This packaging was designed by me for when the game was accepted into WH Smith for sale. The picture of the cup with the two players around it came out of my imagination as did the Addictive logo with the lightning bolt and the choice of red and yellow. I chose the typeface for “Football [...]
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So now I play my new football manager type game. I enjoy it. I have the basis of what I want to be there. I get excited about what is happening. I make changes and try to do better. I know how it works but that doesn’t make it easier for me. Only 70% of [...]
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I was playing the game, and enjoying it. I can see what is there, what works and where it will improve. I have to keep working at it, but there is plenty of momentum to what I am doing. Remember this? These guys are waiting too….
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Well clearly people loved the game I wrote 30 years ago. It’s amazing and delightful. But, it was 30 years ago and whilst you can still play Spectrum Football Manager online the game needs modernizing and a rebirth. Who would you get to do that? Well my skills are modern so it’s my job to [...]
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So I launched it on to the market in January 1982. But before that of course, I wrote it. I bought a Video Genie to write it on. The Video Genie was a Tandy TRS80 clone. It was cheaper, but still expensive for me at the time. But, I believed that I would be successful [...]
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It’s worth putting that headline in caps. It was January 1982 that the first advert for Football Manager (my original game) appeared on the newstands in Computer and Video Games magazine. 30 years on, that foundation game has grown into a genre of computer games. My original game was very playable, and very popular, spending [...]
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You know, the little stick men running around in the original Football Manager on the Spectrum. Sometimes people ask if the animation was a fixed set, or even believe it was. Well no, it wasn’t, there was an infinite number of possibilities of what could happen and the individual players were making decisions moment by [...]
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No! It’s damn near impossible to explain what I am doing. I try, then it all starts to sound very abstract… Programming is linear, you have a problem, you solve it. It’s just a case of working out how to do it, and then solving any bugs you have created. You can’t be precise because [...]
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The first draft of instructions on the core of the game did not work very well. It’s like I couldn’t really describe it clearly without becoming pedantic. That’s not the kind of flow I was looking for. There is more work to do on this yet.
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I am in some ways not the most loyal supporter, I have adopted the local team where I am and become its fan. But, there is one team to whom my loyalty has always remained strong. It always matters to me what happens to them. Torquay United. I remember the days in the mini stand. [...]
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