Hit 'em harder

The theme

For the theme, we decided to combine the almost incompatible genres of beat 'em up / fighting with a text-based controlling system. That means that you have to be quick on the keyboard!

The gameplay

You control your character by telling him, how to block and how to hit your enemy. There are five regions in total, H(ead) L(eft), H(ead) R(ight), B(ody) L(eft) , B(ody) R(ight), and the legs. Each of These regions can be combined with a "hit" or a "block" command (except from the legs). The legs are targeted with "kick", the defense is "jump". In addition, head hits can be avoided by "duck"ing. 
Always first write the action, then [enter], then the region!
But there are not only plain commands you can use. You also unlock a variety of Cards that improve your damage, decrease you opponents defense or give you cool (and slightly stereotypical) extra boni.

Combos and Combo Cards lead to a variety of ways to kill your Opponent- the only important Thing is that you can type and think at the same time: because that is what you will be generally lacking.

The combos are:
- hit hl, hit hl
- hit hl, hit hr
- hit bl, hit br, kick
- kick, hit hr

Note: For combo cards, first play the Card (by writing "play card" + number of the card in one line), then do the offensive part, THEN the defensive part. That is due to the way, combos are registered!

Also, don't send a command when the blue bar is recharging, or you will lose the current combo!

For a detailed tutorial, check out the tutorial video mentioned in the comments (for some reason the links can no longer be embedded / added).

The first link provides you with an LD, and an Post-LD version, where we updated some of the graphics to be more handmade.
We recommend for the web version to play it fullscreen, because the canvas is too big for the screen. For that go to Options and check the fullscreen option.
Have fun!

Contact

If you have questions, need help or want to report a bug, do so at moretolooseteam[at]gmail[dot]com

SPOILER ALERT:

If you want to take a shortcut, unlock all cards by typing "gimmeall" in the command line in one of your fights!
After ending the fight you have unlocked all Cards. Don't be confused if you get no feedback, we didn't add that.
If you still want to feel the joy of unlocking the cards, write "reset" into the command box.

We recommend these otions for rating purposes, because it takes some time (approximately 10 fights) to unlock all cards.

*Note: The reset only works in the web version!*