20 Feb 2025Developer post

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs Part II

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs Here are some devlogs from my latest sci-fi cRPG that I've been working on. Hope you enjoy! If you like what you see, please feel free to wishlist and follow: Devlog: The Planets of Sector Unknown A few weeks back, I wrapped up the last of the five

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs
Here are some devlogs from my latest sci-fi cRPG that I've been working on. Hope you enjoy! If you like what you see, please feel free to wishlist and follow:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2734270/Sector_Unknown/

Devlog: The Planets of Sector Unknown

A few weeks back, I wrapped up the last of the five story planets for Sector Unknown. There’s still the “point of no return” planet—the climactic final world—to finish, but every planet leading up to it is now fully fleshed out with quests, writing, and design.

Now seems like a good time to share a bit of insight into each of these worlds. Keep in mind, these are just the core story planets—there are also numerous side-mission stations, derelict ships, and other locations scattered throughout the game….

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Devlog: The Setting

As humanity expanded into the cosmos, the narrative of "Sector Unknown" unfolded in a clandestine sector comprising three primary star systems—Xiphos (XPH-6430), Svion (SVN-8912), and Fivo (FIV-6789)—along with several minor ones. These systems were home to the planets Maku, Nabi, Sjo, Eremtera, and Helfyr (more devlogs to come on each of these planets).

For decades, Star Frontier, a colossal trading entity reminiscent of the historical East India Company, attempted to ruthlessly exploit these planets. Operating with impunity due to the sector's erasure from all official star maps, Star Frontier unrelentingly expanded into the sector, unhindered by governmental oversight…

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Devlog: Skills, Attributes, and Combat Stats

In Sector Unknown, your character and companions will have their own skills and attributes.

Attributes are commonly used to determine your combat skills, but can occasionally be used to outside of combat as well. Combat stats are derived from your attributes and determine your success in combat. And finally skills are used primarily outside of combat in dialogue, through world interactions, and more. The only skills that can be used in combat is Piloting, which determines your skill in space encounters, and Luck which provide re-rolls on failed critical hits and evasions…

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09 Jun 2024Developer post

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs

Hi All, Here are some devlogs from my latest sci-fi cRPG that I've been working on. Hope you enjoy! Companions "Welcome to the party, pal!" In my last devlog, I discussed non-combat support personnel that you could recruit for your cause. This devlog will focus on combat companio

08 Mar 2024Developer post

Sector Unknown - Announcement

After creating quite a few strategy games as an indie (and mostly solo) developer, I decided to create an cRPG instead. This is the genre that I find myself playing and enjoying the most, from classics such as Baldur’s Gate 2, Fallout 2, Fallout New Vegas, Knights of the Old Repu

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2734270/Sector_Unknown/

After creating quite a few strategy games as an indie (and mostly solo) developer, I decided to create an cRPG instead. This is the genre that I find myself playing and enjoying the most, from classics such as Baldur’s Gate 2, Fallout 2, Fallout New Vegas, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, to more contemporary games such as Pillars of Eternity, Outer Worlds, Colony Ship, Trudograd, Underrail, and Encased. In short, I really, really like RPGs, and especially ones that use an isometric angle of gameplay.

Sector Unknown is sort of my love letter to both the classics and the contemporaries. I think I’m better suited for telling a story than number crunching strategy games (as evidenced by my mixture of reviews in that genre).

After three years working part-time (well almost full time) on the systems, the game is close to complete on features (movement, inventory, party management, quests, dialogue, crafting, combat, itemization, space flight, etc). I’m aiming to have a demo for the game completed in a month or so. It’s close to completion now, but I’m still not happy with the tutorial level. What I do not want is for it to be a barrier to entry like the much-maligned temple tutorial level in Fallout 2 (I almost never experienced the rest of that fantastic game due to being so turned off by the temple).

The goal for this game is to launch into Early Access. I intend to have over half of the game completed by that EA launch with full launch occurring 6-9 months after that. The idea to do an EA launch was not one taken lightly, but one thing I have found with my past launches is that just when I think a game is bug-free and ready for a seamless launch, players will find new and interesting ways to break things – leading to frantic post-launch schedule of rushing out bug-fixes and patches. I think this way is better. Launch into Early Access and take player feedback over time so that I can get everything sorted for a smooth launch after that.

The other factor is budget. Right now, I do not have the armor or model system in place for player characters and NPCs. These are assets. This will change before Early Access as I have the models done (with no armor or clothing yet), but even after that, I suspect I will need some of the additional revenue from EA launch to finish the last 2-3 planets (as mentioned I aim to have 3-4 story planets complete for EA launch, with the first one ready for the demo in the coming month or so).

