Masters of the Universe

The battle for Eternia is in your hands!

Side with He-Man and his allies or Skeletor and his minions in this new take on the classic Barbarian sword fighting game.

Battle 8 levels against increasingly difficult foes or play against a friend.

You have the power!

This Pico-8 cart is bursting with the Power of Grayskull, featuring:

• 16 Characters
• 16 combat moves
• 4 stages
• 8 difficulty levels
• 3 game modes
• A kickass soundtrack

How to play:

Arcade mode is a battle against enemies of increasing difficulty to regain control of Eternia

P1 vs CPU is a 1 round fight with customizable difficulties, characters and stage

P1 vs P2 allows you to fight a friend with your favorite characters

While selecting your character in vs modes, use up and down to select stage and difficulty.

Controls:

Player1: Pad 1 \ arrow keys + Z/N ([O] Button - Attack) + X/M ([X] Button - Defense)

Player2: Pad 2 \ E S D F  + W/Left Shift ([O] Button - Attack)+ Q/A ([X] Button - Defense)

Move list:

UP -Jump, RIGHT - move forward, DOWN – crouch, LEFT -  move backward,
ATTACK - Body Chop, RIGHT+ATTACK - Neck Chop, UP + ATTACK - Overhead Chop, LEFT + ATTACK - Sword spin, DOWN + ATTACK -  Leg Chop,
DEFENSE - Protect Body, UP +  DEFENSE - Protect Head, RIGHT+ DEFENSE  - Headbutt, DOWN + DEFENSE – Leg chop,
ATTACK + DEFENSE - Flying Neck Chop

Credits

Original artworks and idea: John Henderson

Music (main theme available for download below) : 

• yourykiki (Damien Hostin - check out his great pico-8 games: Brutal Pico Race and Pico Cyberbank)
• Matt Kimball
• Geoff Sejai-Smith

Programming and gfx: Andrea Baldiraghi

Masters of the Universe and all related characters TM by Mattel Inc.

Barbarian TM by Palace Software Ltd. 1987 

Thanks to:

John Henderson -  for granting me permission to develop this version of his original idea

FL - for his barbarian archive and source codes: http://barbarian.1987.free.fr

Frederic Souchu  - for finding and sharing it

JadeLombax  - for his triangle drawing functions

Zep - for pico-8 https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

And all pico-8 users for their support and contributions on this game
and on Mortal Cards

Development Stats:

Started on may 29 with the first teaser

35% of the time on picodraw for backgrounds

July 9 – complete graphics foundation and picodraw

Aug – 18 game code completed

Aug 23 - Added Music and released online

About three months, working around three hours per day 5 days a week when possible.