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The final goal of everything is an original rethought of Metroid called "Stardust Genome", which takes the roots of metroid but expands on them into something new.

After the TrapThem games SMTac is another milestone towards that goal. SMTac is meant to be a competitive PvP arena shooter/fighter. The connection between TrapThem, SMTac and Stardust Genome will be revealed later on.

The development of SMTac will go through several playable stages, that is when interested can take an active part in the development process. The video content will be updated on this youtube site:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SMTac

The work on SMTac is about to start in Winter 2013.

The magic effect looks like high tech, that is the first thing that comes to my mind.

How some procedural generation works in Elite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTBvpd3_Vqk

If it works fine for Dark Souls that's my biggest worry taken care of.

I think that's one of the easier things to achieve. It can even be better since you have more buttons; this miserably placed kick could get its own button.

[In general the interplay of attack and recovering-time would not be modeled correctly]

To point out a flaw you would have with measures based on elapsed time:

In general the interplay of attack and recovering-time would not be modeled correctly. As example imagine you block a certain attack and counter it with something appropriate which is intended to be tightly possible. Now imagine the last frame before your attack hits takes a little more processing time so that your opponent can block again. That moment changed the intended mechanics of the game, like if in chess the horse is jumping 4 instead of 3 fields all of a sudden. Of course one can come up with ways to take that elapsed time and try to restore the correct happening but there are still rounding errors, which means your mechanics cannot always be perfectly clean.

Of course there are ways to help it but the tendency is against you. This would be all solved if the happening is modeled in discrete frame-time intervals and not in real elapsed time. That is why fixed timestep.