tad091 Posted January 2, 2011 Share Posted January 2, 2011 I set up a "site" for the game. The site is here and you'll find the game's forum from the right side of the screen. The site is used as both, my blog and as the game's "website". The forums require registration and I surely don't expect any registrations for the forum but it would be great if people who are interested to the game would register and write. I just signed up as well on the forum. I like how the stats are, but one thing I noticed after I exited out of the game using the File --> Quit method, the byond process was still running on my system. This would not allow me to delete the folder I ran the game from. I run windows 7 pro 32 bit. not a big problem, but thought I would bring it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted January 2, 2011 Author Share Posted January 2, 2011 I was suspecting that as I've had the same problem in my older projects. I'll try to fix it for the next version. Good that you like it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted January 3, 2011 Author Share Posted January 3, 2011 <p>I didn't feel like writing a new text about this so here is a copy of my text from <a href="http://www.byond.com/members/Syntty/" rel="external nofollow">my blog</a>.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29684" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Hi again. I decided to release a new preview version of the Boxing Manager Game. As you will notice, the game has taken some big steps from the last version and the most notable changes are the possibility to choose your gym (Possibility to start an own one will be included later on) and the look of the skin.<p> </p><p> <a href="http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x320/Synticha/Overallskinwork.png" rel="external nofollow">The layout</a></p><p> </p><p> The overall layout if a very simple one. It will have the topwindow as the main menu, the leftwindow as a submenu and the bottomwindow to show some things like the date and possibly something else in the future. The mainwindow does what it's supposed to do. It shows all the other stuff and is by far the most useful window.</p><p> </p><p> This still isn't a playable one but it will give you a good look at the game's skin and you'll get to test the stuff thus far and tell me what you don't like.</p><p> </p><p> Here is a link for the new version: </p><p> </p><p> <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?g16ssvrs1ylo1ho" rel="external nofollow">HERE</a></p></div></blockquote> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag01 Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I'm still excited to see this progress, it looks like you've got a good start. I hope you can keep it as realistic as possible; I think you'll need that for a boxing sim to succeed. Everthing for the various regulatory bodies, purse bids, and the promotional side of fighting would be a big hit I think. At the end of the day, title bout boxing has a fantastic fight simulator that still gets played a ton by people even though there is no "career" mode to speak of. I think that's where your game would need to differentiate; focus on the management/promotional side of finding, training, building and promoting stars. I think a game that not only does a great job of simulating fights but also has a very in depth play regarding managing every aspect of their careers could do very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Hello people! As the game is still in such an early version I wanted to ask your opinion. Would you rather want the game be like where you're a promoter or a gym owner? It's still very easy to change and I'd be glad to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20LEgend Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 I'm thinking promoter myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag01 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Promoter. Really, the three options are trainer (you run the gym, determine how they train,etc) manager (hire the trainers and negotiate with promoters) and promoter (sign fighters and actually put on the events). While each would be interesting, just being the trainer would get stale. Manager is good because you'd be able to scout green boxers and guide their careers, and you could kind of combine training and managing to some degree. The drawback is that there are already some manager games out there. Promoter is probably the most interesting, but its never really been done. I'd go for making it as real and in depth as possible, from contracts to purse bids, dealing with regulatory agencies to ppv. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted January 24, 2011 Author Share Posted January 24, 2011 I got some good news and some bad news... The bad news are that I decided to start from a scratch as I wanted to dump BYOND (The language I was using) and moved to Visual Basic (I have some experience but haven't used in a year). The good news are that the game should become a lot better performance vice and this is easier language for manager games (BYOND is meant for 2D MMORPGs mostly). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1234 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I got some good news and some bad news... The bad news are that I decided to start from a scratch as I wanted to dump BYOND (The language I was using) and moved to Visual Basic (I have some experience but haven't used in a year). The good news are that the game should become a lot better performance vice and this is easier language for manager games (BYOND is meant for 2D MMORPGs mostly). Cool, still very excited. Atleast you are persevering I hated programming when I did it. (Not proffesionally or anything just with school) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 I've been fighting with databases and while I'm at it I may just ask you that do you have any good design ideas? I decided to use a computerish design this time but I don't feel like that it's the best possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshevv Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Hey mate Can I ask you what boxing manager games are out there? I have seen Universal Boxing manager and the engine was absolute crap I deleted it right away.. I played back in the days world championship boxing manager [ 7/8 years ago] It was quite good but the game died.. Can you please tell me if there is something good out there to buy it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Title Bout Boxing is possibly the only good boxing manager game out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshevv Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Synticha I played Titel Bout 1 And it was not a manager it was only picking figheers against each other.. no hiring training or anything like that. Did something change ?