Also "I never animated before, but decided to do a fighting game" is maybe the bravest thing I've ever read!
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The strangest thing that this worked out somehow. https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462244
Oh man, yes it did! Just finished playing your game, really really funny. The animations are exactly as good as they need to be to sell the concept. Glad you were able to recover, the world deserves to play more one-character fighting games.
I guess gamedev is sort of a one character fighting game... Past me garroting present day me with spaghetti code.