v0.5.6 brings yet again some fixes to transfers. Player can be bought again. Also the contract logic to sign free agents and renew contracts work again.

Now the pre-release checklist has transfer related checks. This should prevent that future releases break transfer logic again.

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Transfer-list: make decline button red and accept button green

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Show correct amount of emails in dashboard overview

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• German

  [list]

• Ettore Atalan

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Watch list: create watch list, where players can be bookmarked

  [/*]

• Player list: use colored position label in general view

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• Player profile: use colored position label in info view

  [/*]

• Stadium configuration view: use colors as buttons instead of text

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Player list

  [list]

• Fix player condition sorting

  [/*]

• Remove multi column sorting. Only one sorting can be active now

  [/*]

• Keep active sorting on filter changes

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• Set default sorting to player value in Search Player view

  [/*]

Changed

• UI

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• Player profile: hide statistics, until they dont show values

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• Calendar: make days font weight normal

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• Competitions tree: use normal font weight, not bold

  [/*]

• Teams tree: use normal font weight, not bold

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• Stadium colors: remove white and black ones

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• French

  [list]

• Max RMax

  [/*]

Now you can negotiate contracts with players and it is not possible to easily buy the best players.\nTransfer history is now also visible aside to the player morale. \nIn the match engine the players make now better offensive movements.\nMore attributes affect now the match result.\n\nAdded

[u]UI[/u]

- Player profile: show if playing for youth/1st team

- Show contract negotiation chat, when offering a contract to a player

- Create morality indicator

- Visible in player list and player profile

[u]Email[/u]

- Add logic for email response variations

- Get reason in email why player did decline your offer

[u]Data[/u]

- Create version migration system for global and save specific migrations

- Migrate player morality from enum to float value

- Migrate offer state to fewer possible states

[u]Translations[/u]

- Add examples to all email text with placeholders

[u]Transfers[/u]

- Players check teams league pyramid level and don\'t join lower league teams

[u]Logic[/u]

- Increase/reduce morality depending on how many minutes played per match

\n\nFixed

[u]UI[/u]

- Transfer list: show player name on all outbound offers

[u]Match Engine[/u]

- Interpolate head look, to person rotation smooth

- Adjust pass success statistics

- Adjust shots on target statistics

[u]Data[/u]

- Fix generated birth dates after the year 2038

Changed

[u]UI[/u]

- Load game screen: add separators and titles to backups, for better overview

[u]Logic[/u]

- Player morality affects players contract negotiations

- Simplify stamina logic by moving to attributes

[u]Match Engine[/u]\n - Reduce pass amount\n - Improve dribbling\n

Code Contributors\n- Simon Dalvai (dulvui)\n

Translation Contributors\n- German\n - Ettore Atalan\n- Portuguese (Brazil)\n - ryanh\n- Ukrainian\n - \n

Added\n- UI\n - Dashboard: improve history by saving\n - date in calendar\n - visible email and filters\n - selected tab from player profile\n - selected tab from team profile\n - selected competition in competitions overview\n - selected tab and season year from competitions overview\n - Dashboard: show player name on top left, if player profile is visible\n - Email: mark all as read button marks only filtered emails as read, not all\n - Email: mark active message as important in list\n - Player profile: show transfer history\n - Player profile: show contract offer monthly, yearly and total income\n - Player list: show nation name aside to league name in league filter\n- Match UI\n - Add competition name to overview\n - Add run up animation of shooting player on penalties\n- Match Engine\n - First implementation of goalkeeper pass rule\n - Attacking players move now to \"best\" possible position to receive a pass or shoot\n - Still far from the best, but at least they move now\n - All players, substitutes included, shoot now penalties\n- Email\n - Send expiring and expired contracts emails\n - Send expired offers emails\n- Logic\n - Add friendly matches at start of season\n- Data\n - Save transfer history of every player\n\nFixed\n- UI\n - Formation: show recommended players in all list views, not just in the formation view\n - Player list: make rows clickable from everywhere\n - Dashboard: update email button count when mark as read button is pressed\n- Match Engine\n - When player is changed, wait until clock is not running and own team has possession\n - Fix overtime checks and take first leg goals into account for two-legged knockout matches\n - On overtime, change sides correctly\n- Logic\n - Transfers: fix several bugs related to transfers that caused problems\n- Data\n - Contracts: assure start dates are in past and end dates in future after player generation\n\nChanged\n- UI\n - Dashboard: align profile tabs to the left\n - Dashboard: always show overview during day progress\n- Match UI\n - Increase ball size\n - Make match speed control more intuitive\n - Adjust background size dynamically to current window size, for better performance\n- Match Engine\n - Change ball movement implementation to pre-calculated destination\n - No collision detection needed\n - Makes it easier to use player attributes to calculate results\nData\n - Reduce players from other nations than the league nation in lower leagues\n - Reduce youth players from other nations than the league nation\n\nCode Contributors\n- Simon Dalvai (dulvui)\n

