A Duel with the Devil by Resonious

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made by Resonious for LD33 (COMPO)
Sorry if the sound is a bit loud.

A side-perspective grid based combat game. Use WASD or arrow keys to move to an adjacent cell, including up (like a jump), left, or right. Hitting the down key will make you crouch (which acts as a guard). The rules for combat are (roughly) as follows:

* You move onto your opponent's cell - kill! You win the match.

* You and opponent attempt to move to same cell - clash. One or both of you get knocked back to your original cell).

* You move onto your opponent's cell while your opponent is crouching - clash. You both remain in place.

* You move onto your opponent's cell FROM BEHIND while your opponent is crouching - kill!

* You jump (move upwards), and then left or right onto an enemy cell - kill! Jump slashes beat normal slashes.

There are a lot of weird rules that add additional effects. For instance, moving left or right following a crouch will produce slightly different results than simply moving left or right (worth experimenting).

LINUX USERS: Grab the source code from GitHub and run linux-build.sh. You might also need to install SDL2, SDL2_image, and SDL2_mixer.

MAC VERSION IS IN! Hopefully it actually works. Might have to brew install sdl2, sdl2_image, and sdl2_mixer.

WINDOWS USERS:
If the game won't open, run that vc_redist thing.

===MULTIPLAYER?===:
So, I decided to cook up an online 2-player version of the game. It (like the game itself) is real choppy, but it works pretty well. Only glaring bug is: when one person person (player 1, for example) falls off the edge, player 2 sees themselves as killing player 1. Kinda weird but no big deal.

To join a multiplayer game, just press the number button on your keyboard corresponding to the player in the list you'd like to join.

Ratings

Coolness 77% 2
Overall 3.86 58
Audio 3.73 61
Fun 3.98 36
Graphics 3.53 241
Humor 2.55 539
Innovation 3.81 70
Mood 3.74 84
Theme 3.16 611

Feedback

Empyrealhell
24. Aug 2015 · 02:54 UTC
That was amazingly fun. There was a lot of complexity in the combat system that was fun to experiment with, and the difficulty ramp was perfect. It reminded me quite a bit of divekick with the way the simple mechanics made something with so much depth. Great entry.
Korso
24. Aug 2015 · 04:05 UTC
I cannot play because a missing dll (VCRUNTIME140.dll)
micdoodle8
24. Aug 2015 · 04:06 UTC
Nice entry, quite fun for it's simplicity. Some small things though: It's a bit hard to see what's going on with the last level though with the bright background. And the music is fairly loud for me.
namrog84
24. Aug 2015 · 04:07 UTC
I really liked it, quite fun and did a good job!
imdigitaljim
24. Aug 2015 · 04:13 UTC
This was a really neat entry. I liked the game and art and music! Nice job!
Acerio
24. Aug 2015 · 05:05 UTC
ANAZING. I HAD A LOT OF FUN. GRAPHICS AMAZING TOO
Jimbly
24. Aug 2015 · 05:10 UTC
Pretty nice, love the feel of it! Please redistribute the VC2015 redistributable in your download, that's why it's called a redistributable! I have difficulty downloading it from the link provided (in Chrome, had to disable some security settings about unsafe scripts before it would download...)
🎤 Resonious
24. Aug 2015 · 05:16 UTC
Good point, Jimbly. I will get on that.
theholychicken
24. Aug 2015 · 06:56 UTC
This is very very very awesome!
The mechanics are so that it feels like the AI is on an equal footing with the player so the increasingly difficult duels are incredibly engaging.
And the end boss levels finished it off beautifully!
jorgemoag
24. Aug 2015 · 11:37 UTC
Mac version please!!
rogual
24. Aug 2015 · 12:45 UTC
This program can't run because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer.
AdenMansonGames
24. Aug 2015 · 15:37 UTC
This game was very fun and the combat was very well made. Good job overall.
sergicollado
24. Aug 2015 · 16:29 UTC
I cannot play because a missing dll (VCRUNTIME140.dll)
sydream
24. Aug 2015 · 16:31 UTC
Good fun, audio excellent (love the music), nice mechanics. However I don't see how it fits the theme though.
jojocanard
24. Aug 2015 · 17:41 UTC
Very elegant
Maramasa
25. Aug 2015 · 14:00 UTC
Nifty game with solid mechanics. Great style and audio. Awesome work!
Maxi and The Gang
25. Aug 2015 · 14:25 UTC
I've finally beat the final boss, wow, i really had fun playing this.
gnuwilliam
25. Aug 2015 · 17:22 UTC
Really fun game! Like the art
LeoM
26. Aug 2015 · 16:42 UTC
Nice one,
Good graphism and audio.
Very fun to play.
dydx
27. Aug 2015 · 01:40 UTC
I thought it was way too simple at the start, but the gameplay got really interesting and fun at the end.

