Glad you liked it, thanks for playing:)

Thanks a lot! That's pretty much exactly what we were going for

Thanks for playing!

Yeah! There really aren't that many punchout type games around are there?

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing!

Thanks so much! I haven't got around to playing yours yet but I'll make sure to do so asap, probably tonight!

Thank you!

Thanks a lot! Without the visuals it wouldn't be half as good lol

Thanks for playing!

In a stroke of complete luck I got past Joel and Bald Joel (I have no idea how) and had a lot more fun with the Bulk fight because it was a lot easier to tell what he was going to do - and after dying a few times managed to cheese it by just alternating right uppercuts and left normal hits one at a time and for whatever reason he just didn't attack once or even try to even after several consecutive blocks from him

I will not be attempting expert mode.

Congrats! Bulk Bogan has some oddities in his programmed patterns, I've had a couple runs where he barely fights back as well and then others where he follows up a double power punch with two more double power pucnhes followed by relentless 4 punch combos. Usually it's somewhere in between, though.

I think if we had mroo\e time we could have had extra frames that telegraph attacks more clearly, as of now a lot of the animations are sprite shaking and position shifting. So when Joel attacks up he first moves back a bit, if hes attacking the body he moves back less but more to the side before pucnhing. It's a subtle difference and maybe hard to spot until you get a feel for it.

Thanks for playing!

I can give a few more tips in case you want to give it another shot sometime.

I've already mentioned high and low pucnhes get telegraphed differently. However, if you block them you will take chip damage (1dmg) but that's not usually a big deal. It's mroe effective to dodge but you hae to be carefull dodging body shots because if you dodge into the direction the body shot is coming from, or you duck into a body shot you'll get hit anyway. Luckily no input blocks body by default so playing it safe could be dodging high punches and jsut blocking low ones.

Also inc ase you weren't using the special mirrors to block the bald shine that lets you get in a steady stream of free hits. Head punches do more damage and for Bulk Bogan body shots basically do chip damage to him, again only 1dmg. But for him, any pucnhes you get in will be worth it so if he's blocking high too much then get a few body shots in.

Thanks a lot! I really pushed myself maybe a bit too much but the real heavy lifting presentation-wise is the art which is all credited to my partner in this gamejam (with the exception of a couple small things like some effects or menu art which I did)

Glad you enjoyed it! If you liked this, check out Super Punchout, it's naturally a lot more balanced and polished than this.

The original Punchout and Punchout Wii are great too.

Thanks for playing!

Thank you~
I am glad that people like the style do much.

Hahaha yeah Joel is a dick in this but of course it's all for the game's sake, the real protaganist is Fren :^)

Thanks for playing!

Using my mouse turned out to me better than a tablet :D
Glad you liked it!

Glad to hear it! I can take credit for the voice overs (headset mic + bitcrush & downsample and you get a nice rough retro voice clip haha), but for the art style and animations that's all my partner. The music is all opengameart!
Thanks for playing!

Thank you for the nice comment!
I will be trying out other games today and look forward to enjoy them as you guys are.

Okay I'm gonna try this, I wonder if theres an additional few frames because of the Scale.X inverting when you hit him with a right punch (so i didnt have to set up a separate animation for his hit anim), because he also swaps back when transitioning back to idle anim.
I'm gonna try that out., Other than that there's functionally no difference between left and right punches 😆

Thanks a lot!

That strategy is interesting, I wonder if you've found a nearly frame perfect rhythm to get a hit in in between state transitions 🤔 After a few landed hits in a few the last fighter actually goes into a very temporary input reading state so switching high/low punches should matter for the next couple seconds until it wears off (blocks dont contribute to this)

There are also a few frames at the end of the last fighters double power punch where you can get a hit in and soemtimes up to 4 hits because it shouldn't count toward that 3-hit -> read input to block special pattern, but you have to dodge it early enough to get back and land one.

That's a very nice expert time by the way, I've got 14 and 12 seconds once each and other thant hat its always 1-3 seconds left, so I was quite happy with the expert feel at least for the last fight.

Thanks for playing!

Thanks a lot! Anything story related or details like the mirrors were all up to my team member (he's definitely in here silently

Yeah Joel and Bald Joel have similar but slightly different patterns but I dont think Bald Joel defense aggresively enough. Regular Joel is quite basic and has that time where he blocks 100% of body shots to set up the scripted finish. Regular Joel should try to do his shine attack twice but the first one may not trigger if you damage him too fast. And by that point,a s you said you can jsut eat the pucnhes while blidned and then finish hima fter you recover.

The last fighter is the one I felt needed to be really tight especially for expert mode. My best time is 14 seconds left on the clock and I was realllllly lucky with the state changes his fight handler happened to pick. Before that it was 12 seconds and then a bunch where i scraped by with 1 or 3 seconds left.

Thanks for playing!

Thanks! Yeah I was a little worried about that, that's why for head punches I have the opponent invert the x scale so his hit animation goes the other direction

No worries, did you beat normal mode? (the time limit in normal isn't real so feel free to play safe and dodge alot)

Actually my most recent expert mode win had 12 seconds left on the clock. I hope that gives people confidence that it's possible ;)

I'm not sure if I can do better than that though lol, every other run has been cutting it pretty close

(I didn't know about the queue system so I've played yours but can't rate it yet, I'll leave a proper comment once I can rate it!)