Hi all, About two months ago I stated my intention to provide a Godot-based version of World Boxing Manager for people on Mac, Linux, and mobile who weren't able to play the game. I'm happy to announce that I've managed to do it! Thanks to all of you for the continued support! Most of the actual in-game changes are, quite frankly, simple quality of life and balancing changes. This was never meant to be a complete overhaul with entirely new features - I would probably have released an entirely new game with that kind of effort. My first priority was to simply get the game working as it was on a new engine, and I've been able to accomplish it. So without further ado, here are the changes:

Technical Changes

• Now can be played on Mac and Linux, with an Android version soon to follow. iOS will take a bit longer due to the fact that a) I need to find a device to test on besides the simulator, and b) Apple will still need to approve it.
• Resolution is no longer a problem - thanks to the geniuses behind Godot, scaling is handled natively ie. you can just resize the window. Fullscreen is now also an option.

UI Changes

• Players can now cycle between emails, fighters, and students using buttons rather than having to select from a drop-down list.
• Matchmaking screen now filters out empty dates if Undercard or Co-Main events are chosen.
• Players can now view opponents via the Organizations screen, allowing you to check out potential opponents as you browse the rankings.
• Players can also view opponent information from the Inbox screen, allowing you to scout opponents who offer matches.
• Matchmaking, Hire Staff, and Marketing screens now show a preview of how likely they are to accept an offer
• Sparring screen now contains a record of sparring matches between selected fighters.
• Calendar screen no longer has a calendar, which was kind of redundant - event details can now be shown directly from list of upcoming events
• Help popups change depending on what screen the player is currently on, hopefully preventing confusion
• Non-player matches during events in which the user takes part now can be simulated a lot faster. Thanks to Godot, code is a lot easier to decouple, meaning that I can now take the fast version of the match engine that doesn't process text or anything and slot it into player events.
• Gym colors are now selected via a color-chooser, allowing for a greater range of colors (I can't take full credit for this - thanks again to Godot!)

Gameplay Changes

• Swarmers have been buffed so that every attack they use from the pocket has a greater success rate and does more damage to Boxers
• Body attack success rate has been buffed
• Rankings have been reworked so that default rankings make more sense ie. higher reputation fighters near the top, and Unknown/lousy fighters near the bottom.
• Previously, a non-player fighter would reject a match offer if he had fought the player fighter too recently. This is still in the game, but the player fighter's record is looked at instead. This circumvents the problem before of a non-player fighter not fighting frequently enough to allow for rematches. Only the player fighter needs to fight again before a rematch can occur.
• Fights in one world organization now affect rankings in the other two by smaller amounts
• Experience required to level up is now scaled. That is, it takes longer to level up from 15 to 16 than from 5 to 6. Mitigating this is the fact that Equipment upgrade level now has a greater effect.
• Following from the previous point, Sparring gains are now influenced by Gym upgrade level, so both sets of upgrades have more of a point.
• Speaking of sparring, trait gain chances are now influenced by the reputation of the highest-ranked trainer at your gym. Thus, there is now a point to upgrading trainers.
• Trainer and network stats are now influenced by their reputation a lot more, so crappier reputation trainers/networks have crapper stats.

• Starting a new game and loading a game now takes a lot longer than before. Whereas it was almost instantaneous before, it now takes a solid minute or so to load. For more technical-minded people out there, this is because classes and data structures were handled natively in save files in C++, but Nodes (Godot's version of classes and data structures) are not. Thus it becomes necessary to read in the save data, create a Node, and load the data in. Done over thousands of fighters, it ends up adding a lot of time.
• Because of the way Godot handles data vs native C++, your old saves won't carry over to the new version.
• Detailed data for non-player fighters can no longer be viewed. Somewhat related to the issue above, the problem was that save files were becoming huge really fast. So I decided to store detailed match data only for player fighters instead.

Hi all, About two months ago I stated my intention to provide a Godot-based version of World Boxing Manager for people on Mac, Linux, and mobile who weren't able to play the game. I'm happy to announce that I've managed to do it! Thanks to all of you for the continued support! Most of the actual in-game changes are, quite frankly, simple quality of life and balancing changes. This was never meant to be a complete overhaul with entirely new features - I would probably have released an entirely new game with that kind of effort. My first priority was to simply get the game working as it was on a new engine, and I've been able to accomplish it. So without further ado, here are the changes:

Technical Changes

• Now can be played on Mac and Linux, with an Android version soon to follow. iOS will take a bit longer due to the fact that a) I need to find a device to test on besides the simulator, and b) Apple will still need to approve it.
• Resolution is no longer a problem - thanks to the geniuses behind Godot, scaling is handled natively ie. you can just resize the window. Fullscreen is now also an option.

