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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
And here is said December update! I have been spending time working on databases that will be needed to run the 2022 Winter Games, including updating the country rankings to reflect the results from the past year and updating the event schedule for the 2022 games. Those updates have gone well, and everything looks to be on track to run another multi-player sim during the upcoming winter games.
I plan on posting a sign-up thread for within the first week of January, so keep an eye on this space for updates. I hope you'll consider joining in!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
I know I have a few people that follow this thread, so I wanted to drop a line and let everyone know that I haven't abandoned this project. However, I just started a new job recently, and I haven't had any time to work on it at all, so I've gone dark for a few months. Planning and hoping to get some work done on this project in November or December, so I wanted to let any readers know that!
Thanks,
Jeff
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in 2020 Summer Games Sim- Sign-Up Thread
Greetings! My name is SecretAgentMan, and every time the Summer Games or Winter Games comes around, I run a sim tied to that. Given that the 2020 Summer Games in Japan start next week....well, that means it's time! This year, I am jointly running it between both SimNation and GMGames. (In the past, I've just been at SimNation)
We will be using Going for Gold, a game that I am developing, as the method for simming this event. The game is still in what I would call an alpha state, though unlike in the past, I do have a functional career mode. There's also a Winter Games mode, which will be relevant in about 6 months, but for right now, we'll be using Summer Games mode.
The way Summer Games mode works is that you pick one of 65 countries, each of which have different strengths/weaknesses based as best we can on real-life historical results. A world will be populated with athletes to represent each of those countries (so, not the real athletes of the 2020 Summer Games). As the head of that country's national athletics committee, you get 200 training points that you can spread amongst your athletes (with a max of 10 per athlete per event) to give them a boost and help push them towards the medal stand. Then, as the 2020 Summer Games occur in real life, we will sim along-side them.
Deadline to join is Friday, July 23rd, the date of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Games. The alpha version of the program will start being sent out by e-mail early next week, and the sim will begin on Saturday, July 24th
How do you join? Please provide the following information:
Your forum handle OR a name you'd like to be called:
Your e-mail address:
1st Choice of Country (see below):
2nd Choice of Country (see below):
IF you have a particular connection to a country (such as being a citizen, having ancestors from that country, etc.), please also state that in your application. I will be assigning by first choice when possible, but accounting for personal connections when there is a conflict between multiple people wanting the same country. (Which may not always be obvious, since there are people from 2 different forums participating)
Please allow 48 hours for your application to be processed and decisions to be made about which country you'll be given
The 65 available countries are as follows:
Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Cuba Czech_Republic Denmark Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Georgia Germany Great_Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Israel India Indonesia Ireland Iran Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Nepal Netherlands New_Zealand Nigeria North_Korea Norway Pakistan Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South_Africa South_Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uruguay USA Zimbabwe How do you tell who will be good? Well, for some context, here are the Top 20 all-time medals lists, in real life, at the Summer Games.
