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Tiny Arena, a Simple Arena Fighter in One Tiny Screen!
Tiny Arena is a wave-fighting action game. Each round adds another opponent. See how long you can survive! Features four distinct weapon types for both the player and the other arena fighters, each with unique special abilities to battle with.
Since LD 31 is in December, there's a fifth special holiday themed joke weapon!
Controls: Arrow or WASD keys to move Mouse movement aims Left/Right Mouse Buttons for special attacks
Tiny Arena was made by Evan Good and is my third LD entry, this time for the "Entire Game on One Screen" theme. The theme made me think of arenas, so I threw together this little idea! I hope you enjoy it! Thank you for playing and good luck to all the other developers!
Tiny Arena was developed using the following tools/resources: GameMaker Studio Pro 1.3 (with HTML5 export add-on) BFXR/SFXR sound generator Audacity audio editor GIMP image editor
Thanks for the feedback @sanojian I did try that originally, but the game is designed with "twinstick" controls in mind (I wanted to add controller support, actually, but ran out of time). If aim direction and movement direction are the same, even with strafing (which is always difficult to figure out from a top-down view), it controls like a truck and getting behind anyone is a nightmare. Lesser of two evils, I suppose!
It's a great game concept, I like it. Unfortunately, controls are not very intuitive, it's not very easy to aim and I would've expected different behavior of the character when pressing various keys.
I think it's cool that you included a good variety of weapons to choose from. It was fun trying them all out. The speed was a big issue for me. I would have liked the action to be a bit more fast paced. Enough so that my best weapon wound up being the candy cane, just because it made it possible to dodge and come up around behind to attack.
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Enemies with swords/daggers are much harder than others.
@sanojian I did try that originally, but the game is designed with "twinstick" controls in mind (I wanted to add controller support, actually, but ran out of time). If aim direction and movement direction are the same, even with strafing (which is always difficult to figure out from a top-down view), it controls like a truck and getting behind anyone is a nightmare. Lesser of two evils, I suppose!
Can change my weapon between waves is good.