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Two Gentleman.  Two dirigibles.  Two Four fists.  

In nineteenth century London, there was only one way to settle a dispute - race airships and then engage in a bare-knuckle brawl on top of said airships.

The current plan:  Two-keyboard-one-screen; two phases of gameplay.  Phase 1 is a side-scrolling racing/shooter, that I envision will pan out like a 2D Diddy Kong Racing.  Phase 2 is a "versus beatemup", whatever that may be.

(http://i.imgur.com/RGGvx.png)

(thanks to ThePortalGuru (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=17129.msg491576#msg491576) for the inspiration)




Download Fisticuffs Here (http://www.braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs.exe)

Please, break it!  And tell me how you did!


Screenies:
Here's a few! (click to view full size)

You and your opponent input your names and select your scenario:
(http://i.imgur.com/HwHSm.png) (http://i.imgur.com/7JXwy.png)

Some racing:
(http://i.imgur.com/GFDR3.png) (http://i.imgur.com/EeXi1.png)

Dynamic split-screen:
(http://i.imgur.com/fIlUF.png) (http://i.imgur.com/FbDLu.png)

Once one player reaches the end, a countdown timer begins to allow the second player to finish:
(http://i.imgur.com/0pnfa.png) (http://i.imgur.com/NVp3M.png)

Bonuses!
(http://i.imgur.com/vWMfN.png) (http://i.imgur.com/gvTWx.png)

What if you had to race AND engage in manly brawling... AT THE SAME TIME?

I will definitely have to consider that!

Possible balloon sprite:
(http://i.imgur.com/iYWv8.png)

Trying to establish the style:
(http://i.imgur.com/Bims2.png)

Will post more after I'm finished shoveling snow tomorrow.

 ;D

This is going to be so fun to see come to life.

I support this project. ;D

What an adorable balloon!  :-*

Good show old bean. Sadly I can't lend you my airship because, uh, it's in for repair at the moment. But my inability to access my personal dirigible at this time only heightens my desire to see this game completed, so I can relive the good old days.

The balloon is awesome! I hope for some action!

I really wish it would stop snowing.  At least on my driveway, anyway.

Some more art!  I think I hit my sketch pretty closely.

(http://i.imgur.com/uIG7C.png) (http://i.imgur.com/0l8SR.png)

Don't worry, he has coat tails - you just can't see them from this angle.

I will prob post some gameplay mockups next.

Gameplay mockup:

(http://i.imgur.com/KtfAh.png)


The first phase of the duel is an airship race, which I envision will play out like a 2D Diddy Kong Racing.  In addition, each player can yell 19th century insults at each other, in an effort to distract their opponent.  I would like to integrate this into the gameplay somehow, similar to the combat system used in the Monkey Island series.  We will see.

Oh, if anyone wants to donate some 19th century English insults, you are more than welcome.  I was unforunately born a hundred years too late, and don't have an adequate lexicon.

Perhaps taunting boosts a meter, which allows for "Gallant Boosts", or some other similar nonsense?


Also, that's a hilarious insult.

Looks great ;)

This may be a good start
http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/html/books-and-manuscripts/1800-1899/1811-dictionary-of-the-vulgar-tongue/index.htm

And the game looks awesome.

There's some great material in that link, viz.


It's maybe a bit early for Victorians though, who were a bit more upright and prudish than the previous, really quite bawdy, generation :)

Will

Thanks, ish!  I really like the depth of the content on that page.  I am also re-reading through Sherlock Holmes for research.   :noir: :gentleman:

I hope to see some form of glove slapping, and the "demanding of satisfaction"  :gentleman:
The Airship races should be a lot of fun :D I can't wait to play.

Hey man looks great. For my game I was planning to use the Victorian Gentleman style as well though the game play will be very different.

May the best gentleman win!  :monoclepop:

I think this is my favorite concept so far

Then again, English gentlemen and dirigibles gets me every time...

I finished my exploratory technology research.  I've decided to use Game Maker (surprise!) so I don't have to spend 90% of my dev time futzing with SDL.   :crazy:

So far I've hacked together a basic two-player environment with dynamic split-screen.  I will hopefully have some sort of simple demo in the next few days.

Alrighty!  I have a VERY basic tech demo that exhibits potential airship physics.  WASD are used for player 1, and the arrow keys are used for player 2.  If all is working properly, both players should be able to fly around the level, and bounce off of the level walls and the gray blocks, as well as each other.

Download Fisticuffs Demo 1.0 (http://www.braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs.exe)

Please, go ahead and break it!  I am not expecting the collisions to be working 100%.

I'm going to work on some background music this week.  I'm thinking something similar to the Henry Hatsworth soundtrack.

Runs fine here, the collisions are quite vigorous though! Two other things caught my eye:

* The split playfield is *really* nice - great job!

