EHM The Blue Line

dat33 wrote:Will it be possible to edit players or create your own?

dabo wrote:I want to make (the game) as much as possible customizable...

dabo wrote:Yeah the training part needs a lot of thinking.

dabo wrote:

Círyatan wrote:OK. Then I'd suggest not putting any shading at all into the inside part of the chart. The colours you use for the chart are very bright, and the shading makes the section that actually is important seem rather faded.

I have people who want shading and people who don't, looks like I am gonna have to create a poll down the road or just pick one randomly.

Alessandro wrote:Frankly, I'd copy the EHM system for a start, then we can think a better way later...

Círyatan wrote:It's cool, mate, just putting up suggestions.

dabo wrote:I will be able to show some screenshots with actual player data.

Alessandro wrote:By the way, I also think that we need a specifical position for the physical trainer. So to have Head Coach, Assistant coach(es), Goalie Coach, Physical Coach. Just like it is in FM.

B. Stinson wrote:I'm in the same boat. I really enjoyed Visual Studio when I was on Windows, but on Linux, IDE's are tough. I've heard a lot about Eclipse when I was searching, so I gave it a shot, but I found it confusing. I got the impression that it was just a base program, and then you needed to find plugins for any languages you wanted to use. So I gave up on that and just stuck to simple text editor coding.

Since then, the only one I've bothered trying, upon recommendation from Sun's Java tutorials, is NetBeans. So far, I actually like it. The portions of it that I use, I find to be pretty similar to Visual Studio. I had to pass-up the whole GUI creator portion of NetBeans, though. It locks all auto-generated code, and doesn't let you do anything with it - even simply moving it. And I'm really picky about how my code it organized, so I was quickly turned off from that whole area of the IDE. Since then I've been doing all GUI coding manually, and using NetBeans primarily for its Intellisense and debugging.

philou21 wrote:It's more called Anticipation in my opinion, it's the same thing.

mne2 wrote:Out of interest what exactly are you doing about the match engine? that was always the thing that stopped me from writing a game.

B. Stinson wrote:

philou21 wrote:It's more called Anticipation in my opinion, it's the same thing.

I agree. Being able to read the play would definitely fit under Anticipation.

dabo wrote:

mne2 wrote:Out of interest what exactly are you doing about the match engine? that was always the thing that stopped me from writing a game.

If you are referring to the 2d rink there won't be one, at least not in the beginning. That feature alone would simply be too time-consuming but once I have everything else working perhaps I could give it another thought. Right now I am thinking of doing a quick-sim and something text-based.

B. Stinson wrote:I'm gonna be honest: I hope no one was expecting or envisioning a 2D match engine. Any form of a 2D match engine would be a mammoth task - at least twice the effort and expertise of the game itself.

In my opinion, the only focus right now, in terms of a match engine, should be an accurate text-based box-score/statistics simulator. And no thinking beyond that until it's at least 95% satisfactory. Then we can think about adding fun stuff to it, like a live simulation.

B. Stinson wrote:In my opinion, the only focus right now, in terms of a match engine, should be an accurate text-based box-score/statistics simulator. And no thinking beyond that until it's at least 95% satisfactory. Then we can think about adding fun stuff to it, like a live simulation.

Animal wrote:2d match engine would be extremely cool, but we gotta be realistic. IMO, priority #1 for the first version of game is, to get a realistic and fairly deep game with no critical errors/problems. Then, if everything works correctly, extra stuff could be added.