Conquest The Crowd

Parrys with loops! using letters A-W-S-Space. You have a timer and need to parry the enemy attacks, then, in your turn, you need to make the same attack that the enemy did in the same order to gain reputation!

The main idea came from Sekiro + Punch Out + Loops. I really wanted to make something that I will enjoy in the future, and the parry's mechanic is one of my favorite things in video games.

Why Conquest the Crowd?

I was thinking on how to "justify" the mechanics, so this is the reason:

The King declared the space knight with the best reputation will marry the princess and lead the spacial empire. You are a nameless knight at the bottom of the ranks, facing legendary warriors in the space to prove your worth.

You must climb through the hierarchy, defeating increasingly skilled opponents to earn your place among the elite using their attacks. Each victory builds your reputation with the watching crowd, while every defeat pushes you further from glory.

Master the art of combat through perfect parries and flawless combo repetition. Each duel is a dance of steel where one mistake costs you glory and reputation.

Things to improve:

• Art, SFX and animations.
• Polish mechanics.
• Enemies (at the end I did not have time, but I wanted to create a mariachi astronaut, a cyborg, a space skeleton and that kind of stuff).

Notes:

It has only the tutorial and 2 levels (the enemy is the same 🥲 only with different timers).

I really struggle with the art style, It costs me more than 16+ hrs to decide for something, I wanted something like Super Punch Out or in 3D in a medieval age. At the end, I went for something more simple (colors) using the background generator to make it better.

I did not did what I wanted at the end, but learned a lot from this first game jam.

Prototype 1

Prototype 2 (trying different art styles)

Credits:

Assets

• Background: https://deep-fold.itch.io/space-background-generator
• Characters and the "ring" it's mine.

Music

• "Space Fighter Loop" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sounds

• Parry - https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/352115/
• Attack - https://freesound.org/people/CogFireStudios/sounds/547042/

Fonts

• https://fontsource.org/fonts/press-start-2p

Icons and menus

• https://nikoichu.itch.io/pixel-icons
• https://chottoinc.itch.io/1-bit-ui-pixel-art