PC2019

I havent opened the project in months now. Honestly, the state of my club has seen me lose interest in footy in all forms in recent times. I hope to pick this up again at some point in the future, but for now is on hold for a bit.

love your work... Just wondering if there was any progress?

Bad news is I've made zero progress in months - life is busy. Good news is I'm still here and keen to keep hacking away at it.

I've spoken to a couple of people on bigfooty who may be able to help with some dev work. Hopefully some fresh faces and a bit of enthusiasm can get things rolling.

Hey Greenville just wondering if theres any new updates? love your work.

Delay on the response says it all here really. Have made a little progress here and there in the past few months, but stalled at the minute. Sorry to say, is going to be the nature of it & not finding more than a couple of hours a week for development recently.
Intent is still there.

Good afternoon, any update on how the game is progressing. could l get copy please to trial if possible

Progress is still very slow at present, just based on finding time to work on it - spent the last week in Florida for a wedding, Christmas, new year etc.

Will be the nature of it unfortunately, as a spare time project but the intent is there and continuing slowly

hi sounds like the game is moving in the right direction, cannot wait to play it. could help out with stats if you like. currently doing my own stats for afl evolution 2019

Thanks mate - has been slow going the past month but still progressing.

With the new calendar in pretty good shape now its easy to speed through chunks of the season (great for testing). Moved each league onto its own thread to run in parallel to speed up simulated days

Added a Match Results summary that populates in real time based on completion events in the worker threads. Not a lot to look at, but significant improvement behind the scenes:

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-- as always, ignore results for now. players are real names/random-ish skills until I get the real ones imported.

A lot of the game UI is built over top of still images - since I'm not an artist its the easiest way to get things looking decent.

I'm planning to get a few stock photos for the new version - didnt see any reason to hide the source & figured I'd throw the link up here for you to have a look:
https://www.shutterstock.com/search/afl

Posting this for 2 reasons:
1 - to give people a chance to comment on what images they like the best and where abouts in the game you see them fitting?
2 - To see if we have anyone with a legal background here? AFL protect their IP really aggressively and for PC2011 I had lawyers involved to make sure I wasnt overstepping.  I'm not sure that i buy the "worry-free licensing" claim on this site. As i understand it players own rights to their image, as the AFL owns rights to logos etc, and use of many of the images here (the ones with AFL players in them) would be a problem. Although being a not-for-profit project as PC2019 is would likely help here.

Some of the stuff i really like here is the more generic artist rendering/safe to use images anyway, so either way will find some images to change to look of the game and make it feel new/different to PC2011.

Heres some of my thoughts:
Live-action footy shots would be great if i can feel 100% confident on the legal side - until then leaving them out.

Some of the crowd/stadium images would be nice to include

Toying with moving the intro screen to use something like this:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/aussie-rules-football-stadium-marked-green-710562838?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-0

Since i grew up playing footy in the country this is nostalgic. Might be able to find a home for it in the regional league screens spleplace:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/afl-footy-field-pole-1152328151?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-48

Trophy cabinet might have a home. Sadly the crows cabinet doesnt look like this, but makes me wonder if we could split out the image to dynamically add trophies to some cabinet. Sounds very 90s-game ish but i always enjoyed   the growing treasure-room image on Pirates way more than i should have as a kid. Getting bloody old.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/9-silver-cup-trophies-on-glass-1067247809?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-82

I like this, but have no idea where I'd put it. I've been guilty in the past for finding places in the game for graphics that looking back on PC2011 now didnt really fit (the graphing components i bought and got a bit carried away with)
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/icon-australian-rules-football-field-stadium-1171419325?src=cB7W_PvSFV4cT-ITy_v1_w-1-24

Hey mate,

My name is Kristian Dwyer and I'm the lead dev at https://www.facebook.com/coachesboxgame/ - a labour of love over 6 years.

Just like yourself, this has been a part-time endeavour for me, and the game, written in VB.Net, seems to always be that last step away.

That said, I'd love to wrap this project and help where I can with PC2019 - which has always been the best on market (2011 was brilliant).

I code in C++, VB.Net and am pretty good with Adobe software.

My maths and logic skills are up there too.

Fly me a dm on here if I can be of any help!

Kris

Thanks for getting in touch Kris. I am most definitely interested in getting you involved.

VB.net has been dying a slow death for the last 10 years. I've worked professionally with both C# and VB.net, and one of the very few people I know who preferred the latter. Premiership Coach is 100% VB.net/WPF (XAML), so theres a ton of promise here.  I'll PM you and see if we can get in touch via email - would love to get you ramped up over the new few weeks if you're keen..