Combo Dojo

Learn combos the way fighting-game players do, with frame data on screen. Then build your own fighting game with the same kit.

Combo Dojo is the home of comboKit 1.1.8, a combat kit for fighting games, brawlers and action RPGs. Play the dojo here, or install comboKit into your own world and build on it.

In the dojo

• Seven stations, one per move set. Two training dummies at each station run that set's strings: one attacks, the other blocks every other string and shows off the set's defensive tricks (counter stance, perfect dodge).
• Look at a pair and read it. An input display shows every press, as an arcade lever, a numpad notation log, or Xbox / PlayStation / keyboard glyphs. Frame data shows as a live timeline bar or the full move table. Health bars and combo counts sit on top.
• Hitboxes on. One button shows red hitboxes, blue hurtboxes, yellow throws, white invincible frames and orange armour, frame by frame.
• Fight them yourself. Open Move sets & schemes to pick any move set, input scheme and motion leniency, then Fight here.
• Plays on a phone. The touch scheme gives you an on-screen arcade stick and big attack buttons, laid out around the read-outs.
• Play together. Two players can share a station; every hit lands once, and both screens show the same health.

The move sets

	Set	Style
1	Brawler	punch and kick strings, invincible uppercut, rushing elbow
2	Swordsman	three-slash string, launcher, long thrust, counter stance
3	Grappler	360 command throw, half-circle backbreaker, armoured charge
4	Zoner	quarter-circle fireball, invincible anti-air, long pokes
5	ARPG Light/Heavy	one-button light string, heavy finisher, hold-to-charge heavy
6	Phantom	invincible dodge roll, dodge-cancel counter, perfect-dodge punish
7	Commando	charge moves: sonic boom, flash kick

The input schemes

Classic six-button (three punches, three kicks, strict motions) · Simplified (Light, Medium, Heavy + Special, easy motions) · One button · Touch (on-screen stick and buttons). Every move set plays on every scheme, on keyboard, gamepad and touch.

For creators: comboKit

• 60 fps fight clock with a 6-frame input buffer; deterministic, so the same inputs give the same result everywhere.
• Motions: quarter and half circles, dragon punch, 360, double quarter circle, charge, double-tap dashes. Strict or lenient, and a refused motion says why.
• Cancel windows that refuse a late cancel and name the frames allowed.
• Frame data for every move, and a checker that catches numbers that don't add up.
• Hitboxes, hurtboxes, invincible frames, armour, counters, throws and projectiles.
• Animation hooks (wind-up, hit, recovery end) and a default animation driver.
• Moves and move sets are plain data; swap a fighter's whole move set with one setting.
• Multiplayer: the attacker's owner decides each hit, and other players re-check move starts and hit claims.
• One install brings controlsKit, SecondWind (with MatchFlow and Lifeline), juiceKit and weaponsKit.

Two guides ship with the kit

• How to add combos, special moves, frame data and hitboxes to your game: what comboKit is, how move sets, input schemes, the input buffer, frame windows, hitboxes and the multiplayer side fit together, and what to do first.
• How to make a fighting game: from an empty world to a two-player brawler with health bars, best-of-three rounds, hit effects, a CPU stand-in and controls on keyboard, gamepad and phone.

Open them with the guides tool at comboKit.package/howToUse and comboKit.package/fightingGameExample once comboKit is installed. The package README is the short reference, with a first example you can paste into a scene.