#emperorsarena

Happy New year. It's been a couple months since my last post about this, and I haven't been working as much I as would like on this project. Still, I've made some progress recently

Here's a quick version of the arena you spawn after death

And the fight intro.

I still have a lot of strong ideas for enemy characters, which I think will be an important thing for a game of this format, since the whole game is essentially just boss fights against powerful characters. However, I've only actually implemented a couple.

There's still a lot of systems I haven't started working on, but I'm excited to work on them. Eventually.

Unfortunately, I'm heading back to school again soon, so I may have less time and energy to work. But also I did much of the work on Disciples of Varahces at school, so I'll still do a bunch of work on this too.

I'll try getting a demo out with a few early enemies once the main systems are done, then once that's done I can work more deeply into later game content.

Thought I'd make an early announcement of the project I'm working on, Emperor's Arena.

(obviously still early on in development.)

The battle system is inspired by Undertale and Deltarune's battle system, where you have normal RPG options on your turn, but the enemy attacks with projectiles you actually have to dodge. I thought it would be cool to make a roguelike game with that system, so, here's that game!

The idea is that the player is a skilled fighter, captured to fight other skilled warriors from around the world for entertainment. So, you'll face these unique and difficult fights, and get an opportunity to purchase upgrades, new abilities, and consumable items between rounds. You'll even get rewarded for doing cool things for the crowd (such as getting close to bullets without getting hit, shown in the gameplay footage.) Also, healing is hard to come by, so every hit counts. And, of course, if you die, you have to start over.