New Soccer Game! From: "ATAP Sports" <ATAP.Sports@dial.pipex.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 00:00:00 +0000 We would like to invite you to help us in a new project, the design and running of a new soccer management PBeM game called "Magic Sponge". The game is in the very early stages of development, and we need people to help us perfect the system. The game uses a Lineup Builder and software to run the games, but the strength of the game we feel comes from the gameworld itself. Now we feel we are ready to give it it's first playtest and this is where we would like your help. The game uses the windows 95/98 based programme for you to select your team. Once you have installed the software, we send you a roster file which you load into the software. From there you use drop down menus to pick the players, and which position they are to play in! You can set team tactics, there are around 9 different tactics in the game, and then you can pick individual tactics for each player, such as aggression, who they should mark if any and how they should change their tactics during the game depending on incidents. You then coach your players to try and increase their skill level and decide on transfers for players etc. We have added a number of other aspects to the game such as a detailed scouting system and are continuing to work on other items such as a real contract system for players, stadium upgrades and more. We are also keen on building a realistic game world, which among other things will include a newspaper with detailed match reports for big games, rumors from clubs and directors expectations, interviews with players and any manager contributions. Also, on the bottom of your roster, you may receive word of a situation which may include a problem with a player, an offer of some sort from a company or someone else or just about anything that you will have to respond to. Your response will be judged and actions taken accordingly, sometimes leading to riches and sometimes not. We are keen to invite people to send us anything they would like to be done. Do you want to play a charity game, hold a rock concert to raise money for the club, send your players on a field march with the local army! Whatever you can think of we will implement and send you the results of those actions. Once we have received all of your orders we will send you a text report of the match and statistics. This includes the lineup for each team, various tables showing shots and possession etc. It also includes a text description of key points in the game such as near misses, goals, injuries, substitutions and tactic changes, with comparison tables on how it helped or hurt your team. Included with this will be details of scouting, transfers and anything else you tried to do during that turn. I hope this sounds interesting to you, and that you will consider giving it a go. I must stress, we are in the early stages, and it will take a couple of weeks for us to iron out bugs and get up to speed, but I promise it will be worth the wait. If you are interested can you simply reply to this email address giving details of your PC, the operating system eg. Windows 95/98 3.1 and what word processor you use. This is important info so when we send you things we send it in a suitable format. It would also be benificial if you could download a copy of Winzip for the things we send you. Please let us know if you do not want to use winzip. Thanks ATAP Sports Up