Behold the Kickmen

April 21, 2016 6:01 AM

Dan Marshall (@danthat) knows nothing about football. Is that going to stop him from making a football game? It is not!

p.s. They're talking about soccer.

posted by moonmilk (17 comments total)

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOU'VE DONE A GOAL!
posted by griphus at 6:08 AM on April 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

So far it seems to be faring better than Jon's Basketball Game ever did.
posted by rorgy at 6:12 AM on April 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

This actually looks really fun, in a Tecmo Bowl sort of way. I like the slowmo aim/power thing, and I like how accurately he's implemented the rules of football.
posted by Pope Guilty at 6:18 AM on April 21, 2016

Needs corner zones that, when entered, cause Sgt. Bash to roll out and set players on fire.
posted by delfin at 6:27 AM on April 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

So this kickmen footie, it's like rocket league but without the cars? What an interesting concept.
posted by cmfletcher at 6:33 AM on April 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

Football (both kinds) is really just Blood Bowl without the aggravated murder.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:38 AM on April 21, 2016

So far it seems to be faring better than Jon's Basketball Game ever did.

Well this is lacking some basic components of any video game including:
1) Crates
2) Crates that are on fire

So let's not get ahead of ourselves.
posted by martinX's bellbottoms at 6:43 AM on April 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

The IT Crowd on football.
posted by Harald74 at 6:47 AM on April 21, 2016

So this works because soccer actually doesn't have many rules, right? Like this wouldn't go well if he had tried to make a baseball game -- or since this is the UK, a cricket game?
posted by Cash4Lead at 6:49 AM on April 21, 2016

Right. I think you could do a similar thing with basketball or lacrosse or one of the other "put the ball over THERE" games where the more fiddley rules can be easily ignored by unskilled players without losing the sense of what game is being played.
posted by GameDesignerBen at 7:00 AM on April 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

Also, it should be "Kicksmen" with an s, because each man may kick the "ball" more than once.
posted by GameDesignerBen at 7:02 AM on April 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

I'm pretty sure that 43-Man Squamish _is_ cricket, though there isn't a satisfying video game version of it yet.
posted by delfin at 7:04 AM on April 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

Trying to work out how to turn this football game into a Roguelike. It's going to be tricky but I think I can do it.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 7:33 AM on April 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

It would be hard for me to be more delighted by all this. Bonkers sports games are a thing that needs to keep happening.
posted by cortex at 5:47 PM on April 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

These tweets make me laugh so much. I love how he's stumbling his way into making something that looks really good despite his ambivalence about the subject matter.
posted by roll truck roll at 1:21 PM on April 22, 2016

New feature! When you do a goal, the umpire runs over and gives you a little kiss!
posted by moonmilk at 8:04 PM on April 26, 2016

...and the game has sound now!
posted by moonmilk at 8:10 PM on April 26, 2016