, with an OUT strip between each pair.
Balls start at 400 to 470 pixels per second and reach 610 to 720 in the last 15 seconds, on a game screen 720 pixels wide. The gap between balls shrinks from 0.95 to 0.55 seconds. In the final 10 seconds the timer turns red, a tick sounds each second and the music speeds up.
After 8 seconds, a floating gift box with a +2 tag can appear in the upper playfield. A struck ball that passes through it earns 2 bonus runs and keeps flying, and the box disappears after 3 deliveries if nobody hits it. It's built as an optional brand target, and bonus runs show separately on the result screen.
Balls come from the right, one at a time. A pulsing red arrow on the right edge shows the release height just before each ball arrives.
Press and drag with a mouse, or swipe on a phone. The bat points from Santa's gloves toward your pointer. A natural swing sweeps from the upper left, down past his feet and up to the right.
A ball that touches a 1, 2, 4 or 6 strip scores those runs. OUT strips and the stumps cost a wicket. The innings ends after 60 seconds or three wickets.
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Placeholder brand tags sit on the menu, the sponsor boards, the bottom board, the computer side panels and the thank-you line on the result screen. Your brand name takes their place.
On a computer, the left side panel has a product showcase box and the right panel has a box for your campaign message, next to a short how-to-bat summary.
The bat sticker, strip colors, batter, ball and gift box are all points we can restyle, and every tuning value sits in one settings block. Make it gentler for a casual crowd or tougher for a competitive one.
What you get with the branded cricket game.
A 60-second innings, a swipe to swing and a Christmas stadium suit a few specific situations.
An innings ends at 60 seconds or on the third wicket, so the next visitor gets a turn quickly. The practice round shows first-time players how to swing, so your team can talk instead of explaining the rules. See more promotional games.
Guests swing with a finger or a mouse, and the board ranks players by total runs. In the demo, scores stay in each browser, so tell us if you want one shared board for the whole party. See more office Christmas party games.
After the innings, a scorecard form asks for a name, an email and a consent tick, and players can skip it. In the demo, entries stay in the browser, so tell us where they should go in your quote request. See our event lead generation games.
This is the live game. Swing at a few balls, hit a strip or two and see how it feels before you ask for a quote.
On a phone, Play opens the game in its own full window so it fills your screen. The first time you play, a short practice round shows how to swing. Your best score is saved on this device.
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See the branded Duck Carnival Shoot gameAn innings ends when the 60-second clock reaches zero or the third wicket falls, whichever comes first. A wicket is lost when a struck ball touches an OUT strip or when a missed ball hits the stumps. At zero, no new balls are bowled and the bat locks. A struck ball already in the air can still finish and score for up to 3 seconds, while a ball that was not struck is voided. If the third wicket falls first, the innings ends at once. A TIME UP or ALL OUT banner shows, then the result screen.
Yes, both, and they come after the innings, never before play. The result screen leads to a short Official Scorecard form asking for a name, an email and a consent tick, and players can skip it. The Top Batters leaderboard then ranks players by total runs and shows their balls faced, with the top 8 listed and the player's own row highlighted. In this demo the board is stored in the browser and starts with 6 sample entries, so a real campaign needs it connected to your own backend, and you supply the consent wording. Tell us where entries should go when you request a quote.
Ball speed climbs in four 15-second bands, measured on a game screen 720 pixels wide: 400 to 470 pixels per second at the start, then 460 to 560, 540 to 640 and finally 610 to 720, with a hard cap of 740. The gap between balls shrinks from 0.95 to 0.55 seconds, and full tosses join the mix from 15 seconds. Every ball is test-played with the game's own physics before it is bowled, and only balls the bat can reach are used, so no delivery is impossible. In the last 10 seconds the timer turns red and the music speeds up from 146 to 166 beats per minute.
Yes. The brand tags, campaign message boxes, bat sticker colors, strip colors, batter, ball and gift box are all points we can restyle, and every tuning value lives in one settings block in the game, so ball speeds and the gaps between balls can be adjusted. Tell us about your crowd and how long each player should stay at the screen when you request a quote, and we'll confirm what can change.
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