A side-perspective grid based combat game. Use WASD or arrow keys to move to an adjacent cell, including up (like a jump), left, or right. Hitting the down key will make you crouch (which acts as a guard). The rules for combat are (roughly) as follows:
* You move onto your opponent's cell - kill! You win the match.
* You and opponent attempt to move to same cell - clash. One or both of you get knocked back to your original cell).
* You move onto your opponent's cell while your opponent is crouching - clash. You both remain in place.
* You move onto your opponent's cell FROM BEHIND while your opponent is crouching - kill!
* You jump (move upwards), and then left or right onto an enemy cell - kill! Jump slashes beat normal slashes.
There are a lot of weird rules that add additional effects. For instance, moving left or right following a crouch will produce slightly different results than simply moving left or right (worth experimenting).
LINUX USERS: Grab the source code from GitHub and run linux-build.sh. You might also need to install SDL2, SDL2_image, and SDL2_mixer.
MAC VERSION IS IN! Hopefully it actually works. Might have to brew install sdl2, sdl2_image, and sdl2_mixer.
WINDOWS USERS: If the game won't open, run that vc_redist thing.
===MULTIPLAYER?===: So, I decided to cook up an online 2-player version of the game. It (like the game itself) is real choppy, but it works pretty well. Only glaring bug is: when one person person (player 1, for example) falls off the edge, player 2 sees themselves as killing player 1. Kinda weird but no big deal.
To join a multiplayer game, just press the number button on your keyboard corresponding to the player in the list you'd like to join.
That was amazingly fun. There was a lot of complexity in the combat system that was fun to experiment with, and the difficulty ramp was perfect. It reminded me quite a bit of divekick with the way the simple mechanics made something with so much depth. Great entry.
Nice entry, quite fun for it's simplicity. Some small things though: It's a bit hard to see what's going on with the last level though with the bright background. And the music is fairly loud for me.
Pretty nice, love the feel of it! Please redistribute the VC2015 redistributable in your download, that's why it's called a redistributable! I have difficulty downloading it from the link provided (in Chrome, had to disable some security settings about unsafe scripts before it would download...)
This is very very very awesome! The mechanics are so that it feels like the AI is on an equal footing with the player so the increasingly difficult duels are incredibly engaging. And the end boss levels finished it off beautifully!
Super cool dueling game. Surprigly deep for a ludum dare game, I had fun time! It's not very clear at which step of the progression I respawn when I die, so that was a bit confusing. Not sure I understood why horns came out of my head all of a sudden :)But that matched the theme at least. The rewards for killing would have been improved by a cool simple animation for killing your opponent. The game feels a bit raw currently. Still, excellent compo entry.
You have done wonderful work on this. Great applause! The music is well done and fits the game. Very well thought out gameplay and mechanics. I like that simple but atmospheric graphics and that nice sounds!
Wow, that was awesome! The very simple gameplay idea does not mean it lacks anything. There is great music, the graphics look nice, and most importantly I had a lot of fun playing it. Very well done!
wooooo!~~ Why your game can so coool~~ so amazing when i just think didi i will fight with the white-man forevery?that the new level is coming~~ a big holl in the sky~~how wonderful!! but the final bettle is too quick!! really not enjoying to the full!ToT hope fight with the Boss again~ in a word，a super cool game with genius concept! very interesting!
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The mechanics are so that it feels like the AI is on an equal footing with the player so the increasingly difficult duels are incredibly engaging.
And the end boss levels finished it off beautifully!
Good graphism and audio.
Very fun to play.
And then I took a look at the source code... wow. You programmed everything from scratch using straight SDL and a single main.cpp file. So sick!
The graphics style makes it kinda hard to see what's going on, though...
I downloaded 32-bit version and on my XP 32-bit.
Why your game can so coool~~
so amazing when i just think didi i will fight with the white-man forevery?that the new level is coming~~ a big holl in the sky~~how wonderful!!
but the final bettle is too quick!! really not enjoying to the full!ToT hope fight with the Boss again~
in a word，a super cool game with genius concept!
very interesting!