Samurai Bun

This was supposed to be a tiny Samurai Gunn fangame based on an impromptu bullet-deflecting tennis standoff game we invented on that bridge map. You know the one.

Samurai Bun was a 2015 collab between @monkeyotoshi and myself, but it never really went anywhere. I experimented a bit with freeze frames and weird effects, but the mechanic just isn't satisfying enough and I suspect it would work a lot better if the projectile would move in two dimensions. But at that point we'd have basically reinvented pong, and that's where we kind of abandoned this project, I think.

Controls

Press A for the left guy, B for the guy on the right. Buttons can also be held for an eyedscreen-inducing charged shot.

F toggles fullscreen.

Swap palettes with P. Hold POS1 or END to slow down or speed up time.

Reset the game with BACKSPACE.

Credits

Smoke sprites lifted from Adam Atomic's Abandonauts

Awesome background music by @trutrutruluv

Most sound effects stolen from Link's Awakening

Font is a modified version of Ninja Spirit (IREM)

Nixon by fcurtis @ Design Crowd

P.S. go buy Samurai Gunn, it's fantastic.