Gridiron Champions Has a Release Date, College Football Returns in 2020

[cingelsby]

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Does anyone subscribe to the news letter? I was just curious what the latest one said and if there has been any updates.

[mestevo]

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I've been curious as well, but really anything worth announcing would be blasted out on Twitter rather than a secret newsletter. The newsletter seems to just be more of the usual for the faithful to generate praise on Twitter for them to retweet.

They struggle to send it out consistently, so will be interesting to see how they manage to keep people interested in a members-only website until they have an actual product in development.

[Cod]

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Maybe someone who has been following this project from the beginning can help me. Does the company actually have any developers?

All I see on their site, Twitter, etc. are business people with a few screens a half-decent graphic designer could put together in a couple of hours. The only video I can find is a controller moving from side to side and a few scrolls through teams...again, something that could've been done in a day. Even the guy they just brought on their board, Jeff Luhr, was nothing more than a creative director and left the NCAA series in 2004 (to work on Madden supposedly). Again, not a developer/engineer. Do these guys have a team yet? Or are they just selling vaporware and riding the "we want another NCAA game" train?

Sorry to be so cynical, just seems like this project is nothing, but a money grab.

[SilverBullet19]

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Maybe someone who has been following this project from the beginning can help me. Does the company actually have any developers?

All I see on their site, Twitter, etc. are business people with a few screens a half-decent graphic designer could put together in a couple of hours. The only video I can find is a controller moving from side to side and a few scrolls through teams...again, something that could've been done in a day. Even the guy they just brought on their board, Jeff Luhr, was nothing more than a creative director and left the NCAA series in 2004 (to work on Madden supposedly). Again, not a developer/engineer. Do these guys have a team yet? Or are they just selling vaporware and riding the "we want another NCAA game" train?

Sorry to be so cynical, just seems like this project is nothing, but a money grab.

They have nothing right now except support and some names to brag about. There’s no production, no team making a game. They’re still trying to get a developer to essentially make the game for them


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[Cod]

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They have nothing right now except support and some names to brag about. There’s no production, no team making a game. They’re still trying to get a developer to essentially make the game for them

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Thanks for the clarification. I just wish more people would open their eyes and see right through this. No personal offense to the group trying to put this project together, but its hard to trust a group of 20-somethings with zero experience in this industry to pull off such an ambitious project.

BTW, after watching their videos, I thought the player models looked familiar...and sure enough...for $60 I could produce the same screenshots (https://assetstore.unity.com/package...yer-pack-83603). Notice the t-poses that are part of the package. Ugh...

[SilverBullet19]

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Thanks for the clarification. I just wish more people would open their eyes and see right through this. No personal offense to the group trying to put this project together, but its hard to trust a group of 20-somethings with zero experience in this industry to pull off such an ambitious project.

BTW, after watching their videos, I thought the player models looked familiar...and sure enough...for $60 I could produce the same screenshots (https://assetstore.unity.com/package...yer-pack-83603). Notice the t-poses that are part of the package. Ugh...

Now that's funny because I'm fairly sure they claimed they hired a graphic designer to do the renderings. I'm not 100% on that, but pretty sure that was the claim. Wouldn't surprise me at all, because everything has been smoke and mirrors with them for the past couple years.

You're exactly right, they have no experience. They're trying to sell the idea of a game to a developer more than anything.

[illwill10]

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I just don't see anything happening with this project. They made it seem like they thought they only needed the initial funding of 5 million and that was it. It was very premature for them to try and give a release date. It seems like two guys with a idea and a dream with no plan. It's seems like they didn't fully understand it was to make a console video game.

If I were them, I would have gotten all the information I needed first. I would made sure I got my developers set before I even give a set release date especially if I'm not developing the game myself. They were talking about the features the game was going to have and all that. Realistically for year 1 and even 2, you can't promise big features and no consumer should realistically expect them. For the first 2 years of a sports game, I have 3 expectations to set the foundation. You need to 1) worry about the gameplay. The most important aspect of any game. 2) the Visuals and animations needs to look crisp and fluid. 3)Set up a season mode that has the core aspects and that can be expanded on. Those 3 things need to be the priority before anything else.

[WeFireThoseCannons]

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They are the Fyre festival of video games.

[MDSavageBeast]

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Radio silence to the public since February 4th.

[mestevo]

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Radio silence to the public since February 4th.

Wow, yeah. Absolutely nothing for 3 weeks. Going full Damon Grow now.

[superspyderm]

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From what I've seen, being an insider since 2017, they're no longer working directly with Big Ant, they've secured 10 million at least from investors and some financial groups, on top of their crowdfunding effort, that was big news a few months back, but I've tweeted at them several times recently, and still nothing. Whether that's good or bad will hopefully be known soon.

[redsox4evur]

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From what I've seen, being an insider since 2017, they're no longer working directly with Big Ant, they've secured 10 million at least from investors and some financial groups, on top of their crowdfunding effort, that was big news a few months back, but I've tweeted at them several times recently, and still nothing. Whether that's good or bad will hopefully be known soon.

They were never working with Big Ant, IMO. I asked an IMV exec on Twitter last year why they (Big Ant) had never issued a press release about their ties to this game and was told,. "why would we show our hand when a contract hasn't been signed? it's #business". So yea it's pretty safe to assume Big Ant hasn't ever touched this game.

[mestevo]

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Not going to go back and re-parse the announcement, but I don't think they ever had much meaningful capital after making their last couple of announcements and all the media heralded it as the return of non-EA football.

Big Ant cross-promoted their partnership at one point, but it was also never really publicly understood what was agreed to either and what kind of game that would actually be.

This team continues to be an unnecessary 3rd party to the development of any title. If Big Ant or someone else wanted to make a game these guys' involvement is not in any way necessary nor have they shown any value to being involved in such a production.

[mestevo]

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They're back on Twitter, w/ the usual promises and bluster.

[boxboy99]

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I checked their twitter and the responses clearly indicate they still are working to find a dev and get funding. Sounds clear they have not written a single line of code.


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