Procball

This is a zero player simple and fun simulator of football matches with procedurally generated players and teams from many countries. You don't play this game, you just watch it play itself. This was made for watching football when you don't have TV or Internet at hand. Run your own championship whenever and wherever you want. There are over 4 billion unique matches, each one with numeric ID by which you can replay the match at any time -- this way you can share your favorite matches with your friends too. Players are procedurally generated based on their country, each one having many attributes including name, height, weight, preferred foot, speed, strength, intelligence etc. Dislike what players you got on your favorite team? Just change season -- different ones will be generated.

Each match is defined by the two countries that play (there are 32 countries total), season and the game seed. All of these are uniquely encoded in one 32bit match ID. You can start a game by entering either the individual parameters or the single match ID.

Please keep in mind that the game is still rather minimalist and simplified and aimed at providing a quick 10 minute entertainment (that's how long one match takes), to kill a short break at school or a bus travel. There are fouls, penalties, corners, but no offside, cards or injuries.

web version: https://www.tastyfish.cz/saf/procball.html

controls:

• - arrows (or WSAD)
• - A button: Y or J
• - B button: X or K
• - P pause
• - ESC: quit

Also check out command line options (run with -h): as a SAF game there are automatically options e.g. for running the game in fullscreen with pixel art upscaling, speeding it up, compiling it with monochrome graphics and so on. As always, everything is completely free/libre, public domain, including source code, art etc. Feel free to hack and mod the game, make something better or worse out of it.

repository: https://git.coom.tech/drummyfish/SAF/src/branch/master/examples/procball.h