And then I took a look at the source code... wow. You programmed everything from scratch using straight SDL and a single main.cpp file. So sick!
bradur
27. Aug 2015 · 04:23 UTC
The mood was awesome! The music, the sound effects, the visuals all contributed to it tremendously. The gameplay was great as well. Cool idea!
SoulGame
27. Aug 2015 · 14:27 UTC
Super cool dueling game. Surprigly deep for a ludum dare game, I had fun time! It's not very clear at which step of the progression I respawn when I die, so that was a bit confusing. Not sure I understood why horns came out of my head all of a sudden :)But that matched the theme at least. The rewards for killing would have been improved by a cool simple animation for killing your opponent. The game feels a bit raw currently. Still, excellent compo entry.
HeyZeus
27. Aug 2015 · 19:21 UTC
Simple but very effective, loved it.
Pietro Ferrantelli
27. Aug 2015 · 21:21 UTC
Good entry overall, I had a lot of fun playing this and the presentation is great ! Keep it up, dude ! Really nice work
Felipe Tasca
28. Aug 2015 · 02:19 UTC
This entry reminds me of Bushido Blade from PS1. Nice concept, good pixel art, good job!
PEBKAC
28. Aug 2015 · 08:53 UTC
Nice graphics and good work on the audio. Especially the change in music later on feels very good.

The graphics style makes it kinda hard to see what's going on, though...
Knowledge
28. Aug 2015 · 20:43 UTC
It says not valid Win32 application.
I downloaded 32-bit version and on my XP 32-bit.
ruerob
29. Aug 2015 · 06:01 UTC
You have done wonderful work on this. Great applause! The music is well done and fits the game. Very well thought out gameplay and mechanics. I like that simple but atmospheric graphics and that nice sounds!
jstclair13
30. Aug 2015 · 16:04 UTC
Cool!
Sedsibi
03. Sep 2015 · 03:48 UTC
This was amazing. Great job. I loved the art style.
JangoBrick
04. Sep 2015 · 04:28 UTC
Wow, that was awesome! The very simple gameplay idea does not mean it lacks anything. There is great music, the graphics look nice, and most importantly I had a lot of fun playing it. Very well done!
valid4life
04. Sep 2015 · 04:30 UTC
The combat system was an interesting take! I kept looking for some form of attack but then figured it out ahah! Very well made!
eddynardo
06. Sep 2015 · 19:34 UTC
wow, i am de devil, lolz, nice game, i leke it so much, i am the king of your game
shawn42
06. Sep 2015 · 19:37 UTC
A lot of fun, and hard to get good at. Seems like a great game. Lots of stars in this rating.. ;)
Indiestry
09. Sep 2015 · 15:14 UTC
Very nice overall feel
Tanton-H2X
12. Sep 2015 · 11:06 UTC
wooooo!~~
Why your game can so coool~~
so amazing when i just think didi i will fight with the white-man forevery?that the new level is coming~~ a big holl in the sky~~how wonderful!!
but the final bettle is too quick!! really not enjoying to the full!ToT hope fight with the Boss again~
in a word,a super cool game with genius concept!
very interesting!
Darkflint
12. Sep 2015 · 22:23 UTC
An interesting game with an interesting combat system.