FOF Developer's Corner: The Role of High Schools in a College Football Simulation

[Ben E Lou]

Today we roll out a brand new feature. Jim Gindin, the sole developer of the Front Office Football line of text-based simulations, has agreed to give us more insight into the development process and design decisions of games. Each week, he will introduce a specific item relevant to developing football simulations. We will have a panel consisting of Operation Sports staff members answering these questions as they would like to see the item reflected in text-based simulations. The idea is also to create a living document, useful for Jim's own future reference. In his own words:

"I hope this becomes a regular and popular feature at the new forum. It will help me flesh out new ideas I have with Front Office Football. And I'm encouraged that it will give all of you some insight into simulation development and a chance to participate more formally in the process."

Head here to check it out.

[CMH]

I definitely agree that the inclusion of high schools would add to the atmosphere of the game. And we know that those little things help push text-sims since everything is pretty much lines and lines of words. Anything that gives you an opportunity to imagine more benefits the title.

I don't think it should go too deep, though. College is most important for a College Football text-sim.