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I am writing a basketball coaching simulation game (for Windows/Linux at the moment), it's in alpha (so things aren't quite there/don't work yet/is barely playable), but I'm also having writers' block and would love to have a few people to talk about the game with.

It's essentially Football Manager, but for basketball, and "really bad." However, two important features are done:

- you can coach/simulate professional, college, and high school basketball in the same career. The base database currently comes with two pro leagues (USA & Australia-NZ), one college league, and 13 state high school leagues at the top level.

- you can set up your own fictional league in as little as two clicks (if the country selector got your desired country right the first time)

If you're interested, I'd love to send you a Steam code to the current version of the game for you to try out and give feedback on. There's still a long ways to go, but opening it up for feedback at an early stage will be really helpful to me. I need about a week or two to get that up and running.

If you're interested please let me know below or by email!

Thank you

Readers Comments

Hi John, always interested in sport manager games. I dont know if I have time enough, but want to try it out.

Pierre van Rossum on Thursday, May. 15th, 2025 at 8:16 PM

Hi John, always interested in sport manager games. I dont know if I have time enough, but want to try it out.

Pierre van Rossum on Friday, May. 16th, 2025 at 9:55 AM

I'm in.we are big college hoops fans!

Mike Cabral on Thursday, May. 22nd, 2025 at 3:20 PM

Hi John, always interested in sport manager games. I dont know if I have time enough, but want to try it out.

Pierre van Rossum on Monday, May. 26th, 2025 at 1:59 PM

Thanks Mike and Pierre. I'm very behind at the moment but I'll be in touch soon!

John Holden on Saturday, May. 31st, 2025 at 12:36 AM

Ok, John, that´s ok. I now see my message is posted 3 times on different dates and times. This is a mistake, and not that I´m very impatient or something :).

Pierre van Rossum on Sunday, Jun. 1st, 2025 at 8:44 AM

Hi John, always interested in sport manager games. I dont know if I have time enough, but want to try it out.

Pierre van Rossum on Sunday, Jun. 1st, 2025 at 8:42 PM

PvR sure is rolling in all the cash with these multiple posts... 😎🤔

Allan Sellers on Sunday, Jun. 1st, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Glad I could help!

John Holden on Monday, Jun. 2nd, 2025 at 3:01 AM

Hi John, always interested in sport manager games. I dont know if I have time enough, but want to try it out.

Pierre van Rossum on Monday, Jun. 2nd, 2025 at 4:13 AM

Genius method for maxing out the media bonus from Pierre. I'm only surprised Craig didn't think of it first...

Roger Mendonça on Monday, Jun. 2nd, 2025 at 9:04 AM

I would be happy to help John!

Bryce Kalmbach on Saturday, Jun. 7th, 2025 at 5:40 AM

Hey John,

I'd love to help out here. I actually started modeling out an Olmec-inspired basketball simulator a while back. I think it could be a fun idea!

Rob Peterson on Sunday, Jun. 8th, 2025 at 2:37 PM

Sounds good and thank you all! I thought I was ready to go but I need a little extra time, will post back shortly.

John Holden on Sunday, Jun. 8th, 2025 at 5:24 PM