No. Nation Games Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 27 1022 795 705 2522
2 Soviet Union (URS) 10 395 319 296 1010
3 Great Britain (GBR) 28 263 295 293 851
4 China (CHN) 10 224 167 155 546
5 France (FRA) 28 212 241 263 716
6 Italy (ITA) 27 206 178 193 577
7 Germany (GER) 16 191 194 230 615
8 Hungary (HUN) 26 175 147 169 491
9 East Germany (GDR) 5 153 129 127 409
10 Russia (RUS) 6 148 125 153 426
11 Australia (AUS) 26 147 163 187 497
12 Sweden (SWE) 27 145 170 179 494
13 Japan (JPN) 22 142 136 161 439
14 Finland (FIN) 25 101 85 117 303
15 South Korea (KOR) 17 90 87 90 267
16 Romania (ROU) 21 89 95 122 306
17 Netherlands (NED) 26 85 92 108 285
18 Cuba (CUB) 20 78 68 80 226
19 Poland (POL) 21 68 84 132 284
20 Canada (CAN) 26 64 102 136 302
And here are the Top 10 medals results from the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil, and the 2012 Summer Games in England
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 46 37 38 121
2 Great Britain (GBR) 27 23 17 67
3 China (CHN) 26 18 26 70
4 Russia (RUS) 19 17 20 56
5 Germany (GER) 17 10 15 42
6 Japan (JPN) 12 8 21 41
7 France (FRA) 10 18 14 42
8 South Korea (KOR) 9 3 9 21
9 Italy (ITA) 8 12 8 28
10 Australia (AUS) 8 11 10 29
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 46 28 30 104
2 China (CHN) 38 31 22 91
3 Great Britain (GBR) 29 17 19 65
4 Russia (RUS) 20 20 28 68
5 South Korea (KOR) 13 9 8 30
6 Germany (GER) 11 20 13 44
7 France (FRA) 11 11 13 35
8 Australia (AUS) 8 15 12 35
9 Italy (ITA) 8 9 11 28
10 Hungary (HUN) 8 4 6 18
I really hope you consider joining me on this journey as we sim alongside one of the world's biggest sporting events!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
Okay, how about a June update?
The bad is that I have nothing new to show, or discuss.
The good is that I have a new job, so while I spent most of this month job hunting and have a few busy months ahead, I am set up with a much better long-term situation (which bodes well for future development, in my mind)
I still plan to have some sort of Olympics multiplayer game on the forums, but at this point, I may just take my 2016 version and add in this year's events and schedule. We'll see what I can come up with- watch this space for some updates as we get closer to the games!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
No formal log this month. Busy month at home has meant a pretty light month for programming work. I have been pushing my way through databases for various sports, though, and continue to make progress there. Hopefully will have some more interesting stuff to come in future months (there kind of has to be....I'm running out of months before the Tokyo games!)
Fun fact for the month: Want to know what the most dominant country in an individual sport is? Well, we have a new leader! Prior to now, China's Table Tennis program was the best I had found (USA basketball is 2nd)...they have been passed up by Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics, which offers up an incomprehensible level of dominance in the sport, both recently and historically. So if you didn't know....then now you know!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
Development Log 7: Making Progress
My February update is a little bit bare on details, but I am happy on progress for the month! Some highlights include:
-Good research happening behind the scenes to build the sport result database up. I haven't talked about it much, but there is a massive database of results from Olympic Games, World Championships, and other world competitions from 2000-on that is being built up to provide realistic player generation and results for the game. There has been good progress on that database this month.
I've also been testing the player generation and event results on the basis of the parts of the database that are already complete (Winter Sports). It isn't perfect yet- there are some problems with team events in particular, and I still need to mess with the "consistency" settings for certain sports- but I feel really happy that the results generally feel "correct", with a good amount of expected and surprise results.
-Making progress towards a stable single-player release. Currently, the game is functional in "career" mode, but there are some important details missing. Namely, if your athletes grow/get better and have better results, your country's overall rating in the sport doesn't yet change. However, that is on the road to being completed, and I'm thinking that it should be done in the next couple of months. Once that is done, the database is finished, and I create a financial database that is stable (a process I haven't started yet), I should have a stable build for a single-player beta trial.
My goal for this Olympics cycle has been to have my "career mode" in place before we start the Tokyo games this summer, so I'm optimistic that I will get there. I am still targeting and hoping for a beta release with functional career mode and the ability to do online leagues sometime late Spring.
-So, please keep an eye out on this space! I'm hopeful to have a lot more to show off soon!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
Let's do a January update!
Development Log 6: Fine-Tuning Athlete Creation Process
I was able to get back into the swing of things this month in terms of working on Going For Gold. I spent a significant amount of time tightening and improving the player creation system. I've been working in recent months on getting data into a database to generate ranking values for countries in each sport (0-99, with 99 being the best). However, those rankings weren't translating well to actual athlete creation. The top countries often would not have the best athletes (they'd be high up, but not the best), and that was definitely a problem that needed to be fixed.
