Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: Hello, I wrote the original 4aces game...
Hello all,
I was doing a bit of a search, seeing if any of the web sites I've worked on were still around and stumbled on this forum.
My name is Alex and I wrote the original manager game code for the4aces.com
I haven't been involved in the project since its original design, but it's great to see so many players here, and that there's still a lot of interest in the game.
I was always rather proud of the original game (bugs aside), specifically the match playing code. While originally it was going to do a simple compare of the two team's player statistics and generate a score based on their relative skills, this would've been rather boring!
Instead I spent a couple of weeks writing code that actually plays a full 90 minute game with two halves and injury time. Every minute is calculated, players move up and down the pitch towards the ball depending on their speed, and they pass to each other depending on how far the players are apart and how well they can do it. If a pass fails, the ball goes to the nearest player (opposing or otherwise)
Tackling and goal scoring is more statistics based, but there's always a chance for a bad player to score against a great goalie.
I seem to remember there was a 'Hand of God' routine that could happen in 0.1% of goal shots giving an automatic goal no matter what the situation.
Each day the system would get all the fixtures and run a full game for each one. The match report and excitement level aren't randomly generated - that's what actually happens in the game!
If I could ask a few questions such as what programming language the game was written in, how many lines of code it took to write, and how long it took to make.
Its not often I get to talk to a great programmer (well it is often actually, I talk to great programmers nearly everyday and do a bit of programming myself too )
I would love for you to hang around on the forum, maybe you could give me some tips etc... on things such as arrays and variables. _________________
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