Last Stance
A sword-fighting game on Roblox built around the parry. Read the blade, break the stance.
- Roblox
- Luau
- Blender
- hand-built bosses, plus a timed boss rush
- 3
- weapons with their own move chains
- 4
- unit tests on the game code
- 80
- of ping with identical deflect results
- 150 ms
A Roblox game about the parry: deflect at the right moment, wear down the enemy's stance, then land the finishing blow. It started with the boss fights and now covers a story chapter, a roguelike arcade and ranked PvP duels, set in traditional Japan and played as your own Roblox avatar.
- 01Combat core: deflect, block, dodge, lock-on, stance and vitality, finishers and danger attacks
- 02Three bosses, a timed boss rush with a leaderboard, and story chapter 1
- 03A roguelike arcade with branching maps, boons and curses, plus ranked PvP duels
- 04Custom animations, Blender-modelled weapons, layered combat audio and touch controls
A parry window that's fair over the internet
Parry timing is the whole game, and on Roblox every player has a different ping. Deflect, block and hit are resolved on a shared clock between client and server, so a parry that looked right on screen counts as a parry. Scripted playtests confirm the same outcomes at normal latency and at 150 ms.
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