NYAF, the little big game with a silly name! Come try a new kind of Hidden Object game, with Funky music and fantastically detailed background that are full of fun oddities! Spend a while in a "feel good" universe where you can jump from game to game - 3 bonus games to unlock - play as long as you want, with the game as difficult as you want, and quit whenever you want. It could be a quick time to relax or a couple of hours! Feel free to eat or drink while playing, we are not judging you! We just want you to have a great time!
The backgrounds and the characters of NYAF are all handpainted and unique, some scanned from 1 by 1 meters canvas, from the artist Sébastien Lesage. The originals on canvas glow in the dark, thus the light green colour.
We added several options and aspects to try to have a very enjoyable and relaxing experience while choosing fantastic music to complete the experience, like a full automatic save, meaning you can quit at any time without losing your progress, ideal for a quick relaxing session! The sounds in NYAF have been recorded by professional voice-over artists - just joking - by my son, his friend and myself, and we pushed a lot of fun things there, in 3 different languages! Every character has his own sound. If they bother you, you can switch to another set of sounds.
And NYAF is also 4 games in one! NYAF, MMPG, YANYAF and the secret one! Play NYAF to unlock the other games, 2 will get unlocked by progressing in it, for the last one you need to find the secrets.
By default, the game is made to be relaxing but not too easy, but you can select between 8 levels of difficulties, from Very Easy to Hellish. The hidden characters are also transparent initially, you get some help for finding the 6 last characters, and you can switch all that off if you want the game to be harder.
By playing you get some coins that you can use to buy 2 dogs that help you find the characters. You don't need to buy them!
Finally, there might be some more things to find... And you won't get any help for them, they are really secret!
You unlock units by playing the other games. Will you find how to get the bombs? Will you get a hero?
Your units are placed automatically for you. But you can always erase them to place them at another place. And it is probably a good idea if you are stuck! You can use brute force - get more and more units - or try to go as far as possible being a strategist. Once a level has been won, you can unlock it: place as many units as you wish, just for fun!
And can you find the other secrets? Will you be able to fully finish Nyaf and its bonus games?
The pieces of music are from several great musicians, Chris Huelsbeck, Chan Redfield, Chris Collins, LiQWYD, Alexander Nakarada, and have been selected to match the current stage/game. Most of the pieces can be bought from their authors. And I thank them and Groupee for offering such great royalty-free pieces.
Music also by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
So, I am not sure where I stand in developing games, my son like playing them (so a big plus anyway), I like playing them, I got some good reviews for most of them... and always lost money with them...
Nyaf was supposed to be the "big" title where I would finally release a commercial game. Released I did, woohoo!, burnt out I got, woohoo!, and deep into negative earning I went, woohoo!
So I might be the worst person at marketing there is, followed closely by the "marketing" agency I paid to make my game a success, kudos to them (him mostly) for being so bad at it. At least I am not pretending to be good at marketing.
So now finally Nyaf is on IndieDB. To whose who might read these lines, there is a free demo on Steam, where you can play 10 minutes of all, and it also automatically save (like the full game), so you can finish the game only playing the demo if you feel like it. But if you really want to play it but don't want to pay for it, just ask me for a key. When I receive emails from fake influencers I propose them a key anyway, because I am naive like that (somehow they don't answer).
If might be the chilliest game you ever play, for all its defaults, so a perfect game to play between 2 big ones, or for a 2 minute break :). Also there are some secrets that nobody found yet...