I basically overhauled the process and put several fixes in place, and I'm happy to report that it's going much better. The top countries in a given sport now receive more athletes for that sport, and the athletes are more consistently of better quality, and they are closer to their "prime" age. (The way I have athlete generation setup, players are created with a "top" skill level that is then adjusted based on the player's age) I have to do some further testing on it in February to make sure that the results are relatively consistent, and then it's on to fine-tuning how those individual player rankings translate into results. It should provide for a much better-quality (and much less-random) actual simulation, so I'm pleased that I was able to progress on it.
Here's an example (below) from a recent test.
This particular event is a skiing event, and you can see that Austria is near the top of the rankings (as they should be). However, other top countries (USA, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, etc.) still have some representation near the top, while countries that are less strong in terms of skiing do still have strong athletes, but they're still clearly further down the list. It leads to a distribution that I'm happier with that than in the past (which often saw athletes from seemingly random countries near the top)
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|70a|27|F|0|Laura_Ziegler |7001-90(0) 000074763 |Switzerland |70b|27|F|0|Elisa_Abdi |7001-90(0) 000111675 |Austria |70a|23|F|0|Marie_Stadisch |7001-90(0) 000111681 |Austria |70a|27|F|0|Hannah_Peiper |7001-90(0) 000111734 |Austria |70b|26|F|0|Kerstin_Mayer |7001-90(0) 000145972 |Croatia |70a|27|F|0|Zoja_Horvat |7001-90(0) 000004138 |USA |70a|27|F|0|Abigail_Moore |7001-89(0) 000017934 |France |70a|24|F|0|Louise_Bruneau |7001-89(0) 000027244 |Italy |70a|27|F|0|Sofia_Bianchi |7001-89(0) 000074676 |Switzerland |70a|25|F|0|Elina_Ziegler |7001-89(0) 000074678 |Switzerland |70a|23|F|0|Emma_Vonlanthen |7001-89(0) 000004171 |USA |70b|28|F|0|Zoe_Nelson |7001-88(0) 000027232 |Italy |70a|22|F|0|Paola_Bruno |7001-88(0) 000027324 |Italy |70b|27|F|0|Chiara_Rossi |7001-88(0) 000031147 |Sweden |70a|26|F|0|Ebba_Eriksson |7001-88(0) 000031155 |Sweden |70a|25|F|0|Charlotte_Andersson |7001-88(0) 000145964 |Croatia |70a|25|F|0|Andreja_Zupancic |7001-88(0) 000004114 |USA |70a|28|F|0|Maria_Parker |7001-87(0) 000004188 |USA |70b|24|F|0|Mia_Cook |7001-87(0) 000017910 |France |70a|27|F|0|Marion_Petit |7001-87(0) 000027239 |Italy |70a|27|F|0|Aurora_Bruno |7001-87(0) 000027240 |Italy |70a|27|F|0|Melania_De_Luca |7001-87(0) 000027266 |Italy |70a|28|F|0|Federica_Moretti |7001-87(0) 000027271 |Italy |70a|25|F|0|Cristiana_Esposito |7001-87(0) 000031197 |Sweden |70b|26|F|0|Jessica_Bengtsson |7001-87(0) 000074653 |Switzerland |70a|23|F|0|Sofia_Maurer |7001-87(0) 000111696 |Austria |70a|27|F|0|Sarah_Ebner |7001-87(0) 000111705 |Austria |70a|27|F|0|Nicole_Stoger |7001-87(0) 000111707 |Austria |70a|26|F|0|Charlotte_Wagner |7001-87(0) 000146000 |Croatia |70b|25|F|0|Fata_Zupancic |7001-87(0) 000004143 |USA |70a|27|F|0|Patricia_Cook |7001-86(0) 000017905 |France |70a|22|F|0|Marion_Vasseur |7001-86(0) 000017922 |France |70a|23|F|0|Léna_Pernet |7001-86(0) 000017961 |France |70b|26|F|0|Virginie_Richard |7001-86(0) 000022760 |Germany |70a|23|F|0|Anna_Hoffmann |7001-86(0) 000022772 |Germany |70a|25|F|0|Leah_Schmidt |7001-86(0) 000027229 |Italy |70a|22|F|0|Laura_Rizzo |7001-86(0) 000031153 |Sweden |70a|25|F|0|Alva_Larsson |7001-86(0) 000031209 |Sweden |70b|27|F|0|Charlotte_Carlsson |7001-86(0) 000074647 |Switzerland |70a|24|F|0|Sofia_Inler |7001-86(0) 000074649 |Switzerland |70a|28|F|0|Emma_Vonlanthen |7001-86(0) 000074670 |Switzerland |70a|29|F|0|Aurora_Huggel |7001-86(0) 000081264 |Norway |70a|23|F|0|Leah_Dahl |7001-86(0) 000111704 |Austria |70a|26|F|0|Anna_Wimmer |7001-86(0) 000111723 |Austria |70a|25|F|0|Kerstin_Dorn |7001-86(0) 000111778 |Austria |70b|25|F|0|Sarah_Wimmer |7001-86(0) 000004122 |USA |70a|28|F|0|Isabella_Moore |7001-85(0) 000004124 |USA |70a|25|F|0|Rachel_Williams |7001-85(0) 000017913 |France |70a|28|F|0|Inès_Bernard |7001-85(0) 000017923 |France |70a|27|F|0|Marie_Bethune |7001-85(0) 000022773 |Germany |70a|21|F|0|Sofia_Schmidt |7001-85(0) 000031140 |Sweden |70a|23|F|0|Alva_Jansson |7001-85(0) 000074662 |Switzerland |70a|24|F|0|Anna_Ziegler |7001-85(0) 000074701 |Switzerland |70a|22|F|0|Elina_Abdi |7001-85(0) 000074707 |Switzerland |70b|25|F|0|Emma_Spycher |7001-85(0) 000111682 |Austria |70a|23|F|0|Marie_Heregger |7001-85(0) 000111691 |Austria |70a|29|F|0|Charlotte_Feiersinger |7001-85(0) 000111757 |Austria |70b|28|F|0|Lena_Wangermann |7001-85(0) 000145967 |Croatia |70a|28|F|0|Andreja_Rozman |7001-85(0) 000145993 |Croatia |70b|26|F|0|Dragica_Golob |7001-85(0) 000189866 |Slovenia |70a|27|F|0|Tanja_Kovac |7001-85(0) 000189882 |Slovenia |70a|28|F|0|Tanja_Kos |7001-85(0) 000017890 |France |70a|29|F|0|Chloé_Baume |7001-84(0) 000017897 |France |70a|23|F|0|Marie_Bruneau |7001-84(0) 000017903 |France |70a|26|F|0|Emma_Giraud |7001-84(0) 000017944 |France |70b|23|F|0|Doriane_Barbeau |7001-84(0) 000017980 |France |70b|27|F|0|Jade_Giraud |7001-84(0) 000017989 |France |70b|28|F|0|Aline_Girard |7001-84(0) 000027231 |Italy |70a|30|F|0|Martina_Greco |7001-84(0) 000055763 |Canada |70a|28|F|0|Sara_Hall |7001-84(0) 000055790 |Canada |70a|23|F|0|Alice_Anderson |7001-84(0) 000074710 |Switzerland |70b|24|F|0|Chloe_Maurer |7001-84(0) 000074748 |Switzerland |70b|24|F|0|Ladina_Vonlanthen |7001-84(0) 000074751 |Switzerland |70b|26|F|0|Alina_Maurer |7001-84(0) 000111679 |Austria |70a|24|F|0|Laura_Wertheim |7001-84(0) 000111686 |Austria |70a|25|F|0|Nina_Peithner |7001-84(0) 000111755 |Austria |70b|27|F|0|Kerstin_Binder |7001-84(0) 000111759 |Austria |70b|26|F|0|Hannah_Schneider |7001-84(0) 000145968 |Croatia |70a|24|F|0|Anisa_Kralj |7001-84(0) 000189905 |Slovenia |70a|28|F|0|Dragica_Novak |7001-84(0) 000004120 |USA |70a|27|F|0|Patricia_Adams |7001-83(0) 000004127 |USA |70a|24|F|0|Jennifer_White |7001-83(0) 000004151 |USA |70a|24|F|0|Isabella_Adams |7001-83(0) 000017964 |France |70b|25|F|0|Louise_Petit |7001-83(0) 000017973 |France |70b|26|F|0|Lina_Coron |7001-83(0) 000027223 |Italy |70a|22|F|0|Laura_Colombo |7001-83(0) 000027230 |Italy |70a|24|F|0|Alice_Lombardi |7001-83(0) 000027241 |Italy |70a|24|F|0|Federica_Rizzo |7001-83(0) 000031141 |Sweden |70a|25|F|0|Kristin_Petersson |7001-83(0) 000031179 |Sweden |70b|24|F|0|Marie_Jonsson |7001-83(0) 000031195 |Sweden |70b|27|F|0|Julia_Jansson |7001-83(0) 000055757 |Canada |70a|26|F|0|Alice_Johnson |7001-83(0) 000066519 |South_Korea |70a|26|F|0|Yeeun_Jin |7001-83(0) 000074697 |Switzerland |70a|25|F|0|Zoe_Maurer |7001-83(0) 000074744 |Switzerland |70b|27|F|0|Martina_Walker |7001-83(0) 000111694 |Austria |70a|22|F|0|Julia_Koell |7001-83(0) 000111764 |Austria |70b|26|F|0|Nina_Stadisch |7001-83(0) 000004116 |USA |70a|29|F|0|Ava_Garcia |7001-82(0) 000004121 |USA |70a|24|F|0|Dorothy_Price |7001-82(0) 000004123 |USA |70a|28|F|0|Emma_Johnson |7001-82(0) 000009287 |Russia |70a|26|F|0|Irina_Stolin |7001-82(0) 000017907 |France |70a|30|F|0|Alix_Landry |7001-82(0) 000017912 |France |70a|24|F|0|Nathalie_Bethune |7001-82(0) 000017926 |France |70a|25|F|0|Elodie_Bethune |7001-82(0) 000017955 |France |70b|28|F|0|Lola_Caillat |7001-82(0) 000017958 |France |70b|23|F|0|Sandrine_Barbeau |7001-82(0) 000022793 |Germany |70a|21|F|0|Caroline_Wagner |7001-82(0) 000022816 |Germany |70b|28|F|0|Leoni_Hoffmann |7001-82(0) 000027221 |Italy |70a|26|F|0|Cecilia_Mancini |7001-82(0) 000027238 |Italy |70a|24|F|0|Alice_Mancini |7001-82(0) 000027252 |Italy |70a|27|F|0|Melania_Rizzo |7001-82(0) 000031167 |Sweden |70a|28|F|0|Antonia_Magnusson |7001-82(0) 000074674 |Switzerland |70a|24|F|0|Alina_Vonlanthen |7001-82(0) 000074680 |Switzerland |70a|27|F|0|Giada_Inler |7001-82(0) 000074714 |Switzerland |70b|27|F|0|Emma_Kuhn |7001-82(0) 000081258 |Norway |70a|25|F|0|Emilie_Andersen |7001-82(0) 000081278 |Norway |70a|28|F|0|Thea_Berg |7001-82(0) 000111708 |Austria |70a|29|F|0|Hannah_Fessler |7001-82(0) 000145973 |Croatia |70a|22|F|0|Dragica_Zupan |7001-82(0) 000181941 |Liechtenstein |70a|25|F|0|Leah_Fischer |7001-82(0) 000186881 |Slovakia |70a|25|F|0|Denisa_Svoboda |7001-82(0) 000186893 |Slovakia |70a|26|F|0|Eliška_Němec |7001-82(0) 000189871 |Slovenia |70a|24|F|0|Nika_Zupancic |7001-82(0) 000189880 |Slovenia |70a|25|F|0|Anja_Zupan |7001-82(0) 000189900 |Slovenia |70a|24|F|0|Eva_Potocnik |7001-82(0) 000004119 |USA |70a|26|F|0|Madison_Smith |7001-81(0) 000004125 |USA |70a|28|F|0|Rachel_Perez |7001-81(0) 000017906 |France |70a|25|F|0|Alix_Bouthillier |7001-81(0) 000017935 |France |70a|27|F|0|Sandrine_Boutin |7001-81(0) 000017956 |France |70b|23|F|0|Alix_Moreau |7001-81(0) 000027219 |Italy |70a|28|F|0|Roberta_Ricci |7001-81(0) 000027265 |Italy |70a|29|F|0|Giulia_Greco |7001-81(0) 