About Hero Fighters

**Hero Fighter** is a fighting *beat 'em up* game created and developed by Marti Wong alone, who previously developed Little Fighter 2. The present status of the game is still active, being updated and refined every few months. At the moment, the game supports up to three human players on one computer, or even use network mode to challenge players from around the world in room servers.

The latest version up to now is Version 0.7+. Which introduced a premium account system where buying it will unlock premium characters and the characters which weren't unlocked yet.

## Gameplay

Gameplay in this created-with-flash game is relatively simple, it features a single player mode where one person fights computer enemies and/or other human players within a computer.

### Start Menu

Hero Fighter 0.7+ provides two main mode in the main menu,

* **Start Menu** takes us to three options
	+ **Story Mode** is the mode where the player plays with choosable character against enemies according to the story. Most characters are unlocked by finishing these chapters. The chapters are also available in four difficulties. Easy, Normal, Hard, and Crazy. Each difficulty changes enemies AI and their level. Easy being the easiest and Crazy is the hardest.
		- **Storyline**
	+ **VS Mode** is the mode where the player plays accordingly to their wish in showdown. Player could choose any character unlocked, against other human players in the same computer, or computer-controlled player.
	+ **Battle Mode** is the mode where the player plays in a battle against enemy kingdoms which simulates war against kingdoms with features such as hiring soldiers according to their Chief hero, Gold mine which generates gold for war funds, Camp to generate reinforcement soldiers and hero and the castle which is their main building allows hired soldiers to join battle. Losing castle to enemy will make us lose and we win when defeating all teams castle.
* **Network Game** (2 to 12 computers) allows players from all over the world to fight others in room servers.

## Control

The player uses modifiable keyboard keys to control the character, and the basic controls are;

* **Up** makes player's character to move upside.
* **Down** makes player's character to move downside.
* **Right** makes player's character to move rightside.
* **Left** makes player's character to move left side.
* **Attack** allows the player to do simple attack move.
* **Jump** allows player character to jump dodging incoming attacks on ground also give momentum to move fast.
* **Guard** allows the player to guard itself in immunity to limited attack.
* **Command** lets the player to command their soldiers; follow, spread out, stay right, or stay left.

## Development

10 years ago, on 31st July 2009, the first version of Hero Fighter was released!

Since then, many good things have happened. The game has evolved and an Android version was released.

However, bad things have happened too. Chinese hackers have disrespected the game by unlocking premium accounts for everybody, thus making the game's PC/web version unsustainable. They were also behind the downfall of the referral code system in HFX by flooding the server, as they yet again sought to unlock everything and kill the game's sustainability.

Ztage's forum (aka. LF2 official forum) and HF Empire v1 have also been wiped out. After years of abandonment, hackers took over their outdated software and they had to be deleted.

Moreover, to those who don't know, Hong Kong, Marti's birth place, was suffering a series of conflicts with China. For all these reasons, Marti has moved to Australia and is currently working at Google in order to make a living, leaving him little time to work on Hero Fighter at the moment.

As such, the game has suffered great periods of abandonment.

But let's not wither! The community has fought back and is not dead yet! Chapter 8 script was completed.

## Features

Much of Hero Fighter's features are similar to Little Fighter 2, but since HF is still developing, newer and improved features are available.

### New features in Hero Fighters

* **Recruits** are computer-controlled characters that follow and help the main player to deal damages to the enemies, and some can restore health to main player.
* **Mounts** are animals and monsters which are ridable by characters to improve their speed but reduce manouverability. Some ridables have special abilities.
* **Objects** are boulders or tree trunks that can be stepped on or thrown to.
* **Potions** are different types of liquids that restore player's health, followers', or temporarily give infinite mana points.

## Little Fighters 2

Little Fighter 2 (LF2) is a popular freeware PC fighting game for Windows and is the sequel to the game to Little Fighter 1 (LF1). LF2 was created by Marti Wong and Starsky Wong in 1999, and released in a long series of updates.

The game supports up to 4 human players on one computer and a total of 8 characters using online play or computer-controlled opponents. Characters are controlled using the keyboard or a gamepad. All keys can be set via a configuration menu.

### External Links

* Official Webpage
* Official forum