Hey Community,
the past two weeks i started programming a little cycling (manager) game. Which i would like to share some progress with you. I will post you some pictures of the game. All Features you will see are working 99,9 with maybe a few little bugs. I am absolutely new to programming.
As i need some programming skills at work, i started to teach myself a few skills in programming a little game.
If you are interested i might post the program on here if there is enough interest and you could help in bug finding, balancing and feature request/implementation ideas.
You canjust watch the simulation, or create your own team out of existing riders with a budget to buy riders. And select the squad for each race. The palyer will always start in world tour atm.
For the simulation i have allready implemented some nice logic for rider selection.
I have allready implemented time trial and team time trials.
The game is running the stages in real time. Which i alqays liked about eurotour cycling and disliked for cycling manager.
My main focus for next week is an automatic terrain creation tool to boost the calendar with profiles that come a little to the real thing and see how stable the game is with lots of profiles
I am pretty happy with my rresults so far. Especially the draft system at the end of the year works quite good as well as contract renewals. Races work quite good, balancing is already quite ok. Calendar needs to be filled a little bit. But for testing the mechanics its not necessary to have much races. Here is a short Video of the general game.
Recently i didnt have much time but i worked on three little features:
1. In Raceview i worked on Group display.
2. Stage Ranking: There are 9 Categories Flat -> Rolling -> Hill -> Hill Difficult -> Medium Mountain -> Mountain -> High Mountain / Cobbles - Cobbles - Hill each stage gets its score based on the profile. Hills, Mountains, Medium Mountains at the end of a stage getting higher scores. Steeper climbs get higher scores, longer climbs get higher scores and high mountain climbs get higher scors bases on ther elevation. All stages in the race get ranked in a certain Menu
3. The same score calculation is used to rank each indiviudal climb in the game when it has a mountain classificaton. Duplicate climbs can have different scores based on their position in the race. A goal would be for me to track the fastest rider times for these climbs in the game and have a top 10 historical KOM Ranking for every climb. Working on this feature. At the moment there are climbs with name and without name. Stages and climbs are automatically ranked by the game and may need some fine tuning. Stage favorites are calculated at the start of each stage based on the stage category.
