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THE RETRO GRID COLLECTIVE
Let’s make
a game.
I’m building Idleball, starting with Gridiron Fantasy Manager ’27. Follow the work here as I put the football game together.
HOW WE GOT HERE
A few friends.
A lot of late nights.
TRGC began with a few friends playing Valheim during COVID. We played in the 10th Realm and kept coming back for the games, the company and the laughs.
The group stuck together, and I started building my own football management game. That’s how we became The Retro Grid Collective. We’re still friends who play games together, with a project of our own to work on.
WHAT WE’RE HERE TO DO
Make the games
we want to play.
We want to make games we enjoy playing, without advertisements or pay-to-win mechanics.
I’m building Gridiron Fantasy Manager ’27 in Godot, with a handful of friends from the original TRGC group involved. There are no outside shareholders or production quotas.
I share the work in the dev blog as I build, test and improve the game.
SIMULATE PLAY WHAT’S NEXT?
IN DEVELOPMENT
IDLEBALL / 01GRIDIRON FANTASY MANAGER
IDLEBALL / FOOTBALL
IDLEBALL FOOTBALL · RELEASE 01
Gridiron Fantasy
Manager ’27
Coming Soon · In developmentPlanned release
Manage your own football franchise.
Draft your roster, negotiate contracts and manage the payroll while the games play out. Build a franchise through a 50-season coaching career, then hand it over to a successor in New Game+.
Game detailsGAMES & CONCEPT ART
The worlds
we want to explore.
Fantasy, sci-fi and cyberpunk are worlds I hope to explore through games.
Promotional art01
Sports
Idleball
Four sports, starting with football
Coming SoonSeries starts
Concept art02
Fantasy RPG
The Starfall Saga
Airships, Star Metal and a world split apart
Turn-based combat
ConceptLong-term conceptAfter Idleball
Concept art03
Sci-fi RPG
The Emergence
Follow the adventures of the Vanguard, a cutting edge faster-than-light exploration ship on a mission to identify the source of a strange signal that started after an apparent supernova in the nearby Andromeda galaxy. A seemingly standard recon mission turns out to be anything but - and what the crew finds may change history as we know it.
Turn-based combat
ConceptLong-term conceptAfter Idleball
Concept art04
Cyberpunk RPG
Upload
In a world where full cybernetic conversion is both commonplace and encouraged, the unmodified are increasingly becoming second class citizens. After food shortages and discontent gave rise to regular rioting and extreme levels of infrastructure damage, the establishment hands control of all systems to the Upload - a vast experimental central intelligence model capable of near omnipresence when connected to the grid. At first, order is restored. Then the Upload starts to have plans of its own...
Turn-based combat
ConceptLong-term conceptAfter Idleball
RELEASE SCHEDULE
FOOTBALL FIRSTWhat comes next.
Gridiron Fantasy Manager ’27 is in development for a planned February 1, 2027 release. Baseball, hockey and basketball are planned after football, in that order; their target windows are provisional. The three RPG concepts are for after Idleball, with no release dates set.
- 01In development
- 02Planned
- 03Planned
- 04Planned
- 05Concept
- 06Concept
- 07Concept
ABOUT ME
A bit about me.
I was a Comp Sci major, then went more than twenty years without coding. I started this project with the player generator and football simulation, learning plenty by trial and error. Now I’m putting the game together in Godot.
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All postsWhat I've been working on.
Twenty players. One very small screen.
A tour of the first Legacy Draft on Android: the player pool, queue, draft board and the controls between picks.
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