Thanks for your patience last week with the delay.

Age of Gladiators Reforged has now launched (a few minutes early even!)

I hope you all enjoy the new version of the game. It was a lot of fun for me to revisit my first foray into game design. Looking at my old code I had to shake my head. This one is a complete remake from scratch - the nice thing as well is that it can be updated far easier than the old version.


Here is the bundle link for previous owners of Age of Gladiators (50% Discount):
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/8189/Age_of_Gladiators__Pit_Fighter_Bundle/


And here is the link to anyone that just wishes to purchase the new version:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103620/Age_of_Gladiators_Reforged/

Thanks again to all the previous fans of the series and to perhaps some news ones as well!

Hey all,

Just a quick note: Age of Gladiators Reforged is on track to be launching on Monday, March 27th at 11:30 AM Eastern Time.

Will keep you all up to date!

There will be a discount for previous owners as previously announced as well.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103620/Age_of_Gladiators_Reforged/

Hi All,

Age of Gladiators Reforged will be launching on March 27th, 2023.

This game is a remake of the original game launched back in 2016 with a ton of new features and quality of life improvements.

I will also be offering it in a bundle at a steep discount for owners of either this game or the original Age of Gladiators. Thank you for all your support.

Hope you enjoy the game - it was a lot of fun and also brought up a lot of memories going back to my first game and revising it to the modern era.

Cheers!

It's been a busy Summer.

Along with Deadwater Saloon, I would also like to announce Age of Gladiators Reforged, a remake of the original 2016 game in the Unity Engine.

The store page can be seen here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103620/Age_of_Gladiators_Reforged/

As some of you might know, I created the 2016 game in an engine I (barely) cobbled together from several books. It didn't work in most resolutions and UI/quality-of-life changes were near impossible to implement - so I decided to recreate it in Unity from scratch.

The UI has been updated to something made in 2022 (featuring more icons and less text as well as better-looking windows that conform to the overall palette) and many new quality of life additions have been added (daily alert icons across the top for example).



As well, numerous other gameplay and aesthetic changes have been made:

• Combat Mitigation now fed by agility and reflexes as well, making these attributes more useful.
  
• Improved alerts system
  
• Revised Gladiator Expertise system
  
• Revised Player Perks system
  
• Age incline and decline more drastic
  
• Added Killer Instinct and Work Ethic to gladiator personalities
  
• Drastically improved tooltips
  
• Works on most resolutions
  
• Staff, Lender, Other portraits added throughout the UI - now you can put a face to a name
  
• Weapons and Armor now have Stamina costs (making stamina much more important now)
  
• Dodging and Blocking now use Stamina (again, making stamina much more important now)
  
• Greed also affects daily spending of gladiator
  
• Gladiator portraits added to all UI
  
• Stable now contributes to fatigue recovery time
  
• Stable now has countdown for improvements
  
• Custom mouse cursor instead of system one
  
• Added a fight log so players can recap exactly what happened during battle
  
• Scrollbars instead of burdensome next/previous buttons
  
• Animals now have names
  
• More Player Portraits
  
• Fight Setup screens made more efficiently - a fight can now be started with two clicks instead of the many clicks previously
  
• Improved music player
  
• Icons instead of just text

These are just some of the changes - there are plenty more I am not thinking of here.



Will keep everyone posted.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2103620/Age_of_Gladiators_Reforged/

Thanks!

I'm pleased to announce our next game Deadwater Saloon, coming out Spring 2022!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1696080/Deadwater_Saloon/

Dive into the wild west as a saloon owner in a volatile frontier town. Customize your character and face the consequences of your choices as you forge friendships and enemies of townsfolk, travellers, outlaws and lawmen. Build the most famous saloon in the territory, or be overrun and destroyed.





Playing as a rich and dynamic character in the old west, you will be able to fully customize your attributes to fit your playstyle, such as Mixology, Seduction, and Sneakiness. You will manage your life as well as your saloon, such as maintaining your reputation and getting married. You will struggle with the effects of disease, aging, sanity, and addictions.

Provide travellers with a distinct drink parlour, gaining legendary stories to regale and build your legend. Interact with townspeople as they populate the town, forging friendships with blacksmiths, sheriffs, and preachers, romance prospective partners, or blackmail, abduct, and murder those who threaten you.

Build your saloon from the ground up. Expand the walls, build bordellos, opium dens, high stakes gambling rooms, and railed porches. Buy and place spittoons, tables, chairs, handcrafted bars, pianos, chandeliers, and diamond dust mirrors.

