This is a personal project I started working on whilst an Academy student in Version 1 Birmingham. Inspired by various other football management games with a number of original ideas for a better experience.
This is a non-profit, just for fun game.
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The game will use colours specific to the teams currently selected or playing, along with original football imagery. The navigation needs to be possible through keystrokes and mouse clicks for ease of use.
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- No icons have been used yet
- The colours I want to use, exclusive of the teams colours, will be professional greys and dark blues.
- App 'scheduler' will have an office type feel.
- 'Match frames' should have a grassroots football feel to them.
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I created these wireframes using Name of app.
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I've asked the following questions to:
- Person 1
- Person 2
- Person 3
This roadmap indicates the importance and viability of specific opportunities.
| Opportunities/Problems | Importance | Viability |
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| Feature 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Feature 2 | 1 | 1 |
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You can view all testing in this document.
- I struggled with splitting the screen in half on the 'MatchScorers' page, the preferredsize wasn't working.
I managed to find a fix and it has worked for future implementations. If setting preferredsize alone doesn't work, setting it alongside setMinimumSize and setMaximumSize does work.
- The next big issue I came across was the sliding panel, which enters the frame when a goal is scored, and lowers after a few seconds. The frame was acting as required, but the 'z-index' was behind other components, and it needed to appear on top of everything else. ChatGPT recommended using JLayeredPane, but attempting to implement it was messing things up furthur, as I needed to make every other element a 'DEFAULT_LAYER' item, so I had to re-arrange all of my elements within the Match Frames cardMap.
In the end I realized I had to add it to the contentPane and add things to that. The sliding panel was then passed to a stronger 'layer', and this worked.
- Another issue I had was when I updated the play button in match frames to a continue button, I needed it to take the user back to the scheduler. This meant updating the mouse and keystroke event listeners.
I fixed this by removing the button from the parent element, along with the next button that was before it, and adding a new button 'continue' and putting the next button back. I initially tried to update the actionMap but this proved a more difficult to fix to removing and adding the buttons was the cleaner fix.
- The goal slider started slowing down during gameplay. The whole match wasn't flowing as nicely graphically.
The issue turned out to be caused by nemesislookandfeel, which I added to make customize my buttons easier. I intend to use it on individual elements in the future but for now this isn't needed.
- On a few occasions, Match Week 12 would be created but week 13 couldn't be created due to conflictions with the 8 matches left. My first attempt of a fix was to remove game week 12 and return the fixtures from that week to the available fixtures, and re-create the last 3 weeks, to give the method a better chance of completing. This worked on occasion, but also failed from time to time.
In the end I decided to make the whole process restart if we hit this endless loop, removing the original matchweeks and restarting the process. Excessive use of print logs massively helped with breaking down the process logic and the fix works 100% of the time now.
- The first time I managed to get a whole season of matches playing, I noticed after the first match I lost every other match spectacularly, until I reached a team I had already played, and then it was a 0-0 draw.
This turned out to be because the players stamina was reaching 0 in the first game, and never being reset! As a temporary measure, I have made a method that sets the stamina of all players back to 100 at the end of a match.
- Give Tactics CardMap ability to add captain changing, and add a player view button (Broken link for now)
- Make UsersMatch go to tactics or confirm selection before going to MatchFrames
- Update Bugs
- Write tests
- Add some images to pages / decorate some things or work on match logic
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