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Gladiator Graveyard

By Cemre, ardaalgul, utkucnay and tahamimarlar

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3353.8038
Fun1114.0038
Innovation11042.8138
Theme4703.8438
Graphics2494.1938
Audio1733.9439
Mood3413.8137

Comments

gord10ahmet 2022-04-04 20:34

Nice game, I especially liked the visuals and the story. Some suggestions: * Let the game restart from the game scene, not the main menu * Dashing with right click would be easier than shift key

ilikescifi 2022-04-04 20:57

Ok as a pixel art fan i just love this one! Will play the game a little more to give a better review - but already like what i played so far!

2022-04-04 21:00

I liked the story of the game, but the ai's catch me so fast, which made it a little difficult for me to play :)

tylerstraub 2022-04-04 21:02

Art is great and overall it feels really polished - sometimes the mouse cursor gets lost in the sand and I forget where I'm aiming exactly. Got to 77 seconds!

(also not to dismiss the other guy's claims but I found pressing shift to dash perfectly natural for me)

pirate-rob 2022-04-04 21:09

Amazing game, played it a lot! Everything works really well together, my biggest gripe is the lack of sound effects, otherwise everything else is great!

noobman64 2022-04-04 21:40

Well done! Really nice art, both with the visuals and the music.

jcg 2022-04-04 22:38

Attention to detail with the music spin down is awesome!

alpqty 2022-04-04 23:06

Nice Game . I went to 2012, when online games were famous...

tigerj 2022-04-05 00:32

My kinda game! nice work! I'm trying to think of feedback.. I got nothing though it was fun to play and stream. I especially was impressed by the near death mechanic you implemented.

purpledartfrog 2022-04-05 10:59

Very nice feel to it - feels polished and things work exactly as intended and expected. Great job on this :smile: :thumbsup_tone1:

jotne 2022-04-05 11:03

Very nice! The music is stressing me out, but I'm assuming that's intentional. :p Great job overall, I very much enjoyed playing this!

P.S. Spot on for the theme - death is very much inevitable. ;)

anna-karpova 2022-04-05 11:24

Fascinatingly:) Loved the artstyle and sounds. Not sure about repeating cutscene. Overall nice job!

ikvelibrium 2022-04-05 11:29

Fun game, nice graph, audio good.

rickylee 2022-04-05 11:36

Awesome, this is a great idea for the theme! and the music is good too :)

kaminos 2022-04-05 11:40

It was fun! I think i would have enjoyed it much much more if i could dash with more ease. The shift - dash with my pinky was hard. Other than that a solid experience with cool graphics and stressful music. I would love to see a refined version of it. Btw the camera wobble while attack is very enjoyable.

bottled-up-dark-peace 2022-04-05 12:09

Hey it was nice, my highscore is 63 tho I did only played 3 times. I appreciate the intro that can be skipped. I recorded a video, Dm me @ DarkPeace on the jam's discord if you wanna see it.

kongo 2022-04-05 12:29

Audio really makes you pump up and slow motion was a great idea. Nice entry! PS doesn't work on firefox. Consider information like "recommended to play on Chrome".

save-sloth-studios 2022-04-05 12:37

A really fun fast-paced game! Very cute visuals and a fitting, adrenaline-pumping music. As other have said the story really slows down the game between deaths, but other than that, nice work!

dactarium 2022-04-05 12:52

Smooth mechanics. Nice art design. :sparkling_heart: :bow_and_arrow:

mlho7 2022-04-05 13:17

Really fun, great art, good flow, arena sandstorm music is some choice ahah, well done.

lix3nn 2022-04-05 14:06

Beautiful art and music fits fast-faced gameplay and camera shake so well. Would love to see a more polished version, perhaps with space or right click for dash. Fun game!

originaldog 2022-04-05 14:26

Really neat game! Loved the paper styled character artwork and how punchy and smooth the combat feels. Great job everyone

bloodyedward 2022-04-05 14:56

Very nice overall. Loved the music even if it didn't hit the Roman theme.

igorfelga 2022-04-05 16:49

Nice graphics e music. Simple game but very fun!

weewsa 2022-04-05 17:34

A really good game to spend an excessive 20 minutes.

antonsem 2022-04-05 19:17

Great art and fantastic game feel!

tigerj 2022-04-05 19:35

My feedback is higher up, but I wanted to come by and post the VOD of your game from my stream. Enjoy! Also I play jam games every Saturday, usually for a good length of time. If you make updates or want to bring it by again feel free! Thanks again for making and submitting. that near death effect is cool. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1447064567?t=00h39m38s

stefan-laimer 2022-04-05 21:45

Really amazing game! I got to 85 seconds after a couple of tries. Dash on space bar or right click would probably be better and an online leaderboard would be amazing. Other than that, really well done!

adamcyounis 2022-04-06 06:29

This was a pretty straightforward entry, with nice graphics and a few really slick polish touches. I really like the way the game highlights "near death" experiences by slowing down and greying out when an arrow approaches. I think this creates wonderful moments of tension and gives the player a slight boost in agency.

I thought the music was sufficiently high-energy but didn't really match the setting. Outside of this, the general sense of feedback was clear and fun to play.

Thanks for the submission!

lone-wolf 2022-04-06 21:43

This was well done, the only gripe I can come up with is that you bound dash to shift, my pinky is very bad at coordinated/fast presses.

My best time was 93.87 (World record?)

Great work! (Gladiator games ftw)

caudatecoder 2022-04-06 21:57

Simple, very polished and fun game to play!

Really love how everything is so well put together: the sound, the visual, the effects and the little comic-style story bit in the beginning. Well done!

Thanks for coming to my stream! Here's a recording in case you'd like to refer to it https://youtu.be/aJkdjOKW03M

brainoid 2022-04-07 15:09

hey folks. Nice entry here. I liked the visuals and the color palette. This is a weird music choice for a medieval themed game but goes really well with the pace of the game.

As for design choices, it's really fun to knock back arrows with arrows. I didn't feel like dashing much, the character move speed is already high enough. Using the obstacles as a cover is clever. I'm not sure about the slowmo thing. It felt good at the beginning but then I started to feel like, it happens a lot and kills the pace.

Overall, lovely entry! Good luck! PS: Saw the game on ÜNOG <3

marcmagus 2022-04-07 15:58

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1448039283

Nice intense gameplay.

I like the music slowdown effect on death but I wish it would stop after a few seconds. If you sit on the menu it's really painful.

kaanowski 2022-04-07 18:53

Definitely above average. *Smooth movement and hit feedback *Not crazy but extremely reasonable sounds *Lovely colors *Perfectly fits the theme.

melik-cagan-oduncuoglu 2022-04-07 19:59

It looks so good! I love the vibe and action. Great Job!

dustyroom 2022-04-08 11:25

Quite addicting! I love the music and how it slows down on game over - nice touch.

enderswype 2022-04-09 15:56

i really like this kind of arcade games, onyl advice, consider uploading on itchio.io instead of stimmer, i was spammed with millions of adds on your hosting website :( (yesyes i forgot to reinstall addblock shhhhh xD )

noiyy 2022-04-14 10:23

Quite fitting music, makes you realize you should be quicker :smile: This kind of purple UI doesn't really fit in here. I really liked that slowmo when an arrow was near you & pixel-art, nice entry :smile: