I freaking love this game I found it yesterday (at time of writing) and I've already sunk more than enough hours into it but holy crap, it's so hard, too hard for me, the AI just is an OP moron that as far as I can tell can only be killed by pure luck, no matter what I do, I can barely ever get a hit on him, AND I'M PLAYING ON NORMAL! i gotta get good (jokes aside, I really do love this game and I look forward to seeing what comes of it in the future 10/10)
Hey! Played this on my friends laptop and it was really fun, I want to play it on my laptop too but...it's a Mac, is there any way to make the game available on Mac too?
Essentially it's a square surrounding the character which can be drawn on whenever a blood spurt passes on top (a 'surface' in GameMaker terms). The character sprite is then used as a stencil to cut the surrounding edges of the square, leaving only the interior visible (I use 'blend modes' to do this). This is drawn over the top of the character to create the impression of being covered in blood.
I just found this game a few days ago and I'm completely in love with it. It's so "simple" yet it works soooo well. Amazing work, for real, for me this is just perfect
This game was awesome! I really enjoyed it a lot, I actually ended up playing more after my recording. I can't wait to see where you'll go with this, keep it up!
Here's my video, it would mean a lot if you'd subscribe and like the video :)
great game and really realistic the blood and everything this game is a masterpiece and i recommend it also developer if you see this can you add online multiplayer?
Also, I think I found a sorts of a glitch that make beating the Duel bot kinda broken and easy
-first, if you duck close to the enemy right before it does a top down swing attack and defend it while in duck position, you will be able to instantly kill it every time, only condition is that you have to be right in his position and do the attack fast, but other than that it's a piece of cake, I don't know if it's with all difficulties because I only experienced this in the Duel bot.
One of the best games here and I hope you read this, I'll make a pros, cons and suggestion list but besides that this is gonna go in my top 5 itch.io games
Pros
-Stunning pixel art animations were it's not to complex but not to simple at the same time which is quite nice.
-Great gameplay with all the attacks and variations you can do.
-Very fluid and not at all buggy in my experience.
Cons
-Lack of a tutorial
-No customizations of controls(I understand there is a large and diverse pool of options but the ability to customize your controls can make a game 5x better and easier to play).
-No online play(I know it's costs money to keep up a server so if you can, start a go fund me and make a server were you can play with friends by entering a 6 digit code. This is a long shot but if you do get funded, first of all I recommend placing a Japanese background with a Sakura and that there's always Sakura flowers falling, second make transitions when choosing an option so it's not so robotic and finally, to expand your market, add the ability for mac and Linux compatibility).
Suggestions
-More character customization like a different sword color or more hats and masks like maybe you could add a traditional so-men or kendo face guard or maybe samurai chest and body armor.
-Add a dummy to train with or at least a tutorial, I had to learn the ropes by myself and the text you had written, it's quite annoying and made me almost lose interest at the beginning but luckily I didn't and here we are.
-The ability to do combos in a quick but not instant(because then you wouldn't be able to block) succession so you could make it a bit more of an ability and not just spamming gameplay.
-This is less important but wouldn't be a bad add, make the maps have variation like platforms on which you can jump on but since this will cost a lot of time and effort it's not that important.
This is one of my most detailed comments and probably one of the only 3 games I have added to my collection and although your probably not going to read this, you have a great game with great potential here so stay safe, do what you love, and have a great day.
The game is really fun. I played for 1 hour straight and didn't get bored at all. If you add some effects like screen shaking when blocking an attack or more details to animations to make it feel more fast-paced and dynamic, I think the game would greatly benefit from it, but it's already great as it is. It's also pretty satisfying when you get somewhat good at it:
Hi, there's a pretty common bug that makes the game run slower than it should (around 30-45fps rather than 60fps). It sounds like your game is now running at the intended speed. Are you on Windows 10?
Someone has made a .dll that might fix the problem for all games that use the same engine. Just download DGBHELP.dll and place it in the First Cut folder. If I can confirm that this .dll fixes the problem then I will release an update that includes it.
i did not have that problem at all after the first day i commented, thank you for your great work! also I think i liked the bug more than hating it too keep up the good work!
If I look at "more info" it says the last update was "6 days ago"
If I look at when the downloadable files were last updated, it says "Nov 02, 2020" which is just over a year ago.
Best guess I can come up with is that the more info update was an update to the game page, not to the game itself. But you have me very curious now that you've pointed me in the direction you'd been looking!
