A browser fighting game, one on one, with Kazakh characters and no blood. Knockouts end with stars over the head or a trip into the sky, the finishers are silly on purpose.
Fighters: Batyr (shield and lasso), Apa (ladle, kazan and baursaks), the eagle hunter Burkitshi, the dombra player, the taxi driver with a white Camry, the kures wrestler Baluan, the aitys poet Akyn, and the giant Dau as the arcade boss (playable once the arcade is cleared). Arenas: an aul at sunset, the Medeu ice rink (slippery), Kok-Tobe at night, the Charyn canyon, the bazaar and a boulevard in Astana, with a sheep, tumbleweeds, watermelons or a gust of steppe wind now and then.
Modes: arcade (six fights and Dau, a story and an ending for every fighter, scores and local records), versus the computer on three levels, two players on one keyboard or with gamepads, online with a friend over WebRTC (no server: a link with an offer and an answer code back, a public Google STUN server only helps the browsers find each other; rollback with a two-frame delay, so ping is barely felt), training with a dummy and hitboxes, a replay of the last round. Fights are calm by default; "Full chaos" on the select screen turns on arena hazards, flights into the sky and a yelling crowd. Stars unlock big heads, gold costumes, turbo, the Dostyq finisher and Dau.
Plain ES modules in js/, no build step, no images. Everything is drawn on canvas, sound and music are made with WebAudio, the announcer uses the browser's speech synthesis.
js/fight.js: the fight (fighters, moves, specials, finishers, hazards, rounds), no DOM, deterministicjs/fighters.js: fighter data, frame data, phrases, storiesjs/pose.js,js/looks.js,js/paint.js,js/draw.js: skeleton, poses, what everyone looks like, effectsjs/arena.js: the six arenas and the crowdjs/ai.js: the computer opponentjs/arcade.js,js/online.js,js/server.js,js/voice.js,js/input.js,js/audio.js,js/music.jsjs/main.js: menus, HUD, camera, loop
Run it with any static server (modules don't load from file://). ?debug exposes window.__fight to step frames, press buttons and freeze the loop, ?boxes shows hitboxes, ?og renders the frame used for og.png.
The server is optional. worker/worker.js is a Cloudflare Worker with one KV namespace: shared arcade records and six-letter room codes, so friends don't have to pass the long WebRTC codes around. It runs at jekpe-api.protemir.workers.dev; node worker/deploy.mjs <file with a Cloudflare API token> updates it. If it can't be reached, records stay on the device and online play falls back to the long link. node tools/mock-api.mjs 8788 runs the same worker locally with an in-memory KV, then open the game with ?api=http://localhost:8788. ?lag=120 delays every online message to try the rollback.
Play counter: js/pulse.js sends anonymous events (open, fight started, fight over) to ../stats/worker.js, a Cloudflare Worker with one SQLite Durable Object that keeps daily totals for every game on gamemetric.dev. No cookies, no names, no IP addresses; a random id in localStorage tells new players from returning ones. Open the game once with ?nopulse to stop counting your device. node ../stats/deploy.mjs <token file> <key file> updates the worker, node ../stats/report.mjs <key file> [days] prints the numbers.
Play it at gamemetric.dev/jekpe/.