Yoshimi Yahtzee

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Hey folks. I've been working on a little Yahtzee game, and thought I'd share. Not the most complex game ever, but as a beginner I'm pretty pleased with it.

A few features :

  • Animated title screen
  • A background pattern select in the menu screen
  • Guide in the menu screen. Page 2 is selectable, but you need to exit the menu and return. I'm not sure if there's a way round this.

EDIT: I've added a high score table, with save file.

Controls:
:a: Select / Hold dice
:b: Roll dice

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Oh, and Yoshimi is a username I use on a lot of forums/discord (and realised I don't use here!)

DOWNLOAD FROM MY ITCH.IO PAGE

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Cool! I'll try this soon.

I struggled to get a satisfactory screen layout with my "five dice" game. I wanted to try a vertical layout but never got round to it.

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Managed to add a high score screen with Playdate's keyboard input and file backup. :smile:

New version up on itch.io

I'm really loving making games for the Playdate already.

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oh wow! this is really cool! i havent played a yahtzee games in ages!

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wow, some of my favorite childhood memories were playing the yahtzee LCD handheld my great grandmother had. this is bringing me back to that. awesome work.

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I absolutely love this. I play it a lot. My only suggestion would be a bonus for subsequent Yahtzees.

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this is one of my top games. one gripe is that sometimes i hit the roll button too quickly and get a double-roll. it’s be nice if there was a lockout timer to keep an accidental second roll from happening within a second or so of the first roll.

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Crank to roll? (Must make dice rattling in cup sound while cranking)

Ive played through a couple rounds now.

Cycling cursor left/right if dpad is held down may be nice.

Thanks for all of your hard work on this game!

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Hey folks. I've had so much great feedback from the Playdate community about Yoshimi Yahtzee. Thanks to everyone who's downloaded the game, especially those who have thrown me a few bucks. I've had a few feature requests which I've added to the new update.

Version 1.3

  • Added Crank to roll!!
  • Scoring 63 or above in the top row gains you 35 bonus points. (was previously incorrectly set at 65).
  • Fixed bug where pressing B while writing your high score name would submit your name.
  • Added 'New Game' option in menu screen, for when you'd like to restart.
  • Changed buttonJustReleased to buttonJustPressed.
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I've really been enjoying this over the past week or two since I found it on Itch.io. The only bummer is my username is one character too long to use for the highscore table! :wink: