Game Status:
- Version 1 of Dodgeball Manager is in it's middle stages of development. I'm working on the game in spurts as a hobby when I'm not working
on my music. It's still too early to have a real target date for release, but I'm hoping for sometime in 2006.
Sometimes I put it aside for weeks, sometimes I work on it everyday. There will be a demo before the release.
Since this the first version of the game (any my first game),
I will probably sell it at a low price, maybe somewhere between $10-$20 depending on the selling (eLicensing, distribution, etc).
What is this game all about ?
Managing a Dodgeball team, or not managing a team and just following along, in a Dodgeball league !!!
The league structure in this game will be similiar to the league structure found in European football (soccer), with
promotion/relegation and new team(s) promoted into the league at the lowest level each year.
Game Notes:
- Promotion/Relegation levels: still undecided, currently I put in the option to choose anywhere from 1-10 levels in your league. I may
remove this option and just go with 3 or 4.
- Players on a team: 10
- Players in a game: 5 starters, 5 on bench
- Game rules: first team to lose their players, loses the game.
- (more notes to come)
Dodgeball Manager is a simulation/management game in a modified version of Dodgeball. Many customized
features will be added to this game to allow you to create a variety of playing conditions. The league
structure will be losely based on the European Promotion/Relegation systems with multiple levels and the
top teams at each level getting promoted and the bottom teams demoted, while keeping intact the
American structure of having the top teams meet for a title game for the league championship. There
will be an option playoff system for both promotion and relegation.
Some of the customization may include:
- 1-10 League Levels
- 4-20 teams per division
- 1-12 teams promoted & relegated between levels each year (playoffs optional)
- 0-12 new teams each year replacing the relegated teams at the lowest level
- Team names: choose from US Cities, nicknames, US Cities + nicknames, countries, US Universities/Colleges, Towns in England, or your own pool of names
- Draft order from worst-best or best-worst or customize order
Some of the game features will include:
- Manager of a team or just sim through the game. If you manage a team you'll have the option of never
having your team relegated out of the league - so you'll be able to keep that team going forever - no matter how bad.
- Can watch any game at any level (text for now).
- The game data will be stored in Microsoft Access - with easy access to the data. Create your own reports/queries/utilities.
- Export league data to HTML reports.
