UPIXO in Action: Mission in Snowdriftland

Mission in Snowdriftland
Developer(s)tons of bits
Publisher(s)tons of bits[1]
Designer(s)Bogac Sariaydin, Steve Welz
Programmer(s)Steve Welz
Artist(s)Bogac Sariaydin
Composer(s)Fabian Del Priore
Platform(s)Windows
Release
  • Adobe Flash
  • December 1, 2006
  • Adobe Flash re-release
  • December 1, 2010
  • Steam remaster
  • December 1, 2021
Genre(s)Platformer
Mode(s)Single-player

Mission in Snowdriftland (or as in the Flash version UPIXO in Action: Mission in Snowdriftland) is a pixel art platformer published for Steam (with a history of being an online Flash game in 2006 and sponsored by Nintendo of Europe) created by German studio tons of bits.[2] The game was used as an advent calendar advertising various Nintendo products[3] from December 1 to December 24, 2006, with an additional level added each day. It was supposed to be taken offline on January 14, 2007, but was delayed until January 16. The game was brought back on December 1, 2010, this time to promote upcoming WiiWare titles for the Wii, but once again removed in 2011.

A remaster of the game with new features, more content and technical updates was later released on Steam on December 1, 2021.

  1. ^ "tons of bits". Twitter. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  2. ^ "tons of bits". www.tons-of-bits.com. Retrieved 26 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Spotlight on Indie Issue #3: Interview with Indie Game Developer tons of bits". www.alteredgamer.com. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2020.