000031210 |Sweden |70b|28|F|0|Jessica_Svensson |7001-81(0) 000055759 |Canada |70a|24|F|0|Rosalie_Hall |7001-81(0) 000055767 |Canada |70a|24|F|0|Leah_Côté |7001-81(0) 000059728 |Poland |70b|26|F|0|Hanna_Lewandowski |7001-81(0) 000074665 |Switzerland |70a|21|F|0|Aurora_Spycher |7001-81(0) 000074669 |Switzerland |70a|29|F|0|Lara_Neumann |7001-81(0) 000081256 |Norway |70a|26|F|0|Ingvild_Johannesen |7001-81(0) 000081266 |Norway |70a|30|F|0|Caroline_Johannesen |7001-81(0) 000081280 |Norway |70a|23|F|0|Emma_Hagen |7001-81(0) 000111779 |Austria |70b|27|F|0|Kerstin_Stoeckel |7001-81(0) 000181951 |Liechtenstein |70a|26|F|0|Anna_Schmidt |7001-81(0) 000189890 |Slovenia |70a|27|F|0|Julija_Kralj |7001-81(0) 000004202 |USA |70b|28|F|0|Emma_Richardson |7001-80(0) 000017888 |France |70a|29|F|0|Emmanuelle_Hachette |7001-80(0) 000017889 |France |70a|29|F|0|Chantal_Vasseur |7001-80(0) 000017909 |France |70a|25|F|0|Sandrine_Bonnel |7001-80(0) 000022770 |Germany |70a|26|F|0|Nina_Schneider |7001-80(0) 000022771 |Germany |70a|26|F|0|Anna_Wagner |7001-80(0) 000027222 |Italy |70a|23|F|0|Paola_Rizzo |7001-80(0) 000027233 |Italy |70a|24|F|0|Chiara_Gallo |7001-80(0) 000027294 |Italy |70b|25|F|0|Emma_Ferrari |7001-80(0) 000027312 |Italy |70b|26|F|0|Cristiana_Costa |7001-80(0) 000031156 |Sweden |70a|25|F|0|Nilla_Nilsson |7001-80(0) 000055761 |Canada |70a|28|F|0|Sarah_Bouchard |7001-80(0) 000059724 |Poland |70b|26|F|0|Justyna_Kaczmarek |7001-80(0) 000074667 |Switzerland |70a|24|F|0|Zoe_Inler |7001-80(0) 000074673 |Switzerland |70a|30|F|0|Lea_Inler |7001-80(0) 000074689 |Switzerland |70a|26|F|0|Elisa_Abdi |7001-80(0) 000111693 |Austria |70a|28|F|0|Marie_Wilfing |7001-80(0) 000111698 |Austria |70a|31|F|0|Claudia_Dorner |7001-80(0) 000111713 |Austria |70a|27|F|0|Lena_Eckhel |7001-80(0) 000111737 |Austria |70b|27|F|0|Hannah_Obermoser |7001-80(0) 000145961 |Croatia |70a|24|F|0|Fata_Kos |7001-80(0) 000145965 |Croatia |70a|25|F|0|Lucija_Kovacic |7001-80(0) 000145969 |Croatia |70a|27|F|0|Lana_Bozic |7001-80(0) 000181940 |Liechtenstein |70a|27|F|0|Nina_Weber |7001-80(0) 000189865 |Slovenia |70a|30|F|0|Dragica_Zupan |7001-80(0) 000189875 |Slovenia |70a|27|F|0|Zoja_Krajnc |7001-80(0) 000189887 |Slovenia |70a|27|F|0|Ana_Hribar |7001-80(0)
(The event rankings go all the way down to 35, so there's a lot more athletes, but I didn't want a gigantic list here in the thread. All 65 countries currently programmed into the game have athletes in the sport, provided that they have a national ski federation, which some countries do not)
At any rate, that's the update. Thanks for reading...see you in a month!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
Going to update quickly to say that....not much to add this month. There is work being done (both by myself and Bernie, another forum member here) on the summer sports rankings database, but still slow going this month. I'm hoping I will have more to update in December/January. Will let you know either way!
