Cm93

Simple football manager app in the vein of the early Championship Manager games.

Plan

Cm93 isn't quite playable (well, enjoyable) at present, but a fairly well thrashed out beginning. Enough to get on GitHub certainly. The remainder of this README.md details what I'd like to have done before I can consider it a launchable game. Mainly adding functionality at the moment but in the long term would look to work with a WPF Blend expert to make something that looks nice too.

Non-developers can download an installer from the Releases link above.

• Redo UI to side level menu bar buttons instead of quadrants

• Create a player module for looking at detailed stats (team filter like the results page).

  • Also allows bids for players (for first 4 weeks of season and midpoint)

• Match module screen

  • Show both team formations
  • Visualise game simulation (nothing too spectacular)
  • Allow for half-time formation change
  • Allow three substitutions

• Persist state of game (immediate and continuous auto-save)

  • Make all the game model structures serialisable
  • Read/write from an SQLite instance
  • Add ability to have multiple save games

• Playable datasets (more teams, 11-a-side formations)

  • Create large number of teams and players
  • Automate construction of fixtures
  • Add non-league competitions (league cup, xfa cup, euro cups) future version
  • Add multiple divisions future version

• AI

  • Create some stock formations (4-4-2, 3-5-2, 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 etc.)
  • Algorithm for varying NPC teams' formations slightly
  • Algorithm for finding "best" starting lineup-formations
  • Algorithm for responsive substitutions / formation changes future version
  • Complex game simultator implementation

• Finishing touches

  • Highlight player's team in league table
  • Add concept of Manager name
  • Show extra info on team selection screen (shirt, ground name + capacity, budget)
  • Nicer shirt icons and pitch graphic