The task is quite challenging and there are lots of little pieces of detail which contribute a lot to the whole subject. Among these tiny features are, combat hit windows, character reflex animations and timing, camera shakes, time shrinks, particles, sound, enemy anticipations, enemy locks and animation canceling. Our main references for good combat are mainly God of War and Prince of Persia, the two are quite different in terms of combat style but they have lots of good little details to learn from.

The use of magic is in the wish list, lets see how we do in time.

Good combat is essential for our action game. We’ve gotta tweak and tweak and tweak.