Thrive within a complex economy system, stockpiling booze, food, guns, and opium. Research a diverse array of drinks and foods to serve customers. Hire and manage staff from within the town populace, including barkeeps, cooks, servers, prostitutes, croupiers, pianists and bouncers. Help them reach their full potential, or fire and replace them with those more skilled.

Face the forces of nature, meddlesome customers, firebrand Preachers, rival outlaw gangs, and much more. At some point, you will be tested by stronger and more formidable nemesis in longer event chains. Whatever you choose, you will face the consequences of your choices. The frontier is an unforgiving place.









https://store.steampowered.com/app/1696080/Deadwater_Saloon/

Raiders! Forsaken Earth will be going live on Tuesday, November 10th with a launch discount of 15%. All owners of Age of Gladiators II: Rome will be eligible for a further discount of 10%, making the total discount to 25%.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/972010/Raiders_Forsaken_Earth/

This will be done by purchasing the bundle containing Age of Gladiators and Raiders! Forsaken Earth when the game is live - however, anyone already owning Age of Gladiators will only have to pay for Raiders.

Will keep you posted!

Here's the latest update notes with v1.3.21.

Like the last update, these are based on the well-received feedback from players thus far.

• Enemy gladiators now level much slower on the easiest game setting
  
• Gladiators suffer permanent (-5) stat reduction after receiving a critical injury
  
• Property prices increase significantly with each new purchase
  
• Toggle option to equip and un-equip gladiators when assigning to hospital
  
• Obstructive coins removed from lender screen

Thanks everyone for continued suggestions and comments so far!

Here's the latest updates with v1.3.20.

Some of these are quality of life changes while others affect the game itself in both difficulty and gameplay mechanics.

These are based on the fantastic feedback from players through the last year or so. I'm not done yet, there will be more making it into the game soon.

• Spectate Only mode added to Game Start for increased difficulty
  
• Added age status (Developing, Prime, Declining) to gladiator screen
  
• Gladiator morale decreases daily now, making it more important to share purses and build up your ludus
  
• Text changes (removed reference to armor and weapon techs and called them smiths instead)
  
• Fixed bug where gladiators training weapons would not age on birthday
  
• Adjusted rewards and losses (both decreased) from Ludus Raid random events
  
• Stat/Grading Key added to Recruit Screen
  
• Sliding Notification added when Building is upgraded
  
• Decreased text size of Sliding Notifications to prevent cropping
  
• Missions now reward either a legendary weapon or legendary armor - not just a weapon

Thanks everyone for continued suggestions and comments so far!

With update v1.3.10, ten new Roman portraits have been added to the game.

From an old and tired looking gladiator, to fresh-faced recruits, this should provide even more characterization and potential back-story for your gladiators!

Hope you enjoy!

I'm pleased to announce my next game Raiders!, coming out Fall 2020!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/972010

Wasteland Raiders is a post-apocalyptic single-player strategy game by the maker of the Age of Gladiators.

• Extort, attack and pillage greenhouses, rock quarries, and other industries of the wasteland in order to gain the resources required to build up your forces.
  
• Interact with, loot, or capture settlements and industries, spreading your reign of terror - captured settlements will need to be run with an iron-fist in order to ensure they remain under your control.
  
• Do battle with local mercenary companies sent to stop your rampage.
  
• You are the fearsome commander of the your raiders; the boss. Engage in duels, terrorize both your men and your enemies, and build your physical and mental attributes toward the eventual goal of total domination.
  
• Hire, manage, equip and level up your raiders.
  
• Fight other raiders organizations for control over the wasteland.
  
• Kidnap hostages and either execute them for infamy or ransom them.
  
• A fully dynamic and procedural generated map ensures each game is different.
  
• A running economy that you can disrupt and eventually conquer: the local industries such as greenhouses, rock quarries, garbage scavengers and more supply the settlements with resources, which in turn make them grow and generate finished goods - all for you to either extort or take through force.
  
• Build up your hideout, including holding pens for prisoners, a watering hole for recruiting new raiders, a brewery for much needed alcohol, a vault to protect your ill-gotten goods from internal graft, a siege factory for building city-breaching weapons, a counterfeit shop, and more.
  
• Capture specialists such as engineers, jesters, lizard hunters, bartenders, counterfeiters and more in order to build up your operation.
  
• Fly the mural of competing raiders in order to cast infamy away from your own organization.

The Wasteland Doesn't Need Another Hero...

Feel free to wishlist and follow the game to keep up to date on progress!