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A jam submission

Bloody GladiatorsView game page

A blood-filled platformer where your main goal is to die in bloody ways and kill the prisoner.
Submitted by David Harrington (@dharrington53) — 3 hours, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#294.4214.421
WOWIE!#1503.6053.605
Fun#1613.6053.605
Sound#1943.3953.395
Creativity#3493.3163.316
Topic#4183.1323.132
Simplicity#4913.3683.368

Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Music Source
The music is by Nene from opengameart.org.

Credits
David Harrington

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Submitted(+1)

I'm addicted to this game! The pixel art is awesome! Extra points for implementing a small options menu.

Developer

Thanks a lot! Glad you like it :D

Submitted(+1)

The art in this is so good! I love the permanence of the blood and body parts. I think it was causing the web version to slow down a lot though. That blood trickle effect and game feel were awesome. Got a little too hard/frustrating at the end. I think checkpoints could have been good for this. Maybe some sort of self-created checkpoint at the fires.

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot! Yeah the web version can slow down a lot from all the blood unfortuneatly. And I agree, it can get a little too hard - checkpoints would have been a good idea! Thanks so much for playing :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Very cool game! i liked the visuals and the gameplay! but it was very hard i died like 30 times on one of the levels, still a very cool game!

Developer

Thanks a lot! Yeah it can be hard haha. Thanks for playing though.

(+1)

Great submission! Really impressive art and some great juice -- the controls and gore effects were both executed well and felt good to play, and I liked the idea of killing yourself in specific ways. One caveat was that there were some portions of levels where the detailed crowd really fought with the foreground elements visually -- it's not a huge deal, but it did detract from your otherwise great pixel art. I never was able to finish the game (the difficulty was just too steep for me), but this was a nice entry overall. Good work!

Developer

Thanks a lot! Really glad you liked it! Yeah, the background is definitely an issue in some levels. Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for playing! :D

Submitted(+1)

It is just a cool game, very satifying controls and art, especially the slash animation. I think it does not fit that well to the theme though, because you dont really fail, you're objective is just (sometimes) to die. But thats not that important becaus ethe game turned out so well :) well done!

Developer

Thanks a lot! Personally, I think it fits the theme quite well since you have to fail/die to make progress, and failure is progress! That's okay though, I'm glad you still liked it! :D

Submitted(+1)

Loved the arts (especially gore/blood splatter), the visuals are super consistent, controls are pretty smooth, but I was not good enough to complete the full game

Maybe add some checkpoints on the levels or various difficulty settings? Otherwise great entry

Developer

Thanks a lot! :D and yeah some levels can be a bit hard, maybe in future updates I'll tweak a few levels. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

The amount of polish incredible. If I can give some critique it might be the fact that the background is as saturated as the foreground so important items blend into the background at times (or it might be just me, I'm colorblind) also for some reason the performance was not that great, under 30 FPS which is weird for a low demanding game (and again it might be me, with either my not-that-awesome PC or the HTML export)

Developer

Thanks a lot! Yeah I agree with you there, I should have used a different background imo. And the performance was fine for me, but I guess I have a higher-end PC. There are a few performance dips when the blood effects are shown, so that could be it. Thanks for playing anyways!

Submitted(+1)

Surprisingly great attention to detail. The art is really charming and the gameplay is really really fun. Animations are lovely and everything feels snappy and smooth! Really really great game this one :)

Developer

Thanks a lot :D

Submitted(+1)

Really Solid Game bro great job!

Developer

Thanks so much! :)

Submitted(+1)

Lot's of great details in the art would be nice if there was a little more sound, even just fake crowd noises as the sprites are so full of life it would really round the style out.

Developer

Thanks! I hadn't thought of that - that would've been a really nice detail. Thanks for your feedback and thanks for playing :D

Submitted(+1)

Duuuuude! This game is awesome and incredibly polished! Great platforming, nice feel to the jump with the stretchy character, loved the animations and gameplay all around! Great level design as well!

Its also always nice to meet another GMS2 developer :D

Please consider playing and rating my game if you have the chance :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much! And thanks for playing! Good to meet a fellow GMS2 dev too ;)

(+1)

Nice game. Very hard (for me) tho!

Developer

Thanks! It can be a little hard haha!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, I appreciate the effort in the details.

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

cool game, great art, and well implemented topic!!

Developer

Thanks a lot :D

Submitted(+1)

This game is very polished, awersome visuals, and the player movement feels good. I didn't like the fact that you have to kill yourself (even if you can get past the traps) to complete the tasks I feel like a better aproach would have been to make the traps impossible to get past until you get killed by them and after that the trap would break and the path will be clear(or something like that, to make the player kill himself because he thinks that is the way to solve the puzzle, not because you tell him to do that). Anyway this is just my opinion, overall your game is very great and fun! Good job!

Developer

Thanks so much! And thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

This game looks amazing, love how the bodies stay around after you die, very great addition adds a lot to the game feel.

Developer

Thanks a lot! :D

Submitted(+1)

Amazing aesthetic and its just so polished and fun to play, its perfect in every way!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! And thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Really love the art style you went with! The gameplay was fun and I think you executed the theme well, nicely done! :)

Developer

Thanks a lot! I'm glad you liked it :D

Submitted(+1)

It's close to perfect, the sound, the visual, the gameplay, really awesome work.

Developer

Thanks so much :D

Submitted(+1)

This game just looks so solid and polished. Congrats! I really like your take on the theme and I would be surprised if this doesn't make it to the top 25.

Well done again!

Developer

Thank so much! That means a lot - it'd be amazing to be in top 25 haha! Thanks for playing :D

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