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  • Steve_OS
    Editor-in-Chief
    • Jul 2002
    • 33236

    #1

    Beyond the Sideline Football Announced, Features and Teaser Trailer Revealed

    Rumors are swirling over a new football game being made by the team over at Out of the Park Developments. The same team that makes the popular Out of the Park Baseball series.

    Take this for what it's worth, but someone has sent us what seems to be the feature list for Beyond the Sideline Football with a teaser trailer to go along with it.

    Below is the text from the email that was sent to us.

    I am someone who works at the concessions stand at our indoor replica of Fenway Park. I snuck this teaser and feature list out of our spacious 10-story office building and want to give it to you.

    I risked my job getting this video to you guys, but I wanted to blow the lid off this thing. I’ve been overlooked for a promotion for way too long. It’s payback time. Now if you’ll excuse me, Markus is waiting for his usual Bratwurst sandwich, so I need to get back to work.

    Beyond the Sideline Football Features
    • A realistic modern day American football experience with all current rules and regulations.
    • All 32 real American football teams with their real players and current rosters.
    • A 2D engine that represents all the action on the field, with the ability to call plays and watch them unfold, complete with the roar of the crowd and other sound effects.
    • FaceGen support allows realistic images of all players.
    • You dictate the action on the field: Set depth charts and develop strategies around your preferred style of play.
    • A complete box score for every game played in the league during its history, so you can always look back on thrilling victories and agonizing defeats.
    • The ability to sim decades into the future and watch teams' fortunes rise and fall as dynasties emerge, crumble, and eventually renew themselves.
    • You call the shots from the front office: Participate in the draft for your team every spring; trade players; and negotiate contracts with draft picks and free agents.
    • All of the (non-playable) Division I colleges as well as many more, with real players, so you can draft the next crop of superstars every year.
    • A living, breathing world full of news articles from around the league and a message system that lets you field offers from other GMs and hear what your players have to say.
    • A realistic sim engine whose creation was informed by 15 years of experience developing OOTP's sim engine
    • Complete histories, including stats, transactions, injuries, and contracts, for all players who have participated in a training camp during the past decade.
    • Nearly 50 tracked stats, allowing you to go beyond the usual numbers and dig deep into players' performance.
    • Each player features a Health Scan that lets you quickly assess their current situation by showing you which areas of their body are hurt, which areas are okay, and which ones are worn.
    • A clear, clean interface that lets you easily find the information you need.
    • Customization options, including the ability to change team names, the number of teams, the league structure, the league's country, and a variety of settings.

    UPDATE: It is official, press release below.

    Get Ready For the Kickoff!
    Beyond the Sideline Football Announced

    Last week's Out of the Park Baseball 15 announcement wasn't all we had planned - Today, just in time for this Sunday's big game between the Seahawks and the Broncos, we're unveiling the latest addition to our excellent lineup of sports management games - Beyond the Sideline Football.

    BTS Football is being created by lead developer Francis Cole, who previously worked on Football Manager at Sports Interactive and joined Out of the Park Developments in October. He is a lifelong football fan and even created a football simulation as part of his college studies.

    "I've known Francis since my days working at Sports Interactive," says OOTP Developments co-founder Markus Heinsohn. "He is a tremendously talented programmer who knows American football as well as anyone I've ever met and he has been working on his own football gaming projects for years. I am convinced that his skills, combined with our experience creating award-winning sports management games, will result in an amazing American football game which will bolster our product lineup for years to come."

    "Having known Markus from our time at Sports Interactive together, and playing OOTP every year since, I was delighted at the opportunity to bring my football game to OOTP Developments," says Beyond the Sideline lead developer Francis Cole. "Beyond the Sideline will be an amazing American football GM game, thanks to technology such as FaceGen, releasing on PC/Mac/Linux, and having an existing code base that enables players to easily customize their leagues."

    Beyond the Sideline Football will reach Beta in about a year, with a shipping date sometime in 2015. The game will offer these features:
    • A realistic modern day American football experience with all current rules and regulations.
    • All 32 real American football teams with their real players and current rosters.
    • A realistic 2D game engine that represents all the action on the field, with the ability to call plays and watch them unfold, complete with the roar of the crowd and other sound effects.
    • You dictate the action on the field: Set depth charts and develop strategies around your preferred style of play.
    • FaceGen support allows realistic images of all players.
    • A complete box score for every game played in the league during its history, so you can always look back on thrilling victories and agonizing defeats.
    • The ability to sim decades into the future and watch teams' fortunes rise and fall as dynasties emerge, crumble, and eventually renew themselves.
    • You call the shots from the front office: Participate in the draft for your team every spring; trade players; and negotiate contracts with draft picks and free agents.
    • All of the (non-playable) Division I colleges as well as many more, with real players, so you can draft the next crop of superstars every year.
    • A living, breathing world full of news articles from around the league and a message system that lets you field offers from other GMs and hear what your players have to say.
    • Complete histories, including stats, transactions, injuries, and contracts, for all players who have participated in a training camp during the past decade.
    • Nearly 50 tracked stats, allowing you to go beyond the usual numbers and dig deep into players' performance.
    • Each player features a Health Scan that lets you quickly assess their current situation by showing you which areas of their body are hurt, which areas are okay, and which ones are worn.
    • Customization options, including the ability to change team names, the number of teams, the league structure, the league's country, and a variety of settings.
    • Many benefits from utilizing the OOTP code base, like the user-friendly interface, online league support, HTML output, customizable text database and much more!
    Steve Noah
    Editor-in-Chief
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  • dukebeatsuncagain
    Banned
    • Jan 2011
    • 680

