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if you spam fire 1 you instantly win. i also think if you remastered the graphics and added a bunch of new moves it could actually go as a full game that people will play

tip: to win just spam the most op attack... fire

(pls do it less powerfull)

it would be cool if there was more ranged attacks as fire 1 is currently too overpowered and some more skins would be nice you should defiantly keep working on it    

a nice little feature could be some sort of multiplayer...  either local or online

Really cool concept, and its fun to play. Something to look towards is a highlighting mechanism which shows the range of an attack when you hover over a card which would let the player make decisions more decisively or something like that. But overall a really fun game.

the game s fun you should keep working on it 

This game is really cool, when my buddy told me about it I was skeptical but I was pleasantly surprised. The music and sound could use some work, I wouldn't mind lending a hand if you are interested. I could compose some music and make some sounds for the hits and explosions and other stuff.

This is a really fun game! Oddly more intense than a normal fighting game. Being able to make the moves and constantly be thinking about what I should be doing next is different than slowly losing brain cells and just mashing together moves I remember to outmove my opponent makes it different.

Really fun even at the current development stage! Having multiplayer even if just locally and some characters on top of general polish would make this something I'd buy and play very often with friends.

When will come out the local multiplayer version?

Cool game, and btw if you spam the fire attack you can't lose.

I'm just coming  from watching your video on this, and being a big idea person I really wanted to share my thoughts with you because I'd love to see you take this game seriously. Firstly I'll throw out some very general design ideas that maybe you can toy with. Going off of your original idea to a deck where a player would get their cards at random, I thought it'd be neat if you sectioned all of the moves into four separate decks: A punch deck, kick deck, defense deck, and special deck. With this set up you could incorporate the typical Highs, Mediums, and Lows for the punches and kicks but you also open up a way to diversify each character and their movesets. Want like Cammie then you can simplify the punch deck, add more unique kicks, and add dashes into the defense deck. The hope is that this system makes building a roster easier as it could tackle the issues of differing movesets and playstyles. 

Another thing from a gameplay perspective is if you can find a decent way to incorporate hitstun into the game (perhaps have each card show Stunned Turns with the others) then you might be able to set up a couple of different systems. The first one being that once a hit is landed then a card could be highlighted for an optimal follow-up? Of course the player wouldn't need to take it. The goal is for this to be a way to bring combos into the game and allow for players to find/create their own. Following the idea on the "optimal follow-up" maybe you could also have cards locked behind certain others or even a certain criteria being met. This is mainly where the special deck would come into play in my eyes. Say a character lands a high knee, uppercut, or super kick these actions could unlock a card from the special deck that could be used for a devastating follow-up. I'm hoping this along side the cooldown meter would help your more powerful special moves from being too overpowered as now a player can't just throw them out there anymore.

The last thing I'll talk about in this dump of text is actually ideas for characters and the roster. Power to you for using the characters from your WIP anime, but since I'm unaware if you want this game to be tied to it I thought I'd just throw something out there. With Chess being the inspiration for this game I thought it'd be neat to having characters and their movesets loosely based off the Chess pieces. It doesn't have to be anything major or on the nose like having characters named King and Queen, or anything like that. I think just the starting letter is fine. I think the best example of this would be the character based on Rook; their name could be something like Rockie or Roxanne, and they'd of course be a rushdown/grappler. Just something simple like that.

Anyway I just wanted to get these ideas to you while they were still fresh in my mind. I hope you enjoy them and can get at least some insight from them. Thank you for taking the time for reading all this, and most of all good luck in all of your endeavors!

I like this game.  Now it only needs a bug fix of the fact that one can just float in the air instead of falling off the building (see the image) and an online mode. I suggest to make the online mode so that there are 30 seconds to decide the next move.

I also suggest to move all the cards of the same colour one next to the other and to add a second evade that would be counterclockwise, unlike the one that is already here (so that when the falling off the arena is fixed, one isnt doomed if one tries to evade from a bad position next to the edge). Maybe add some other cards too, so that one can make a deck to use, with different combinations.

Another thing i'd like to see is (when storing replays will be possible) being able to share replays

this game is honestly really fun. think with a lot of polishing and something like a campaign or online multiplayer this game could become at the very least a cult classic

This is really cool. It's neat how the more you play, the more you can be strategic about which cards you choose, and you can even get to a point where you're dodging attacks and timing attacks really well. I do think the fireball is a bit overpowered, but it seems that if you use the fireball enough, the ai will just start to use it as well, or he'll try to dodge the attack. I'd love to see this as a full game, and I know this would be incredibly difficult, but it'd be sick if you could turn this into an online multiplayer. Cuz I can just imagine playing this against my friends or just destroying some randoms online.

