Ludum Dare #32compo

yoyoMadness

by tapisama

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.45

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★63%

This is my first compo entry and im quite happy with the results. Last Ludum I made a Jam entry with a friend called "Not on my watch".

The game is about a guy who has to hit other guys with a yoyo for some reason (weirdo...). The game has been made with python and pygame and converted to win32 exe with py2exe. Sound effects are made with sfxr and the few images used are made with Gimp.

I'm aware of the game looking terrible, but I'm mainly a programmer and I'm not that concerned with how it looks.

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There is no tutorial or explanation so here are the controls:

wasd to move.

Mouse to aim and control yoyos.

Mouse left button to launch initial yoyo. While pressed the yoyo bounces. If released the yoyo goes back to hand.

While holding de left mouse button you can press the right button to launch additional yoyos if you have them.

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The game is hosted in my itch page with the corresponding sources.

Thank you for trying it and feel free to make any comments. If you are interested you can follow me on twitter @Tapisama.

Genres: action

Comments19

TheBigShot20 Apr 2015, 00:57

The game doesnt open for me. I downloaded and extracted the zip.

Tapisamaauthor20 Apr 2015, 14:15

@TheBigShot I've had a couple of friends not being able to open it either. Sadly in not to familiar with py2exe or win32 applications either, so the only solution I can offer you is to download and install python and pygame and run de sources. I know it's a bother and I'm very sorry. Thank you for trying anyways.

tomdeal20 Apr 2015, 14:30

Worked for me. A really amazing concept, I love this weapon mechanic (especially with the two yoyo action later in the game).

tompudding20 Apr 2015, 14:31

It worked for me on Windows, but I already had Python and Pygame installed so maybe it was that. I had great fun with it once I got the hang of yo-yo ing, I love the effect once it goes Frenzy!

Junber20 Apr 2015, 14:41

Cool game. I really liked the idea though it seems like you have never used a yoyo in real life :D

frnknstn20 Apr 2015, 14:50

Pretty good, gets hard.

Tapisamaauthor20 Apr 2015, 15:08

@Junber lol owned XD, I'm actually a yoyo fan, but this was the way to made this that I found more viable and fun.

seankimdesign20 Apr 2015, 16:59

Yay, a fellow yo-yo entry! It was really satisfying beating the enemies to bloody pulp using the yo-yo almost as a pendulum. I didn't realize that I could launch the additional yo-yo with my right mouse button on my first try, but that was just me failing to read the description before playing. Awesome stuff!

Xinelu20 Apr 2015, 17:07

Nice entry for a first try =D

MrSchlag20 Apr 2015, 17:08

Hey ! Cool game, I like the idea.

Vija0220 Apr 2015, 17:08

The concept was good, if only the movement and the yoyo's physics were better, it'll be a much better game

Lukbebalduke20 Apr 2015, 17:10

Nice game! I did 34.700 points =D

Mano20 Apr 2015, 19:51

I quite enjoyed this. Love the idea of swinging around the yoyo. Litte hard to control, but it's fun anyway.

hercludes20 Apr 2015, 21:18

Unfortunately my computer picked this up as a virus, though it might be complete baloney, I've never had this problem before, it's not even the common "this thing has not been downloaded a lot, watch out" error, it's a full out "This thing has a virus." Maybe it's because I don't have python downloaded? Not sure, sorry buddy.

MikkelLevisen21 Apr 2015, 20:07

Very nice idea! Cool game mechanic. I particular loved when the yoyo got behind a huge horde of enemies and kept smashing them in the back :)

louis.denizet22 Apr 2015, 13:33

I really like the idea of yoyo has a weapon but too hard for me :p well done anyway!

TeamCalcium23 Apr 2015, 12:59

MSPaint.

IDidGame28 Apr 2015, 17:28

pretty solid mechanically, and really fun once you get a couple yoyos and frency
could have been cool to reward the player for pulling the yoyos back somehow
my highscore is 633900 :)

ArcturusDeluxe9 May 2015, 18:50

Neat little game. Nice concept overall, using a yoyo as a weapon is cool. It's quite tricky and the yoyo doesn't always seem to go quite where you want it to, but its quite satisfying, especially when you get multiple people in quick succession. As far as graphics go, maybe you should try teaming up with an artist or something. I've found the programmer/artist team combo seems to work ok for our projects.