
ESCALATING DUEL
Escalating Duel is local-multiplayer 1v1 2D-Arena-Shooter with deck-building elements. After each round the contestants add a card to their deck of upgrades. As the match goes on the madness escalates as the decks get thicker. It's local-multiplayer, so grab a friend - first to 5 rounds wins the match!
Playable with Keyboard and/or Gamepad.
THE GAME INCLUDES:
- 38+ unique cards
- 6+ Arenas, each with a unique game-play element
- 14+ Cosmetics
Music by B_SEAN and Seth Makes Sounds
Created for the CONSTRUCT JAM 2024, edit: and also won :0, with the theme ESCALATION. I hope you like it. Feedback and ratings are greatly appreciated!
If you have feedback I would love to hear it, easiest would be to joing my Discord.
Full release coming to Steam later this year, a wishlist would be greatly appreciated!
v1.1:
- 10 New Cards
- 2 New Maps
- 5 new Skins
- menu and map improvements
v1.2:
- New re-roll mechanic, each match each player can re-roll the card choice
- 2 new cards
- 2 new skins
v1.3:
- New map (with teleporters)
- New card (Steve)
- some new and some improved skins
- gamepad support
- match length shortent to first to 5 (was 6)
- A large amount of QOL changes
- some minor balancing changes to some cards
- a bunch of general bug fixes
v1.4:
- Cards now have unique icons
- new card Comeback
- two new songs (by Seth Makes Sounds)
- outline shader was improved
v1.5:
- ducking on solid ground
- adjustable player colors
- some cards can stack now
- rotating shield now deflects bullets
- settings (volume, screenshake etc.)
- lots more
Updated | 2 days ago |
Status | In development |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (11 total ratings) |
Author | Federico Calchera |
Genre | Shooter, Action, Fighting, Platformer |
Made with | Construct |
Tags | 2D, Deck Building, Local multiplayer, Multiplayer, party-game, Versus |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller |
Accessibility | Interactive tutorial |
Multiplayer | Local multiplayer |
Player count | 2 |
Links | Steam |
Development log
- Major update and coming to Steam7 days ago
- v1.4: Card icons, new card and new songsNov 03, 2024
- 1.3: New Map, Card, Skins and tons of QOLJul 28, 2024
- 1.2: RerollingMar 22, 2024
- I won :0 & the chunky post jam updateJan 31, 2024
Comments
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pleaseeeeeee update thissssss
thank youuuuuu
add one player mode please
please please
also bouncing bullet and ghost bullet work weirdly together
game is sooo good 10000000/10 you should make a card that has a 1% chanse of spwaning that gives you all cards
Is there any way i could mod this? My friends and I are really enjoying the game, but it would be great to have more cards, maps and the option to choose the length of the game
I'm happy you enjoy the game!
Currently there is no easy way to mod the game and I am also not sure how I can improve moddability. But if you know js you might be able to dig into the files and make some changes, round length should be easy to mod but adding cards and maps not so much.
I do want to add a setting for game length as well as new cards and maps. So if you have suggestion for cards and maps feel free to tell me and I may add them in the next update.
I was thinking about some sort of mega cards which are very strong but you can only take one of them throughout the whole game and they are pretty rare. For example:
Feel free to use these or change the numbers or just ignore the whole concept.
More cards:
Some other things:
Ohh, great to hear that you found the game at PLAY24. :) I wasn't sure if anyone would see the game as it's kinda tucked away in a corner on a station with other cool games.
Very cool ideas, I'll be sure to add some of them in the next update.
Btw controller support is already in the game, you may need to press a button on the gamepad before it's detected though.
Yeah, i just chose to look at this one over the others as i was there with a friend and a duel sounded like a nice Thing to have. He won every Single one of Our five or six matches by the way. But i am practicing so i can beat him in the future
Any idea when that Update will come out?
Really excellent game. I would 100% buy this were it slightly more polished and added to steam.
10/10 uauuuu
this is so cool! 12/10
Love this game. 5/5
I love your game!!! It reminds me of a game I developed in 2017 for a Construct game jam. I built platformer pathfinding mechanics in it.
I think your game has much better style, graphics, feel and overall great execution. If you can bring in platformer pahfinding to your game, you can maybe launch a 1P version of the game as well.
Check out my game here: https://abhishan.itch.io/blu
Had fun with my kid playing it! Really cool!
Of course I let you guess which color he was. He would not let me pick the end bonus first while I was loosing. x)
Super fun! I really like how you can nerf the other player
Seems like a really fun game! Extremely polished and great to play, only downside is I can't find someone to play with rn :)
also one other issue is that using up/down will also scroll the website, so it kinda makes it harder to play properly.
Thank you! Yea I noticed that too, it can be solved by going into full-screen mode. Maybe I can think about alternative inputs.
Idk if it was just my computer but the full screen button didn't do anything
NICE WORK :)