"Sports in videogames are represented either through simulators or as management games. In what follows I explore an alternative "anthropological" path using narrative and strategy to represent football's universe and its paradoxical epic."
In this Football Drama update, we added to Football Drama's attack actions a "slo-mo replay" feature, played at their end. We think its quite cool :-)
Also fixed a bug on the home launch buttons if clicked furiously.
Notice that both for the replay, end of action, and also when you are playing the two-choices turns in the field, if you click or tap in the middle of the screen, the action will end or speed up depending on context (yes it works also on mobile), and this can change the game-feel considerably if you like faster matches.
Football Drama "HD" update in development (Steam / Switch)
Since we got the "ok" for Football Drama's Switch version, we will create a special version of Football Drama for HD resolutions. This will be both an update of the Steam version and the version released on the Switch.
We may also add a Japanese translation in the occasion. \\o/
Football Drama Featured Worldwide On App Store
This is just to celebrate the fact that Football Drama has been featured worldwide in various sections of the App Store worldwide in the last week. You can get Football Drama mobile on the App Store and in Google Play (Android).
Being our first game and also our first featuring, we are so happy to see people really everywhere in the world playing our weird game. \o/
Every Achievement Has A Story
We created a site giving in-depth information about every achievement, making-of style, linked from the game.
We were not happy about the amount of feedback one got by winning an achievement, i.e. a label and an image. So! We created a site where for each achievement there is an "in-depth" page that gives you context for it. The page is this:
but to see the stuff you need to unlock the achievements. You can access it with all your achievement pages unlocked by clicking on the achievement banner from Football Drama.
Actually, there was also a bug on an update we did after the first release so you weren't seeing achievements at all :P (it's fixed). But now you get them and also the candy on top \o/
Have a productive weekend: Football Drama culture test!
This weekend don't waste your time with your family and friends, or learning something useful; focus on useless football notions, and take our test!
These are the teams, managers, supporters and towns you find in Football Drama. Now, none of these officially refers to anything real. But to your overexcited mind, what teams, managers stadiums and supporters are we mocking?
To be even more sure that you didn't miss anything and that the whole thing takes an absurd amount of wasted time, we assigned little numbers to the cells, even to the empty ones! Also this way we may actually make it deciphering your answers.
Send us your answers to games@open-lab.com by Monday morning 10 CET (September 30th) and to the one who gets most of them right... I mean that we "like", we'll send a free code for either Steam, Android or iOS, as the winner wishes.
Say no to family & friends! Research the dark corners of football, today!
Football Drama's First Week Of Life
Football Drama's is one week old! Its been a dense week, with more than 2000 units sold, more than 2000 wishlist additions (stingy populace :D) and a number of press and streamers reviews that is pretty amazing. The game is here https://www.open-lab.com/games/footballdrama for mobile, PC and Mac. In this thread some of the reviews.
(Also thanks to all the friends and contacts that sent me congratulation messages, seems you are all enjoying the game.)
On @Kotaku by @rcmacleod https://kotaku.com/soccer-management-sim-is-surprisingly-artsy-1838142795
On @pcgamer by @FraserIBrown https://www.pcgamer.com/football-drama-is-a-story-driven-football-manager/
On @rockpapershot By @withoutaplain https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2019/09/19/football-drama-is-a-management-game-with-personality/
On @thedigitalfix by @Bravo2Zero0 https://www.thedigitalfix.com/gaming/content/21612/football-drama/
On @gamespacecom by "Ed Orr" https://www.gamespace.com/reviews/football-drama-scores-a-great-review/
On @PocketGamer by Stephen Gregson-Wood https://www.pocketgamer.com/articles/081115/football-drama-is-a-satirical-take-on-football-management-on-and-off-the-pitch-and-its-available-now/
On @indiegameweb by @FutileDevises https://www.indiegamewebsite.com/2019/09/17/narrative-game-football-drama-makes-the-beautiful-game-actually-beautiful/
[Italian] On @everyeye by Claudio Cugliandro https://www.everyeye.it/articoli/recensione-football-drama-allenatore-pallone-45365.html
[Italian] On @IlVideogiococom by Edoardo Ullo https://www.ilvideogioco.com/2019/09/18/football-drama-recensione
[Italian] By @theLawyer96 & Co. on: https://gameromancer.com/football-drama-rece-scorretta/ https://ilovevg.it/recensioni/football-drama
On @Game_Revolution by https://www.gamerevolution.com/features/596487-football-drama-interview-feature-pietro-polsinelli
On @148apps by @campbellbirds https://www.148apps.com/reviews/football-drama-review/
On @gamebooknews by Michael Reilly https://gamebooknews.com/2019/09/20/football-drama/
[Italian] On @oldgamesitalia by OjO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzAXM6nbeUk
On @thegamecurator by @s_standke https://game-curator.com/indie/football-drama/
More: https://gurugamer.com/mobile-games/football-drama-a-unique-ironic-take-on-football-management-6456, and many others in Italian, French and other reviews not written in the "Latin of our times".
Thank you all!
First Football Drama Update: Speed Up!
So we just went live with our first Football Drama update.
We are sorry for the two bugs, they would not have occurred if we had a cross platform cross language testing team, but being two guys that try to do everything (marketing and support too) we do what we can. So THANKS for the users who reported them in detail so we could fix them. Football Drama is also doing very well on mobile, on App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android), thanks for that too.
These are the improvements/changes/fixes:
We added a tutorial step in the second half to tell about the "tap or click in the field centre" just after you made a choice in the match that speeds up the whole thing. For players that like faster matches, it changes the whole feeling of the game.
We removed the (sometimes repetitive) meeting with the president when nothing crucial is happening (i.e. he is not furious, you are not fired, you didn't win the championship). This too seems a small change but makes the whole flow more natural.
We did a lot of improvements in the translation, in particular in French (Charlene Lebrun), Italian (Luca Papale), Chinese (Melanie Luo), Russian.
BUG FIX: We fixed a bug in the rendering of the German and Russian Oracle dialogue that crashed the game.
BUG FIX: There was an occasional problem in saving the state of matches (not involving you) of the current week.
So we hope you enjoy the game even more \o/
Praparing first patch / update
Just a little note to say that we have survived day 1 from launch, we are listening to all your feedback, positive and negative, and we will announce what is going to go in the first update soon, and we hope to release an update next week. Very happy that up to now there seem to be no major bugs or crashes: fingers crossed.
