How to play
A pixel beat ’em up starring memes. Bring a friend.
Three meme fighters, 12 weapons, 14 kinds of enemies and 5 bosses. Story mode runs to the end; endless mode sees how many waves you last.
Two players can team up on one computer, and phones get a virtual joystick.
- W A S D
- Move, double-tap to dash
- J
- Attack, pick up weapons
- K
- Jump
- L
- Meme special
- I
- Throw weapon, taunt
- Esc
- Pause
- 2P
- Arrow keys to move; , . / ; to attack, jump, special, throw
Related design notes
Game sound with no audio files
Inkloop, Meme Brawl and Runekeep ship no audio files. Every effect and song is synthesized live with the Web Audio API. Here is how, and what it costs.
How we manage pixel assets without image files
Meme Brawl and Runekeep ship without a single image file. How their sprites are written as text, compiled to canvases, outlined, recoloured and scaled.
What makes a hit land in Meme Brawl
Reading Meme Brawl's source to see how hit-stop, screen shake, juggle decay, combo buffers, attack tokens and boss stagger make its hits feel good.