Basketball Career Open Source Project

Introduction

This project was started back in 1998. I always loved playing basketball, both in real life and computer games. However, I've never seen any basketball game which is centered around single player - you. Some kind of combination of RPG and sports. And I believe such game genre is really interesting. In fact, I knew nothing of any such games.

At best a graphical game would be the best - so something like NBA Live, but where you can only play as a single player, which is actually possible in NBA Live, but the opponents play awfully bad when you're in charge of only one player. But being realistic, only text-based home-made game would be possible, so that was the target.

The first attempt (version 0.01) was quite interesting to play, but had much more potential than what was implemented. I decided to reopen the project 5 years later in late 2003 and also make it open source. By this time I had many ideas and also finally one similiar game has appeared on the market (Inside the park baseball).

Features

Here are some features of the game, which are already implemented:

Play as a developing basketball player
All players in the game rated in a number of categories: Shooting (2pt Field Goals, Free Throws , 3-pointers), Rebounding (Offensive, Defensive), Stealing, Blocking, Passing, Ball Handling, Offensive and Defensive agression, Strength.
Generate your character at 7 years old, customizing his playing position and distributing some initial points among the ratings.
Choose 1 of the 4 difficulty levels.
During your 6-years boy career you're able to choose which team to play with, when and which ratings to train (individual and team training).
Watch box score of every game played by your player.
Check out a lot of game stats and records, both your player's and around the league.

Download

You can get all the files in the sourceforge project's page or download it from here:
Download the latest binary (200K)
Download the latest source (Delphi 5) (45K)

What's new

Currently I want to re-do the game from scratch because I didn't use databases at all in the old code, and also I want to completely re-organize the game. I'm in process of creating a game design document (GDD), which will describe what I want to achive in the new game. When it is finished, everybody is welcomed to post ideas.
You can discuss the game, suggest your ideas and features in the forum.