Yen Master by LeviDSmith

made by LeviDSmith for LD 44 (COMPO)

Vanquish the demons to become the one true Yen Master! Collect yen to buy powerups, but be careful because the game is over once your yen goes down to zero. Enemy demons and their projectiles will drain your yen.

Powerups * Move Speed (cost 25 yen) - Makes the Yen Master move more quickly. Can upgrade three times. * Fire Rate (cost 50 yen) - Increases the frequency that the Yen Master can shoot fireballs. Can upgrade three times. * Orb (cost 100 yen) - Summon an orb by your side to shoot additional fireballs (maximum 2). Beware, if an orb is hit by an enemy or projectile it is destroyed (no refunds!) * Coin Magnet (cost 75 yen) - Coins are pulled toward the Yen Master. Can upgrade three times, and higher levels increases the magnet range.

Enemies * Peon Demon (gray) - Moves horizontally, and drops 1 yen * Circle Demon (blue) - Moves in a circular pattern, and drops 5 yen * Fire Demon (yellow) - Move vertically and shoot projectiles at the Yen Master * Boss Demon (purple) - Largest demon that shoots projectiles from his eyes. Takes multiple shots to defeat. Drops 100 yen

For more information see https://levidsmith.com/games/yen-master/

Gameplay video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTSEodih0Y

Time lapse development video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUisv2K4Luw

Screenshots

Supporters * Seth Robinson at RTSoft * Mike Garcia * Jeremiah McCoy * Games Finder

HTML5 (web)	https://levidsmith.com/games/yen-master/
Windows	https://gatechgrad.itch.io/yen-master
HTML5 (web)	https://gatechgrad.itch.io/yen-master
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/yen-master

Ratings

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Feedback

Curled Leaf

02. May 2019 · 02:55 UTC

At first it was a bit hard for me because i forget to use W key to fly :D It was a fun and challenging!

davidsheadgames

02. May 2019 · 02:59 UTC

So... I just tried your game. It's kind of rough, but playable. The movement is really slow from the start... to the point where it's hard to dodge enemy fire. Sacrificing from the start, though, without a list of controls available on the sites or in game, I didn't realize that W and S move up and down. I couldn't hit the horizontally moving gray enemies in the air until I learned that. It's usually a good idea to provide a control list at least on the site, even if it sometimes gets forgotten in the heat of the jam (I know I frequently forget to get the listing into the game itself and have to sometimes add it in post-jam).

I tried the magnet upgrade, and it didn't appear to do anything, at least on the first level upgrade. It's really difficult to get past level 2.

WTMK_BK

02. May 2019 · 03:13 UTC

i had issue with the w too but it was challenging and interesting

Shunaky

02. May 2019 · 03:15 UTC

The game have a good Idea, buuuuuuuuuuut
- As the camera is fixed you dont really know how your shots are going to be moving, you know roughly how, but not precisely, fixing the camera at the player might help that.
- The speed movement upgrade starts to be bad after lvl 3, as you have inertia, I bought lvl 3 or 4 and it was just bad for me.
- Shooting on the mouse makes me feel like the mouse should be used to aim/move the character
- On the level 2 it is just madness and you are being hit all the time and when you kill someone, the award is too low. Maybe it needs some balancing in this part.

But it was a good idea, maybe if you did some different aproches it would be better
Nice job, bro

pcoridan

02. May 2019 · 03:29 UTC

I was definitely chuckling at the sound effects. The game controls didn't feel that bad to move around, but shooting was a little tough to get right. I really liked playing a rails shooter again. Feels like I haven't played once since Star Fox 64.

Good Job! Also congrats on doing LD for so long.

Mertios

02. May 2019 · 03:35 UTC

Unfortunately, I can't give it a go since I'm on Linux. Any chance for a web version?

Lexyvil

02. May 2019 · 06:18 UTC

Interesting game, I made it up to level 6~
I realized that it's always best to start with Fire Rate or Move Speed first. The Orb upgrade is quite expensive for how it's expendable.

cdunham

06. May 2019 · 01:02 UTC

Fun yet challenging entry! Gameplay is solid and it fits the theme well. I tried a few times but couldn't make it past the first few levels. It is hard to aim at the enemies considering you have to get right in front of them to shoot. Maybe aiming at the mouse or having an upgrade that homes in on enemies would improve it a bit?