LD 75: Competitive Fighting Games

• Xian vs MenaRD CPT 2017
• 1 on 1, no randomness, pure skill
• real time, latency is a problem, solved by rollback netcode
• Capcom’s Street Fighter II released in 1991 for arcades
• One Must Fall: 2097 released in 1994 for DOS
• EVO
  • open tournament, over 9k participants
• Demo Fantasy Strike
  • Types of characters: Zoner, Grappler, Rushdown
  • Accessibility
  • Frame advantage
  • Yomi counter against normal throws, jump against special throws
  • Few hitpoints
• Footsies, whiff punish, Okizeme
• Fighting Game AI