* I think the balloon movement would be more interesting if X and Y behaved differently - at the moment it feels a bit like a top down game with side-on sprites, if you see what I mean?

Will

Thank you, Will!  The dynamic split-screen is hacked together from a couple other Game Maker projects, so I really can't take the credit.  I totally agree with you about the movement, although I haven't quite figured out the best approach.  In the least, I will probably increase the max horizontal speed and momentum, as well as reduce the vertical bounce.

Still programming...

One of my friends made (pre)fan art!  I think it looks pretty awesome:

(http://i.imgur.com/RGGvx.png)

Yes! I was looking forward to some fan art for this one.  :gentleman:

I have a friend who loves stuff like this.

Short post: some updates:

- Finished the finalized movement, collision, and upgrade systems for racing section
- Creating a pause screen

Huh, that somehow managed to be even LESS interesting than I was expecting.  I will upload a new demo soon, perhaps tomorrow!

I didnt know gentlemen told each other about their mothers in hot air balloons.

unbecoming I say

I've made some updates - significant additions include traps, boosters, and some basic animations.  
Controls: P1 holds the 'W' key to increase altitude; P2 holds 'Up'

Next: backgrounds, combo system (!), enemies, etc.r


(http://i.imgur.com/emf2R.png)


Updated technical demo:

Fisticuffs Tech Demo 1.1 (http://www.braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs.exe)

I dunno if you fixed it in 1.1, but I broke something as you asked.

If the two balloons are coming at each other from the top and the bottom and collide correctly, they fly through each other at a great speed.  Replicatable.

Title screeeeeeeeeeen

(http://i.imgur.com/dbNdU.png)


Should have next demo by tomorrow, methinks.

Tomorrow... ten days later... same thing...

Alright, here's the latest demo of Fisticuffs: The Legendary Journeys.  Or whatever the subtitle is.  It is about 50% completed, although unfortunately, I'm not ready to show off some of the fun/simple/stupid attacks!  With all the free time I'll have next week, I am fairly confident this project will be completed by the deadline and/or a later date.

Click here to download the latest build (http://braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs.exe)

Additionally, if anyone is interested, they are certainly welcome to look at the brief design document (http://braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs_Design_Document.doc) I put together.

Definitely feels like a complete game now - I like the start where you choose your quarrel.

It worked for me up until I got (I assume) to the end - the timeout for the other player counted down but then I just had a black box in the middle of the screen.

Will

Could someone post a screenshot please?

Right you are!  From there, the game will transition to the second phase of the gameplay (a beat-em-up), which is currently being worked on as we speak (I am multitasking  :whome:)

Here's a few! (click to view full size)

You and your opponent input your names and select your scenario:
(http://i.imgur.com/HwHSm.png) (http://i.imgur.com/7JXwy.png)

Some racing:
(http://i.imgur.com/GFDR3.png) (http://i.imgur.com/EeXi1.png)

Dynamic split-screen:
(http://i.imgur.com/fIlUF.png) (http://i.imgur.com/FbDLu.png)

Once one player reaches the end, a countdown timer begins to allow the second player to finish:
(http://i.imgur.com/0pnfa.png) (http://i.imgur.com/NVp3M.png)

Bonuses!
(http://i.imgur.com/vWMfN.png) (http://i.imgur.com/gvTWx.png)

Finished!  Probably full of bugs, but that adds to the flavor!

Download Linkey (http://www.braincorral.org/fisticuffs/Fisticuffs.exe)

We thought this game was really cute with a lot of personality. It takes you on a little journey and tells a little story and at the end you're satisfied with the experience. But, you don't really have any motivation to play again.

Some thoughts:

We liked entering names and choosing what to fight over.

The dynamic split screen was a big hit.

The pickups were hard to distinguish and we didn't really know why we were picking them up or what the colors meant.

We thought there really wasn't enough time to react to things in the race mode. What you hit was pretty much random.

Some of the art works well, like the gentlemen fighting and pipe menu selector, but the visuals don't come together as a cohesive whole. Most jarring is the difference in sprite resolutions. All the "pixels" on the screen should be the same size! And is that 4 different fonts used on the main menu? ;D

Took us a little while to figure out what keys to use on the purchase upgrade screen between the two modes.

Overall, a fun little game! It seems like the kind of thing you would play to settle a dispute. "No it's your turn to take out the trash. Ok let's settle this in Fisticuffs!"

Thanks for making it!

Alright, so, the split-screen doesn't work for me. When the two balloons are far enough apart that it should be working, the orange balloon's  half goes black. The game is still playable, but the blue balloon kinda has an unfair advantage...

I'm Running Windows 7 on an Alienware M15, with a 1.60GHz Intel Core i7 processor and an Nvidia GeForce GT video card.