Posted by AUX on 16, 2001 at 6:20 PM:
In Reply to: Make your own 2D fighting game! posted by Retrocactus on 16, 2001 at 5:52 PM:
: Found this on Metafilter...looks pretty cool and works in DOS. Imagine making your own fighting game with your own characters....pretty cool.
lots of people have been ripping characters from arcade fighting games for MUGEN.
I recently tried out 2 other PC game demos with classic gameplay: MageSlayer and BattleGirl.
MageSlayer is kinda like Gauntlet in that it's a top-down sword n magic action game, but the engine is actually from a doom-clone and it shows in the controls, which are like doom with mouselook (up/down walks forward/back, mouse or keys turn left/right). While playing I kept thinking it would have been cool to play it with a spinner or a rotating joystick!
Battlegirl plays like Robotron with vector graphics. You can move and shoot in different directions like robotron, but the default contrls are mouse to move, and a 8-way keyboard layout to shoot - similar to a dual joystick setup!
these were older games, so you might have to dig a little to find the demos.