Dadiator by Ametentia
Dadiator is a gladiator fighting game where you earn more money the more fighters you defeat! After each battle you can spend your money on new weapons to make yourself an even stronger killing machine! However you must look after your family, who rely on you to pay for food, heating fuel and medicine. It's game over if you die in battle or your family dies due to hunger/coldness/illness.
How To Run
- Windows: Just run Ludum.exe contained within the binaries folder
Important: The Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 is required to run on Windows. It is available here under the Redistributable and Build Tools section.
Linux: Just run ./Ludum from terminal while in the binaries folder
- Important: CSFML 2.5 is required to be installed for the Linux version to work. Check your package manager.
Controls
- W/A/S/D: Move your gladiator
- Shift: Brings up your shield (If you have one)
- Left click / Right click: Attack and Special Attack
Family Happiness
This symbol shows how well fed your family are, the more it goes grey the hungrier they get.
This symbol shows the how well heated your family are, if the fire gets low it'll begin to show freezing ice, which really isn't good for their health.
Finally this symbol shows if your family are ill and need medicine, family members are more likely to fall ill if they're cold or hungry.
Weapons
Fists (default): Just punch them, either hand. They'll die eventually.
Sword: Good for stabbing and slashing, does way more damage than just punching your opponents.
- Spear: Its like a sword on a stick, very good for distant stabbing, even better when you throw it (Right Mouse Button)
- Shield: The shield isn't really a weapon, but you will want to know about it. Holding the shift key will bring up your shield (if your character has bought one) you won't negate all damage, but you'll live longer if you utilise it well.
Screenshots!
Technical Stuff
Written using CSFML
Us
Ratings
| Given | 30🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
EDIT: Oh I need to press space to continue :smiley:. Very cool game!
I liked that you got random levels and that even if you stay at the easy part you get different opponents, different movements and even different numbers.
All in all it made really fun to play, well done.
Liked
- Great use of theme! I felt the tension between wanting to buy sword/shield but also needing to fend for my family
- Good music and art
- Pixel blood effects :smile:
Suggestions
- Took me a while to realize "space" returns to menu. After a battle an indication of how to continue would be nice
- Hard to tell whether you or the enemy is taking damage. Maybe you could have a different voice or blood color
It looked good even though the animations were basic but it could have done with a little more in the sound design. Just hearing the same "Ogh" sound every time someone got hit was a little tedious.
I enjoyed it, though!
The Art and music is good.
* The download is actually a zip file but has the extension .tar.gz.
* Missing shared library: libcsfml-audio.so.2.5, maybe others.
It seems a litle bit unbalanced due to the progress, which does not restart on death (mine or family's).
Also I think that you need to continue the game in some way. I think it needs a bigger version.
Well designed graphics, well fited sound. Almost perfect working mechanics. Your game is really good, I think you should finish it as a bigger project.
And the last thing: I don't think it fits in the theme of this LD, sorry.
We enjoyed your game, thank you.