Translation Contributors\n- German\n - Ettore Atalan (Atalanttore)\n- Portuguese\n - gustjfo (gustjfo)\n- Portuguese (Brazil)\n - Ryan Rezende Martinelli (ryanh._.)\n- Ukrainian\n - (Maksim2005UKR)\n

UPDATE Somehow I released v0.4.2 on Steam two days ago instead of v0.5.2. I guess I miss-clicked something during the release process. Now v0.5.2 is released for real. Sorry for the mistake!

This week the second version v0.5.2 is released from GodotFest25 with Love <3.

It includes just some minor fixes to formation, transfers and some email content.

## Fixed\n- UI\n - Formation: fix list order in formation setup\n - Player list: fix sorting order\n - Money enter form: fix manual enter with keyboard\n - Buy offer Email: fix team name\n- Logic\n - Transfers: improve transfer flow and fix bugs\n\n## Code Contributors\n- Simon Dalvai (dulvui)\n\n## Translation Contributors\n- French\n - Max \\[RMax](https://hosted.weblate.org/user/RMax) \n- German\n - Simon Dalvai \\[dulvui](https://hosted.weblate.org/user/dulvui)

Added

• Match UI

  [list]

• Make home team player labels white with black text and away ones black with white text

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Settings: show correct translation percentages

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• French

  [list]

• Max RMax

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Formation setup: highlight selected player and best possible substitutions

  [/*]

• Number format settings: choose between dot, colon or space separation of big numbers

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Dashboard: update email button count correctly

  [/*]

• Dashboard: use scroll container for league table

  [/*]

• Team logos: make them more lightweight, for performance

  [list]

• Improves loading performance of screens with many logos

  [/*]

Changed

• UI

  [list]

• Email: split size of list and message view 50/50

  [/*]

• League table: make own team row bold

  [/*]

• Text: make bold text bolder

  [/*]

• Player list: move all filters to left and view change button to right

  [/*]

• Stadium: hide unused information, like year renovated or ticket price, until used

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• French

  [list]

• Max RMax

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Add clear filters button in player list

  [/*]

• Colorize positions for better overview

  [/*]

• Highlight active sorting button in player list

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• Show good bye message when exiting game

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Remove empty page from player list, if players fill exactly the page size

  [/*]

• Player list: on filter update, make sure current page respects max page

  [/*]

• Hide alternative positions from player profile, until improved

  [/*]

Changed

• UI

  [list]

• Use player list to set formation for better overview

  [/*]

• Player list keeps sorting on view change of persistent columns, such as name and value

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• German

  [list]

• Ettore Atalan Atalanttore

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Add mark all emails as read button

  [/*]

Fixed

• Logic

  [list]

• Make sure that new assigned matches don\'t happen on current day

  [list]

• Fixes bug when winning first round of national cup

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Fixed

• Data

  [list]

• Fix saving saving game

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• Ukrainian

  [list]

• Maksim2005UKR

  [/*]

• Dan kefir2105

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• Change between full screen and windowed mode in interface settings

  [/*]

Changed

• UI

  [list]

• Add team logos to calendar days

  [/*]

