SideScrollingHackAndSlash

• 2d side scrolling sword dueling game with thumbstick gesture based attack inputs
• Built in XNA as a college project between 2010 and 2011
• The project was made with one programmer and one artist
• Features a very simple custom 2d physics engine that I wrote

Requirements (Play executable)

• XNA 3.1 Redistributable (Can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=15163)
• 2x Xbox Controllers (Or some way to mimic it. Can mess around with one controller.)

Requirements (Source code)

• Visual Studio 2010 with XNA 3.1
• Windows 7

Setup

• Make sure you have XNA 3.1 installed (you may need to restart if you just installed it)
• Download the release zip and unzip it
• Run SideScrollingHackandSlash.exe

Controls

• RStick: Sword movement
  • Sword has a grid of 9 possible positions, moving the sword through these positions triggers gestures
  • There are 3 gestures:
    • Thrust: (Back, Center), (Center, Center), (Forward, Center)
    • Overhead: (Back, Top), (Center, Top), (Forward, Top), (Forward, Center)
    • Underhead: (Back, Bottom), (Center, Bottom), (Forward, Bottom)
    • You can also hold down to point your sword down and deal damage to things you land on
• LStick: Movement
• Double Tap LStick: Magic Dash
• L3: Facebackwards (useful for aiming backwards mid air)
• RB: Pick up/Throw (RStick to adjust throw direction)
• LB: Jump
• RT: Block (RStick to adjust block height [High, Mid, Low])
• LT: Nothing
• A: Use held item
• B: Spawn Fireball in hands (RB to throw, or run into enemy with it)
• X (hold, release): Force push
• Y: Lightning bolt

Tips

• Fireball can ignite bombs
• Lightning bolt can trigger grenades
• Jumping into ledges causes you to hang from them, you can tap down to drop off or jump from that state
• You can catch fireballs if you grab them with the right timing