Du Malone writes: With FootballManager, I find it's a matter of feast or famine. Either I'm playing intensively or I'm on a weeks-long or, as now, months-long sabbatical. Addiction In the intensive periods, playing the game can come to feel addictive. Last November, for example: on three consecutive weekends I said to myself, when making … Continue reading What makes Football Manager addictive?
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Good practice in FM content creation: how Creative Commons contributes
Image: Sharing music. Roman style by Ed Yourdon, generously made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY NC-SA 2.0) licence. Source: Flickr. This post is the sixth in a series called Sharing FM. When planning this series of posts, I envisaged it culminating in a showcase of good practice regarding use of Creative Commons … Continue reading Good practice in FM content creation: how Creative Commons contributes
Supporting creativity in FM content: how to use Creative Commons
Image: Sharing music. Roman style by Ed Yourdon, generously made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY NC-SA 2.0) licence. Source: Flickr. This post is the fifth in a series called Sharing FM. So far this series of posts has focused on questions of creativity – specifically regarding the sharing of each other’s … Continue reading Supporting creativity in FM content: how to use Creative Commons
The silver lining for FM content
Image: Sharing music. Roman style by Ed Yourdon, generously made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY NC-SA 2.0) licence. Source: Flickr. This post is the fourth in a series called Sharing FM. You write an FM blog. You’d like to incorporate other people’s content – their photographs or diagrams, for example. But you … Continue reading The silver lining for FM content
FM content: isn’t it good to share?
Image: Sharing music. Roman style by Ed Yourdon, generously made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY NC-SA 2.0) licence. Source: Flickr. This post is the third in a series called Sharing FM. If you’ve read the previous post in this series, you’ll know that I think there’s a problem concerning the business … Continue reading FM content: isn’t it good to share?
In which storm clouds gather over FM content
This post is the second in a series called Sharing FM. The previous post in this series celebrated the visual aesthetics of FM blogs, which I likened to an online festival. But I added that, looming above, were some storm clouds. If all the images you use on your blog are yours, then keep on … Continue reading In which storm clouds gather over FM content
Online festival of FM content
Image: 2012 Latin Festival by Sangudo, generously made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) licence. Source: flickr. This post is the first in a series called Sharing FM. Blog posts can consist of nothing but words. Typically, though, they include images of some form – photographs, in-game videos, tactical diagrams, GIFs, … Continue reading Online festival of FM content
FM21 Touch | The Sidekick
Du Malone writes: On his Technical area podcast Gaffer Graemo has already provided a discussion of FM21 on Touch, Xbox, and mobile. Here I reblog a post from his blog in which he focuses in detail on his engagement with the Touch version.
This was just meant to be a podcast, but as I started writing the script, I felt that a blog post was needed to share what I wanted to write about. I feel that FM21 Touch has a lot going for it this year, deserving some sort of review here, allowing me to share with the community an insight into the game and also offering me an opportunity to create a story, just like I do with the full fat version of the game
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The hegemony of tactics
Tactics, tactics, everywhere! Tactics form a staple, indeed central, topic in FM content. In this blog, I've pursued an alternative. My aim has been, not to avoid tactics altogether, but to downplay the topic and shift the emphasis onto other aspects of FM. Three reasons lie behind this stance: for readers who wish to … Continue reading The hegemony of tactics
Thinking about personality: beyond good and evil
Du Malone writes: There's a natural tendency, when thinking about personality on FM, to adopt a Manichean mentality, seeking to divide personality types into those that are good and those that are bad. There is, I think, some truth in this. Take, for example, the mercifully rare 'spineless' type. I haven't managed to think of … Continue reading Thinking about personality: beyond good and evil
