One Finger Death Punch is a game developed by Silver Dollar Games available on Steam for 5$, the price of a Starbucks coffee. Even though it has a very small price considering the videogame market these days, It makes some very interesting design decisions, the first one being how it is highly dependent on it's animations.
Chapter 1: The animations are key
With such simplistic mechanics as two button inputs the game need a way to be longer than a simple mobile-like endeavour, so how did they keep the player coming back, they used very responsive animations. I …