Gameplay

• The gameplay of Blade of Will consists of one polished, main mechanic. You dash to traverse the world, and you dash to slice through enemies in your way.

  • We designed it this way to make it intuitive, and to let the player master one big thing as opposed to many smaller things, it feels a lot cooler that way.

    • “I fear the man who’s done the same kick 1 000 times, more than the man who has done 1 000 kicks, 1 time.” - Bruce Lee

• We eventually got around to adding in the feature that the dash would reset upon killing an enemy, and that’s when it really all clicked and you can see the tempo of the game sky rocketed.

  • We could add more enemies to the levels and the overall flow really improved. There’s nothing more that I love to see than this type of iterative work.

• Blade of Will also features a time slow mechanic, to help the players that need more time to process what’s happening in the hectic action, and for those who want to feel like a badass dashing all over the place.

  • We also added it because the game is fully embracing the chaos of having everything dying in one hit, enemies and the player alike. But levels are short, the longest taking about 20-30 seconds, so a restart is never the end of the world.