Hey everyone,

welcome back to the dev diary for Esport Manager: Road to Major! Today, we want to pull back the curtain on what you can expect when you first launch the game and begin your journey to esports glory. Those initial choices are crucial, setting the tone and strategy for your entire managerial career.

Right off the bat, you'll need to decide on your managerial background. We call these "Origins", and there are five distinct options to choose from when you start a new game. Think of an Origin as your unique starting advantage – a permanent boost that reflects your chosen specialty.

Maybe you're a former pro player known for inspiring locker room speeches, to give your team a natural morale boost. Or perhaps you're a financial mastermind, able to squeeze extra value out of every sponsorship deal. While the options provide specific bonuses, each one offers a meaningful nudge to your playthrough, encouraging different management styles right from the start. Choose wisely!

Once you've selected your Origin, you face your first major strategic decision: how will you enter the competitive scene? There are two distinct routes:

Take the Helm of an Existing Team: jump straight into the action by taking control of an established organization. You'll likely inherit a decent roster, some existing infrastructure, and a more stable financial situation. Sounds good, right? The catch is the weight of expectation. The board, the fans, maybe even the star players – they have history and high demands. You'll need to deliver results quickly, or you might find yourself facing the CEO and potentially looking for a new job sooner than you think! It's a path filled with immediate pressure but also immediate potential.

Fancy yourself a true visionary? Then you can choose the challenging but rewarding path of creating your own esports organization from scratch. You'll start with limited funds, no players, and a huge mountain to climb. The early days will be tough, demanding smart recruitment and careful budget management. However, the payoff is complete control. Every victory, every trophy is purely down to your vision and hard work. And let's be honest, who doesn't want to design their own team identity? You'll get to customize your own jerseys with cool colors and emblems, creating a brand that's uniquely yours!

We're really excited about how these starting options shape the game. What do you think? Which path sounds more appealing to you right now? Let us know!

Hello everybody!

Today we would like to kick-off a series of Dev Diaries about our upcoming game Esport Manager: Road to Major. In these monthly blog posts, we will try to introduce individual features of the game and explain how they will work. This first entry will be about a general overview of the game and its vision.

So let’s get right into it. If we would describe the game in a single sentence for you it would probably be: “Less complex ‘football’ manager with First Person Shooter Esport teams”. Hopefully that sounds as good to you, as it sounded to us.

In the past, we've been working on two mobile racing games and for a long time we also wanted to make a game on Steam. So we started thinking, what would be the best genre for our first game on PC and we settled on a management focus game. Why did we go with the Esport FPS? Simply because all of us played and enjoyed their fair share of competitive shooter games, especially Counter-Strike, and we really liked the idea of bringing an esport into a classical sport based management game.

And very soon after that, we decided on main design goals for the game which are:

• Authenticity – Being as close to the real experience of the esport organizations is the major focus of our game, giving you the opportunity to play within the realistic rules and tournaments.
  
• Esport atmosphere – We very much enjoy watching professional players and teams competing against each other in thrilling matches and this is something we would like to get across with our match simulations.
  
• Management focus – Hiring, financing, planning, training and developing of your team will be your bread-and-butter and we want you to be in control and make all the necessary decisions.

So this is all that we wanted to share with you this month. Please let us know what you think about it and how you like the idea. And if you’re interested in more information, feel free to join our Discord[discord.com] server and come back to us next month, when we should have a follow up post, in which we will introduce the first feature of the game!