Sumo Slam 2024

Sumo Slam is an art event created by Highland Heifer and runs once a year in their Discord server. Commissioners are turned into sumo-themed playing cards and battle it out live on-stream to compete for the champion!

Each sumo has a coloured piece on the board. A random stat is rolled each turn, and the loser has their piece pushed away from middle. The roll winner moves closer to the middle if they've been pushed back. The round is won when a sumo is pushed off the board. The game is won by whichever sumo has the most stars after 3 round..

This year's event was made using OBS layers and a spinning-wheel website. After watching the event, I was inspired to develop a playable version with the same presentation as a fighting game. It could serve as the engine for next year's event to make the streams even better!

Please note: This is my first time building a game for HTML5 so if you encounter any bugs or performance issues, please leave a comment and I will try to address it. Accessing screens for the first time will take a few seconds to load, but will then be quicker on subsequent views.