Hi, sorry for the confusion. I updated the top of the game description with some news about the project. I've got a bit of an overhaul in the works but I'm not ready to show anything yet.
hey! i got a few ideas for the game if you still work on it!
one of my ideas is larger customization like,we be able to add cosmetic armor and new weapons like naginata (prob not any new weapon but the cosmetics below)
cosmetic armor like samurai and ashigaru!
it would be very nice if this ideas were added to the game
wow those are some neat ideas. Other cool ideas would be adding different types of swords like maybe the odachi for longer range but slower speed. This would probably be pretty difficult but adding an online mode would be really cool.
oh hell yeah,the odachi would be epic but i think it would be more slower the swing since its a long katana,and yea the idea of a online mode is nuts.if he did it it would be also nice to add a friends list yk and be able to message the person etc and maybe even make clans! like imagine also be able to do 2v2's like,the characters of the enemy ally and your ally fighting on the background while you also fight aganist one of the enemies,and once ur done killing one of them you just wait til ur allied kill the other,and if ur allied die you can fight the enemy ally to see who is the great winner
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this game is so good 11/10
I freaking love this game
I found it yesterday (at time of writing) and I've already sunk more than enough hours into it
but holy crap, it's so hard, too hard for me, the AI just is an OP moron that as far as I can tell can only be killed by pure luck, no matter what I do, I can barely ever get a hit on him, AND I'M PLAYING ON NORMAL!
i gotta get good(jokes aside, I really do love this game and I look forward to seeing what comes of it in the future 10/10)
try to trick it, go high then shift low
Hey! Played this on my friends laptop and it was really fun, I want to play it on my laptop too but...it's a Mac, is there any way to make the game available on Mac too?
muito bom :D
Ok, that's amazing! The gore is fantastic. Btw, are the sprites painted dynamically or will made all the death poses one by one?
PS.: A story mode with some exploration would be superb!
It's a bit of both. There are individual death animations but there's also a system for painting the characters with blood stains. Thanks for playing.
Cool! Is there a name for the sprite painting approach you used? Would love to search more about it.
Essentially it's a square surrounding the character which can be drawn on whenever a blood spurt passes on top (a 'surface' in GameMaker terms). The character sprite is then used as a stencil to cut the surrounding edges of the square, leaving only the interior visible (I use 'blend modes' to do this). This is drawn over the top of the character to create the impression of being covered in blood.
It's similar to the approach used in this game:
Wow, that's incredibly simple and clever! I'll give it a try, thanks! 👊👊👊
Omg the best game on itch
Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing and recording.
This is wery cool game
Thanks!
Among them there are cowards that hide outside the screen... Disgraceful!
great game and has a good complexity to depth ratio, recommend to any fighting games and action arcade fans
Thanks for playing.
Gracias!
this game is really good i reccomend it
Thanks for playing.
I just found this game a few days ago and I'm completely in love with it. It's so "simple" yet it works soooo well. Amazing work, for real, for me this is just perfect
yesss this game is so perfect!
Thanks a lot!
nice game! only thing is i would decrease the range on the horizontal strike. that move plus good footsies seems to be the meta 😂
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind in future.
one of the best games ive played in this website. ıts really fun!
Thanks for playing, great recording.
Wow, Really good game!
Thanks!
Really cool game.
I love art style :)
Yes, this kind of game doesn't even need high-quality graphics, its minimalism is very samurai-spirit:)
Thanks!
Thanks for playing and making a video.
very cool sword game :)
Thanks!
This game was awesome! I really enjoyed it a lot, I actually ended up playing more after my recording. I can't wait to see where you'll go with this, keep it up!
Here's my video, it would mean a lot if you'd subscribe and like the video :)
Thanks for playing, always glad to see someone make a video.
Dude i freaking love this game
Thanks!
linux ;(
custom background
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lxrhlyruywrj4ti/AACE2-OePqhjJqhojc1oSK3la?dl=0
How did you find these or make them
Awesome, thank you!
This looks great, thanks for playing.
New update! letsgo!
great game and really realistic the blood and everything this game is a masterpiece and i recommend it also developer if you see this can you add online multiplayer?
Masterpeice
This game is really fun i really recommend it!
I can finally say I'm superior to the Duel bot![]()
Also, I think I found a sorts of a glitch that make beating the Duel bot kinda broken and easy
-first, if you duck close to the enemy right before it does a top down swing attack and defend it while in duck position, you will be able to instantly kill it every time, only condition is that you have to be right in his position and do the attack fast, but other than that it's a piece of cake, I don't know if it's with all difficulties because I only experienced this in the Duel bot.
the speedrun strat is hold top swing, push, middle swing
epic but drasnus need to update this or else i cri
dude this is my third game i played on this website and it is so sick! i love it!