I hope people will wishlist and follow this game. It’s always been a dream of mine to create a sci-fi cRPG, and there doesn’t seem to be many on the market except for Colony Ship (which I completed three times). So I hope there’s a market for something like this, a game taking inspiration from early Bioware and some of the great current game developers on the market today.

I will continue to provide updates in the next while, including game systems, story, ideas, and more. I really look forward to people's feedback and thoughts as well.

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27 Mar 2023Developer post

Age of Gladiators Reforged Launched! 50% Discount For Owners

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 shak

26 Mar 2023Developer post

Age of Gladiators Reforged - Monday, March 27th, 11:30 am Eastern Time Launch

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. As announced before, there will be a discount for all previous owners of this game. Will keep you all up to date!

07 Mar 2023Developer post

Age of Gladiators Reforged - March 27th Release Date & Discount For Owners

Hi All, The game has been approved by Steam, but with the Spring sale coming up, I've decided to move the release date to Monday, March 27th. Apologies for the delay. 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 a

19 Aug 2022Developer post

Age of Gladiators Reforged - Coming Soon!

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: As some of you might know, I created the 2016 game in an engine I (barely) co

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.

And of course, previous owners of Age of Gladiators will enjoy a discount if they choose to purchase the remastered version. So please wishlist and follow Age of Gladiators Reforged today.

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

Thanks!

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18 Oct 2021Developer post

Deadwater Saloon - Coming Spring 2022

I'm pleased to announce our next game Deadwater Saloon , coming out Spring 2022. Hope to see you all there! 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 enemi

I'm pleased to announce our next game Deadwater Saloon, coming out Spring 2022. Hope to see you all there!

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.

Create Your Character

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.

Form Relationships

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

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.

Manage

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.

Hundreds of Events

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/

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08 Nov 2020Developer post

Raiders! Forsaken Earth Discount For Age of Gladiators Owners

Raiders! Forsaken Earth will be going live on Tuesday, November 10th with a launch discount of 15%. All owners of Age of Gladiators will be eligible for a further discount of 10%, making the total discount to 25%. This will be done by purchasing the bundle containing Age of Gladi

22 Aug 2018Developer post

Age of Gladiators II: Rome On Sale Now! 10% Launch Discount

Hey all, Age of Gladiators II: Rome launched earlier today! You can pick it up here: Also, for all previous owners of the first game there is also an additional discount if you purchase it through the bundle here: Pit Fighter Bundle I hope you all enjoy the game! I will be updati

22 May 2018Developer post

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Store Page Live!

Hey all, I'm pleased to report that the store page for Age of Gladiators II: Rome is now live! Please feel free to visit, discuss, and follow at the link below: Store Page

30 Mar 2018Developer post

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Early Arena Screenshots

Some early screenshots of some of the arenas below! Please note that the armors are being added to game next week, so all gladiators in the screenshots are in their non-armored garb. More to come! Also the store page for Age of Gladiators II: Rome will be up in the next week or s

30 Mar 2018Developer post

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Early Arena Screenshots

Some early screenshots of some of the arenas below! Please note that the armors are being added to game next week, so all gladiators in the screenshots are in their non-armored garb. More to come! Also the store page for Age of Gladiators II: Rome will be up in the next week or s

Age of Gladiators

Updates & announcements

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs Part II

Devlog: The Planets of Sector Unknown

Devlog: The Setting

Devlog: Skills, Attributes, and Combat Stats

Sector Unknown - Latest Devlogs

Sector Unknown - Announcement

Age of Gladiators Reforged Launched! 50% Discount For Owners

Age of Gladiators Reforged - Monday, March 27th, 11:30 am Eastern Time Launch

Age of Gladiators Reforged - March 27th Release Date & Discount For Owners

Age of Gladiators Reforged - Coming Soon!

And of course, previous owners of Age of Gladiators will enjoy a discount if they choose to purchase the remastered version. So please wishlist and follow Age of Gladiators Reforged today.

Deadwater Saloon - Coming Spring 2022

Create Your Character

Form Relationships

Build

Manage

Hundreds of Events

Raiders! Forsaken Earth Discount For Age of Gladiators Owners

Age of Gladiators II: Rome On Sale Now! 10% Launch Discount

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Store Page Live!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Early Arena Screenshots

Some early screenshots of some of the arenas below!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Early Arena Screenshots

Some early screenshots of some of the arenas below!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - New Screenshots!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - New Screenshots!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Progress!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Progress!

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Enemy Bosses

Age of Gladiators II: ROME - Enemy Bosses

Age of Gladiators: Franchise Bundle

What If I Already Own The First Game?