Colosseum Clash was a solo project made for the Visual Communication and Interaction Design class at UC Santa Cruz. In this game, the players each chose a gladiator to play as. Each gladiator has their own stats and special ability. At the start of the game, the players' cards are set up in a circle around the arena pit, which is filled with combatant cards until there is one more than the amount of players. Additionally there is an event card drawn that provides a passive rule to the game, which changes whenever all the combatants in the arena pit are defeated. Players have 2 means of winning the game, they can either be the last player alive, or they can gain 20 favor. Favor is gained by landing hits and killing players or combatants.

On this project, I was the game designer and programmer. This game was designed to be a card game, but was built in Unity. I designed the game to capture the feeling of being in a gladiatorial free-for-all in the Colosseum. To create variation in the gameplay beyond player's rolls alone, I created 9 different playable champions, as well as a deck of combatants and events that are each randomly drawn from each game. The game is turn based, so on a player's turn they can do one of the following actions: retreat, defend, or attack. When a player retreats, they spend favor to withdrawn from the match for a round, preventing them from being targeted by any other players. Each round they retreat in a row increases the price by 1 favor. When a player defends, they shift into a defensive stance, bolstering their defensive value by 1, lowering their attack damage by 1 until their next turn. Finally, when a player attacks, they can choose either another player or a combatant card to target, where they then roll to hit. They must roll a 6-sided dice to get a number higher than the opponent's defensive value to land the hit. On a success, the player then rolls a 6-sided dice to deal damage. The damage is calculated as follows: 1-2 result in the lowest amount of the player's damage range being dealt, 3-4 results in the middle amount, and 5-6 results in the highest amount.

When I implemented the game in Unity, I used the networking package Photon Bolt to add multiplayer. Player's can either host or join a lobby with a code so they can play with their friends. When a player takes their turn, they obviously are the only one with the option to take an action, however, when they engage in combat, other players get to watch, seeing what the player rolls to hit and what they roll for damage. This was especially important when players attack each other, because if one player whiffs an attack, the one getting attacked must roll to deal retaliatory damage.