Tiny Knights

Nobody animates these fights. Every knight is an active ragdoll: a chibi voxel body with every joint driven by muscles, hundreds of times a second. They step in, swing, parry, get knocked off balance and catch themselves, or don't. You pick the champion. Physics picks the winner. Every blow is physicsDamage comes from how fast the steel is really moving where it lands. Blades stop dead on shields and on other blades, and a stopped attacker is thrown off, which opens the counter.

A hit to the head can knock a knight out cold. Armour chips. Shields splinter. Limbs come off. Every body part has its own health. A hurt leg limps, a hurt arm swings weaker, and a ruined arm drops its weapon. Blades carve voxels out of armour and shields until they break, and a hard enough cut takes the limb with it. Twenty arenas, and every one fights backFrom the sand of the Colosseum to a haunted churchyard under a green moon, every arena has its own trap: a lion, a charging bull, a sweeping minute hand, lightning, ice that heaves beneath your feet.

Pick a champion. Win the bracket. Choose a knight from your barracks and take them through a 32-knight single-elimination tournament. Win a round and pick a perk, but every other winner gets one too, so the field gets tougher all the way to the Final.…