Mystify Soccer - New game engine - coming soon

New game engine - coming soon

I've spent the Easter break working on the new game engine and I think it's almost there now.

My intention is to spend the next few weekends running two lots of matches. One with the current engine and one with the new. I won't be showing you the new engine results but will be doing my own little tests and researching. If all goes well then I am aiming to implement it at the beginning of next season.

If this is the case then changes to the game will be occurring quite quickly in the weeks afterwards. There will be some slight contradictions for a few weeks as I switch things over to the new skills rather than the current rating - it's such a big part of the game I need to do it slowly to make sure I cover all angles - salaries need to be re-calculated and pages need the rating removing for just 2 examples.

Once the new engine is being used, I should be able to progress the new features I have built quite quickly. For the first few weeks it may take a little longer for the matches to be run as I fix any bugs and make any appropriate tweaks but by the end of it you should be left with a much better game including the statistics part of the match report being populated, different match income and expense, and far improved youth and training systems.

There are still things I need to work on that don't involve the match engine but I've put these on hold until it has been implemented now as then putting them into the game should be easier for me.

Please be patient while I put these new features into the game. At the end I feel it will be far better for it and you will enjoy it more, even if you don't like change!

If you want to see some screen shots of screens that are coming in you will need to look at the development blog.

One aspect I will tell you about that I want to bring in once the new engine is being used is regarding player positions. I will have a job to do where every player needs his position updating so at some point I will build a temporary page so that you can select what positions you want your players to specialise in. The new engine will let you play players out of position too but each player will need a main one. For your information here are the new positions:

Goalkeeper
Left Full Back
Right Full Back
Sweeper
Central Defender
Defensive Midfielder
Left Midfielder
Right Midfielder
Central Midfielder
Attacking Midfielder
Left Winger
Right Winger
Centre Forward
Striker