Category: Accessible Games
I'm curious to know if any other members on this site play the online football/soccer game over at
Freekick.org
For those who have never heard of the game it is a football management simulator game which is completely text driven thus highly accessible to us visually impaired people.
In the game you take ctrl of your own club and start with a small ground, with limited funds, in a low division with a squad of twenty eight players. Fourteen senior players, meaning twenty one or older, and fourteen youth team players, twenty or younger.
The idea of the game is then to take your club up through the divisions using your managerial acumen.
Of course with games like these there is no hard and fast rules. No right or wrong way to do things. Some people choose to go out and try and buy success, others prefer to plow cash into the little league/youth setups and try and build success from the bottom up.
You effectively become the coach of not one but two sides in the game because your youth and senior teams play in separate divisions which are completely independent from each other. The only link being that once a youth team player reaches the age of 21, he is then not eligible to play for the youth team any longer after the current season has ended.
Both youth and senior divisions are split into groups of fourteen sides which means that you play thirteen games a season with one off week between seasons. Games are played once a week, Saturday matches for the youth team and then Sunday matches for senior teams. There are also cup competitions that you play in plus you also have the option of playing a friendly match every week if you so desire.
There is a lot more to the game of course but I'd be spoiling everybody's fun if I went ahead and revealed everything here.
If anybody wishes to take a look at the game though then just click the link above and of course, if any help is needed, I think it's fair to say at this stage that I'm a veteran so just jump in here and ask questions. I'm pretty close to racking up three years now on the game and have gotten my side up to the second division in that time.
Also if there are any users currently playing the game who happen to be members of this site then chuck a friendly challenge in the direction of Essex county.
Dan.
thanks dan, i think i might have a look at that. i never knew there were football manager simulators out there, it should be fun. and lol, i have plenty of time on my hands anyway
sounds fun Dan. I'll check that one out.
just a note: the site is back up now