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Gladiator Souls by hadesfury

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made by hadesfury for LD 44 (JAM)

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Story

Your goal is to lead your gladiator onto the path of glory !

To do so, you shall defeat the other gladiators with as much style as possible. The best way to do that is by dodging their blades at the very last moment, giving your public a thrill! Indeed, this will entice your fellow spectators to throw away money at you... That you can then use to improve you skills in between combats.

No retirement for the braves! Your thrive when bathed in the blood of these filthy opponents calling themselves gladiators. Pigs! That's all they are!

Your life is your only currency in this world, where your spectators have literally the power to end your life or postpone your death. Keep them entertained!

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Controls

  • Character Movement : WASD/Arrows (Keyboard) - Left stick (Gamepad)

  • Attack : Ctrl/Left Mouse Button (Keyboard) - X (Gamepad)

  • Dash : Space/Right Mouse Button (Keyboard) - A (Gamepad)

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Gameplay

  • Your attacks and you dash skill consume stamina (yellow bar; refills over time).

  • You lose life when hit by enemies. You have no life regen, because only the weak needs that.

  • After each round you can improve your skills according to the money you received from the spectators.

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Source Code https://gitlab.com/PandoraTechnologyPublic/ludumdare44/
Windows https://hadesfury.itch.io/gladiator-souls
macOS https://hadesfury.itch.io/gladiator-souls
Linux https://hadesfury.itch.io/gladiator-souls
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/gladiator-souls

Ratings

Given 31🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

ColeSlaughter
30. Apr 2019 · 03:38 UTC
I think my favorite thing about this game are the little details, like the individually named pig gladiators.

I like the idea of winning favor from the audience in the arena! Although I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing to earn that money...

The models and the sounds were all on point, though! I love the little animations for the player character and pig enemies. :)
CaOrJavier
30. Apr 2019 · 10:42 UTC
I like art
Animal
30. Apr 2019 · 11:40 UTC
The control is goo but the left mouse button didn"t always worked. The feel, the animations are good. The art too. It was fun to play but a little be repetitive.
Copito
30. Apr 2019 · 11:42 UTC
I really enjoyed playing this
squaredev
30. Apr 2019 · 11:46 UTC
A bit clunky, but I liked it. Also I enjoyed the Latin names for the gladiators (even though they look more like samurais :joy:)
good job
Nakami
30. Apr 2019 · 11:46 UTC
Nice game !
Stamina regen to low I pass most of the time running in circle to wait my stamina regen.
I'm wondering what it will be without stamina, I think it could be more aggressive and tricky especially if you add range attack enemies.
MrBrooms
30. Apr 2019 · 12:52 UTC
i can't upgrade :/
JofersGames
01. May 2019 · 10:32 UTC
The dark souls of lumdum dare :)
rams3160
01. May 2019 · 15:00 UTC
Great Game, Pretty difficult and attacks don't seem to register sometimes.
one of the better games I've played in a jam
T-Bo
01. May 2019 · 15:05 UTC
I love the samurai characters and the graphics !
But I think that the cooldown for the stamina could be shorter ( I runned in circle a long time during the game )
Nice game and good job ! :ok_hand:
Autumn Schutt
01. May 2019 · 16:02 UTC
Really polished and good looking! It's got great movement feel!
cottonfloweryellow
01. May 2019 · 17:09 UTC
Naming the enemies actually turned out to be helpful. Fun game.
RedHermit
01. May 2019 · 21:03 UTC
Very nicely done! I love the fighting mechanic to force close combat, avoiding the easy/dodge/win strategies.. making it a lot more challenging to do better and advance. Great take on the theme! The gameplay, mechanics, and models were all well done - excellent core structure in place!
PixScope
01. May 2019 · 21:05 UTC
I love the gameplay !
fonserbc
01. May 2019 · 21:38 UTC
I really liked the animations!
The only thing is thatt the beginning I didn't read the description close enough to read the thing about getting money for "dodging in the last moment" and my first playthrough lasted too long because I didn't have enough money and I just played very safe.
tiffi
01. May 2019 · 21:49 UTC
I love the music and the graphics are well done as well. Thanks for the entry!
FlayerWolf
02. May 2019 · 14:06 UTC
Very good game, it's dynamic and beautiful.I just could not understand exactly how damage works
dougLima
03. May 2019 · 06:35 UTC
Neat game! I got really engrossed in it. I love the models, I'm a fan of the clean flat color 3D style. The animations are good too! I like the limited animation style you did, it fits well with the minimal models. The combat is simple but effective, although I would recommend balancing the stamina so that combat in early waves doesn't feel like a chore. The enemy hitboxes could also be bigger I think, sometimes I would be right in the face of an enemy but it wouldn't hit because my sword didn't directly make contact with them. I think that would make combat less frustrating without taking out the challenge of it. I really like the sound, it fits very well, there's a lot of feedback and it's not tiring. Sometimes, when there were a lot of enemy bodies of the floor, the character would get stuck as it would run around, which felt a bit off and broke immersion a bit. I really like the take on the theme, it's very creative. :) Good job!
EDIT: Also, forgot to mention that I love the little detail of the enemy names. It adds a lot of personality to what would otherwise be a horde of copy-paste pigs. That's very nice.
chriiis88
04. May 2019 · 08:57 UTC
The controls are very clunky and a bit more feedback for player actions would have been nice (e.g. better sound for hits and getting hit). It's also not transparent, at which point you can attack/dodge. Both seem to cost stamina, but no idea how much. So you're pretty much left with standing around until your bar is full again.

Other than that I had fun with your game and it's not far off Bloodborne's fighting system.

Edit: I just noticed that the stamina upgrade price is wrong. It says 70 but only costs 1.