Got some basic AI working.  Currently it's hard because the enemies can attack just as fast as the player can and have the same range, have to figure out how to handle trades or make the thugs slower.  I know adding combos and pushback would help here which may be the next thing after a health bar.
 
I've yet to clear all the thugs myself.
 
http://saltw-jam1.herokuapp.com/

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so i don't know if i'm out or not. i was totally stumped on the creepy halloween theme and was prepared to admit defeat when i inexplicably picked up an older project of mine and begun creating it in twine after i stumbled onto some neat macros that let me do all the things that were keeping me from making it in twine to begin with. i thought about just releasing a demo of this project for this jam, as it's a rather large game and it will take me a really long time to actually finish it completely. feels like this is totally against the spirit of the jam, to just pick up an older project i spent a ton of time on years ago, squeezing a demo out that i didn't spend a ton of time on. will probably hold off on releasing versions of this until i actually have time to finish it.
 
totally rocking game though, i got totally obsessed with it back in the day and it basically ruined my life and many of my friendships for a long time. cool that the game jam kinda prompted me to go back and survey the damage, actually find a way to make it, hopefully next time without loss of life. A+++ WOULD BRING THE DEMONS BACK INTO MY LIFE AGAIN

I've been working on AI, some UI and other elements.  Got a life bar, a combo counter (although you can only throw three consecutive punches and that's it).  Added a a temporary speed boost you can use which was part of the original design, but I need to give him a new animation for it since just limping faster isn't very exciting.  As usual, you can play the latest build here: http://saltw-jam1.herokuapp.com/
 
Here's a screenshot
 

Oh fuck. I can't even test my game now, somehow it's always not responding

There's still time!

Anyway, I just found out what was causing my problem and was able to solve it. Now I just need to make the battle system work and add few more enemies then I'd have a "game". An unbalanced, untested, unpolished one. But still a "game".