Pixel-art stadium, fantasy citadel, orbital moon and neon city joined by a river and waterfalls

THE RETRO GRID COLLECTIVE

Games we’ve
always wanted
to play.

TRGC started with friends playing Valheim. Years of games and laughs later, we’re making our own—with the same people along for the ride. Idleball comes first.

Our story Explore Idleball

SPORTS · FANTASY · SCI-FI · CYBERPUNK

HOW WE GOT HERE

A few friends.
A lot of late nights.

TRGC began in the 10th Realm, with a few friends playing Valheim during its early access days, in the middle of COVID. We kept coming back for the games, the company and the laughs. Over the years, those late nights turned into a gaming family.

With Gunz0G’s first original game on the way, the name grew to The Retro Grid Collective. We’re still the same group. Making our own games is now part of the story, starting with Gridiron Fantasy Manager ’27 and the Idleball franchise.

WHAT WE’RE HERE TO DO

Make the games
we want to play.

Our mission is to keep pushing the creative envelope, create the types of worlds we've always wanted to explore and make the kinds of games we’ve always wanted to play - all completely free from advertisements and pay-to-win mechanics.

We don't have quotas, or outside shareholders to appease - it's just Gunz0g and the handful of founding TRGC members; and we're in it for the love of the game.

We run on pure imagination, caffeine and creative freedom; and we're aiming to bring some amazing stories to you over the next few years!

Idleball is the first step: deep simulation, meaningful statistics, endless stories and zero ads. There are sports to build, worlds to explore and plenty left to learn.

SIMULATE PLAY WHAT’S NEXT?

01Idleball 02The Starfall Saga 03The Emergence 04Upload

IN DEVELOPMENT

IDLEBALL / 01

GRIDIRON FANTASY MANAGER

IDLEBALL / FOOTBALL

IDLEBALL FOOTBALL · RELEASE 01

Gridiron Fantasy
Manager ’27

Coming Soon · In development

Planned releaseFebruary 1, 2027

You manage the team while the games run themselves.

Draft your roster, handle contracts and payroll, and follow the season. I'm planning a long career with the same franchise, including a successor when your coach retires.

Football is in development. Baseball, hockey and basketball are planned after it.

Game details

DEVELOPMENT PICTURES

How the game is taking shape.

I kept some of the earlier screens. Here they are alongside recent prototype captures. These are different saves, but you can see what I've changed in the interface.

The front office

The newer budget view spells out the season-opening bill, when it is due, and what should be left afterward. Those are the numbers I need when I’m deciding what the team can afford.

Earlier desktop front-office preview with Budget, Accounts and Bank tabs. — **Earlier layout**Archived desktop preview

Android build 315 front-office budget view showing the full season-opening bill, remaining funds and payment timing. — **Recent layout**Android · Build 315 · Oct 4, 2026

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GAMES & CONCEPT ART

The games
I have in mind.

I have ideas for fantasy, sci-fi and cyberpunk games too. For now, most of my time is going into Idleball.

Pixel-art promotional illustration of a football stadium under the lights.

Promotional art

Sports

Idleball

Four sports, starting with football

Coming Soon

Series startsFebruary 1, 2027

$Chunky pixel-art floating citadel beneath a fractured golden star, with a mint starlight waterfall and colonial-style sailing airships carrying sails above and beneath their wooden hulls.$ Concept art

Fantasy RPG

The Starfall Saga

Airships, Star Metal and a world split apart

Turn-based combat

Coming Soon

Planned releaseAugust 1, 2030

$Chunky pixel-art alien monolith rising from a fractured planet, beneath a gold moon and beside a tiny spacecraft.$ Concept art

Sci-fi RPG

The Emergence

The ruins are older than the planet.

Turn-based combat

Coming Soon

Planned releaseAugust 1, 2032

Chunky pixel-art digital head crowned by a mint halo above a neon-rain city, with a rooftop terminal connected by a gold cable.

Concept art

Cyberpunk RPG

Upload

The copy remembers something you don’t.

Turn-based combat

Coming Soon

Planned releaseAugust 1, 2034

RELEASE SCHEDULE

2027–2034

What comes next.

Football is scheduled for February 1, 2027. The other sports follow six months apart, then each new world gets two years.

01
Idleball Football
Gridiron Fantasy Manager ’27
Planned releaseFebruary 1, 2027
Coming Soon
02
Idleball Baseball
Second in the sports series
Planned releaseAugust 1, 2027
Coming Soon
03
Idleball Hockey
Third in the sports series
Planned releaseFebruary 1, 2028
Coming Soon
04
Idleball Basketball
Fourth in the sports series
Planned releaseAugust 1, 2028
Coming Soon
05
The Starfall Saga
Fantasy RPG · Turn-based combat
Planned releaseAugust 1, 2030
Coming Soon
06
The Emergence
Sci-fi RPG · Turn-based combat
Planned releaseAugust 1, 2032
Coming Soon
07
Upload
Cyberpunk RPG · Turn-based combat
Planned releaseAugust 1, 2034
Coming Soon

ABOUT ME

A bit about me.

I'm 42, I'm a dad, and I'm changing careers. I was a Comp Sci major, but I hadn't coded in over twenty years when I started this project. The player generator and football simulation took a lot of trial and error. I'm now putting the game together in Godot.

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