The battle system in Kyodai Man is a fairly simple one. During their turn, the player can choose between 3 actions, normal attack, special attack and heal. The enemy only attacks during its turn.

Each enemy has different stats, which upgrade randomly after the player wins each round, this means the difficulty rises with every fight. These stats include their health, attack and special attack value, and also their defense against each attack type.

The enemies also have a special attack interval stat, which doesn’t change. This decides when the enemy will attack with their special attack, usually this means a stronger attack.

I was responsible for making the military phase, which happens after Kyodai Man is defeated in the battle phase. I made the code, sounds and UI sprites for this screen.

In this phase, the player must try to shoot the enemy in a sort of rock-paper-scissors style game. If the player hits the kaiju, they gain bonus points, which they can use to upgrade Kyodai Man.

During the game, the newscaster text in the top right changes to reflect the phase that the player is in.

For the battle phase, the text changes to display the name of the current enemy. I thought it would add a bit of personality to the game if the player knows the enemy’s name.