New college football video game being developed by a startup company
A small company in Alabama founded by two brothers is going to try to bring to market a college football game to be released in 2019. They'll be starting a Kickstarter campaign on September 2nd. Although I'm skeptical with regards to video games on Kickstarter (Mighty No. 9, OUYA, etc.) it would be neat to see a refreshed college football game.
August 11th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^
How are they planning to get around the licensing issue?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 3:26 PM ^
Meh, I'll stick to NCAA 08 on my PS2 emulator.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:01 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 4:36 PM ^
Licensing is the least of their worries. I have created sports sims in the past (long past), and the amount of effort that is required is far more than a couple of random guys from Alabama can manage. There is a reason why all other sports sim companies have gone out of business over the past decade. Creating realistic 3D motions and graphics is extremely complicated and cost ridiculous amounts of money. The amount they are raising will barely cover the costs of developing the bare minimum 3D models. I highly doubt this ever gets off the ground.
August 11th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^
How are they planning to get around the licensing issue?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:04 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:30 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 4:43 PM ^
I still play the NCAA 14 on my 360 and play in Dynasty mode. After the first 2-3 years essentially every team has just generic players who aren't modeled after a specific college player. If they can create the game with updated uniforms and better graphics, I really wouldn't care if they weren't able to use a player's likeness. I'm not sure how many people care about playing with specific players. The game would come out prior to each college season and a lot of the time, the more popular/well known players weren't in the game because they had gone pro the year before.
August 11th, 2016 at 11:23 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 7:18 PM ^
I strongly disagree. The most popular game mode in the NCAA series was Dynasty, where you lose all non-generic players 8 seasons in (gameplay allows 40 seasons on older verions, iirc)
August 11th, 2016 at 3:04 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:13 PM ^
I hope they just have "random" schools like "Michigan 1" who plays in "Conference 1" with starting quarterback "MICH1 QB1". Their big rival is "Ohio 1".
On that note, since I'm just a lowly engineer and not a lawyer, could they feasibly design a game that's completely customizable, and let users create schools/players? Basically, take NCAA 14, remove all of the schools' names/trademarks and player 'likenesses', release that game, and then users create all the schools/players/stadiums/whatever?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:08 PM ^
I don't see any chance of this happening, unless they go with 1987 production values. The economies of scale required for a modern sports game are staggering.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:10 PM ^
that are tried to be "done right" on Kiskstarter often fail miserably. If this succeeds then great, but history has not been kind to Kickstarter video game projects. I don't know if it's a project anagement issue or thinking something is going to be way easier than it is.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:28 PM ^
I have had great luck with Kickstarter games, but they are usually pretty limited in their ambition, or they are by developers who have a lot of experience and a good track record. These guys want $850 K for a game that will cost what -- $100 Million to make realistically? Maybe more?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:11 PM ^
Agreed. There's been an independent run at putting out a football game based around the NFL that's released a product the last two years and it is...not great.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:11 PM ^
Startup Company + Kickstarter + 2 Brothers from Alabama == Failure
I'll save my cash on this one.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:14 PM ^
It's staggering to me the number of people who throw in for Kickstarters despite the fact the money is considered a de facto donation and you have no legal remedy if they never put out a product.
There was that big case where people raised like a million to design a $99 3D printer about a year ago and one of the founders literally used half the money to buy a house and no one had any recourse whatsoever.
August 11th, 2016 at 5:41 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
Because they're from Alabama? Tim Cook went to Auburn and he's doing alright as CEO of Apple.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:15 PM ^
1. Have OSU fans pooping in coolers in their stadium
2. Have large bills fall out of the pants of the players for SEC teams while being tackled
3. Show Les Miles eating grass
4. Show Bobby Petrino groping a female trainer
5. Show PSU fans in the stadium with their heads up their ass.
This is just a start for increasing the realism of the game.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 3:32 PM ^
Oh no, my star player is suspended this week for stealing crab legs.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:38 PM ^
NCAA version of Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the Lounge Lizards. Rather than trying to get laid Larry is a SEC Bagman trying to get recruits.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:16 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 7:20 PM ^
I think everything on PS3 and 360 was kind of crappy. IMO, that series peaked in the mid-00's.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:00 PM ^
That's great. And you're right. NCAA '14 is lightyears better than anything these yahoos are going to produce. But '14 is dying a little bit more every day.
- They need to figure out how to throw a playoff in there. Ending the season with the BCS is such a let down.
- While I know a lot of people don't care, Michigan is an Adidas school in the game and I wish like hell I could change that. Plus, this was made in a year when Michigan's maize was very pale and pastel. You almost have to remake the team in Teambuilder to give them a respectable uniform.
- Every other school is getting less accurate every day. Missing 3 years of uniformz madness makes more and more schools look obsolete. For example, MSU still has those giant thick stripes on their shoulders that they wore in 2013. Looks old. Looks bad.
Anyway, I digress. Not optimistic about the startup.
August 11th, 2016 at 7:23 PM ^
Gamertag penji24 (360 version, not sure about PS3) is working on a Jordan brand jersey in Teambuilder. I haven't been able to download it yet, but that's the shot he posted on OS.
August 11th, 2016 at 11:33 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:21 PM ^
If we beat osu and msu on the game, can we start doing things again?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:24 PM ^
are the planning to get around the licensing issue?
August 11th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
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August 11th, 2016 at 3:25 PM ^
They are going to give us this...
and keep the rest.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
that Florida used multiple times under Muschamp.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:54 PM ^
To be fair to Muschamp, he told them to execute it exactly like they did in practice, and so they did, except that sometimes what looks fine in practice doesn't necessarily work directly transliterated into an in-game play. I think the lesson there as that you have to be very careful with your words at Florida.
August 11th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
I could settle for another TecmoBowl iteration.
August 11th, 2016 at 4:08 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 3:43 PM ^
Sounds like a money grab to me.
Well, we failed to get a seat at the table. Thanks for the 850,000 dollars.
Hopefully, I'm wrong. A great college football game would be really nice. Right now, there isn't one (that's just like, my opinion man).
August 11th, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^
August 11th, 2016 at 6:37 PM ^
But right now anyone desperate enough for it is no further away than purchasing a used 360 (maybe $100 if that?) and another $10 for NCAA '14. Who would produce enough money to hit $850k?
That's exactly what I did a few months ago. Picked up a 360 for $80 and downloaded the game from X-Box Live for $20. The actual game is still selling for $40+ used, online and at Game Stop. As long as you have a hard drive in your system, it's better to just download it because you don't have to bother with the disc noise.
I've downloaded the latest rosters and there's even ways to mod a four team playoff. Still haven't tried the playoff thing, but I'm hopping there's a way to mod new uniforms because I hate our old Adidas away jersey (with the stupid maize piping).
Here's how to make a playoff system in the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifTkb3L0nJs