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Steam News16 August 20232y ago

Presenting: Soccer With Satan

TLDR; The game is no longer called A Bad Game Of Football. The new title is Soccer With Satan! We think it is better, and we hope you agree! So why did we change it?

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addedTLDR; The game is no longer called A Bad Game Of Football. The new title is Soccer With Satan! We think it is better, and we hope you agree!
changedFor a long time, the title “A Bad Game Of Football” has not sat right with us. The old title did not describe the gameplay very well, nor did it in any way refer to the fact that the game is set in Hell. It felt imprecise, clumsy to use in conversations, and also the vibe of it too jokey - as if we were trying too hard to be funny.
addedWe have played around with ideas for new names for some time, but we had yet to experience the magical feelong of “That’s it!!!”
changedThis is the one. We both feel it. Playful, succinct and easy to communicate. The ‘T’ in Satan even spells an upside down cross!
addedWhatever it is, we think Soccer With Satan is easier to say, it is more descriptive, and the associations we get from this title is more in line with what the game is actually about - unserious soccer, played violently. We hope you agree, and find this new name more appealing.

Soccer With Satan changes

addedTLDR; The game is no longer called A Bad Game Of Football. The new title is Soccer With Satan! We think it is better, and we hope you agree!
changedFor a long time, the title “A Bad Game Of Football” has not sat right with us. The old title did not describe the gameplay very well, nor did it in any way refer to the fact that the game is set in Hell. It felt imprecise, clumsy to use in conversations, and also the vibe of it too jokey - as if we were trying too hard to be funny.
addedWe have played around with ideas for new names for some time, but we had yet to experience the magical feelong of “That’s it!!!”
changedThis is the one. We both feel it. Playful, succinct and easy to communicate. The ‘T’ in Satan even spells an upside down cross!
addedWhatever it is, we think Soccer With Satan is easier to say, it is more descriptive, and the associations we get from this title is more in line with what the game is actually about - unserious soccer, played violently. We hope you agree, and find this new name more appealing.

TLDR; The game is no longer called A Bad Game Of Football. The new title is Soccer With Satan! We think it is better, and we hope you agree!

So why did we change it?

For a long time, the title “A Bad Game Of Football” has not sat right with us. The old title did not describe the gameplay very well, nor did it in any way refer to the fact that the game is set in Hell. It felt imprecise, clumsy to use in conversations, and also the vibe of it too jokey - as if we were trying too hard to be funny.

The old title actually made us feel a bit embarrassed talking about our own game. And you don’t want that when you spent two years making something and should be its main advocate.

The title should reinforce your game. A.B.G.O.F. did not.

Time for change

We have played around with ideas for new names for some time, but we had yet to experience the magical feelong of “That’s it!!!”

I mean, Hellball, Goreball, FOBA - Football Online Battle Arena, Ball of Duty - Better, maybe, but not magical - Not good enough to warrant a full name change process and all that it entails in terms of in-game implementation, back-end stuff and yada yada yada.

But as we started to see the light in the end of the development tunnel, the idea of spending time on a name change felt more feasible - and still embarrassed about the old name, it would be really nice to find a name that we could stand proudly behind.

Then, one day, three short words appeared in the clouds on the horizon.

Soccer With Satan

This is the one. We both feel it. Playful, succinct and easy to communicate. The ‘T’ in Satan even spells an upside down cross!

Is this (un)divine intervention?

Whatever it is, we think Soccer With Satan is easier to say, it is more descriptive, and the associations we get from this title is more in line with what the game is actually about - unserious soccer, played violently. We hope you agree, and find this new name more appealing.

So yeah, there you have it. Our casual Soccer + RTS experiment is near complete, and we can honestly say that we are proud to present: Soccer With Satan!

Soccer With Satan is set to release on October 1st this year.

Occult regards Alex

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Steam News / 16 August 2023

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