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Ninja Numpties is a video board game where 2-4 players place traps on a mini Chess board island, but watch out – the traps disappear next turn! Earn ninja stars by pranking your frenemies... Whoever has the most stars by the end of the game wins!

Three distinct kinds of traps!

Push Tiles drag your foes around or even off the island! Daisy-chain them to form a conveyor belt!
D4 Caltrops deal damage to your (opponent’s) dice roll!
Rock-Paper-Scissors traps start the RPS minigame! The winner gets at least 1 star – raise the stakes by making a Push Tile path to the rock/paper/scissors...

Press P to pause, not Escape!

Ninja Numpties is a Game Maker 8.0 game so the Escape key instantly closes it!
Autosave to the rescue! Return to where you left off before you “paused” the game...
Start button on gamepads will pause the game as usual.

Adjust match settings!

Set number of rounds to adjust the length of the play session (game autosaves, so feel free to continue a long session later...)
Individually adjust the first d6 roll and all subsequent d6 rolls... (random or fixed value)
Set d4 caltrop damage (Random, fixed value, or even Push Tile conveyor combo!)
Wrong settings? Pause the game (with P key) to revisit the Settings menu!

Supports a wide range of gamepads and even shows their buttons!

PlayStation DualShock 3/4 and DualSense
Xbox 360, One and Series S | X
Nintendo Switch Joy-Con (individually) and Pro controllers
NES, SNES (Purple and Multicolour), Gamecube controller and Wii Nunchuck
uDraw tablet (PlayStation 3 model)

Choc-a-bloc full of memes and puns!

Licensed Vine boom and Kill Bill guitar riff (“rizz sound”)
Silly puns such as earning stars (badum tuss!)
Badly drawn memes!

Controls revamp and player number QoL update

Gamepad improvements

Gamepad: press Select/View/etc. to toggle the Help Menu
Trap Menu: now you can also close the Boobytrap Menu with X/Square button
Skip hop is now on A/X button which is much more diegetic
Keyboard: extra buttons

Keyboard Controls Revamp

E: Open/Close Boobytrap Menu
Space: Select menu option, Skip Hop
Previous control scheme still functions like before, i.e. Ctrl and Backspace* for opening/closing Trap Menu respectively.
*Skip Hop is now on Space instead of backspace since it felt more natural and prevents the accidental hopping immediately after closing the Trap Menu

Player numbering revamp

Offshore and general GUI: Player number are actually numbers now instead of tiny dots!
Player number above ninja bonces are just the dots now, so you can see the traps on the floor more clearly and still see "who's who" at a glance like before.

[ 2024-11-01 20:58:21 CET ] [Original Post]