Seems like a cool concept, but 2 quick comments that might make it smoother. 1: Your key scheme is ESDF rather than WASD, and there is no documentation for controls, so I'm not sure what other controls I might be missing too. 2: I have to walk into the enemy sword to be in range to attack, so I'm killing myself faster than I can kill him!

The mechanics are pretty rough, but I really like your scenery.

I'm not sure why the lady in the evening gown wants to murder the guy in his underwear, but in any case, she probably needs more practical footwear.
The opening music was a nice touch, but I could not find a way to hit the opponent while he was inactive. It doesn't look like you can attack while jumping and no combination of attacks and movement got past his guard until I started moving both players at the same time.

The scenery seems like your underwater--and I like underwater. The resting animation is a nice touch too.

I like the concept, as well as your art. Tried fighting my cat as he walked across the keyboard... We both got hits off so I am calling that a draw.
Gameplay seems a bit unpolished in terms of combat, as "Test User" commented.

The landscape reminds me of those old cartoons with fleas living on some animal or another. It's rather surreal. Adding idle animations as a nice touch, I wish there were some health indicators as well.

I could not hit the guy without making it walk toward me. Aside that, a nice game with potential. Maybe network multiplayer?
By the way, I've already exported my game for linux ;)

I think the most interesting stuff here is the code (it looks like you're trying to use close to a purely functional style for some of your functions). BTW, we've met before at the WMASS Dev Group. Small world :)

Red dots all over! Get them off of me!

It's already mentioned before, but being able to attack and move at the save time would have been nice.

Interesting look to it. I liked the characters and art. The walking and other animations looked a little weird, and the high attack was almost worthless - it was better actually just to walk into the other guy, because at least your sword was forward. I think more vigorous attacks (and maybe a defense key) would help make it a cooler fighting game. Also AI enemies. But cool, and interesting visually.

Tough to get used to the controls, but interesting art and method of damage.

Great use of technology, could turn out to be a interesting browser game engine here.

Hey everybody, thanks for all the comments!

@Test User: WASD would be nice, unfortunately certain browsers interpret Control-W as "close page" (lookin at you Chrome)
@uberneen: maybe they're married :)
@cacciatc: my friends all got a kick out of your "underwater" line!
@DavidErosa: thanks, it worked!
@Mark Hildreth: cheers! and yeah, I do a lot of FP stuff...I basically got into JS by way of Lisp.

Yep, the controls really sucked. After LD I rewrote the keyframing system so you can attack while running/jumping/crouching to get past the enemy's defense. Probably going to disable collisions so you can walk past/through enemies too... definitely for the RPG game, which will hopefully be in alpha by mid June.