7 septembre

What to expect from the Autumn Update

The main improvements of the next update are related to the Leagues Editor.

We are going to improve the convenience of changing the footballers' characteristics, improve graphics, add the possibility to change some new characteristics like birth date or short names of the teams.

There will be many small but neat improvements.

However, there will be a big improvement.

From time to time I find new interesting modifications. Here are a few examples:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1478134977 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1411821587 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1353865156
Also, sometimes players say that they would like to add to the game some countries which are impossible to add because they do not exist. For example, Czechoslovakia or USSR.

The problem with the examples above is that the game world around your fictional league is real. So it's harder for you to believe in it. Moreover, after a few years, the old footballers with fictional names will leave football, but new footballers will have generic names so your league will become generic.

To help you with these problems we decided to implement the following features:

1) You can change the flag icon of your country. If you do so, your country will be named after the name of the modification.
2) You will be able to upload the text file with the list of the names for your country.

These two features will give you a lot of new possibilities.

On the screenshot below you can see two new buttons in the Leagues Editor:



In this modification, I uploaded the text file with the animal names. Now, every new footballer will be named after an animal.



In the screenshot below you can see the flag in the top right corner. Earlier, you would see here the English flag:



And here you can see how your country looks among other countries (imagine you combine different fictional mods for every country how cool would it be):



Now, imagine the possibilities!

You can create your football universes. You can re-create the football worlds of the past. You can create the world which consists of the characters from your favourite games. You can create the countries which consist of famous composers or scientists :)

Even if you don't want to create anything fictional, you can improve the list of the surnames for the countries which you think lack of the different names.


In a few weeks, we are going to open the access to the beta version. So you will be able to create some new modifications or update your old ones.

The launch of the Autumn Update is planned to the end of October.

31 août

Gamescom Report

On the last week, half of our team have visited Gamescom. It was an interesting experience. I'll write some thoughts about our participation there.



- Many people stopped near our booth trying to figure out how strategy can combine with football. When I explained some basic rules, people had a lot of interest because they have not seen anything similar before.

- It was great to see a spark in the eyes when players figured out that skills allow prolonging a turn from 3 to 4 and more actions.



- It was a lot of pleasure when some of the players which played 50 and more hours in FTG, came to us to say "Hi!" or to thank for the game. Showcasing the game in such a huge exhibition is hard. And when our fans come and say good words, it added some energy :)

- We created special magnets which would recall players about our game. Players who won a match on the stand could choose the magnet. When our experienced players came to us, I played personally against them. Even though I won the match against them, they were awarded the magnet anyway. I really wanted to make a good surprise for our fans.



- We had 10 diiferent magnets: Cologne, Dortmund, Munich, Berlin, Gelsenkirchen, Leverkusen, Barcelona, West London, Paris, Torino. The most popular magnets were Cologne and Dortmund. The least popular - Berlin :) If we visited Gamescom again, I'd change Berlin for Frankfurt.

- Our console publisher prepared energetic drinks with FTG print. Some players were lucky enough to buy the game's key with the big discount and with the drink at the same moment :)



- It was a pleasure to see many grown-up gamers (30+ yo). These players were more interested in our game than the younger ones. Btw, write, please, in the comments, how old are you. I'm 36 ;)

- Players visit Gamescom for big AAA titles. But it was great that there were a lot of players in the indie zone as well. I like the fact that all German visitors could speak English even a bit (most of them spoke English very well though).

We have returned home and started working on the Autumn update. Starting from the next week, I'll be telling you what new features will come.