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This has me very excited...

OOTP goes HOCKEY!!!! - OOTP Developments Forums

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He shoots! He scores! And the crowd goes wild! That was a top shelf goal, folks!

Love hockey? We do too, and that's why we brought our deep experience developing sport management sims to the sport with the newest game we're adding to our lineup. As in OOTP, our upcoming hockey game will let you take over a team and make all the decisions: hire and fire coaches; sign, release, and trade players; oversee financials; and dictate game-time strategy, including when to pull your goalie, which lines to use when, and more.

We know you're anxious to learn more, so here's a rundown to get you started:

1. What exactly is the Hockey Project?
The Hockey Project is a career hockey text sim game for PC and Mac, similar to OOTP, FM and EHM.

2. You're calling it the Hockey Project?
No, that's just our placeholder name until we come up with the final one.

3. When will the Hockey Project be released?
The release is planned for late 2012 (Q4).

4. What is the history of the project?
The project is based on a game I did before I joined OOTP Developments. I worked on it as a hobby with a friend of mine. I had to stop when I started my work on iOOTP Baseball 2011, but my friend continued his work alone.

5. Who will work on the project?
My friend Malte will join OOTP Developments and works full-time on the project. I will support him as coder, designer and community manager, but only in times I have no work to do for iOOTP or other OOTP products. Markus and Andreas will not be involved with any work on the project. They will only help out with some design decisions and general experience. So Markus and Andreas will not lose any time for OOTP 13 development and I will not lose any time for iOOTP 2012 development.

6. How close will the Hockey Project be to OOTP Baseball?
We aim for a similar look and feel as OOTP 13 so everyone who likes OOTP and hockey will feel at home. Additionally, we have a lot of influences from European games like FM, EHM and some old German manager games. OOTP and the Hockey Project will share some source code in the future (wherever it makes sense).

7. What are the planned features?

Important: the following list is not complete and may change during development.

- Single-player career mode for the 2012/2013 season.
- Included minimum leagues (playable): NHL, AHL, ECHL, QMJHL, OHL and WHL. Additional leagues (from Europe) will depend on the number of Researchers we can acquire.
- Dynamic News and Event system (based on XML files)
- Editable Injury system (based on external file)
- Online Leagues
- All League Rules, Leagues, Player and Teams are editable.
- Stats, Stats and more Stats (hey, we are OOTP Developments)

8. How can I help with the project?
In the near future we will start to recruit Researchers to work on all the leagues we want to include. Later, we will add additional beta testers to the team. More possible positions we might add later are French translators and writers for news, injuries and other related stuff. We will start threads on this topic soon, but if you have interest to help out, please contact me at [email protected]

single season replay? or career?

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Originally Posted by bbor (Post 2551923)

single season replay? or career?

You don't have to read very far to find this answer.

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Originally Posted by bbor (Post 2551923)

single season replay? or career?

Single player, career mode.

sorry missed that.

i'm in!

It's intriguing indeed. They say it's a year away, but everything I read sounds great.

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Originally Posted by MizzouRah (Post 2551945)

Single player

A little disappointing for me, but probably a wise move.

Very exciting, looking forward to Q4 2012!

I'm really glad it will have the ootp interface feel to it.

simply stunned with the news....can't wait!

Awesome!

I've missed having a hockey sim.

This looks pretty sweet

Now if they ever considered a football sim with an OOTP interface, it would be very difficult for me to turn away.

Will be all over this if it has college leagues, though I'll probably buy it anyway.

I guess if it has anything like the customizability of OOTP, adding college leagues shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

How has the OOTP series been lately? Do you still need to take a college course to figure out what's going on, or did they finally get around to at least having the option to simplify things?

I am glad to see something like this happening.

My only concern is what this is going to take away from OOTP.

Markus said iOOTP wasn't going to impact OOTP in any way, yet the release of OOTP12 was directly impacted by iOOTP.

Either way, good luck!

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Originally Posted by spleen1015 (Post 2552165)

My only concern is what this is going to take away from OOTP.
Markus said iOOTP wasn't going to impact OOTP in any way, yet the release of OOTP12 was directly impacted by iOOTP.

You're fairly safe in this regard - Markus is far from a 'Hockey expert' ... so the hockey game won't impact him in the slightest.

