This is a great idea. Dress one of your mediocre male runners as female, let him identify as a woman and suddenly you have a world class female athlete. Falsify the birth dates of African runners to dominate youth running. Scout talented runners in regions with lot's of inbreeding, for example the Middle East or Africa, so there is a higher chance of intersex runners. Falsify TUE's. Buy secret shoes which give you an advantage. There are so many possibilities for a game.
There is Zwift for runners. Where people actually pay monthly fee for running on threadmill over the streets. Do not know if they are going to add TandF to it, and how that can work since many threadmills are 10miles/hour tooped.
This sounds kind of cool actually. Something like Football Manager where some legit clubs actually use the software for scouting. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (current manager of Manchester United) used to play this game a lot. It would be cool if you could somehow model the algorithm off actual race results so it would feel kind of realistic.
Back in the day, middle-distance running was so popular in the UK, that they even made a successful video game of it.
What are you playing right now, guys ?
Why didn’t anyone tell me about this some months ago?!
Or hook up your Fitbit to compete against others. Have a leaderboard, fastest splits. Compete WORLDWIDE. ???
Ozzie wrote:
What if it was like Mario Cart, where you could get things like banana peels and throw them at other runners? Or if you get too far behind you find some epo on the course and it brings you back up to the front? Or maybe a game like Nintendo's Excite Bike, where you actually get to build the course and then run it (in excite bike, you biked it)? Not as sciency as the game you described, but maybe pretty fun.
I like that^^^
Break the 4th wall. We don’t need ncaa stuff anymore. Anybody can compete against anyone 24/7. Just wear your Fitbit and have the leaderboard, fastest pace, splits, all that Jazz.
You could have it split up by schools, ability levels, age level.
I like your game idea. I see it as sort of a sims like game. I wonder how broad the appeal would be.
But this is also a chance to share one of my favorite bits of the internet!
Its a college running simulator, including references to LetsRun and other silly runner nerd stuff.
I guess no one is old enough to remember the Nintendo power pad. Of course there was a track video game.
the op here basically just wants a "football manager" for running. youre welcome
There is actually a running game. Created by some high school (San Diego), turn college runners (BYU). It's called Hay Bales.
https://ca.milesplit.com/articles/278171/jump-hay-bales-with-socal-twins-in-xc-video-game
The dream race in Mario and Sonic at the Olympics games was fun. Kinda like a steeplechase with items like MarioKart.
The Predictor wrote:
the op here basically just wants a "football manager" for running. youre welcome
Don’t we all want that?
Honestly if someone was developing something similar with the ability to play with others I would support something like that on Patreon.
I'm training 3 times a week with SportMe Marathon Trainer and I'm more self-confident and less anxious. I's amazing what running can do for me.
There is a lot of running, walking and all kind of sports simulators online, some of them are free, some you need to purchase. So I have to say that I don't really see any sense for the moment in creating any running video games, to be honest. I'm currently playing desperados III and sometimes It's so tense that I feel like it's me running and fighting in the game. In fact, that's the only reason I bought the game, because of the thrills. I used https://www.gamescompare.net/desperados-iii-p94906 to get it at a good price which is a plus. Still, I would recommend running and exercising for real more, rather than doing it online.