Feed IT Souls: DUAL (Alpha Build)

Feed IT Souls: Dual is a fighting game for the Game Boy Color, designed for two players sharing one console. This game was produced for GB Compo 25 but unfortunately, I wasn't able to work on the game for the final month of the jam. As such, FITS: Dual is very much a Work In Progress and many of its systems require a lot more development.

Typically, I wouldn't release a game in an alpha state like this. However, since designing a fighting game must be approached holistically and this was to be an entry in a jam, I decided I would try something different this time around and release an alpha build early in development. This way, I can get feedback on the various systems as I develop and expand on them further rather than not release anything at all for the GB Compo jam. 

So with all that said, have a fool around with the current iteration and let me know your thoughts - for better or worse! 

FIGHT SCENE OVERVIEW

HOW TO PLAY

I challenged myself to create a multiplayer fighting game that could be played using only one console. For this reason, FITS Dual has a very minimal approach to its design, using only two buttons per player.

PRESENT & FUTURE PLANS

Considering this games self-imposed limitation of only providing two buttons per player, the fighting system will always be a minimal one. All the same, I am interested in exploring how this idea can be pushed further towards greater complexity while still maintaining simplistic controls. It's likely I will be adding to the possible moves over time therefore.

When I have some more time, I will release a devlog that shares exactly what is going on under the hood when it comes to character specific traits. Because it's taken a lot of work to get all the systems in place before I got to really test how fast/slow everything should be, the current character stat values will be far from final. For now, you can check out the the character statistics menu option in-game (which hints at what each character's strengths and weaknesses are).

Finally, there will be bugs in this jam build. I've done my best to try and clean up what I could in the last couple of days of GB Compo 25 but no doubt a fighting game was always going to be very tough to complete on my own under jam conditions.

Currently Available Features:
- 2 Player Battle
- A Tutorial Sequence
- 4 Fighters (Note: Muskrat is close to complete but some animation states such as the KO are placeholder - He was a difficult one to get the sprite tile number within sprite limitations)
- 1 Stage (Factory X)
- A Character Statistics View Screen

Planned Features:
- Opponent AI
- Arcade Mode (Single Player)
- Special Attacks Unique to each Character (Blocking an attack will power up a special meter during a fight)
- Additional Moves
- Additional Stages

Credits:
Blezz Beats - Music
Gumpy Function - Game Design, Art, Programming, SFX
Beatscribe - Additional Ambient Sound Effects

Special Thanks to Gud_Graphics for answering my programming questions and Gearfo for creating the Fade Street plugin.