Spellstrike!

Spellstrike is a features-light fighting game mostly focused on striking. It may also have a few spells here and there - my questionable artistic skills leave plenty up to the imagination.

This prototype is my current stopping point as I switch over to other projects, apologies for the general lack of quality-of-life stuff in this release.

Features

• Wield both sword and sorcery to overcome your opponent in fast-paced battles.
• Choose 1 of 4 characters, each with a slightly-different silhouette and more-different playstyle.
• Play with controller, keyboard, or some unsightly combination of the two.
• (Desktop Only) If you're willing to put up with port forwarding, play online with friends far away with rollback netcode!

If you like reading extended descriptions, check out the stuff further down the page. Otherwise, enjoy!

Attribution

This project relied on good stuff made by cool people (or groups of people, as the case may be). Check them out below!

• Godot game engine
• godot-rollback-netcode by Snopek games, used to implement rollback online play
• Piskel, a handy tool for quick-and-simple spritework
• Bfxr for creating crunchy sound effects
• Beepbox, a great, easy-to-use music-writing tool

All of the contents of the project (including our lovely square-ular combatants) were made by me.

Summary for Fighting Game Players

For folks familiar with fighting games, here's a more detailed rundown:

This is a 4-button game (Light, Medium, Heavy, and Special). Every character has, at a minimum, one attack for each Normal button and 2 Special attacks: one when used in neutral (usually defensive), and another when used to cancel after a successful attack (usually offensive).

Characters have unique rules for canceling and chaining attacks, with a few common principles:

1. Normals can only be canceled into other moves after a successful hit.
2. Heavy normals cannot be canceled.
3. Special moves cannot be canceled, though some recover very quickly.

Specials are limited use: players get 5 "charges" at the start of each round. Specials in neutral cost 1 charge, special cancels cost 2 charges. There's no way to replenish charges (in this version of the game, anyway) - once they're gone, characters lose an important defensive tool.

Also very important to note: there's no blocking or jumping. Should be fine, though. Just don't get hit.