8-bit Knock Out!

by nnnikki
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.26
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.92
Knock out your opponent in this hardcore pixel-art​ fighting game!

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Rules:


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​The more damage you take, the more damage you deal.

- Rack up bountiful combos to push your opponent even further!

- Try to get your enemy off the level.

- Practice first in Training mode, where the opponent will only focus on not falling off. The Solo AI is quite tough!

- If you have a bud, try out Party mode for local multiplayer fun!

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Controls:


​Player 1 - Arrow Keys + Enter

Player 2 - WASD + E

(You can use both configurations if you're playing solo)

Left Right / A D - Move

Up / W - Jump (you can triple jump and wall jump)

Down / S - Shield (while standing on the ground)

Enter / E - Dash: this is your attack. Dash while holding direction keys to dash in that direction. Dash into an opponent to attack them.

Esc - Pause game

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Credits:



​All assets made by me EXCEPT:

'4 pixel font' by Groszak

Text-to-speech from NaturalReaders​

Gameplay video:



screenshot

Comments12

Spudward29 Apr 2019, 08:22
Really fun game, reminds me a lot of smash, its a little bit confusing that the player that is physically on the right side of the keyboard starts on the left side of the stage. We found a bug as well when we spammed the attack button moving left to combo, we eventually ended in a crash
Erudis
Erudis29 Apr 2019, 15:37
I love the audio and and great work with the mechanics and gameplay, definitely inspired in smash :D
NNNIKKI
NNNIKKIauthor29 Apr 2019, 15:39
Hi @spudward ! Thanks for the feedback! I actually also realized the strange control placement, but a bit too late. Could you tell me what the crash screen said? I'll do my best to fix the bug.
NNNIKKI
NNNIKKIauthor29 Apr 2019, 15:39
@erudis Thanks man! It's actually more inspired by Brawlhalla, but they're similar anyway :shrug:
Skalex
Skalex29 Apr 2019, 15:43
Looks really cool!
if it had a little bit more polish, it could be a really fun game!
i did get one error while playimg though.
NNNIKKI
NNNIKKIauthor29 Apr 2019, 17:01
@skalex Haha yeah, if I had more time and less trips to the church :angry: maybe I could add some more polish. What did the error say?
Skalex
Skalex29 Apr 2019, 17:11
i can't really remember something like
fatal error
something wrong with event0 because of some kind of null reference exception
joemanaco29 Apr 2019, 20:34
Looks really fun from the video (Im currently on Mac OS, so wasn't able to try it myself).
devbat8712
devbat871229 Apr 2019, 23:03
Very polished. However, I don't really see the theme. But I had fun, and I love the graphical style.
paulhocker
paulhocker1 May 2019, 03:23
really nice smashbro like game -- glad you added solor mode -- appreciate that -- thanks for making it
Majadroid
Majadroid1 May 2019, 12:24
Cool game. I like the sound+music. The controls and combos give an awesome feeling. But the single player A.I. is to hard to beat. It's a bit annoying, that it can jump back to ring after falling appart.
NNNIKKI
NNNIKKIauthor1 May 2019, 19:03
@joemanaco Yeah, I'm working on making Mac exports as well.

@devbat8712 It's kind of like you spend the currency that is your life on attacking your opponent... I'm not really sure what mu train of thought was. I first actually wanted to implement weapons, but time exists.

@majadroid You can also jump back in. You have a triple jump and a wall jump, you know.

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