• Use transfer icon to visualize transfer market

  [/*]

• Show league type and year settings on new game screen, instead of hiding in advanced settings

  [/*]

• Center save games in save games screen

  [/*]

• In the formation setup view, split reserves and substitutes list and move to right

  [/*]

• Improve filtering of Competition and Team Tree selectors, by hiding empty list entries

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Team logos are now visible, also in release export

  [/*]

• Use 2 letter abbreviation for position labels in formation

  [/*]

• Fix memory leak in player profile

  [/*]

• Use question mark team logo and name for undefined matches, like cup finals

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• German

  [list]

• Ettore Atalan Atalanttore

  [/*]

Added

• UI

  [list]

• On continue pressed in dashboard, show animation with stop button

  [/*]

• Add wave background effect

  [/*]

Changed

• Match UI

  [list]

• Show progress bar while simulating match, but visual progress still doesn\'t work

  [/*]

Fixed

• UI

  [list]

• Clear field in team profile before adding new players

  [/*]

• Translate emails in the selected language, before emails were always in English

  [list]

• Note: emails of previous versions are lost

  [/*]

Code Contributors

• Simon Dalvai (dulvui)

  [/*]

Translation Contributors

• German

  [list]

• Ettore Atalan

  [/*]

This month I mainly focused on fixing bugs and polishing the UI of the game. The Steam Next fest is coming soon and the game needs to be stable and look nice(r) for that.

7th of November Early Access release

While writing this devlog, I nearly forgot about the biggest news this month: The game will enter Early Access on the 7th of November!!!\nI\'m really excited and looking forward to sell my very first copy of a game. (If someone buys it, of course). The game will cost 10$, with regional price adaptations, Steam usually has.

I chose the 7th of November randomly a few months ago, by simply postponing the date again and again. But this time the game is ready and also Football Manager 26 will be released on the 4th of November. This means a lot of players will head to the Football Simulation category on Steam, potentially finding my game.\nThis momentum could increase the numbers, or at least I hope so :-).

New beta versions v0.4.1 and v0.4.2

Two new beta versions have been released in September. The latest beta version is v0.4.2 . They fixed some bugs and improved the design and UI, as usual.

There will be at least one other version before the Steam Next Fest on the 13th of October. I hope, that many players play my game during the Festival.

Future version will now also show the changelog, when launching the game. That makes it easier to understand that a new version is played and what changed. The only issue could be that the changelog will be available in English only.

The Demo in numbers

The demo is now live since the 10th of September, that makes 20 days in total as of today. The numbers are great and I didn\'t expect so many users to add the demo to their Steam library.

In total 886 added the game to their library and 106 actually played the game. The most happened the very first day with 477 library additions but only 11 players, and 20 players the second day. This shows how important the first day of the demo is.\nAfterwards the numbers declined and now I have around 10 library additions per day.

Two players played for over 120 minutes, that is amazing! The median play time instead is 9 minutes. Surprisingly people around the whole world played the demo. I expected most players to be from Portugal, Brazil or Spain, the main countries of Futsal.

I also got my very first Steam review, with some bugs reported and good feedback! I guess it was worth creating a dedicated Steam page for the demo, for this exact reason.

Contributors guideline

I created a Contributors guideline that should cover most questions a potential contributor might have. It also defines some rules like code style, the (non) use of AI and third party dependencies (that currently are not allowed).

The curl projects contributors guideline was used as base for this. Many thanks to the curl project!

Bugs info page

There is now a new bugs page, where information on how to report bugs can be found. I hope this improves the user experience on how and where to submit bug-reports and feedback. Especially for people who don\'t know how to create issues on git forge platforms, like Codeberg.

Who knows, maybe someone will even fix some bug and becomes the first code contributor :-)

Contributors guideline

I tried to sync the game between my Linux Steam client and the Windows Virtual Machine, but without success.\nThe Steam Cloud sync is currently not working and is more complicated than expected. I wrongly assumed that simply pointing to the correct path was enough.

The progress on this issue can be followed on Codeberg .