oskiewar

oskiewar is a one-on-one stick-figure fight in a small gray dojo. Punch, kick, dash, crouch and jump. Grab somebody and throw them. Raise a bubble to shield yourself. Weapons turn up on the ledges, so pick one up and use it. Limbs come off. Rounds are short and the score carries from one to the next. PLAYING WITH PEOPLE Every fight has a room, and the room is a web address. Send it to a friend and they open it in a web browser, with nothing to install, sign in, and take the second chair. Anyone else who opens the address watches. While you wait, a training dummy stands in the other corner for you to practise on. CONTROLS On iPhone and iPad: a d-pad on the left, four buttons on the right. A hardware keyboard or a game controller works too. Q and E punch, Shift kicks, Space jumps. On a controller X and Y punch, A kicks, B jumps. FREE The whole game is free. There are no ads and no purchases, and nothing to unlock. You sign in with your email, which mails you a six-digit code, and pick a handle; that name is what your opponent sees. It's the same game on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one download covers all of them. It also plays in any browser at oskiewar.com. oskiewar is made by Aesthetic Computer. It keeps changing, so if something looks different next week, that's why.