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  • Mr Football Beta sign-up form

    Mr Football Beta sign-up form

    It has taken almost five years of Phaser/Firebase/Midjourney game development to get to this point, after Mr Football started in 2009 as a Web browser game. I am very pleased to open sign-ups for the Mr Football closed beta. You are in an alternate timeline that diverged from our own back in the 1980s. Allen…


  • Mr Football beta FAQ

    Mr Football beta FAQ

    The closed beta for Mr Football ran for three months with some hardy souls asking some obvious and not-so-obvious questions, which forms the basis for this list of Frequently Asked Questions about the game. (This FAQ is written by m0nty, a.k.a. Paul Montgomery, the sole developer of the game.) What kind of game is Mr…


  • Beta weeks 10-12: The finish line!

    Beta weeks 10-12: The finish line!

    I hadn’t realised that I missed two weeks in a row of devlog updates until I opened the Tickle Monster site just now. I have been head down bum up on the trudge to the finish line, and I have finally breasted the tape. Mr Football version 0.5.0 is in the can, which is to…


  • Beta week 9: back on the training track

    Beta week 9: back on the training track

    Short week on the blog, as I had been letting things slip such that I was blogging on Wednesdays rather than the usual Sunday evening. It’s another week where I don’t seem to have ticked off a whole lot of features. At least I was fully focused on the game this week, putting in the…