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As Phoneix mentioned. The manual needs to be featured heavily for beginners.
And while not official, the help thread from the help forum is very valuable and should be featured.

Let s be serious. New users will not have the desire of hardcore fans to interpret the rules like it s a piece of the constitution.

Fhe hwlp thread should contain a roadmap as to understand what a new user needs to do. I advised over 20 users and mosr of the initial time is wasted telling them not to do.

Play-by-play animations would be great

This really depends on your product goal, are you trying to make the whole game of Buzzerbeater accessible through an app, or are you trying to make a successful app that represents Buzzerbeater? If it's the former, the MVP would need a lot of things in order to make it work with the browser version. If it's the latter, you have much more freedom if you make it stand-alone, and you can keep it much smaller (meaning much less time-to-market, less risk etc).

In my opinion I think it's best to start as small as possible to get real feedback on your app as soon as possible (instead of just wishlists and great ideas that don't fit your product goal).

As a first testable version, I'd say you'd need the be able to offer the following experience:

1. Prepare for and play a game - this is the core of the game
- Have a roster of players with skills
- Analyse your opponent in some way
- Set a lineup and tactics
- See the results

2. Develop your roster - this is what people like, see what you can include
- Improve a player
- Draft a player
- Add a player

I think all else is just extra and can be added after the first release to keep things as simple as possible.

Things I'd leave out of the MVP
- Transfer list/player market (maybe another way to acquire players, but not via bids)
- Staff purchasing through bids

Play-by-play animations would be great

BB-Dr J tells me this all the time.

Some day... It would be a lot of work though.

Yeah that's true, but it doesn't have to be (when the time comes) to complicated. Just a small update of the current arena viewer during tha game. Something like dots(players) and point(ball) it could be interesting. Like watching your coach giving you instructions on his tactics board.

(https://images.app.goo.gl/HN4vvBPjBpPvRhAQ7)

Todays live report can stay as it is under it. Both features are interesting and important for the better experience.

But players don't have any real position on the floor. Shots do, but not players. You don't even know what player is defending whom in man defense at the start of the game (you can guess from play-by-play, but guessing is not the job of the viewer).

And you ask not only the position of each player at the start of the game, you ask also for their movement? That is not possible, any try of doing that would give a very bad result. You can only draw the shot, as it is now.

And you ask not only the position of each player at the start of the game, you ask also for their movement? That is not possible, any try of doing that would give a very bad result. You can only draw the shot, as it is now.

Other Managerial games can and we already have suggested it before for BB to look at them to get some inspiration:
https://imgur.com/e6FwnEd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JERrZBVWg&feature=yo...

Why do you quote part of my post if you are ignoring my argument?

Why do you quote part of my post if you are ignoring my argument?

I just get to the point that your argument is not entirely correct coz some other games have successfully integrated animations on their play-by-play that shows who guards who...

I tried it not just once with you and other managers else were in the forum and it didnt go well
example: (311558.4)

Coz most probably this argument below is correct
(311648.47)

Bad managers read in the game numbers what they a priori wanted to read.

Whats your argument again so probably it is again for clarification?


Last edited by Bro_Khen at 10/3/2021 8:08:43 PM