Welcome to the first edition of our Football Legend game development blog!
In this post, we'll be taking a closer look at some of the new features and improvements we've been working on. We have been hard at work creating the world's most immersive and realistic football management simulator. This is our first update post since unveiling Football Legend to the world, so hopefully you are as excited as we are!
Coach contracts
One of the major new features we've added to the game is realistic contracts for coaches. Coaches now have varying contract lengths and salary amounts, just like in real life. When hiring a new coach, you'll need to negotiate the terms of their contract, taking into account their experience, track record, and reputation. You'll also need to consider your team's budget and long-term goals.
If you're looking to hire a top-tier coach, you can expect to pay a premium salary and extend a longer contract. On the other hand, if you're just starting out or trying to rebuild a struggling team, you may need to look for a more affordable coach with a shorter contract. The length of the contract will also affect your team's long-term strategy, as you'll need to plan ahead and make sure you have the resources to retain your coach or find a suitable replacement.
Re-negotiate contracts with coaches
You can re-negotiate contracts with coaches on your staff. if they are over-performing and you want to reward them with a better deal, do it. If your best position coach only has one more year left on their deal, lock them into a new multi-year deal.
Fire coaches
We have also added the ability to fire coaches on your staff. Terminating a contract early will require you to pay out the remainder of their contract, so be careful. Firing a coach can have consequences for team morale and performance, so it's important to weigh the pros and cons of this decision before proceeding.
Get fired
Staff coaches are not the only ones that can get fired, though, so don't get too comfortable! If you are not performing up to the team's expectations, you yourself can be fired. If this happens, you can apply for other open positions around the league, or wait until a team offers you a position that you like.
Fill vacant coaching position
When there are vacancies on your coaching staff, you can now review all of the available coaches out there, and find the perfect replacement. Make sure you hire the right coach for the position. A special teams coach will naturally not be the best quarterbacks coach, so make sure you find the right fit. Having coaches in a position not suited to their skills can be disastrous for your team development and chemistry. On the contrary, finding the right coach for the right position can maximize your teams potential.
Coach Profile
We have added a coach profile screen, where you can review everything about a coach. This includes their ratings, personal info, career stats, and career history. One of our main goals with this game is being able to provide you with all of the stats and history you need to really get invested in the players and coaches inside the game universe. The coach profile screen gives your full-access into seeing how a coach's career has gone.
Other updates (non-coaching related)
While we've been focusing on expanding our coach mechanics, we have put in a few other noteworthy features:
- Simulate multiple games at once. You can now simulate through multiple weeks with one button click. Go through one month, two months, three months, or an entire season.
- Improved logic for handling coach retirement. Coaches will retire due to a variety of circumstances, based on personality, work history, success, age, and more.
- Improved process for saving games. We implemented a new way to handle saving games, which prevents a save from being corrupted if any issues arise while saving.
- Added a team budget. Teams in real-life do not have infinite money, and now that is also the case in Football Legend. Teams only have a certain amount of money to spend on their coaching staff. This idea will expanded in future updates, as we add in more financial features which will use the team budget.
- We've added in other, minor bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. But this post is long enough already!
That's it for this edition of the Football Legend game development blog! Our goal is to create the world's most immersive and realistic football management simulator. We hope you've enjoyed this glimpse behind the scenes and that you're as excited as we are about the upcoming release in late 2023. Stay tuned for more updates and announcements in the near future!