Fisticuffs by SiENcE

made by SiENcE for LD25 (COMPO)

'Fisticuffs' is an ICE HOCKEY brawl game for 2 Players!

First serve first comes? | Is the luck on your side? | Who knows the winner?

Fisticuffs is not a real game, but rather a simulation where you can bet for the winning team. Fisticuffs is a so called Meta-Game.

Pussies are working as team, where dicks are lone wolfs. Dicks are proactive, where pussies are reactive.

The only thing you can control is the spawning time of your team members. So take care!

1st Gamemode
------------
If you choose to play on keyboard, all team members spawn at their team location.

2nd Gamemode (advanced mode)
----------------------------
If you choose to play with mouses, you need to connect a second one to your Computer. Players can place thier team members directly on the ice hockey field. Only use your Teams Mouse Button!!!

Controls
--------
TEAMS

PUSSIES: 'left-alt' or 'space' or left mouse button

DICKS: 'rshift' or 'return/enter' or right mouse button

f - fullscreen

esc - quit

--------
Developed with Love2D, Love2D-Webplayer ( HTML5 / WebGL / Chrome / Firefox / Opera ).

Windows	http://sience.schattenkind.net/ld25/Fisticuffs_Windows.zip
Linux & LOVE	http://sience.schattenkind.net/ld25/Fisticuffs_Linux.zip
Web (Chrome/Firefox/Opera)	http://sience.schattenkind.net/ld25/web/
Source	https://github.com/SiENcE/fisticuffs
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=10298

Ratings

Coolness	65%	3
Overall	2.33	685

Audio	2.68	278
Fun	1.91	714
Graphics	2.63	492
Humor	2.67	320
Innovation	3.00	301
Mood	2.11	670
Theme	2.18	695

Feedback

Crimsoneer

17. Dec 2012 · 20:00 UTC

Okay, it's nice and polished, but I have no idea what or how you're meant to try and win, beyond just spawning everybody.
Also, did you make that crowd noise during the compo? Because I'm sceptical.

🎤 SiENcE

17. Dec 2012 · 20:41 UTC

I reworked the crowd noises as i wrote in the included readme :).

It's a betting game. You have to find out how to spawn the players to win the game. It's well balanced and there is only a minor chance to win with the same team again and again. It's a so called META-Game :)

Digiraze

17. Dec 2012 · 22:34 UTC

Good drinking game =)

Mava

17. Dec 2012 · 23:48 UTC

It was fun seeing what they would do to each other...nicely done :)

daredevildave

18. Dec 2012 · 12:26 UTC

The webplayer worked the first time, but doesn't seem to work anymore.

🎤 SiENcE

18. Dec 2012 · 16:29 UTC

Chrome and Firefox have some problems reloading WebGL content. Try to restart the browser if it hangs. Sry.

NuSan

19. Dec 2012 · 11:16 UTC

Realy strange, but fun to see them fighting.

Per

19. Dec 2012 · 11:55 UTC

Mom!! There is blood on the internet!!
Fun entry.
Would be even more fun if you could control the players a lot more :)

🎤 SiENcE

19. Dec 2012 · 12:01 UTC

Thanks :) ! I'm glad you enjoyed watching the fights. Yes i'm really thinking about a POST-compo version. Where you can choose Players for your Team and bet Money on them. Or maybe Coaching functions.

voidstar69

19. Dec 2012 · 19:32 UTC

Interesting game. I like the idea of not having any direct control of the players, acting like a manager of the team. Excellent background sounds.

illugion

19. Dec 2012 · 22:52 UTC

The crowd sounds are so weird XD but the game is well done

juaxix

20. Dec 2012 · 11:48 UTC

The idea is a fight... you need to add a lot of gamification to this...

🎤 SiENcE

20. Dec 2012 · 15:00 UTC

Hm not really.

The idea behind it's some kind of meta game. So it's not a game for a player ... but hey it's a game with rules and a chance :).

juaxix

20. Dec 2012 · 20:12 UTC

Thanks for the explanation, this year you are doing some really good games, and you are improving a lot with LÖVE but you have to admit that, and we all know this... you can make a better and amazing game!

juaxix

20. Dec 2012 · 20:12 UTC

LOVE2D
*

timtipgames

21. Dec 2012 · 15:04 UTC

I really like the visual style, but I think that there is not enough possibility to influence the game beyond pushing your button. Or to put it different: Maybe there is an interesting way of "playing" this game, but than the "rules" on how the spawn timing influences the game-play are far too difficult to discover (at least for me). It's unclear who wins a duel once two players start fighting and under which conditions. If I had known that, I would at least be able to decide what kind of "meta-game" strategy would be beneficial to me. Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of an indirect game-play through some kind of meta-game, but I just miss knowledge of the rules that would make it work here. Maybe add some more guidance? :) If its all random, it still makes a perfect drinking game :)

🎤 SiENcE

21. Dec 2012 · 16:40 UTC

timtipgames thanks for your critic. I know that an intro screen explaning some rules of the mechanic would be nice, but i run out of time, because i started on the second LD day. So i had only ~12hours to make this. Thanks for trying :)

michax

21. Dec 2012 · 20:48 UTC

Hehe made me laugh :) Thought didn't know what to do to win :P I just watched dicks getting owned by pussies. Enjoyable enough!

fishbrain

26. Dec 2012 · 09:56 UTC

Completely pointless and violent... love it! :)

davidwparker

27. Dec 2012 · 13:47 UTC

Yeah, I also had no idea what to do beyond spawning guys.

🎤 SiENcE

27. Dec 2012 · 17:26 UTC

Please read the text above :)

Zelen3d

29. Dec 2012 · 01:30 UTC

This is one of those games that make you go WTF. It seems that there are alot of games like that in the current compo. Interesting...

goerp

30. Dec 2012 · 13:27 UTC

haha, German hockey players "AUA".
Funny one. Like it when it ends in a draw.

AdventureIslands

30. Dec 2012 · 17:57 UTC

Not sure how the actual fighting works besides just spawning everyone and watching them beat the crap out of each other, but the sounds made this really hilarious!

Raptor85

03. Jan 2013 · 17:46 UTC

Not much to do really, innovative but could have used some gameplay to it, didn't really see how it related to theme.

leafo

06. Jan 2013 · 05:59 UTC

I wish I had more control over what was going on. The graphics were nice though, I enjoyed the blood effects and the speech bubbles. The motions of the skaters looked convincing enough.