As for your game, very cool!! I started waaaay back myself, and this game had been a long journey! I’m heading to a meeting but I’ll touch base later this week.

Thank you much for your encouragement!

First, like the earlier commenter, I also lost my son. He passed two years ago to a genetic disorder. He would have been 10 on September 7th. He would have loved this game. So, yeah, I too can relate.

Second, when I was in college (30 years ago!) I had a Timex Sinclair home ‘computer’ and created by own text-based football game in BASIC. Like your game, you chose the plays and the computer did the rest. There was no AI — all outcomes were random, and it had about ten offensive choices, five running and five passing. Pretty basic, no pun intended, but it actually worked and my friends (this was, of course, pre-console football games) were pretty impressed.

I still have the sourcecode buried away in a file cabinet. You typed in the code and saved it to a cassette, then loaded the game that way! So, anyway, this game is right up my alley, and makes me nostalgic for my old text-based football.

And on top of all that — I’m loving the game. Totally addictive. I hope it does well.

By playing multiple seasons, I’m guessing you mean to take a team across multiple years of drafting, retiring, etc? I don’t have that yet. I’ve wanted to focus on the simulation part of the game, and this year I’m hoping to work on the marketing at some point, to broaden the sales. And then, I’m already thinking about a Franchise mode like you’re asking.

Great questions, and thanks again!

– Do team rosters have player names?
– Is it possible to player several seasons instead of just a single one?

Even if “no” is the answer to both, the game is still an ‘instabuy’ for me.

Thanks, regards.

João

As for the game, thanks for your kind words! I’d love to look into moving to a more general platform like Coco2dx or Unity 2d, something that would let me distribute to Android and Windows devices. I’m going to see how the game does this year, since is the third iteration of the game, but I’m definitely going to research those two avenues (and others, if I can find them), because broadening the base is a smart idea moving forward in any case!

Thanks again, and my best to you, Jamey.

Your game looks awesome. I enjoy the same aspects of playing football games, i.e. the strategy and bluffing, not the twitch stuff.

Any chance you might convert it to Windows 8? I don’t own an ipad, but I would love to play this on my Windows 8 tablet. I know it would be a ton of work having to convert the Objective C to either JavaScript or C#, but one can dream!