Achievement Unlocker Branch

achievement_unlocker

Hello Folks.

As you probably already know, I recently announced this game was dead and revealed my plans to remove it from Steam since I have now released the significantly better version "TableTop Soccer: Redux".

When I announced that I was going to remove it, there was a sudden surge of people interested in getting this game. I explained the game is functionally dead, since my online server for this game no longer runs and you cannot load the game without that server (which incidentally is one of the many, many things I improved in the new game).

It seems that most people were buying the game for three reasons

• It has trading cards (which still work if you just run the game for long enough you should get them)

• It has 20 achievements to collect

• Adding a title your collection of games

While you can get the cards by just leaving it running for a bit, since the game no longer plays you cannot get any achievements. At least, until today.

At the request of the community here, I have added a new branch to the game called "achievement_unlocker". If you swap to that branch and run the game, you will get a very simple screen with some text and 2 buttons. Click the Unlock All Achievement buttons, it should take about 20 seconds and they will all be unlocked. I have tested this myself on PC, and had a friend confirm it worked for them. However I have not been able to test this for Mac or Linux. It should work, but if you have problems LMK and we can figure it out.

If you don't know how to swap branches, it's super easy:

1. Right click "TableTop Soccer" in your game list

2. Select "Properties"

3. Goto "Game Versions & Betas"

4. Select the branch "achievement_unlocker"

5. The game will now update to that branch in a couple mins, just run the game.

6. Click the button when it launches to unlock everything

What now for this game?

This game is dead! However, I did promise the community I would make an honest attempt to make it possible to run the old game by getting the server code out there in a way that you can run it on your PC (a Docker image is my current plan). I haven't had a chance to do this yet, but sometime in the next month or two I will give this a go one rainy saturday afternoon. Before I do this though I have to get some way more exciting updates out for the new game! I also make no promises this is even possible, but I said I would try, and I will do so.

One More Thing (if you got like 30 more seconds)

You probably only picked up this game since it's super cheap (and always has been) and you get cards & achievements. You probably never actually got to play this game in the 10 years I kept the online servers going.

There were a couple things that I think were universally agreed on by people that did play it though.

1. It was a good idea/concept. It's an original take on football/soccer

2. It was super fun to play against a friend online

3. The implementation / interface / graphics were all janky as hell (it was my first game, I didn't know what I was doing).

This is why I made the new version of this game, to take that same idea but make it slick. To fix all the technical issues that