I'm the developer of Bronze & Glory, a free turn-based gladiator game that runs in your browser on desktop or phone. Nothing to download. Quick play needs no sign-up, so you can start a bout straight away.

Every attack shows its hit chance, damage range and energy cost before you commit, and your opponent telegraphs its next move. Four classes (Sentinel, Duelist, Berserker, Arcanist), a 100-opponent campaign, and online duels against real players (those need a free account).

Play: https://bronzeandglory.fun/?ref=r17-lemmy-playmygame

Arena Night II: Sat 24 Oct, 19:00–21:00 UTC (15:00 EDT, 20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST). Two hours of live duels with whoever turns up. Come at 19:00 so there's someone to fight.

What would make you play a second bout? I'm reading every reply.

Morndur is an asynchronous storytelling RPG. Anyone can write a few sentences of free text — an action, a rumor, the weather turning — and at 20:00 CET a new illustrated chapter of an ongoing serial grows out of everything readers sent that day. One iron rule: no submissions, no chapter. The story has been silent for two weeks because nobody spoke; it wakes the moment one person does.

A single submission is enough to make a chapter happen — but the more voices there are, the better it gets: the engine has to sweat, weaving clashing intentions into one coherent plot instead of just following a single thread. Characters persist across chapters, carry secrets and beliefs, and die. The world leaves "loose threads" — unanswered hooks from past chapters — that anyone can pick up. Your exact words are never shown publicly; every voice is melted into the prose.

Under the hood, the game master is an AI engine running on my own hardware. It publishes nothing on its own — it reads every submission and packs it all into the next chapter. Nobody writes the story directly: no submissions, nothing happens. No account, no ads, free.

I am the solo dev. Negentin (a.k.a. The Substrate) has been running 24/7 since January: a small cellular world whose health decays on its own. A few human actions a day keep it alive; without them it dies within about two days. It has died 292 times. Each death gets an AI-written epitaph, the grave stays public forever, and a new generation begins.

What shapes the world is real and external — and deliberately never named. Finding the hidden rules IS the game: you watch, you act (5 actions a day, no more), you write theories, and the patient vote.

No ads, free to play, works in any browser. You can watch without an account: https://negentin.com/observe/

The graveyard of everything that came before: https://negentin.com/graveyard/

Happy to answer anything about how it is built (FastAPI, React/PixiJS, a too-elaborate AI chronicler). The one thing I will not answer is what feeds it — that part is the game.

This was a fun game to make, it's short, and you'll probably finish it in an hour or so. I think it's good some good scares and tricky puzzles! If you try it out, let me know!