As soon as the theme was revealed my mind towards games like Stick Fight and spiderheck. I wanted physics to play an integral role in the gameplay and not something you just have to consider but something you have to master to an extent. 

I started creating the game with the idea of the player controlling a weapon with the mouse and the physics part of the game would come into play after the hit connecting with the environment or an enemy.

Once having created a prototype and testing it, I felt controlling the character and the weapon separately felt clunky.

I experimented a few different ways of playing the game – Controlling the weapon with the mouse with the player reacting to the movement, Controlling just weapon with the keyboard and finally the one that i choose to go with was controlling the player with the keyboard with the weapon following the player.

As I played around with this mechanic it became clear to me this was the most fun version of the game.

Once I had the player in place – I wanted to make the game a local pvp game, like the physics based games i had taken inspiration from. Once I had implemented the gamemode, I  had the time to create another gamemode and decided to create a simple survival gamemode.

Potential Improvements – Fix the bug where dmg                                                            occurs multiple times                                                               from one hit

                                                  An explosion to reset the                                                          game state to neutral