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One Finger Death Punch, but Dragon Ball Z.
A fan project I made to learn how a real game fits together. It was never released, nobody can get it, and it was only ever a learning experience.
DBZ: One Finger Fury is a Dragon Ball Z fan game in the style of One Finger Death Punch. Enemies run at you from both sides, and you fight with one finger: tap the left or the right half of the screen to hit whoever is in range.
I made it to learn. I wanted to find out how a whole game fits together: fights that feel good, a menu, saves, bosses, cutscenes, sound and a pile of animation. A game I love gave me a clear target, so I could spend my time on the craft instead of on inventing the rules.
Every character, effect and background is drawn in code in a cel-shaded style, and the project grew far bigger than I planned. It was never meant for anyone but me.
This is an unofficial fan project. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the owners of Dragon Ball, and it uses sounds and voice lines from the show and the games. It was never released, and there's no download, so nobody can get it.
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Highlights
Tap the left or right half of the screen to strike that side. On a PC it's the mouse, A and D, or the arrow keys.
Hit only when an enemy is inside your range bar. Strike too early and you leave yourself open.
Hits fill a ki bar. Spend one bar on a Super such as the Kamehameha, or all three on an Ultimate such as the Spirit Bomb.
Kills fill a power meter and you transform, from Super Saiyan onward. Getting hit drains it and can power you down.
Every boss has its own tempo, traits and signature beam, plus a beam struggle where you mash to win.
A saga of stages, 120 to 300 knock-outs each, with new forms that awaken at the moments they did in the show.
An endless mode, a Boss Rush and a daily challenge with a different twist every day.
Win Zeni, open capsules and spend them on training and upgrades in a small store.
Boss introductions play as animated manga pages with their own sound for every panel.
How it plays
Enemies arrive from both sides. Tap that side when one is inside your range bar.
Brawlers show arrows over their heads. Press the side each arrow points to and they teleport behind you.
Blasters shoot ki you can deflect, and Saibamen blow themselves up if you let them close.
Fire a Super for one side, or an Ultimate that sweeps the whole screen.
When a boss fires a beam back at yours, mash anything to push it away.
In detail
I started it to see how far one person can take a game. Fights that feel good turned out to be mostly timing: a hit that lands on the frame you expect, a pause when something big connects, a screen that shakes just enough.
Along the way I learned about animation rigs, particle effects, audio, save files, menus, difficulty tuning and how to keep a growing project from falling apart.
Every character, effect and background is drawn by the game itself in a cel-shaded style, so there's no hand-painted art. That kept the file size and the artist budget at zero, and it taught me a lot about drawing with code.
It's built with the Godot engine and runs on Windows and Android. It can even patch its own scripts from a private repository, which I built to avoid reinstalling it on my phone every time I changed something.
It's a fan project, and a lot of it belongs to someone else: the characters, the names, and the sounds and voice lines it plays. So I never released it and I never will. Nobody can download it, and I'm not sharing the files.
These pages are only here to show what I made and what I learned.
Questions
No. It's an unofficial fan project that I never released. There's no download and no store page.
No. It uses characters, sounds and voice lines that belong to others, so it will stay a private learning project.
To learn. I wanted to build a whole game, from the fight system to the menus, and a game I love gave me a target to aim at.
No. It's unofficial, and Dragon Ball and its characters belong to their owners.
No. The repository is private.
Upscape is a tower-climbing game of my own that you can get on the Play Store, and From Dust is another game I'm building.
One Finger Fury was only ever a learning experience, so there's nothing to download. Have a look at the projects you can use today.