UI Changes

• Players can now cycle between emails, fighters, and students using buttons rather than having to select from a drop-down list.
• Matchmaking screen now filters out empty dates if Undercard or Co-Main events are chosen.
• Players can now view opponents via the Organizations screen, allowing you to check out potential opponents as you browse the rankings.
• Players can also view opponent information from the Inbox screen, allowing you to scout opponents who offer matches.
• Matchmaking, Hire Staff, and Marketing screens now show a preview of how likely they are to accept an offer
• Sparring screen now contains a record of sparring matches between selected fighters.
• Calendar screen no longer has a calendar, which was kind of redundant - event details can now be shown directly from list of upcoming events
• Help popups change depending on what screen the player is currently on, hopefully preventing confusion
• Non-player matches during events in which the user takes part now can be simulated a lot faster. Thanks to Godot, code is a lot easier to decouple, meaning that I can now take the fast version of the match engine that doesn't process text or anything and slot it into player events.
• Gym colors are now selected via a color-chooser, allowing for a greater range of colors (I can't take full credit for this - thanks again to Godot!)

Gameplay Changes

• Swarmers have been buffed so that every attack they use from the pocket has a greater success rate and does more damage to Boxers
• Body attack success rate has been buffed
• Rankings have been reworked so that default rankings make more sense ie. higher reputation fighters near the top, and Unknown/lousy fighters near the bottom.
• Previously, a non-player fighter would reject a match offer if he had fought the player fighter too recently. This is still in the game, but the player fighter's record is looked at instead. This circumvents the problem before of a non-player fighter not fighting frequently enough to allow for rematches. Only the player fighter needs to fight again before a rematch can occur.
• Fights in one world organization now affect rankings in the other two by smaller amounts
• Experience required to level up is now scaled. That is, it takes longer to level up from 15 to 16 than from 5 to 6. Mitigating this is the fact that Equipment upgrade level now has a greater effect.
• Following from the previous point, Sparring gains are now influenced by Gym upgrade level, so both sets of upgrades have more of a point.
• Speaking of sparring, trait gain chances are now influenced by the reputation of the highest-ranked trainer at your gym. Thus, there is now a point to upgrading trainers.
• Trainer and network stats are now influenced by their reputation a lot more, so crappier reputation trainers/networks have crapper stats.

• Starting a new game and loading a game now takes a lot longer than before. Whereas it was almost instantaneous before, it now takes a solid minute or so to load. For more technical-minded people out there, this is because classes and data structures were handled natively in save files in C++, but Nodes (Godot's version of classes and data structures) are not. Thus it becomes necessary to read in the save data, create a Node, and load the data in. Done over thousands of fighters, it ends up adding a lot of time.
• Because of the way Godot handles data vs native C++, your old saves won't carry over to the new version.
• Detailed data for non-player fighters can no longer be viewed. Somewhat related to the issue above, the problem was that save files were becoming huge really fast. So I decided to store detailed match data only for player fighters instead.

Fighter Training

• Train specific stats, or train a whole set of stats according to a desired fighting style.
  
• When a fighter has an upcoming match, he can begin a training camp.
  
• Gains made during training camps occur at a much quicker pace than during regular training, but are temporary and only apply to the next match. Thus, the player is able to tailor training camps to whomever his fighter is fighting against next.
  
• This also means that part of the player's responsibility as a manager is to find a balance between the longer-term, permanent development of his boxers and the short-term rewards of training for and winning matches.
  
• Hire trainers for bonus training camp gains. However, if your trainers end up training too many fighters at once, their effectiveness will suffer as they are forced to spread their time out between multiple fighters. It's up to you to determine the best way to prioritize the trainer's time.
  
• Make sure that you schedule enough time before each match for your fighter to make weight. Different fighters cut weight at different rates, so if your fighter takes a long time to burn it off, you'll have to account for it.

Sparring

• Pit any two of your fighters, professional and amateur alike, against one another in training matches in order to see how they perform in actual matches.
  
• If one of your students manages to knock out one of your pros, it might be worth it to train him instead!
  
• Fighters are able to learn Traits, which are permanent boosts which increase their effectiveness as fighters. The only way to learn new Traits is to spar.

Match Making

• Set up matches against fighters all over the world.
  
• You obtain more money for winning, but gain more experience from losing. It's up to you as the manager to either cherry-pick easy opponents for money or try your luck against better opponents in order to move more quickly up the rankings.
  
• Hire cable and PPV networks to air your fights for extra money and exposure. However, this can backfire if your fighter loses!

Fight Night

• Call out instructions during the match and between rounds in order to make adjustments as you see fit.
  
• If your opponent has a weak jab, stay on the outside and pick him apart; if he has a weak chin, get in his face and smash it in!
  
• After the match, you can view statistics in order to determine where your fighter needs to improve.

• Processor: Pentium II (or equivelant) 800mhz or higherMemory: 256 MB RAM
• Memory: 256 MB RAM
• Graphics: 1024x768 display or greater
• Storage: 600 MB available space