Laser Duel

Two fighters, one arena, first to five kills.

Laser Duel is a fast 1v1 platform brawler for your browser. You start with your bare fists, so run, jump and grab the weapons that appear around the arena: bronze, silver and golden swords, a ray gun, a heavy ray gun, a three-way purple ray gun and a piercing beam gun. Pick up a shield to block hits from the front, or an umbrella to float down slowly while you hold jump.

The arenas fight back. Laser cannons shoot beams of blue, green, red and yellow light, and every beam is wired to a colored switch. Hit a switch with a sword swing, a punch or a bullet and every beam of that color flips on or off, so you can cut the arena in half, trap your rival or open your own escape route. Stalagmites in the cave arenas hurt too. Swords can reflect bullets back at the shooter.

Play it three ways: against the computer on easy, normal or hard, with a friend on the same keyboard (WASD + F for player one, arrow keys + Enter for player two), or online with a friend using a four-digit room code. Five arenas, four player colors, and a time limit that goes to the leader (a tie goes on until the next kill).

Controls: A/D or arrow keys to move, W / Space / Up to jump, S / Down to drop through thin platforms, F / J / Enter or mouse click to attack, Esc to pause. Hold jump for a higher leap.

Online mode connects the two players directly (WebRTC) and needs a normal internet connection; some school or office networks block it.

Includes background music and sound effects, with a mute button.

In-game text is currently in Korean.

Art: Kenney Platformer Art Requests (CC0). The little robots, music and sound effects are made in code.