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Yours and my favourite get-together, the Klik Of the Month Klub was on Sunday and was quite productive. I started on Bushido Edge after reading about auntie's game mind fuck and thought that I would like to try a game about psyching the other person out though only in the game with no external pressures. Bushido Blade was the next thing that came to mind (the Eurogamer piece on it was still lingering in my memory) which signalled the end of the planning stage and the start of the development stage.

I wanted to strip out all of the bullshit from Bushido Blade to just dudes and swords. Now, Bushido Blade is very much no bullshit to begin with but it has multiple attacks, differing stances and several methods of defense. One attack, one defensive move (aside from walking away from your foe) and a means to cancel that you you can trick your foe out is all that you need, anything else is just window dressing. Bullshit, stripped.

It was only after I finished that I realised that it's a very easy game to "demake". Even though the fun of "jousting matches" is absent the mind games are still there. I'm aware that games done in TGF don't like working on some PCs. There is nothing that I can do about this, sorry. Going by the word of other people it eventually crashes as well. I never tested it that far so I'll just have to believe that. Who wants to do a Flash version?