A downloadable game

!!!IN DEVELOPEMENT!!!

PHOTON BLADE

Photon Blade is an extremely challenging fast paced 2d character action game, which combines elements from fighting games, arcade beat 'em ups and mid 2000s action games.


DEMO

Downloads are disabled currently. Follow to see when it goes live again.

MECHANICS

Photon Blade gives the player a wealth of options for movement and combat. Look up the (non-exhaustive) "Move Index" in the pause menu and experiment.

Hint: Most moves can be cancelled with a crouch input. Getting into the habit of doing so is vital to mastering the game.

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CONTROLS

KEYBOARD

Directions :            WASD/ARROWS

Attacks:                  I, O, K ,L


CONTROLLER     

Many controllers are functional, but lack UI prompts and are less tested.

Directions :           STICK/D-PAD

Attacks:                 FACE BUTTONS


CONFIG

The game creates a config.ini file to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Photon_Blade this stores the games settings. If you experience slowdowns, opening this file and changing the "tickrate" varibale to 60 can free up performance. By default, the game runs at 240 ticks/second.

Updated 5 days ago
Published 10 days ago
StatusIn development
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Authorphoton_blade_dev
GenreAction, Fighting
Tags2D, Arcade, GameMaker, Pixel Art, Side Scroller, Singleplayer, Speedrun

Development log

Comments

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I really liked the game concept but the update rate issue was also with me, hope a download comes soon.

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Shouldn't take too long. Stay tuned!

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cool game but I'm having major update rate issues. I'm on windows 11

Damn. That looks really bad. I have an idea of what might cause this though and it should be a simple fix if I'm right. I'll try to patch it today.

Thank you for trying the game out!

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I did a small update. See the added "CONFIG" section in the readme.

I also adjusted some things related to display sync and CPU utilization, which could help as well. It's not a guaranteed fix though.