A canonical yep10 game consists of five mandatory phases, each lasting no more than two seconds:
| Phase | Name | Duration (max) | Function | |-------|------|----------------|-----------| | 1 | Anticipation | 1 sec | Display of stimulus (e.g., a rising/falling bar, a color sequence, a binary question). | | 2 | Decision Window | 0.5 sec | Player input (tap, swipe, click). Must be binary (Left/Right, Yes/No, Higher/Lower). | | 3 | Resolution | 0.5 sec | System evaluation of input against ground truth. | | 4 | Feedback | 1 sec | Visual/auditory/haptic reward or punishment (e.g., green flash + coin sound vs. red flash + buzzer). | | 5 | Reset/Repeat | 7 sec | Countdown or immediate re-initiation. In high-fidelity yep10 games, this phase is eliminated, and the next Anticipation phase begins instantly. | yep10 games
The total loop time is strictly ≤10 seconds. Any game exceeding this threshold, by definition, falls outside the yep10 taxonomy. A canonical yep10 game consists of five mandatory
Zacheus & Lee (2023) defined hyper-casual games as those with "one-tap controls, minimal tutorialization, and session lengths under two minutes." Yep10 games compress this further. Where a hyper-casual game like Flappy Bird offered a variable session length (potentially seconds or minutes), a yep10 game enforces a hard temporal cap. | | 3 | Resolution | 0
Category: Arcade / Reflexes A neon-drenched 3D runner where you guide a rolling ball down a treacherous ramp. One wrong move sends you into the void. The Yep10 community considers high scores over 1,500 points to be legendary.
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