A fighting game is an exercise in balancing the mechanics of multiple characters to one another. It's a bit like a rock-paper-scissors in realtime with a lot mo

A fighting game is an exercise in balancing the mechanics of multiple characters to one another. It's a bit like a rock-paper-scissors in realtime with a lot more combinations. So besides the animation, which is equivalent to that of a cartoon (and skullgirls has some quite excellent animation standards) there is a lot of balancing and fine tuning of the various move characteristics.