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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Champions of Rome | jam | 3.12 | 1.87 | 3.25 | 2.00 | 2.75 | 2.00 | 2.75 | 2.16 |
I loved the visual style dark and moody, although I got a "If you are seeing this, the ending was not expected / broken". The logic was non-obvious but took me back to similar point and click puzzle rpg games in the late 80's early 90's, love it... Until I get stuck and end up trying to click on everything.
Hey @slotha. Pick up the knife and rubber chicken from the desk. Wander over to the next screen, replace the axe on the log with the rubber chicken. When the other guy comes out to investigate either 1) Go collect the soul and then stab the player standing on the left on the second screen for a "You did well" plus unexpected ending message, or 2) simply stab the person on the left of the screen without collecting the soul for a "You forgot the soul" plus unexpected ending message.
Thanks for the feedback notekri! Yeah the death thing is a bug, whoops! Sorry about that.
Thanks @avi, great idea with the web port! I've updated the [page](https://superwmelon.itch.io/champions-of-rome) so you can play in browser. I've also found the issue with the death state not working, in my haste to add extra levels, the references to the death behaviour were broken. I've [fixed them](https://github.com/stuartwakefield/ld44-gladiators/commit/7a4b1816f995dc01fa7c895182ca08a525c1f16d) and am currently rolling a new fixed build.
[Fixes](https://superwmelon.itch.io/champions-of-rome/devlog/79235/fixes-2019-05-02) built and updated on [itch.io](https://superwmelon.itch.io/champions-of-rome)
@avi, thanks for the compliments! It was really hard not to get crazy with the scope of the game, I ended up getting maybe a quarter of what I had on my [trello board](https://trello.com/b/esbPiS9J/ld44) done :rofl: which I thought wasn't bad for my first jam
Thanks for the feedback @strangeryann. I didn't fully get round to implementing the value / levelling up system. The link with the theme "Your life is currency" was meant to be that you were a gladiator that was being bought and sold by masters based on your performance in battle... But turned out to be too big a scope. Gives me something to work on, thanks!
Beautiful art style, I really liked the two mode gameplay, setting up your garden to improve your abilities to survive (or harm if you ended up thinking "ah, I'll just water this one" and then not having enough water for the fight). I think someone already mentioned when you get to 1hp it's a bit annoying to not be able to do anything other than suicide by running into the enemy. Other than that I loved it!