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bigb47 reacted to SecretAgentMan in Going for Gold- Development Thread
It's time for a September update, and a new development log! Not a ton of progress this month, but I thought it would be interesting to share some information on the goals I have for customizing Going for Gold
Development Log 5: Adding New Sports into the Game
One of my goals for this game is to make a flexible enough infrastructure that users can easily edit the game to add or change events, giving them opportunities to customize the game as they see fit. At present this is done via editing text files, though I would love to get the game to the point where users can work within the game to achieve the customization options that they would like to see.
To that end, I'd like to talk you through something I've been doing recently: adding new sports into the game. As I'm preparing for next summer's Olympics, I am needing to modify my events and schedules from the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. Part of the issue is that new sports have been added in, including baseball and softball, which I have been working out for demonstration purposes.
At present, the system is a bit unwieldy, as I have to edit something like 15 different text files? In the process of doing that, I establish a two-digit code for each sport, and then add data for each sport, such as each country's rankings and facilities values, as well as a general "age range" for the sport that establishes the minimum age for an international-level player of that sport, a maximum age, and a "peak age" whereby most players would reach their absolute best skill level (obviously, it's an average and not a hard rule)
After that, I have to put in place some event information for the specific events in that sport. (This is fairly simple for baseball and softball in particular, but other sports I have to end later, like Karate, will have different events and weight classes to deal with). As part of this process, I end up putting a decent amount of data into the text file. (As can be seen in the image file below)
In the file above, I've got each of the Baseball and Softball Tournaments placed with an event code, which gets repeated twice. It's a "Y" for team event, and each team has 25 players. 6 teams qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics. There are a maximum # of teams that can qualify (again, 6), and the actual structure of the event is listed as "TBD", because I have yet to put that into the text files (because they are using an odd double-elimination format for baseball). Each country has a maximum of one team that can qualify, and a minimum of 0. Even with that little bit of information, I have a lot of customization potential- I can easily change the size or structure of the tournament, or the size of each nation's roster.
After that, I also put in information into a different text file about records/standard scores, so that the program can create an accurate result for the game. (That way you won't be seeing any 35-25 sorts of scores in a baseball game) Then, I have a few more text files to add that relate to the event structure being used in the Olympics. Baseball and Softball particular will involve new structures, as they are 6-team tournaments, which is rather unusual for the Olympics. But, for many sports, there are some fairly standard structures that get used again and again and again. (For example, 12 teams in 2 groups works for Olympic Basketball and Olympic Handball, and most timed events such as swimming/track and field/skiing/etc. can use the exact same general event structure as well)
I end up with new, customized sports and events that can be inserted into the game. As I said, I'm hoping that I can eventually streamline this process a bit so that anyone can easily do it, but for right now, it's at least possible. I figured I would take you under the hood a bit this month so you can see more about how I intend the game to work.
Thanks for reading, and I'll see you in another month with another update!