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag01 Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Synticha I played Titel Bout 1 And it was not a manager it was only picking figheers against each other.. no hiring training or anything like that. Did something change ?! No. It's still the same for now. Although the engine for the fights is really, really good. On their forums the developers have been promising a new version for a long time that is supposedly finally underway. The new version will have a "career mode" of sorts, but it's unclear what role you'd be taking. I suspect it would be manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Synticha I played Titel Bout 1 And it was not a manager it was only picking figheers against each other.. no hiring training or anything like that. Did something change ?! Well, yea it's not manager game but still one of the best boxing games there are... I've a good old boxing manager game for DOS on my computer which is by far the best boxing game I've played! Might have to play it today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 It's finally getting interesting as I've finally managed to deal with a majority of my database problems. Now I shall begin the work on the database generator. Any suggestions relating to the game would be a great help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakydaky Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 <p><em>This will be one long list lol, note this is all just suggestions nothing that you should take too seriously..</em></p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>1. FILTERING FIGHTERS:</strong></span></p><p> *1. Filter Fighters By Countries, Name, Surname, Age, Weight.</p><p> *2. Filter for Retired fighters.</p><p> *3 Filtering by total wins/losses and W/L ratio.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>2. ORGANIZATIONS:</strong></span></p><p> 1* If User reputation over 90%, Creating own organization.</p><p> 2* Changing name of user promotions.</p><p> 3* Title History screen.</p><p> 4* (MAYBE) Advisor screen where he tells you about expiring contracts, injuries etc.</p><p> 5* Press Conferences for you or your assistant/advisor.</p><p> 6* TV Contracts.</p><p> 7* Organizations Rang List.</p><p> 8* Fans will not like fights between champ and rookie.</p><p> 9* AI not creating fights as posted above.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>3. FIGHTER GENERATOR</strong></span></p><p> 1* Maybe make he generates quick text that will stand next to name based on his skills.. ("(NameHere) is widely known for having amazing left uppercut.")</p><p> 2* Realistic records (no 20 agers with 120-340, positive records mostly, populat fighters = good records etc..)</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>4. INTERFACE</strong></span></p><p> 1* P4P Rang List based on popularity and W/L ratio.</p><p> 2* Other Promotions (?) Monthly show review.</p><p> 3* Each Fighter has his own profile page where you could see his record, short bio, title history, etc..</p><p> 4* Uploading own background (?)</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>5. USER CREATOR</strong></span></p><p> 1* Uploading pictures from your PC.</p><p> 2* Choosing organization you wanna start with.</p><p> 3* Point Boxes for Negotation Skill, Control Skill etc.</p><p> 4* Write a bio for your profile page.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>6. FIGHTERS</strong></span></p><p> *1 Fighter suspension for drugs etc.</p><p> *2 Random deaths (?)</p><p> *3 Fighters GYM.</p><p> *4 Fighters can be on form or off-form and have high or low morale.</p><p> *5 Fighter can have positive or negative relationship.</p><p> *6 Fighters can leave current GYMs and join other GYMs freely.</p><p> </p><p> This is probably all I can think of..</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 Thanks. This has some things that I haven't thought about before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 Here is a question for you... Should there be an default database with real boxers, a fictional database or should it be randomly generated? (The random generator will be in the game even if I make a default database) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 If anyone is interested here is my Twitter account Here!! I will give updates about the project when ever I get something bigger done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakydaky Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 real boxers... definately not. I think there are too many games with real boxers and I would personally like generated most! <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tag01 Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="dakydaky" data-cite="dakydaky" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29684" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>real boxers... definately not. I think there are too many games with real boxers and I would personally like generated most! <img alt=":)" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/smile.png.142cfa0a1cd2925c0463c1d00f499df2.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Where? There's not any boxing simulators out there, really, and there are as many console games with real boxers as there are fake. </p><p> </p><p> The boxing crowd is a little older, I think you're going to need to at least have the option to mod like in WMMA if you don't have a real database.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Tag01" data-cite="Tag01" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29684" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>The boxing crowd is a little older, I think you're going to need to at least have the option to mod like in WMMA if you don't have a real database.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> That goes pretty much without saying. I try to make the modding capabilities as good as possible.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synticha Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Ok. I've had a bit of problems with the databases but after a lot of examination I finally got it to work properly. Here is a 200 boxer database file in .xls format (excel). Anyone who looks at it, please tell me your opinion about the win/loss ratio etc. And any other problems you see please tell me! (Things that don't need to be told to me are; rcheckhook, ruppercut and guard) http://www.mediafire.com/?rzz9br7npty4sxc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damonster Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Ok. I've had a bit of problems with the databases but after a lot of examination I finally got it to work properly. Here is a 200 boxer database file in .xls format (excel). Anyone who looks at it, please tell me your opinion about the win/loss ratio etc. And any other problems you see please tell me! (Things that don't need to be told to me are; rcheckhook, ruppercut and guard) http://www.mediafire.com/?rzz9br7npty4sxc interesting, do you mean to have nicknames as false, style in, stance ortho for all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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