Art of Soccer Blog

What is Art of Soccer?

Blog posted by Ste Pickford on Tue, 4 May 2010

Art of Soccer is a new sports strategy game that we started work on in May 2009. Early in 2009 we were invited to pitch some of our concepts ideas to a company offering funding for new, original video games. We put together single-page pitches for about...

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Coding

Blog posted by JPickford on Fri, 26 Mar 2010

After nearly 30 years of coding (on and off) I still haven't the slightest clue how long a given task is going to take. Sometimes I can write and debug something massively complicated in a day. Other times I can spend a couple of weeks on something tri...

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Independence

Blog posted by JPickford on Thu, 25 Mar 2010

The great thing about independent development is you can come up with a new idea and instantly change direction without having to consult anyone or get approval from someone who might not really understand the game. It feels like we're making the best gam...

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This week I have been mostly drawing...

Blog posted by Ste Pickford on Wed, 20 May 2009

This is what I drew this week, a nice little notebook as part of the UI stuff for our new game. It was drawn much larger than the version shown here, and will appear in-game much smaller than this (although it will work at variable widths and heights). ...

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