football-play-simulator

Program for 7 on 7 American Flag Football teams to build and simulate their playbooks.

Menu

Menu Items

Menu Order

Cycle through the different menus with ESC key

View Plays in Offensive Playbook -> View Offensive Formations -> Build Offensive Playbook -> Run Offensive Plays in Playbook

View Plays in Offensive Playbook

View the plays in the default offensive playbook

• Controls
  • left / right: cycles through all of the plays

View Offensive Formations

View all of the built in offensive formations

• Controls
  • left / right: cycles through all of the offensive formations

Offensive Playbook

There are several different options for the Offensive Playbook Menu:

• Use Default Playbook
• Load Offensive Playbook
• Create Offensive Playbook

Use Default Playbook

This will load the default playbook and allow the user to view and run the plays.

Load Offensive Playbook

This will allow the user to load a playbook from file then do the following:

• Edit the playbook
  • Add plays to the playbook
  • Edit the plays of the playbook
• View plays in the playbook
• Run plays in the playbook
• Create PDF of Playbook
  • Generates a PDF of all the plays in group of 8
    • Useful for printing off the playbook to fit into 3 play panel compartment wristband

Create Offensive Playbook

Build an offensive playbook by first selecting your offensive formation then the route for each player.

Flow for building a playbook

• First - "Formation": select the formation for the play
  • Controls:
    • enter - move to next step (select route for each player)
    • up / down - cycle through all the available formations
• Second - "Routes": select the route per player in the formation
  • Route is displayed in red on the field in front of the player Shows selected routes for each player in yellow
  • Controls:
    • Enter - to select the route for the current player
    • up / down - cycle through all the available routes
    • left / right - cycle through all of the players
    • tab - done with building play; move to confirmation step
• Third - "Confirmation": confirm the playbook page is done
  • Controls:
    • enter - confirms newly created playbook is correct and goes to Done
    • tab - goes back to routes menu
• Fourth - "Done": add the page to the playbook
  • Adds page to the playbook
  • Saves the playbook to file "Build.playbook
  • returns back to formation flow

Run Offensive Plays in Playbook

View the plays in the offensive playbook with each player running their route.

• Controls
  • left / right: cycles through the plays
  • space - pause/unpuase the running play
  • enter - restart the play

Offensive Formations

Bunch receivers - Quarterback in shotgun

• Bunch left with no receivers
• Bunch right with no receivers

Split running backs - Quarterback in shotgun

• Reciever on the left
• Reciever on the right

Twin receivers - Quarterback in shotgun

• Twins left with running back on left side
• Twins left with running back on right side
• Twins right with Running Back on left side
• Twins right with Running Back on right side

Trips receivers - Quarterback in shotgun

• Trips left with no receivers
• Trips right with no receivers

Offensive Routes

Side Agnostic Routes

• Block
• Go

Left Side Routes

• Out to sideline
• Slant - 3 yard
• Out - 5 yard
• Out - 10 yard
• In - 5 yard
• In - 10 yard
• Post - 10 yard
• Whip - 5 yard
• Out and Up - 7 yard

Right Side Routes

• Out to sideline
• Slant - 3 yard
• Out - 5 yard
• Out - 10 yard
• In - 5 yard
• In - 10 yard
• Post - 10 yard
• Whip - 5 yard
• Out and Up - 7 yard

Dependencies

Pixel

Pixel is the backbone and has a backend called PixelGL backend which uses OpenGL to render graphics. So you'll need OpenGL development libraries. More details on Pixel requirements before you can compile unless you want to see the error message[1]. I was able to run go get -u github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw then go mod vendor to pull the dependency without manually building glfw with CMake.

[1]

# github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw
vendor/github.com/go-gl/glfw/v3.3/glfw/c_glfw.go:4:10: fatal error: 'glfw/src/context.c' file not found
#include "glfw/src/context.c"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.