thank you!

and yeah, i'm currently in the process of reworking the physics for a post-jam update (updates?). the current system is a mix of copying code from older unreleased projects and "eh, this feels fine enough for now".

i'm also planning to add wall jumping, potentially a 2nd jump, more/ better stages, and reworking the numbers on some of the attacks (in this context, the up-air, which is meant to be a sort of recovery)

thanks!

i'm quite proud of the sounds, effects, and ai; they're all surprisingly simple under the hood despite how effective they are ^ ^)

Thank you!

although, fyi, i am making a post-jam version now, and it has more polish, more features, and more juice (like a bit of stun upon hitting someone with high percent)!

Thanks you!

And yeah, i didn't have much of a chance to playtest with anyone, so the cpu was partially so i could actually test things out myself, lol

Thanks! and yeah, you don't seem to be the only one...

i've already put it on my todo list to add an in-game tutorial in the post-jam update(s), and not just so people would know the controls;

as is on this games page, i was/still am really inspired by FOOTSIES, which is basically an attempt to make as minimal of a normal fighting game as possible (only left, right, and attack).
it also includes multiple tutorials, in-game frame data, and so on, to help people learn the fundamentals of fighting games.

so, it'd be my greatest achievement to make this game be similar, but for platform fighters.

(i also intend to diversify/better the ai, so that's something for everyone!)

Thanks!

Thank you so much!

Thank you.

I'll admit, this is not a good example for someone who isn't already at least a bit into platform fighters.

• the physics isn't exactly how i'd like it to be, which means you have to fight the fact your opponent can (almost always) recover more easily from situations than you first and foremost;
• there's only one ai, and even that being one that's (by my friend's accounts) totally ruthless and (imo) overly spammy;
• there isn't any good way to respond to aforementioned spam, despite my (lazy) attempts at making (some) attacks be punishable (only if you can honestly react a bit unreasonably quickly);
• the game doesn't teach/even tell you anything about what you should be doing, and the page just leaves you with the controls and a short unprecise description for each attack;
• All that despite my attempts of making this game be "simple"/ minimal,
  and one of my inspirations being FOOTSIES, which is an "introduction/teaching game" for regular fighting games (Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc)

Still, I am proud of quite a few things with this game.
...but,
there's definitely a lot i still have to work on if i want this game to be in a "non-gamejam" state.

again, thanks for your feedback and if you or anyone else decides to actually read through this.

Thank you!

I'm quite proud of how the AI turned out; it's really simple code-wise, but even I have to try hard to beat them "^ ^)

And yeah, I have the habit of using a lot of aerial attacks too.
I already added a bit to make it jump over (spammy) grounded attacks, maybe I could make it strategise better around aerial attacks too? > >)

Blocking is actually an interesting topic!

First of all, this game is made in the pico-8 fantasy console, which has (close to) the same number of controls as the NES: you only have a d-pad and 2 buttons per player. so, with a jump and attack button, i've already run out of buttons "^ ^)

Second, if i do figure out a good way to bind it (perhaps as jump + some aim?), i'd rather add a parry, like in Rivals of Aether; a block you'd need to time correctly, basically.

Thanks for your input!

Thanks!