Whack That Yam is a real stop-motion Whack'em-all game created in 48 hours as part of #GGJ2023

You are a yam farmer whose yams have come to life and are determined to escape their garden bed and make a jump for it to escape the cliff-top garden! 

Your goal is simple: Whack as many yams as possible! By whacking a yam, you are rooting it back into the ground, causing it to sprout new yams, which you will have to stop escaping. 

The entire game is made of real stop-motion assets - 

Each frame was 3d-scanned individually, and all animations in the game are set to run at exactly 12 fps in perfect sync.


Controls:

Keyboard Gamepad
Movement W,A,S,D / ArrowsLeft Stick / D-Pad
WackSPACE / LMBButton East / South
RestartR

Credits: 

Omer Zadok - Programming

Yoel Simchovitch - 3D Modeling, Programming

Avishai Simchovitch - Art, Animation

Noam Sabbag - Art, Animation


StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, HTML5
Rating
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorsOmer Zadok, Yoel Simhovitch
GenreAction
Tags3D, Animation, artgame, stop-motion
Average sessionA few seconds
InputsKeyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Playstation controller

Download

Download
Whack That Yam!.zip 99 MB
Download
Whak That-Yam! (MacOS).zip 112 MB

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This game is awesome! I really appreciate the stop motion animation, and the gameplay is just downright fun and funny. Great job!

Thanks!! We watched your twitch stream and it was delightful! So much fun watching you play & enjoy our game :)

We’re on the official Unity live twitch stream!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLcYBq0DGz4&ab_channel=OmerZadok

They chose 10 games from GGJ23 and one of those was Whack That Yam!

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1732331473?t=1h15m40s

If you were wondering, “how many yams can be whacked?”, We got this from one of the players: