In the colosseum of Ancient Rome, gladiators fight with their lives on the line, all for the entertainment of the people. However, it is the Emperor who decides whether the fallen shall live or die. Their judgement is cast 'pollice verso': "with a turned thumb".
As Rome's mightiest gladiator, you fight not just for yourself, but for the lives of others. Defeat your opponents without killing them, and if the Emperor is pleased, he might just spare them - and spare you from having to pay their owners the cost of a new slave...
POST JAM FIX - Fixed a game breaking bug that would crash the whole game if a speech type move was used on some levels.!
Interesting interpretation of the theme, I like that! Interesting mechanics, I guess you can use it really well to scale up the game and make it even bigger? Fun stuff!
AMAZING CONCEPT!! I really loved buying my moves and configuring other things before fighting. Well done for thinking of this and with more time and some polish this is something i would love to play.
The only issue is that I didn't need to do anything to just buy the best move and them I won every match by doing a wild swing. If it had more requirement to investigate all the things you had put into the game (by making it harder for the player to win) then this would have been awesome! Also the enemy surrendered a lot!
Really good game! Some audio (crowd noises?) and animations would really liven it up, but even without it still had me invested in getting that wooden sword!
Super cool interpretation of the theme, and it's genuinely fun to play with surprisingly in depth mechanics. I think some sound effects could go a long way. Has great potential to be a full game!
I almost didn't play the game since I didn't realize you had to use the keyboard to navigate, so I was clicking the start button like an idiot, thought the game was just broken. anyways, this was a really cool twist on the theme I love the idea that you just have to make the fight interesting, but not actually kill the opponent. It'd be nice to get some feedback/tutorialization for the 'prepare for fight' screen, since I didn't really understand how it worked, but I made a lot of money so I guess I did something right!
I really liked this, but if you checkout our submission you might find that I'm a little biased for gladiator themed games, ahah.
Hey I spent quite a while playing this game, nice depth you can get in to. Unfortunately I didn't quite understand the smbolism on EXC part as i did several moves and how the thumbs were indicated and to which team. Other than that nice and fresh idea with enjoyable playing, well done!
Mechanics of the game were enjoyable, however I did find the game immensely easy. The writing for the weapons was pretty neat and the art was quite nice, I feel as if the lack of audio did make the atmosphere feel a bit empty. Still, I enjoyed the unique concepts like relying on the crowd and the Emperor's mood, and also the fact that you didn't want to kill the enemy but make them surrender. All in all, good job!
Gladiator management career mode game. Not sure if the design was lacking some challenge, or I just accidentaly was making the exact right moves all the time :D This could be expanded into full sports manager type of game! I wish there was some audio thou :(
Fantastic use of theme to convey the politics of the arena! This is a propaganda tool like pro-wrestling! Amazing work for 3 days- I love gladiator games and I don't know of any game that does this quite like you do. My fav is prolly Domina, but just played this by @dummydojo (their entry for the last LD)
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The only issue is that I didn't need to do anything to just buy the best move and them I won every match by doing a wild swing. If it had more requirement to investigate all the things you had put into the game (by making it harder for the player to win) then this would have been awesome! Also the enemy surrendered a lot!
Great effort
It would be great to have mouse controls and the UI is not very clear.
also, Fun to see other people make a Gladiator/arena game! :D
anyways, this was a really cool twist on the theme I love the idea that you just have to make the fight interesting, but not actually kill the opponent. It'd be nice to get some feedback/tutorialization for the 'prepare for fight' screen, since I didn't really understand how it worked, but I made a lot of money so I guess I did something right!
I really liked this, but if you checkout our submission you might find that I'm a little biased for gladiator themed games, ahah.
Very clean UI as well.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-legend-of-nudacus
Great job! I hope you put more into this!