Ideas for taking the indie football games to the next level

It's summer time, which means that football video game developers are hard at work implementing features for the fall release of this year's games. It's probably too late to influence the design of the 2020 slate of games (due to release in September), but I'd still like to take some time to express some of my ideas for growing these games over the long term. This post should hopefully give both Canuck Play and Axis an idea of the roadmap of improvements that I'd like to see over the next two or three years.

For each suggestion that I'm going to make, I'm going to try to provide a general goal that I want to achieve with the idea. Then I will provide one (or more) ideas for how I think the games' developers can attain that goal. If Canuck and/or Axis like the ideas, then by all means use them. If, however, they think they can accomplish the goal with a different method or implementation, then by all means do that. You know your games better than I do. I'm just a blogger with a YouTube channel and little more than a basic understanding of how game development work. You guys and gals do whatever you think is going to make your games the best that they can possibly be.

Table of Contents

• General suggestions for both games
  • Special Teams Overhaul
  • Save File Import and Loyalty Rewards
  • Break the Glass Ceiling
• Axis Football 2020 (and Beyond) Wishlist
  • Interface and User Experience
  • Adjustments and clock management
  • Franchise Suggestions: Coach Personalities and Deeper Scouting
• Maximum Football 2020 (and Beyond) Wishlist
  • Control, U.I. and U.X. Suggestions
  • Dynasty Suggestions: Gameplanning and Going Pro
• Robust Gameplanning