sohum
Executive member
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the introduction thread for CIO Indian Cricket Career, a player-career game that the cool folks at Cricket India Online are developing. This thread serves to explain the game, which is currently in development, and also serve as a means to ask and answer questions about it. The game will be free and playable online. It will feature a simple interface and won't require any sort of high-end graphics set up!!
The basic concept of the game is that it focuses on the life of an up and coming Indian cricketer whose goal it is to get a break into the national team and represent India in international cricket. He starts out by getting into a local club team, and has to progress through the hierarchy of Indian cricket (state lower levels, higher levels, national lower levels, etc.)
CAREER PATH
While each career path will be unique, the basic format will be as follows. When the game is first created, you will choose what type of player you wish to be?Batsman, Bowler, Batting All-rounder, Bowling All-rounder, Wicket keeper. Depending on your choice, you will be assigned rating points in each category (skill, talent, etc.) randomly within a certain threshold.
Your player will then attempt to be recruited by a state cricket team by playing well in the lowest level of the game--club cricket. Depending on your performance, you may be selected automatically into a state-level team, be invited to a try-out, or just asked to keep trying. You will be offered contracts and it will then be up to you to figure out the best deal for you and then enter a squad or go back and wait for the next opportunity to arise.
You will then play for your team. Your performance will be affected by a lot of factors?how much time you wish to spend in the nets, how good your equipment is, how much salary you are offered, how fit you are, etc. You can even choose to do training overseas, depending on your financial situation.
With state cricket comes the chance for endorsements and to catch the eye of the selectors. You will play all the standard tournaments in Indian domestic cricket if you are selected and throughout this point, you will be interacting with the team management, coaches, other players, advertisers, equipment manufacturers. Your ability to balance all this will reflect on your on-field performance.
If you have a successful performance (one of the top batsmen/bowlers/wicket-keepers in the country) and there is a space available in a national-representative squad for your type of player, you may be selected for it. You will then go on international tours, where you will face different conditions, etc. Finally, if your stint in the national-level is successful and long enough, you may be offered a contract by the national board.
DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
We will not be setting any deadlines in the development of the game. The development cycle will include the designing of the various engines that run the game, testing the game, and then going back and fixing what needs to be fixed. Currently, we have more-or-less completed writing the match engines for both the short form and long-form of cricket.
HELPING US
There will be many ways in which the PC community can help us in the development of this game. Watch out for more information on this. You can be particularly useful for us if you are good at creating creative scenarios. More information on what will be required, what the requirements of filling a position and such will be provided in the future.
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