By Alec Meer on April 12th, 2011 at 5:50 pm.
Any day with a new game from Super Crate Box weirdo-heads Vlambeer is a good day. This time, they’ve made one about being a martial arts superhero – in just two hours. Kicksplode!
Well, one hour and fifty-seven minutes to be precise. Even so: bloody hell. That is impressive work, especially given this is far from terrible. It’s rather a lot of fun, in fact. Oh, there’s that stupid, meaningless word again. Yes, everyone has a different idea of fun. My idea of fun is mashing buttons to make pretend-dudes fall over. Ergo, this is fun.
Karate, which was created to combat their “inner boredom” more than anything else, is tiny and unfair and ridiculous and brillant. Basically, it’s that Enter The Dragon scene where Bruce Lee fights like a thousand men in a row, ad infinitum. That’s all I really want from a Karate game, to be honest. Skill? Pah! Punch!
6MB of free, joyous pixel-art carnage await you here. How many men did you karate in the face before perishing?
12/04/2011 at 18:03 Tusque D'Ivoire says:
I AM READY!
but there is no link
12/04/2011 at 20:38 BAReFOOt says:
How am I supposed to play this, with Z being halfway across the keyboard from X??
This is Eartha-Shattaruining!
12/04/2011 at 23:23 Kdansky says:
It bothers me that so many game writers do not care that Z and X are half a keyboard apart on German keyboards (and I believe some others too). Can’t they just put the controls somewhere sensible? Like arrows + numbers 1-9, which is identical on absolutely every keyboard ever made?
13/04/2011 at 00:33 Tusque D'Ivoire says:
A quick keyboard magic trick from a fellow german: press Alt+Shift, and your keyboard settings get changed from german layout to english. very handy for these types!
If you’re on Windows, that is. But this is a gaming site.
13/04/2011 at 12:00 tanith says:
So there is no gaming on Linux then?
Interesting.
Oh well, I guess I’ll have to deinstall all my games then because Tusque D’Ivoire implied you can only game on Windows. :|
And yes, this particular control mapping issue has been bothering me quite often, too.
12/04/2011 at 18:04 leto says:
While Google-Fu is an appropriate thing to use here, having a link to the actual game might be nice as well.
Until then: linky
12/04/2011 at 18:09 PleasingFungus says:
Here’s something to start things off: my high score (4921), and the official high score.
…as you might guess from the url of the second one, he’s thinking about tweaking the game a bit.
12/04/2011 at 18:15 Altemore says:
Can’t quite see what’s going on in that picture. At first I thought there was some kind of corner-invincibility thing, but can’t really see that working now that I tried it for a moment.
I have sucesfully sent 307 mooks to the skies.
12/04/2011 at 18:31 PleasingFungus says:
jwaap [08:56] haha the design is a bit flawed so far
jwaap [08:56] were gonna extend it prolly
jwaap [08:56] you can just keep uppercutting for sick scores
My own strategy revolved around alternating between punching dudes left and right to keep the crowd controlled and increase combo, and uppercutting to cash in.
The short version is that Vlambeer is the master of karate.
14/04/2011 at 03:41 Berzee says:
Well, I just got 15,000 points — but I don’t really consider it broken or a bad thing. =) Maybe if it was 700,000 instead of 70,000…but I think you must consider the time played and not just the score. 70,000 points would barely even take a minute or two, judging by how long it took me to get 15k. A minute or two for a high score ain’t bad =) Though maybe the tweaks would just be to add strategy to when you ought to uppercut, instead of the answer being “always”
12/04/2011 at 18:13 Jesse L says:
The site for this game is tremendously hilarious.
KA: The art of sending.
RA: To the Gods in heaven.
TE: Others with your fists.
12/04/2011 at 18:17 Altemore says:
First thing I did when reading that was count syllables. I’m not sure whether they intentionally tried to make it a haiku, because it only *almost* is. The middle line is 6 syllables, not 7.
12/04/2011 at 20:48 Growley says:
I especially loved the site’s suggestion on how to become a karateka.
12/04/2011 at 20:51 Hoaxfish says:
not too far from prostitutes
12/04/2011 at 18:54 Peter Radiator Full Pig says:
“Even so”?
Isnt that used when the claim comes up lacking?
Like if you said in two hours 3 minutes, even so, impressive stuff.
1hr57 minutes is more impressive than 2 hours, even so has no place here…
12/04/2011 at 19:24 taggert says:
Ka-chow! new high score 122479
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee515/Taggert3/kungfu.jpg
what a fun little game =D
12/04/2011 at 19:28 Davie says:
That was an incredible 52 seconds.
13/04/2011 at 09:17 Kieron Gillen says:
You remind me of Delightful Wife.
KG
12/04/2011 at 20:50 Growley says:
This game cries out for appropriate background music. Suggestions?
13/04/2011 at 16:55 Dances to Podcasts says:
Let’s start with the obvious…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0
12/04/2011 at 21:07 Zogtee says:
Get this and the other games on Steam, goddammit. I will pay MONEY for them.
12/04/2011 at 21:32 Berzee says:
YOU CAN PUNCH THE BULLETS!!!
14/04/2011 at 01:00 Berzee says:
YOU CAN UPPERCUT THE BULLETS!!!
12/04/2011 at 23:35 LynkS says:
Super crate box is the best game evah!!!111
13/04/2011 at 09:17 Kieron Gillen says:
I’ve now played this game more than I’ve played anything else this week. Man!
KG
13/04/2011 at 09:52 Spacewalk says:
Playing this makes me wish that the games that I make in two hours were this cool but I’ve only lucked out once.
13/04/2011 at 11:58 JackShandy says:
Man, I spent two hours today just trying to get a pixelman to walk. Vlambeeeeeeer!