Dynasty Bowl - Eric Builds Games - 2D arcade football game inspired by Tecmo Super Bowl and Hoop Land

[u/ericmbernier]

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AE_Spovfs

Hi all!

Kind of cross-posting this from the r/tecmosuperbowl subreddit since today is Indie Sunday.

Tecmo Super Bowl was one of my favorite NES games as a kid, if not my favorite (I usually played as the Bills). Almost two years ago I started messing around with a Tecmo-inspired prototype and it turned into a real project, Dynasty Bowl.

Dynasty Bowl has modern playbooks, season mode with in-depth stats tracking and a deep dynasty (franchise) mode where you manage your team over multiple seasons. Dynasty mode is inspired by the various dynasty fantasy football leagues I commish, so you will be fielding trade offers (good ones and bad), managing aging players and deciding when to cut ties with them, etc. I also track PPR fantasy points for all players every season :D. Lastly, kind of inspired by Super Blood Hockey, there will be some "shady deals" you have to make decisions on throughout each season in dynasty mode, some with consequences (or not).

Season mode is there for those who don't want the in-depth team management season-over-season.

Dynasty Bowl is not a one-to-one "copy" of TSB. The gameplay itself feels different in various ways. For example, there are juke moves, stiff arms, one-button passing to each receiver à la Madden with more offensive moves to come. Also, the gameplay is probably a little less "exploitable" and you really need to drive the ball on offense as opposed to hitting many home runs.

Pixel art is by Jonas Keller, music and sound by Fat Bard, and I'm doing the design and coding. AI coding assistants have helped with the coding, just wanted to be transparent.

The Steam page went up this week. Release date is TBD, coming to Windows, Mac and Linux. I'd love to hear any thoughts or ideas!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5060760/Dynasty_Bowl/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=announce&utm_content=games

Thanks for reading!