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Ep 38 | Build your own NFL: Tim Plum and Peter Donis of PT Games developing a PC football game that learns

Ep 38 | Build your own NFL: Tim Plum and Peter Donis of PT Games developing a PC football game that learns

FromAPBA Football Club Podcast Network


Ep 38 | Build your own NFL: Tim Plum and Peter Donis of PT Games developing a PC football game that learns

FromAPBA Football Club Podcast Network

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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Aug 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Tim Plum and Peter Donis met on a school bus in seventh grade in 1978 and have been friends and collaborators ever since. Peter introduced Tim to Dungeons and Dragons, and a lifelong friendship and game design partnership was born. Tim, a member of a Statis Pro football league for 28 years, eventually introduced his idea for a football game to Peter. (Tim also played hundreds of Statis Pro baseball games, including ’83 and ’87 Dodger replays).   

From their original Hockey Bones and Football Bones franchises has evolved the current portfolio of PT Games offerings, including a basketball game covering NBA, WNBA and NCAA hoops and the latest version of Hockey Bones.

But football is Tim’s baby, available in head-to-head or solo iterations. And coming perhaps in time for Christmas is a potential game-changer — a PC version created as a full-blown career sim.   

In their first-ever interview, Tim and Peter share a wealth of insights into their design and data-crunching strategies, and how they address age-old questions of increasing playability while also bringing a “world-building” aspect of the game.  

Video version: https://youtu.be/FtDKWDWq8rQ

PT Games website:  http://sports.ptgamesinc.com

PT Games store at DriveThru Cards: https://www.drivethrucards.com/browse/pub/493/PT-Games-Inc?src=browse493

Tim's PT Games update from May 20, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRxaWQPNnu4&ab_channel=Sports.PTGames
Released:
Aug 14, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (80)

The APBA Football Club was launched on Jan. 28, 2011. Bringing the game of APBA Football into the social media world, we offered everything from interviews with APBA icons and players, method-of-play tutorials, close study of the game's player cards and results boards, and much more. In August 2013, we held the first full APBA Football-only tournament at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton. After an initial run from 2011-16, we're back to assist in further promoting and educating the APBA community. 66s to all! For podcast ideas and feedback, email apbafootballcluboriginal@gmail.com