One of the best games here and I hope you read this, I'll make a pros, cons and suggestion list but besides that this is gonna go in my top 5 itch.io games
Pros
-Stunning pixel art animations were it's not to complex but not to simple at the same time which is quite nice.
-Great gameplay with all the attacks and variations you can do.
-Very fluid and not at all buggy in my experience.
Cons
-Lack of a tutorial
-No customizations of controls(I understand there is a large and diverse pool of options but the ability to customize your controls can make a game 5x better and easier to play).
-No online play(I know it's costs money to keep up a server so if you can, start a go fund me and make a server were you can play with friends by entering a 6 digit code. This is a long shot but if you do get funded, first of all I recommend placing a Japanese background with a Sakura and that there's always Sakura flowers falling, second make transitions when choosing an option so it's not so robotic and finally, to expand your market, add the ability for mac and Linux compatibility).
Suggestions
-More character customization like a different sword color or more hats and masks like maybe you could add a traditional so-men or kendo face guard or maybe samurai chest and body armor.
-Add a dummy to train with or at least a tutorial, I had to learn the ropes by myself and the text you had written, it's quite annoying and made me almost lose interest at the beginning but luckily I didn't and here we are.
-The ability to do combos in a quick but not instant(because then you wouldn't be able to block) succession so you could make it a bit more of an ability and not just spamming gameplay.
-This is less important but wouldn't be a bad add, make the maps have variation like platforms on which you can jump on but since this will cost a lot of time and effort it's not that important.
This is one of my most detailed comments and probably one of the only 3 games I have added to my collection and although your probably not going to read this, you have a great game with great potential here so stay safe, do what you love, and have a great day.
Hello. Do you provide the source code of the game, a full project? I would like to see from the inside.
The game is really fun. I played for 1 hour straight and didn't get bored at all. If you add some effects like screen shaking when blocking an attack or more details to animations to make it feel more fast-paced and dynamic, I think the game would greatly benefit from it, but it's already great as it is. It's also pretty satisfying when you get somewhat good at it:
nice edit i guess kek
This is such a hidden gem, really been loving this!
Excited to see more on the premium version.
why are my game speeded up ?
its like i am playing on 1.5x times the normal speed what the hell
Hi, there's a pretty common bug that makes the game run slower than it should (around 30-45fps rather than 60fps). It sounds like your game is now running at the intended speed. Are you on Windows 10?
Tbh i love when the game was speed up it was so intense and fun!!
it gets boring from time to time when the game is in normal slow phrase i wish i can do the bug of speed up again :(
Since you're still having that problem, could you help me test a possible fix?
https://github.com/omicronrex/gms_scheduler_fix/releases/tag/v1.0
Someone has made a .dll that might fix the problem for all games that use the same engine. Just download DGBHELP.dll and place it in the First Cut folder. If I can confirm that this .dll fixes the problem then I will release an update that includes it.
i did not have that problem at all after the first day i commented, thank you for your great work! also I think i liked the bug more than hating it too keep up the good work!
i saw this game got updated,hyped to know what it is
The most recent update was a year and 4 days ago, not 4 days ago.
wait...OH wow i got trolled
wait no,it wasnt a year it says that last update was 30 oct of 2021 on the more info
If I look at "more info" it says the last update was "6 days ago"
If I look at when the downloadable files were last updated, it says "Nov 02, 2020" which is just over a year ago.
Best guess I can come up with is that the more info update was an update to the game page, not to the game itself. But you have me very curious now that you've pointed me in the direction you'd been looking!
maybe he changed something not ingame,anyway thanks for telling me!
Hi, sorry for the confusion. I updated the top of the game description with some news about the project. I've got a bit of an overhaul in the works but I'm not ready to show anything yet.
ohhh
Awesome! Nice work, loved the game
Amazing game, I would love to see more!
hey! i got a few ideas for the game if you still work on it!
one of my ideas is larger customization like,we be able to add cosmetic armor and new weapons like naginata (prob not any new weapon but the cosmetics below)
cosmetic armor like samurai and ashigaru!
it would be very nice if this ideas were added to the game
wow those are some neat ideas. Other cool ideas would be adding different types of swords like maybe the odachi for longer range but slower speed. This would probably be pretty difficult but adding an online mode would be really cool.
oh hell yeah,the odachi would be epic but i think it would be more slower the swing since its a long katana,and yea the idea of a online mode is nuts.if he did it it would be also nice to add a friends list yk and be able to message the person etc and maybe even make clans! like imagine also be able to do 2v2's like,the characters of the enemy ally and your ally fighting on the background while you also fight aganist one of the enemies,and once ur done killing one of them you just wait til ur allied kill the other,and if ur allied die you can fight the enemy ally to see who is the great winner