Welcome to Heart and Steel, a battle simulator inspired by Redwall by Brian Jacques! --- Disclaimer --- The font is a custom font (Palatino), so it may render differently on different devices or browsers. --- Instructions --- The battles are represented by the following: Heart: This represents both the fighter's health and will to fight. If this reaches zero, the fighter loses the battle by fleeing. Steel: This represents a fighter's skill, in general. Nerve: This represents a fighter's speed. Whichever opponent has a higher Nerve goes before the other by default. - How a Battle Works - The battle works as a simple loop, with a few options for both sides to choose: Press the Attack (Spend 1 Steel): Basic damage move. If you have more Steel than your opponent, you deal two Heart. If otherwise (they have more Steel or tied), you deal one Heart. The damage can be altered if your opponent uses Feint and Strike or Stand Fast. Feint and Strike (Spend 2 Steel): You use two Steel no matter what, but you only deal damage if your opponent uses Press the Attack. However, you deal a significant three damage if this succeeds, while your opponent deals none. Stand Fast (Spend 1 Nerve): You reduce all incoming damage by one Heart. Warcry (Spend 0): You roar a battle cry, recovering Steel. Sieze the Initiative (Spend 0): You get two Nerve. Either combatant can also choose if they want to Speed Surge, which will let the user go first, at the cost of one Nerve. This does not count as a turn. If both players use this, the one with the higher Nerve goes first. In any scenario, it's tied, then the fighter who goes first is determined by randomness. --- Credits --- - Code - It's all be me! @Leapusthecow - Sources - Redwall Wiki - the one place to know anything or everything about Redwall and/or Brian Jacques: https://redwall.fandom.com/ - Music- Music is all by Mark Wood from his album Turbow. Track Listing: - Fire 'n' Ice - Mark Wood - Inferno - Mark Wood - Wood's Bolero - Mark Wood - Fan the Flames - Mark Wood - Labor of Love - Mark Wood - Art - All of the pixel art is my own, and I do admit - it's not great. If you would like to help me improve, comment or contact me in any way you would like and I'd be glad to use your pixel art and credit you here! Current helpers: (None) --- Changelog + Milestones--- 10/30/2025 v0.1 Project idea started - 0 blocks 11/02/2025 v0.2 All basic pixel art completed (will probably later be improved), and all statistics determined - 2 blocks 11/05/2025 v0.3 Basic algorithm for Random Duel and Database completed. No abilities yet. Buttons and backdrop system taken directly from City Builder, also by me: - 1368 blocks 11/05/2025 v0.4 Music, all by Mark Wood, added, as well as most of the Instructions on the project page - 1382 blocks 11/06/2025 v0.5 Labeled which combatant went first, slightly altered calculation order accordingly, and displayed what move each fighter used every turn, increased win/loss message length (will likely be improved later), changed battle background a little bit - 1487 blocks 11/07/2025 v0.6 Added a toast to the songs, switched Stand Fast to cost Nerve, all stats max 15, added selection screen for regular Duel mode (can't start the game, regular Duels don't do anything), replaced db display# with a list that contains three displays - db, duel-good-selection, duel-bad-selection - 1591 blocks 11/07/2025 v0.7 Finished Duel mode - 1635 blocks 11/08/2025 v0.8 Started working on the "ai" - made warcry and pta slightly more likely - 1658 blocks 11/09/2025 v0.9 Made How to Play page, Warcry no longer heals Heart, changed AI slightly accordingly, project no longer ends after a duel - 1658 blocks 11/10/2025 v0.10 Started working on Abilities, added extra ability moves and position - 1664 blocks 11/14/2025 v0.11 Abilities work, added abilities to base-stats list and adding currently unused ability moves. Finished all Damage Edit abilities - 1984 blocks 11/15/2025 v0.12 Abilities work, added all Special Move abilities - 2101 blocks 11/16/2025 v0.13 Abilities work, added all Damage Move abilities. Abilities finished! - 2308 blocks 11/19/2025 v0.14 Added names, abilities, and ability descriptions to database - 2336 blocks 11/21/2025 v0.15 Added descriptions to database. Used a lot of the Redwall Wiki to help - 2336 blocks 11/21/2025 v0.16 Added credits and options pages, cleaned up blocks a little - 2521 blocks 11/23/2025 v0.16.1 Minor graphic updates - 2532 blocks 11/23/2025 v0.17 Shows stat differences - 2588 blocks 11/24/2025 v0.17.1 Minor graphic updates - 2616 blocks 11/26/2025 v0.18 Added example battle to How to Play - 2656 blocks 11/26/2025 v1.0 Shared! (This is my 50th shared project. Also, pretty nice project number: 1235599940) - 2656 blocks 2/05/2026 v1.1 Fixed RW link - didn't work without SA
