Studio makes actual minigame compilation based on those shovelware mobile game ads you see everywhere
A feature of online life for anyone who's ever expressed the vaguest of interest in videogames is weird adverts for shovelware games. You know the type, my lord: little vignettes where someone's building a house, or saving a damsel from a burning pyre, or mixing gloop in an oddly satisfying way.
Well now someone's made a minigame collection on Steam with perhaps one of the most outstanding titles I've ever seen. I am going to give this name its own paragraph and allow it to retain caps lock for the full effect:
YEAH! YOU WANT «THOSE GAMES,» RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!
Or YYWTGRSHYGNLSYCT for short. Mostly I just admire the over-enthusiastic «YEAH!» at the start of what boils down to a stickman minigame collection. It seems inspired by a kind of longing, because one of the things about these adverts is that they mostly bear little relation to anything you can actually play: if you ever make the mistake of clicking on one of these ads, whatever it takes you to is usually (a) skeezy and (b) nothing like the 'game' you clicked on.
«Those Games» are what «you wanted to play to your heart's content, but couldn't». They're stickpeople in room puzzles, car parking challenges, test tubes with various liquids, some sort of tacking / running challenge, and one of those where you see lots of little buildings with icons. The game's simple setup sees you playing through various styles of minigame, with monthly ranking leaderboards for each one, and as you play you're rewarded with coins. These can be used on the «Gotcha!» machine (very good punnage), to earn plates and titles which, the developer claims, allow «8,910,000 different combinations!»
You cannot fault the enthusiasm. And people seem to actually
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