TRAINING ARC: Idle Fighters | Mossbyte Studios

What it is

A pixel-art beat 'em up glued to an idle game. You fight by hand, and you keep getting stronger while you're away.

Your hero has trained every day of their life and has never had a plot. Then a studio lighting rig falls onto the beach, and they start channel-surfing through TV-show worlds: a ninja drama, a space opera, a pirate storybook and more. The villain is the Editor, who wants to cut every story short. The cast plays it straight; the world is absurd.

Back home, your base starts out as a run-down warehouse by the river. As you play, the crew turn it into a TV studio, room by room: a control booth, a wardrobe, a kitchen, a stage with an audience, and eventually a whole studio lot.

How it plays

Fight by hand

Combos, launchers, ki blasts and counters. Every fighter has their own moves and their own finishers.
Build the studio

Departments to level, a crew who take chores over, fishing, a garden, and a prize machine late in the season.
Time away counts

Your bench trains on the backlot and your fighter keeps farming while the game is closed. Come back to a WHILE YOU WERE AWAY card.

Tonight's channels

1Home Showthe beach pilotzones 1-5
2Cranefold Valleyan origami ninja dramazones 6-8
3Lantern Towndemon hunters by lantern lightzones 9-11
4Frost Empirean 80s space operazones 12-14
5Barnacle Baypirates on a storybook mapzones 15-17
6Hexwood Academycursed sorcery schoolzones 18-20

Clear a world and someone from that show joins you: a stunt robot, a ninja-drama extra, a late-night stagehand, a weather presenter and his cameraman, a kids'-show mascot in a rubber monster suit.