IN DEVELOPMENT · DESKTOP PROTOTYPE
Run a hockey club from the first roster decision to the next generation of prospects. Decide who plays, how they play, and which information you trust.
A fictional hockey world. A general manager’s perspective.
Built for careers that last beyond one season.
THE GAME / KEY SYSTEMS
A lineup affects the match. Playing time affects development. Scouting affects the decisions you can make. The design connects the daily work of a general manager to the long-term future of the club.
Build lines and defensive pairs, choose systems, and set usage priorities. Shift-based simulation makes personnel and opposition central to the design. Home last change creates a different matchup problem from playing on the road.
Built: saved lineups, system choices, deployment priorities and selected player instructions.
Planned: full matchup planning and live bench controls.
Scouts provide attributed estimates rather than exact hidden ratings. Evidence has a source, a cost and a useful lifespan. Repeated observations improve confidence, while scouts with different perspectives help reveal persistent bias.
Built: paid player assignments, staff capacity and retained reports.
Planned: broader coverage, club-specific draft boards and varied scout careers.
Manage a player’s opportunities over time. Usage, practice and aging influence development; medical advice informs availability and return decisions. Potential is a changing distribution, so a prospect’s future remains uncertain.
Built: annual development, authored practice and camp flows, and diagnostic medical decisions.
Planned: deeper coaching, mentorship and career health effects.
Balance today’s team against future commitments. Contracts, rights, roster eligibility and league rules constrain your choices. The planned trade system will explain evaluations through each club’s needs, evidence and competitive position.
Built: signing, extensions, assignments and roster checks.
Planned: the complete trade workflow, trade feedback and richer negotiations.
Carry decisions across seasons. Select prospects, retain their rights, watch players develop and revisit the club’s history. Awards, records and Hall of Fame elections give a career a history that survives saving and reopening.
Built: paused human draft turns, annual careers and retained public history.
Planned: earned draft boards, traded picks and a deeper development pipeline.
Review what happened using match reports and commentary tied to recorded events. The presentation is designed around readable evidence, including planned 2D Broadcast, Bench and Analyst views.
Built: standings, match reports, selected causal commentary and attributed player profiles.
Planned: the full post-match analysis and 2D match presentations.
KNOWING MORE IS A MANAGEMENT DECISION
A strong offensive player and a patient defensive player should not become identical scouts. The design supports different perspectives and a retired-player-to-staff pipeline. A complete staff career system and production tuning are still ahead.
Early playtester feedback reinforces the importance of scouting variety and useful trade feedback. Those priorities are reflected in the release plan below.
DEVELOPMENT / RELEASE PLAN
The current build is a development prototype. Alpha means the first shareable playable release. Beta follows player feedback. The grouping below is a proposed release plan based on the existing design roadmap; it is not a release-date commitment.
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Implemented features in the development build, with limited content and bounded validation.
Prioritise a complete, understandable management loop in one league system.
Expand and refine the experience once the first playable loop has been tested.
Longer-term design goals and possible additions, with separate levels of commitment.
Status reviewed 11 October 2026. Implementation summaries are grounded in the feature ledger. The design roadmap remains the source for scope and milestone tests. Repository access may be required.
FOLLOW DEVELOPMENT
Alpha will be the first shareable build. Follow the project for development progress and future playtest availability.
A development desktop prototype exists. A packaged public alpha is still planned, and this page is an introduction to the game rather than a download page.
The default world is fictional. Editor and community content support are part of the broader full-release plan. Licensed real-world data is outside the settled scope.
No. The current build, alpha priorities, beta priorities and later ideas are listed separately. Alpha and beta groupings are proposed and may change after playtesting. No release dates are committed.
Scouts and computer-controlled clubs act on observations and organisational estimates. Hidden player facts remain hidden. The simulation resolves outcomes deterministically; the v1 AI uses authored decision rules.