We are so happy to add a further game translation in Football Drama: Brazilian Portuguese!
This makes it 8 languages that will be all included in release 1.0 on September 24th: English, Italian, French, Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese!
Translating Football Drama is not an easy task, because of the number of football and literary references; but we found a really amazing set of translators - thank you!
Football Drama Meetings
This illustration is part of one of Football Drama's finale, and it shows how we are closing its development.
Towards Football Drama's release, and also following it, we have a list of events where we will present previews and materials about the game. here is a (probably partial) calendar.
July: Beta release (English only).
July / August: Three songs from the soundtrack will be released as a preview.
August 20-22: Football Drama presented to the press at Gamescom Cologne. We will also pitch the nex game (still about sports storytelling).
September 14: We will talk about "Videogames and popular culture" in Ferrara Italy at the IVPro event.
Sept. 24: Football Drama release in 8 languages (EN ITA FR DE PT CH ES) on Steam, Apple Store, Google Play. The development team will stream on Steam, YouTube, Twitch and Facebook, showing game play, tricks, secret references, playing the soundtrack and chatting with friends and enemies about football, videogames and storytelling. So yes in practice it's a party.
Oct. 10-13: We will talk about Football Drama's development at the Internet Festival Pisa.
November 8-10 At the Game Happens conference in Genoa (Italy) we will talk about "Changing Sports Storytelling", i.e. about Football Drama's (and the following game) approach to sports storytelling.
So we hope to meet you digitally or in person and get your feedback. Thank you!
Towards 1.0 (September 24th)
So Football Drama launch date is getting closer, and we are working on it as a perfectly out-of-tune orchestra \o/
This is us, at our recent and actually only team meeting and yes, you surely should not trust these guys. Ok, now is there any work getting done? Let's see.
SOUNDTRACK
Football Drama has an original soundtrack by Marta Ascari which will be purchasable separately or as a bundle, also to be released on September 24th. It includes also the song finale that is magicawondrous.
Here is a video of one of the last dialogues with the new soundtrack.
TRANSLATIONS
We are very happy that Football Drama will be published in (at least) seven languages! All telling wildly different stories!
GAMESCOM
Football Drama will be presented in its final version at Gamescom in Cologne in August (we will be there from August 20th until the 22nd), and we will also have a concept for what will follow. Friends? Journalists? Publishers? Enemies? Meet us there!
Football Drama will be published on September 24th (2019)
So our public release date for Football Drama is the 24th of September, the first day of Autumn. Our "data-based marketing" reason for that is that that astrological moment fits with the game’s mood, so it's cool.
We will release the game on Steam, Apple Store and Google Play.
The release will be in English, German, Spanish, French, Russian and Italian. We will add more languages after release.
On the 24th there will be game devs streaming gameplay, making of, soundtrack and bonus materials - so we hope you will follow and play!
You can get notified on release from the Steam wishlist and also by mailing services here.
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Improving Football Drama's Game Dialogues
We are working on Football Drama narrative both creating content and improving the user interface: here is a Gamasutra post on how we are doing that.
Why A narrative Game On Football? A Video Journey
In a journey through novels, poems, movies. works, art we meditate and wonder about football's nature. From Dalì to Wenders and Pasolini, hope you enjoy the video trip.
Football Drama's narrative is getting depth
Development of Football Drama is progressing focusing on the last missing core part, the narrative and its interaction with the weekly matches.
The public demos we gave so far only had a small fraction of the narrative, and so our focus in presentations were the weekly matches. The plot is now completed and is progressively getting formalized in dialogues and code.
We are also further refining the dialogues user interface behaviors and layouts, with a more dynamic usage of the camera.
You find in the images some new characters, layouts and dialogue' structure.
Italian version and "single match" play will be available at Milan Games Week
Football Drama development is progressing and for the forthcoming Milan Games Week's version (will be an alpha) we have two more features that will be ready:
- Single match play option: you can now play a single match. It seems quite fun!
- Italian version: the Italian version is almost ready, it looks really nice.
For both features see the images below.
Milan Games Week will be from the 5th to the 7th of October (2018). Football Drama will go online in the first part of 2019.
An early gameplay video from in development version
A short, commented Football Drama game play video - commentator actually a bit drunk :-)
This time it was more an interview, thanks to Petar Mavrodiev, showing the development environment and the gameplay from Unity editor.
Every week on Tuesday at 4 pm (CET) we will stream Football Drama development, either directly coding or answering questions (or both). So see you there, you can always ask questions on the chat.
We are so happy to add a further game translation in Football Drama: Brazilian Portuguese!
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A short, commented Football Drama game play video - commentator actually a bit drunk :-)
Yesterday (July 24th) we started to stream Football Drama's development.