Comments on: Yin Yang

Yin Yang

boo_radley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:24:24 -0800

Yin Yang is an acceptable side-scrolling game with a cute gimmick.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:34:30 -0800

I get nowhere. Pressing "control" does nothing. I get all the symbols, for each man, and then nothing happens.... :-(

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:37:53 -0800

Aha, it's the "command" key on the Mac.

By: Democritus

Democritus — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:45:34 -0800

Man, I suck. I can't get past level 2. I push the box in the spikes but die trying to jump off it every time. I was hoping someone would have dropped some hints here already.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:49:40 -0800

boxes are passages.

By: thecaddy

thecaddy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:56:18 -0800

Clever, but I gave up the third time I didn't jump on a slug. This could be cool if they could fix the hit detection issues.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:00:26 -0800

See also SHIFT for similar-but-different black/white reversal gameplay.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:01:43 -0800

Did anyone get the last yin-yang on the black side on level 3?

By: churl

churl — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:13:35 -0800

The acceptable of the web.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:17:38 -0800

I would debate acceptable.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:23:10 -0800

don't be like that, baby.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:30 -0800

Separate but equal.

By: grouse

grouse — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:29:17 -0800

Got bored at level 14.

By: Bookhouse

Bookhouse — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:34:20 -0800

I die in the first two seconds every time. I must be missing something.

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:45:20 -0800

I got bored when it failed on a loading screen. (Next level after the one where one of your dudes has two dragons and the other only has one.)

By: teraflop

teraflop — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:46:06 -0800

It seems to be fairly easy to break the physics. If you stack two opposite-colored boxes with one directly on top of the other and then switch characters, the boxes have an irritating tendency to slide off the screen and disappear, leaving an invisible barrier and/or hole in the ground.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:43:46 -0800

Anyone know why Firefox has a tendency to let embedded content like this disappear when you scroll? The only time it seems to never happen is with youtube.

By: redbeard

redbeard — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:46:48 -0800

Weirdly, on level 3, I can get yin (or yang, whoever) to fall off the screen through a poorly placed box, and he can never come back. blergh.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:13:40 -0800

Clever! Thanks for posting.

By: vertigo25

vertigo25 — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:23:16 -0800

Damn it! Must.Stop.Playing. Must.put.kid.in.bed...

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:59:08 -0800

I am perhaps missing something rather crucial, and cannot get whitey out of level one. Should I give up and admit that I suck at life?

By: reventlov

reventlov — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:04:46 -0800

Squidi seems unhappy about something. Fun game, though.

By: kxr

kxr — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:18:30 -0800

Yeah, a nice idea, but did they forget to playtest it or what? On both of the first two levels I managed to get a character stuck in such a way that I couldn't complete the level or find a convenient way to have the character die, so the only way I could carry on playing was to reload the damn page. Screw that... Or mebbe I just suck at this game...

By: djgh

djgh — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:51:58 -0800

Level three sucked (or rather, I sucked at level three). Ying can kill the slugs, Yang just stands there and gets destroyed.

By: grouse

grouse — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:23:04 -0800

There's a button at the top left to restart the level. Sometimes you need to hit it if you get stuck.

By: taz

taz — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:20:17 -0800

I love it. 14 and 16 are my favorite levels so far.

By: chococat

chococat — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:12:44 -0800

How sad that my 6 year old now knows about things before I see them posted on Metafilter. As soon as he heard the music he came running over, "I love that game!"

By: ikalliom

ikalliom — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:39:50 -0800

Fun game. There are 25 levels.

By: taz

taz — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:48:05 -0800

Can I borrow someone's six-year-old to dispatch this kill-y, floaty, balloon thing in level 21? I'll bake cookies, and you, mefi parents, can have a couple of hours to yourselves (to spend in ways that I won't question) while s/he helps finish up the game. Deal?

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:42:43 -0800

There was some controversy about this game, as the game mechanic was originally discussed on the 300 Game Mechanics site. The Nitrome developers denied they saw Squidi's original post.