[File] Willy’s Spring Festival

[UncleWan]

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Willy’s Spring Festival

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Hello，everyone！

To celebrate the Chinese New Year 2026, I made this mini-game.Here is my JSWED 48K game，an easy mini-game with six rooms which can be completed without losing a life.

Story：Willy had prepared a generous gift early, intending to honor his parents during the Spring Festival. Passing by the Temple of Wealth God ，he went in to offer incense and pray for abundant wealth in the new year.

Unexpectedly, a gust of wind suddenly blew, scattering all the gifts he was holding in different directions. Willy needs to go along the way to search and pick them up, retrieving each gift to give to his parents.

The game offers two languages: English and Chinese Pinyin.The only differences between the two language versions are the text and some sprites.TAP format only.

 

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• Submitter
  UncleWan
• Submitted
  02/16/2026
• Category
  Jet Set Willy [Remakes]

 

[jetsetdanny]

Thank you SO MUCH for this New Year's gift, UncleWan! 🙏 I have just completed the Chinese version of the game. It's an incredible feeling to play a Chinese take on JSW!😁

For those who are wondering whether to have a go at it or not, I will say the following: Please DO! You will not regret it. The game has (what I perceive as) some very markedly Chinese elements - what a delight to see those in a JSW game! - and fresh new graphics and sprites, while at the same time it also features some well-known JSW sprites and some beloved characters from other ZX Spectrum games 🙂 .

So thanks again for "Willy’s Spring Festival", UncleWan! 🙂 And if I can just offer a tiny little bit of constructive feedback, I will mention that:

- IMO in the opening room it might be better to block the room exit on the upper right with a Fire cell (or delete the rightmost Water cell so that it does not create a possibility of exiting the room without jumping), because once the player exits there, they fall into a Multiple-Death Scenario (MDS) in the room to the right. 

- An MDS happens also when the player exits "Qiao Shang De HongBao" to the left at the upper level. If it were my game, I would also block the exit there (with Earth cells in this case because of the room design). One could argue that the player has just come from  "Ba Zhe Ba Zhe ! QuanBu Ba Zhe !" so they should know that's it's not safe to exit "Qiao Shang De HongBao" to the left on the upper level. That's a valid argument, but I would still block that exit to avoid a possibility of an MDS.

- In "HuanYing Lai Dao JiaoZi YuZhou!" there is a time limit, because after a while two guardians collide (the horizontal magenta one at the bottom and the vertical cyan one) and Willy gets killed. It's not a problem in terms of completing the game (because the player has enough time to collect all items if they exit the room temporarily to reset the timer, so to speak), but it might be perceived by some as inelegant - unless it's been introduced on purpose (as a time limit).

Again, I'm mentioning these elements in the spirit of constructive feedback, but please don't perceive them as criticism of any kind. I am absolutely delighted with "Willy’s Spring Festival"☺️, I believe the room designs are beautiful and smart, and the ending is fantastic! A great start to the Year of the Fire Horse, which I have every reason to believe will also be an amazing year for JSW games 😀.

Happy New Year, UncleWan and everyone! ☺️

[jetsetdanny]

And some feedback regarding the English version:

There's one thing that would benefit from a correction. There is a typo on the title screen: the letters read "FESTVIAL" instead of "FESTIVAL".

The same typo also appears in the scrolling message, so it should be corrected there as well.

If you decide to correct it and re-release the game, I would also suggest correcting the following spelling issues in the room names and the scrolling message:

- "Ha!New year decorations on sale!" - I would capitalise "Y" in "year" (to make it New Year);

- "Outer Spacestation" - I would make "Space Station" two words.

- "Watching Fireworks with Family !" - there's no need for a space between the "y" in "Family" and the exclamation mark (it would be there in French, but not in English 😉).

- In the scrolling message, I believe there is no reason to capitalise the words "Gifts", "Area" and "Midnight" - I would start them all in lower-case letters.

Again, it's not criticism, but some suggestions to make your beautiful game, UncleWan, spotless ☺️.

[UncleWan]

Thanks for your valuable feedback, I'm really glad you enjoyed this mini game, Daniel！🙂

I will make adjustments to these issues as soon as possible.

About the time limit in that room, I noticed during the test, but I think it's also an interesting challenge to explore the universe before the oxygen runs out. Haha, that's a bad excuse, but it's better than the software project explaining that the bug in the "attic" room was a gas leak. 🤣 so I decided to keep it.

Edited February 17 by UncleWan

[jetsetdanny]

2 hours ago, UncleWan said:

About the time limit in that room, I noticed during the test, but I think it's also an interesting challenge to explore the universe before the oxygen runs out. Haha, that's a bad excuse, but it's better than the software project explaining that the bug in the "attic" room was a gas leak. 🤣 so I decided to keep it.

It's your choice, absolutely. There are some rooms in the history of JSW games where such a challenge (time limit) has been introduced in the same way, by conscious design. So there's no reason to modify it if you like it this way 🙂 .

 

  

2 hours ago, UncleWan said:

I will make adjustments to these issues as soon as possible.

Great! 👍

[JianYang]

23 hours ago, jetsetdanny said:

There's one thing that would benefit from a correction. There is a typo on the title screen: the letters read "FESTVIAL" instead of "FESTIVAL".

I thought that too. Then I thought "That's clever - Fest-Vial! I bet Willy will have to collect some potions."

But from @UncleWan's reaction it seems to be a typo. But maybe you (unclewan) could consider solving the issue by changing some item graphics to vials, which in my (not so perfect) understanding of the English language are little bottles.

Maybe a stupid idea. I don't know. I'm pretty exhausted. I couldn't even make it past the second screen.

So my review is just: What I've seen looks really nice.

[UncleWan]

19 hours ago, JianYang said:

But maybe you (unclewan) could consider solving the issue by changing some item graphics to vials, which in my (not so perfect) understanding of the English language are little bottles.

Haha, that's a very interesting idea!😄

19 hours ago, JianYang said:

I couldn't even make it past the second screen.

Spoiler

A little tip: If you can jump onto the blue conveyor belt, try jumping near the second square from the right. If done correctly, Willy will land on the red pillar while collecting items.

 

[jetsetdanny]

Thank you for releasing the corrected versions, UncleWan! 👍 😊

[Ligan]

I can't figure out how to collect the two rightmost items in Welcome to the Dumpling Universe.

[UncleWan]

5 hours ago, Ligan said:

I can't figure out how to collect the two rightmost items in Welcome to the Dumpling Universe.

The left and right sides of this room are connected... I’m just giving a little reminder.😊