rigify

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you've got a problem. you were just hired as the new fight manager at a fight club. but your boss tells you there's a problem: the fan-favorite, jelba, is expected to lose the fight against her opponent kalatinka. can you rig the fight between rigs so that jelba comes out on top? or will the crowd suspect shenanigans are up?

controls:

• arrow keys (or a and d) to navigate moves
• enter/space to select moves

submission for the gmtk game jam 2023 with the theme "roles reversed." i love the combat in paper mario: the thousand year door, so i thought this was a natural derivation of that combat system, where audience members can throw things at mario or boos can help enemies, etc. i thought it would be fun to reverse the roles on those fights and aim to help the "mario" of this game. the music is very mario-inspired too.

this game is very heavily a 3D artist reference. the name "rigify" comes from the Blender addon called rigify which makes rigging characters very easy. i thought since you're trying to rig a fight, it would be funny to make the characters also be rigged. modeling a rig using a rig as reference is definitely weird but it's a really fun process. both fighters' movesets are all 3D artist terms too.

tools used:

• blender
• unity
• krita
• tracktion waveform 12