To-do:

Abilities
AI ability use
Damage notifications
Duel results
Graphics
Audio
Generated knight names
Different sprites for different knights
New artifacts and random artifact distribution
Better font
Improve endgame
Background
Improve destruction AI
Remove heal on level-up
Reduce leveling speed, +1 XP per level-up
Solve the first-turn-attacking problem
Victory condition: Be a highest level character by cycle 30
Improve AI.
Buff modules
Stat tracking and knight comments
Randomize starting stats
Main menu & credits

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Hey all, I've joined jam today - whenever that is on your timezone - and this is my progress so far:

Interesting, are the names generated and is this how you're testing the combat, or is this how you're making the NPCs determine hierarchy?

Names aren't generated - for now? - and they simply attack each other randomly. I'll make a playable character later.

Now the player gets to decide one of the character's opponents. It's quite fun already, this Nemesis system stuff is really something.

I've sat for good 20 minutes because I just had to become the highest level character :)



I'll keep working for another few days.

Yay, abilities are in! Characters gain 100 power at the start of each season, capped at 1000 - you can choose to use abilities constantly, or save up for Swap/Assassinate. Swap switches artifacts, and Assassinate instantly kills the opponent. So you can scheme for ten seasons, then suddenly assassinate the top character and gain a bunch of levels. Intended as a catch-up mechanic.

Phew, what a day. ~8 hours and it's still not done. But I'm very close.

This is looking like an amazing submission. I can't wait to try it out!