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GFM is a traditional-style, 4-button, side-view fighting game for 2 players. Featuring all the classic fundamental fighting game mechanics, complete with big combos, multiple defensive mechanics and meter management.

Press the Light, Medium or Heavy attack buttons to deal damage with your normals, and press the Dash button to extend combos or catch your opponent off-guard!

Learn your moves! While GFM only has 1 available character, it's fully equipped with 3 special moves and 4 supers!

Play right on the browser, or download the Windows version for better performance, fullscreen, and potentially better controller support.

FEATURES:

• Fully featured fighting game mechanics, combos, specials, blocking, throws, supers, you name it!
• Classic-style motion inputs for special moves. ⬇➘➡✊
• Extend your combos to unhealthy lengths with the somewhat unique GFM-Branded Dash button.
  
• Attempt to escape long combos by spending meter.
• Play against a friend locally or against a pretty decent bot.
• Keyboard and Gamepad support with full button mapping.
• Training Mode with visible hitboxes.
• Ugly low-effort artwork that was well-animated for some reason.
• Some really cool battle music.
• Cheer-up the sun by doing combos (doesn't impact gameplay but they'll be really excited)
• A character, probably.
  

NOTE FROM THE DEV:

UPDATE: Thanks for the support! Generic Fighter Maybe is now in full development and will be released on Steam!

Original Note: 

Generic Fighter Maybe was a side-project I created for fun a couple of years ago, partly to test a development tool I created called Sprite Anchor. I finally decided to release it today as a free "demo" game, because even though I never intended to turn it into a complete experience, I felt like it was a waste to just leave it forgotten in a folder forever. Better let people play it!

As small as it is, it's a game that I already considered complete for the purpose it was created for. However, if people enjoy it and I see some genuine interest, I'd certainly be willing to continue development to potentially turn it into a full game. Or just to slightly expand it. Or to improve what's already there. So please let us know if there's anything you'd like to see added or changed!

CONTROLS AND TECHNIQUES:

Gamepad:

• Movement: Left Stick & D-Pad
• Light Attack: X
• Medium Attack: Y
• Heavy Attack: B
• Dash: A

Keyboard:

• Movement: WASD (P1) - Arrow Keys (P2)
• Light Attack: J (P1) - Numpad 4 (P2)
• Medium Attack: K (P1) - Numpad 5 (P2)
• Heavy Attack: L (P1) - Numpad 6 (P2)
• Dash: I (P1) - Numpad 8 (P2)

All controls can be remapped in the options menu.

Extra techniques:

• Block: Hold a direction away from the opponent.
• Parry: Tap forward right before getting hit
• Throw: Light + Medium.
• Combo Escape: While getting hit: Press Dash (requires 1 bar of meter)
• Burst: While getting hit: Press Dash + Any attack button (requires 2 bars of meter)
• Super Store: During a Super Move's startup: Press Dash (requires 1 bar of meter)
• Taunt: Light + Medium + Heavy

Check out the Pause menu too for additional info on Special Move commands!

Other Games by Astrobard:

• The Amazing Crackpots Club! A Pong-Like Platform Fighter about making potions explode.
• M.I.C.E: A hyper casual arcade game about a mouse UFO stealing earth's cheese.
• The Fading Gaze: A puzzle game about line of sight, created for the LAGS Gamejam 2025.