#deck 13
#deck 13
By Amr (@siegarettes)
Flat Heroes is a minimalist action game that demonstrates how animation and solid controls can make even simple shapes feel kinetic. Actions are simple–there’s a jump, a dash, an short burst attack, and wall kicks. Your avatars have weight–they roll around on their corners, and latch onto walls as their flat sides create friction. Enemies almost feel like they have they have personalities, operating with different behaviors, their basic shapes communicating immediately what their patterns are.
Each stage is a bite sized, almost puzzle like stage. Every stage is a single square screen. There’s a short countdown to let you take in the layout, then obstacles begin to come to life. This might be a series of shots that require you to observe and dodge their sequence, laser beams that cut off areas of the stage and require cover to escape, or enemies that chase you in waves as you pass them by. There’s a lot of variations, and they’re each slowly introduced before mixing them with other obstacles to complicate the problem. You’ll die frequently, but once you figure out the solution stages are brief, never going past a minute in length.That is, if you can nail the sequence.