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Originally Posted by Maple Leafs (Post 2552164)

How has the OOTP series been lately? Do you still need to take a college course to figure out what's going on, or did they finally get around to at least having the option to simplify things?

OOTP is still a very in depth game - however they have released iOOTP (iPhone/iPad/iTouch) last year which is very easy to play and a lot of fun imho .... I also think the success of that might inspire some refined usability in the OOTP PC/Mac UI next year, time will tell.

Nice to see some early interest in the hockey project here.

Firstly, let me tell you, that Markus and Andreas will not do any work for the hockey game, so Markus will not lose any time at all for OOTP13! With Malte we have someone who a) worked on this project before and b) will continue to work on the project full time. I will support him whenever my work on iOOTP allows it.

Better access to OOTP is pretty big for OOTP 13, which will influence the hockey project as well. As Marc mentioned, we learned a lot from the iOOTP release.

We are very excited to bring the hockey project to OOTP Developments and profit from the experience and knowledge of Markus and Andreas. It will be a great run ... :)

Wow, this is a pleasant surprise!

That said, as someone who was a head researcher on EHM for that whole, wonderful ride, it almost feels as if I'm cheating on Riz by even showing interest in this ;)

Isn't Malte the one who worked on one of the Eastside hockey games?

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Originally Posted by NoSkillz (Post 2552185)

That said, as someone who was a head researcher on EHM for that whole, wonderful ride, it almost feels as if I'm cheating on Riz by even showing interest in this ;)

I think Riz would be chuffed that someone else is picking up the standard tbh ... its been a while now.

Sweet baby jesus, a new hockey sim!!!!

....now the wait begins.

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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan (Post 2552199)

I think Riz would be chuffed

I assume that means stoked, not miffed. You foreigners... :p

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Originally Posted by cuervo72 (Post 2551986)

A little disappointing for me, but probably a wise move.

Reading the thread over there, the developer is saying that it will have online leagues as well. I think when they said 'single player career mode', they were just trying to say that it's not a replay sim.

Oh, thanks - that's good then!

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Originally Posted by TurnerONU22 (Post 2552224)

You are right, the wording is a little misleading. As a big OOTP Online League fan myself (and longtime Commish) that is a must-feature. How close we can reach the OOTP12 level with our first version has to be seen but basic stuff like in-game im-/export of team-files and league-files or password protected GM/Commish login will make the release (as we basically have it already implemented).

SHOULDA BEEN BASKETBALL

Hockey's cool too though :)

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Originally Posted by Ksyrup (Post 2552215)

I assume that means stoked, not miffed. You foreigners... :p

chuffed = pleased or delighted

Apologies for any lost in translation issues.

PS - btw back home 'stoked' is what you do to a coal fire when its buring out, you 'stoke' the coals (ie. rake them through) ... :D

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Originally Posted by MacroGuru (Post 2552047)

Droool.....

this

This is great news but I wish Riz were involved in this project.

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Originally Posted by Marc Vaughan (Post 2552170)

You're fairly safe in this regard - Markus is far from a 'Hockey expert' ... so the hockey game won't impact him in the slightest.

To be honest, he's not much of a baseball expert either.

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Originally Posted by mckerney (Post 2552080)

Will be all over this if it has college leagues, though I'll probably buy it anyway.

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Originally Posted by Ajaxab (Post 2552139)

I guess if it has anything like the customizability of OOTP, adding college leagues shouldn't be too much of a stretch.

And it starts.

Can I pre-order already? :D

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Originally Posted by sovereignstar v2 (Post 2552408)

To be honest, he's not much of a baseball expert either.

Ouch man. For not being a much of a baseball expert he does have the top baseball game. I am not an OOTP fanboy but thems some harsh comments.

Regardless of his perceived knowledge of baseball, OOTP is one of my favorite games of all time so I have to say that he's a great game designer.

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Originally Posted by Mota (Post 2552521)

Regardless of his perceived knowledge of baseball, OOTP is one of my favorite games of all time so I have to say that he's a great game designer.

Amen.. for someone that isn't a baseball "expert" his game is the best baseball sim on the market.

For me, it's the best text sim on the market, period.

This is 3 years away?

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Originally Posted by Suicane75 (Post 2552549)

This is 3 years away?

Wow, people really don't read.

I can read, thank you very much. In this case I just happened to misread, thank you very much. I thought it said 2014 Q2. Maybe I'm dyslexic.

And don't call me people.