Age of Gladiators Reforged - Changes

When I first launched the original Age of Gladiators, I was still learning a ton about the industry and programming in general. I managed to use an engine cobbled together in C++ when I didn't realize Unity or Unreal existed. I decided about a year ago to update Age of Gladiators in Unity, first just to see how it would look and function hypothetically in a new engine - but then I kept going with it until the game was complete!

Along the way I made numerous changes to game systems, added quality of life additions, and updated the UI to something a bit more fitting for this day-and-age.

Here is a small list of the changes I managed to make:

• Complete UI reworking

• Damage Mitigation now fed by agility and reflexes as well

• Reworked the city advancement mechanics by adding a few more options to moving cities

• Age incline and decline of gladiators more drastic

• Staff, Lender, and more portraits added

• Greed also affects daily spending habits of a gladiator

• Gladiator portraits added to UI throughout - before you just saw their names and nothing else

• Stable now contributes to fatigue recovery time

• Stable now has countdown for improvements

• Scrollbars instead of next previous buttons

• Revised Expertise significantly - so much so that it's nearly a new system

• Revised Player Perks significantly

• Weapons and Armor now have Stamina costs

• Dodging and Blocking now use Stamina

• More Player Portraits

• Fight Setup screens made more efficiently to reduce clicking when setting up a fight

• Fights now show a scrollable log of each turn

• Much better music player

• Much better tooltips

• Much better save system and interface

• The game now works on more resolutions and won't be windowed in wider resolutions like before

• More icons in the UI rather than just text

• Custom cursor added

• Added Killer Instinct and Work Ethic to gladiator personalities

• Removed Trading for now

• Animals now have names

• Improved alerts system at the top UI to show pressing issues

And much more.

I hope you enjoy this version of the game - I think it's a massive improvement.

As well, here are some screenshots comparing the old and new game:

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