Katana Senpou by saint11
A game made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare.
It was inspired by Alex Kidd and Samurai Kirby (from Kirby Superstar).
This game is a tribute to the games that I liked when I was young, so all the Japanese text and voice (and even the tittle!) make absolutely no sense.
I wanted people to feel the way I felt when I played Japanese games, where nothing made sense.
The single player mode has 11 levels and an ending image. If you to check out more about my work you can find it here: http://www.studiominiboss.com
Special thanks to my lovely wife @amora_b and to @ninaringo, who kept feeding me cookies and cupcakes while I was making this game!
INSTRUCTIONS:
The game should be self explanatory, but here are the controls:
First player (or single player):
SPACE: Attack.
Z or X: Change move.
Second Player:
ENTER: Attack
O or P: Change move.
Wait for the Signal to attack (Watch out for the fake signal!)! And the moves works in a similar way to Rock, Paper Scissors.
KNOWN BUGS:
- There's a bug that sometimes may freeze the game if you attack right before the signal. But it's very uncommon, so just refresh and try again if you get it! I'll fix it on the next build!
It was inspired by Alex Kidd and Samurai Kirby (from Kirby Superstar).
This game is a tribute to the games that I liked when I was young, so all the Japanese text and voice (and even the tittle!) make absolutely no sense.
I wanted people to feel the way I felt when I played Japanese games, where nothing made sense.
The single player mode has 11 levels and an ending image. If you to check out more about my work you can find it here: http://www.studiominiboss.com
Special thanks to my lovely wife @amora_b and to @ninaringo, who kept feeding me cookies and cupcakes while I was making this game!
INSTRUCTIONS:
The game should be self explanatory, but here are the controls:
First player (or single player):
SPACE: Attack.
Z or X: Change move.
Second Player:
ENTER: Attack
O or P: Change move.
Wait for the Signal to attack (Watch out for the fake signal!)! And the moves works in a similar way to Rock, Paper Scissors.
KNOWN BUGS:
- There's a bug that sometimes may freeze the game if you attack right before the signal. But it's very uncommon, so just refresh and try again if you get it! I'll fix it on the next build!
| Play on Kongregate | http://www.kongregate.com/games/thesaint11/katana-senpou |
| SWF(Save As) | http://studiominiboss.com/jams/ld26/LudumDare48.swf |
| Source Code | http://studiominiboss.com/jams/ld26/LudumDare48.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7981 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 39% | 1564 |
| Overall | 3.98 | 34 |
| Audio | 3.88 | 42 |
| Fun | 3.78 | 53 |
| Graphics | 4.51 | 7 |
| Humor | 3.35 | 111 |
| Innovation | 3.19 | 494 |
| Mood | 3.92 | 36 |
| Theme | 3.45 | 646 |
Very beautiful and fun game (also quite hard), great job. :)
Otherwise, excellent game. Samurai Kirby was one of my favorite things as a kid, and this is a great tribute to it (with a nice twist as well!).
That's so amusing, we have more or less the same gameplay and the same theme (samurai, ninja, whatever). My game is also about dueling with the sunset as backdrop.
They are not exactly the same, but one thing is sure : you handle it way better than me ! (I even aiming for the jam, I couldn't make it to the compo).
So, congrats ! \o/
The last samurai was though!
Very well done! :D
Graphics and gameplay looking interesting =)
So... Banzaï Saint11! Banzaï!
P.S : And thanks for your LD 23's code source. Really help me a lot for this LD! :)
I find it pretty humorous too. Had a good laugh when I first read rocku, papperu and scizoru on there.
Great entry overall!
I suck ; I can't win the first level of the game. I don't understand why.
- SEPHY (@sephyka)
Suggestion: If you want to add more visual polish (as if the game need it) you could make the rock-paper-scissors thoughts put the enemies in different stances, to reinforce the idea that it's a "move."