I managed to get a tie with both characters dying from the desupunch.

i jumped from the youtube video and first off all, i'm a great fan, love your work since forest runing in the labyrinth <3

I realy loved the concept of the chess-like mechanic, but i really like minimalist approaches, the vast options of cards made the game kinda open for some sort of dominant sequence (depending on the npc first instance), maybe making it less abbout diferents cenarios and more about one mechanic, like chess. The samurai sword fighting aura of those grey screen is realy awesome, it would fit nicelly in a player x player experience and maybe a simple set of movements (in chess there are two, lines and diagonal) would make the player feel smarter (as chess do so well)

Hope i made myself clear, my english is kinda rusty, i'm a brazilian game and web dev (junior at max), you inspired me a lot, thanks so much for that!

I like the strategic aspect. It's really fun when you succesfully dodge and punish, I like how some moves have indeed post-lag time and the other player can take advantage. You can even bait. I also like that when you land a punch, the animation creates distane again so that there is no exploitation. Really nice and actually fun, man!

Aparto from that, I'd say to fix the animations, some feedback I'd give is:
If you get hit: interrupt animation. I see some moves follow that, but I see it's only until a timeline point reaches. There should be more priority on stopping the animation the frame the attack hits.

Expanding on last point, with only one type of knockback, strategies can be formed to exploit combos really easily (My favorite is following up anything with a fireball because of the reach) If you implement different duration knockbacks depending on the move that has hit, this will be better for the recieving user to punish or come back.

The players should not share space with each other after a move. I tried my char to be always sharing space with the other and I was succesful, this lead to me always winning because most attakcs flew past me, permitting me do a combo with short attacks. Look at how SF does this and try to replicate it.

Don't do the deck idea, having all options is super nice, each charcater should even have a different moveset / card poll.

Map cards to specific buttons on a controller try that, It may be fun.

Not much more man, I think these are the main ones. Good luck!!

An extremelly  cool consept! Please make this into a  full game!

This is actually sick, I love this! I can imagine this could be a really fun competitive deck builder kind of thing, or maybe even something akin to slay the spire! A really solid concept!!

Nice. But the fire attack is defnitely too good. You can spam fire and win!

This is honestly a fun and interesting game. In the first balance change, the fire needs to change. Its range and knockback make it nearly impossible for the opponent to approach.  Just spam fire and see. This could be a really fun game if more time were put into it.

I really really like this idea! It’s totally cool if not, but would it be alright if attempt making my own game based on this idea. Let’s face it, it probably wouldn’t see a release at all, but if it does make it to that point, I’d definitely credit you!

Like I said though, it’s cool if you’d prefer me not to!

Tried the web build, it's a very nice idea, though i feel like in general the concept of using cards in battle games has been done before, though possibly in not such a great way, I feel like you could go for something that would be better than just cards, maybe use the keyboard, since it's almost never used in your game, which would make choosing moves faster and feel more natural, and would aid my next point, which is: in chess games usually there are also premoves, it would be nice if they were implemented in here as well, if the person already assigned a move to the queue the game goes through the queue and plays their move (unless it was cancelled, you probably could make premoves cancelable by using escape or some other key, like space?), i think this game has huge potential, and it would be cool to see this game do something different with a genre that's been overdone, but as a prototype, this shows your idea very well. I like it. Also, taking inspiration from chess is a good idea. Chess is very satisfying to play, especially when it comes to playing seriously or playing friends with experience, I feel like a fighting game with elements inspired by chess would be the best fighting game to be, it's a very good idea.

As a proof-of-concept, THIS. IS. AMAZING!
It's simple, fun, and a great intro to strategy in a fighting game.
If you can iron out the interpolation between moves so that players can build combos, then I'm pretty sure that you'd have a true contender against traditional fighters.
I definitely want to see this follow through. :D

Web build works pretty well on mobile, except that the cards are impossible to read, at least on my phone. 

I'm in agreement with both you (from the video) and others in the comments that adding an actual deck and/or cooldowns would make this a lot more fun. 

Not to mention, of course, multiplayer! 

yep, 100% gonna "borrow" this idea for my project, great game.

Just based on what I've seen, the number one feature I want to see added is move preview.  When I hover over a card, I want to see what the action my character will take played out in front of me.

Super cool proof-of-concept! Easy to understand, I got the hang of it real quick. One way you could solve the issue of what happens when the pause occurs while you're in the air is to add aerial moves that are only available in that situation. As someone who plays a lot of Smash Bros, one potential issue I could foresee would be that you would need a very large library of possible moves, or else the game would become easy to predict, and two skilled players would just be able to play perfectly, resulting in either a draw, or one player winning as a result of the turn order. Maybe moves could sometimes be cancelable, to add variety and reduce predictability.

Hey Jabril, I played it on the web and it seems super cool though a little buggy. I could be doing something wrong, but I wasn't able to open it on my mac. Tried it on my raspberry pi running linux and it worked fine (though it was not powerful enough to run the game), but I can't get the mac version to work.

Edit: I also noticed that doing fire literally every time is a pretty good strategy, which makes it less interesting, but overall, really great idea for game. I think with more characters and cards it could get really fun.

Add combos, and how long opponet will be stun for cards

Add low/mid/high/overhead blocking, Parrying, etc. Also should add more chars with their own moveset.

please leave some feedback eh? :D