Santa's inflight and in present dropping mood in Gift Drop

For those of a Scandinavian persuasion, today is the big day when it comes to giving presents and the like. Which all makes for a very busy time for Santa who would now appear to be on a 24 hour present-dropping jag to cover all his bases.

And that's the basic scenario of Gift Drop.

Taking a sidescrolling Defender-style approach to Santa, it has two modes.

The Dusk option gives you three lives to fly between the high trees and electricity pylons, dropping as many presents as possible into chimneys. Your goal is to push your high score.

The other mode is Dawn, which gives you three minutes to drop as many presents as successfully as you can.

Making your task harder is the wind. You can see its direction thanks to the arrow in the top left hand corner of the screen.

Gift Drop is out now for iPhone, priced 99c, €0.79 or 59p. You can see how it plays in the following video.

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