Developer posts and news about this game.
Many thanks to community member and player Pokesus who volunteered to translate the game into Spanish. Here is the first implementation. Rough around the edges and very incomplete, but you can now select 'Spanish' from the main menu. Most of the UI has been translated, as well as
Thanks to the community for spotting a few (hopefully) final rare bugs: Fixed a rare instance of some short term injuries sometimes 'healing' a fighter in their transition residual phase before disappearing. This only ever lasted one week before being auto-fixed anyway, which is
Thanks to dltoaster for spotting a rare edge case involving bleed outs spreading to an opponent. Now fixed for v.2.08.
Thanks to Kobrelo for doing a lot of the legwork on this one and giving me some useful information on Roman naming conventions. Roman names are now a lot more various and sophisticated. Citizens, veterans and criminals will now be named using praenomen-nomen or nomen-cognomen con
A minor update today. Fixed 'Distract' not triggering on quick strikes. Fixed 'Distract' not triggering on undefended flank attacks. Added league positions to the results screen so that you can more easily see when a major upset occurs, and makes it easier to track the progress o
In response to popular demand I have agreed to return to this project for polishing and fixing purposes. No promises on the future, but I'll try to knock off any remaining bugs people locate (seems like it is running at 99% now but there are one or two left over) and maybe will c
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary since the release of Gladiator Manager! I can't thank the player base enough for a really wonderful year with sales that exceeded my hopes, and loads of fantastic feedback (mainly positive, but also very helpful constructive criticism too). I
An exciting new feature in this update: each team now has an AI manager with a name and a personality! This feels like a key part of world building and story telling, that I know a lot of you are keen on. I hope that it should result in more of a unique vibe to the different team
Miscellaneous fixes and improvements this week alongside a brand new relationship type: Lovers! Gameplay New relationship type: Lovers! Lovers will appear by way of random event like the other relationship events. Lovers get a HUGE bonus to Bravery and Toughness when fighting on
Loads of stuff in this latest patch. The main item is a brand new data screen - League History. Details below! Also - Brand new relationships and events! :) UI / Presentation Added a new League History screen. Accessible from the ‘League’ tab this screen will display the winners
Thanks to the community for the ongoing reports, which are responsible for most of this week's minor improvements. Gameplay / Balancing Trebled the financial prize for having the most successful fighter each season (most wins), so this is now between £3,000 (div5) and £15,000 (di
This week's patch is packed full of less exciting but important minor fixes and balance changes. Thanks to the community for the help and suggestions getting these sorted. Gameplay / Balance Increased the condition gain/loss from easy/hard training by 50%. Decreased the chances o
A very exciting update this week with a brand new class joinging the fight! THE FREESTYLER! Brand new fighter class: the Freestyler Freestylers have a similar chance to generate as Gladiators, and will more commonly be Citizens. They will start to appear in current save games as
Development continues apace with a new training intensity feature this week, along with new relationships and various other minor improvements! New Features / Gameplay Added a new training feature: intensity! Intensity can be set in the barracks screen by the dropdown next to the
Thanks for your patience over the summer. As explained in the forum this game remains very much in development but I took the summer to walk from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean across the Pyrenees, so not much time for game dev! I'll be back on it over the next six months at l
Hi. Sorry for slower progress in the last fortnight - the day job has been very demanding. Some nice little improvements in various areas of the game with this edition. Current ability now goes down when a fighter is permanently injured (and already did so on aging) so now fighte
Some new relationships, and some general updates. Gameplay Added a new relationship event - > ‘Friends’ progresses to ‘Best Friends’, with all associated bonuses (and nerfs) doubled. (i.e. in fight attack, defence and damage bonuses, morale loss on friend injury/death/sacking,
This update brings the first fully functional relationship: friends. Gameplay - Friendships Following the last update in which fighters could become friends in chance events, those relationships now have real in-game effects: Added 10% defence, attack and damage bonuses when two
Steady progress. A few miscellaneous bits and pieces in this update, showing general advancement across the board and working towards a few good goals. Gameplay Added bounty payments for taking out league stat leaders, doubled on kill. The bounty up for grabs (if any) is reported
Some good infrastructure work in this update to lay the ground for the future. The major news here is that I've started to add events to the game. At present they are so few in number, and so rare, that you might not see them at all unless you get lucky. I will be adding more ove