    #2
    The feature list makes it sound pretty awesome. Reminds me of Front Page Sports Football games from years ago.

    The video was quite pointless, but yes, this looks very interesting.

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    • DiscountCleric
      Rookie
      • Feb 2013
      • 64

      #3
      Sounds like I need to start saving my money.

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      • shaikio
        Rookie
        • Feb 2007
        • 59

        #4
        Let this be real. OOTP is such a great game, and I have no doubt they'd make a great football sim.
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        • poster
          All Star
          • Nov 2003
          • 7509

          #5
          Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

          Sounds awesome, and would be a great starting point for an annual installment of the game. Everything is pointing to it happening, so happy news for football fans.

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          • Brandwin
            Hall Of Fame
            • Jul 2002
            • 30642

            #6
            Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

            Sounds great. Now I just need a release date! Hopefully we don't have to wait until next football season.

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            • johnnyg713
              MVP
              • Dec 2007
              • 1469

              #7
              To make this game "all 32 teams" wouldn't they need licensing from the nfl.
              Last edited by johnnyg713; 01-30-2014, 05:12 PM.

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              • Profit89
                Banned
                • Feb 2006
                • 612

                #8
                Sounds good.

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                • Brandwin
                  Hall Of Fame
                  • Jul 2002
                  • 30642

                  #9
                  Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                  Those guys on the OOTP forums figured out the news and ran with it, all with just a blurb about enjoying the Super Bowl in the OOPT 15 newsletter. Hell, someone on the site even figured out the correct name.

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                  • yougo1000
                    Pro
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 887

                    #10
                    Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                    Originally posted by johnnyg713
                    To make this game "all 32 teams" wouldn't they need licensing from the nfl.
                    No because the NFL only owns the logos not the team names.
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                    • Benz87
                      #OwnTheFuture
                      • Jan 2005
                      • 1321

                      #11
                      Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                      Originally posted by johnnyg713
                      To make this game "all 32 teams" wouldn't they need licensing from the nfl.
                      I don't believe so, OOTP does not have a license or claim any affiliation with the MLB. This is why the game does not contain any MLB logos or correct award titles when downloaded, not sure of the exact legality to this but I assume OOTP Developments would be able to produce an NFL based game with similarity.
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                      • FaceMask
                        Banned
                        • Oct 2013
                        • 847

                        #12
                        Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                        Originally posted by johnnyg713
                        To make this game "all 32 teams" wouldn't they need licensing from the nfl.
                        What's really telling (if this is what they meant to put out to the public) is this:

                        All 32 real American football teams with their real players and current rosters.

                        There is only one real American Football league with 32 teams, and fake players aren't "real" players, and you wouldn't need "current rosters" for fake teams.

                        Something is going on here.

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                        • Brandwin
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Jul 2002
                          • 30642

                          #13
                          Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                          Originally posted by FaceMask
                          What's really telling (if this is what they meant to put out to the public) is this:

                          All 32 real American football teams with their real players and current rosters.

                          There is only one real American Football league with 32 teams, and fake players aren't "real" players, and you wouldn't need "current rosters" for fake teams.

                          Something is going on here.
                          It's the same way for OOTP. They do not have the MLB license, but they have team names, correct MLB rosters with real players, even most of the minor league as well.

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                          • johnnyg713
                            MVP
                            • Dec 2007
                            • 1469

                            #14
                            Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                            Originally posted by Benz87
                            I don't believe so, OOTP does not have a license or claim any affiliation with the MLB. This is why the game does not contain any MLB logos or correct award titles when downloaded, not sure of the exact legality to this but I assume OOTP Developments would be able to produce an NFL based game with similarity.
                            I see your point, I'm just confused because this whole time logos are the only reason other publishers don't put out nfl sims? If it's okay to use team names and team rosters that replicate the nfl legally, I don't understand why a game like this took 10 years to make

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                            • FaceMask
                              Banned
                              • Oct 2013
                              • 847

                              #15
                              Re: Beyond the Sideline Football Features and Teaser Leaked?

                              Originally posted by DookieMowf
                              It's the same way for OOTP. They do not have the MLB license, but they have team names, correct MLB rosters with real players, even most of the minor league as well.
                              Interesting.

                              So they have names like the Phillies, Astros, Yankees, etc? And they have players like Derek Jeter, A-Rod, etc in the game? Or is that all something you have to edit in?

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