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https://basketball-gm.com/ https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from

https://basketball-gm.com/ https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

mattbroekhuis 10y ago
Very cool. Where do you get your stats from?
- streptomycin 10y ago
  Thanks! I wrote a basketball simulation engine, it does a play-by-play sim of every game.
  - truth_sentinell 10y ago
    In what language?
    - calahad 10y ago
      javascript
      - streptomycin 10y ago
        Specifically: https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm
deepaksurti 10y ago
This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.
- streptomycin 10y ago
  Yeah, that's the reason I don't use real players :) A lot of similar games simply ignore the law and pray they don't get sued (or that the publicity from a lawsuit would actually be good). But I do have support for uploading custom leagues, and people have made them with various real leagues like the NBA https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/tag/2017.0.6 https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/t... and the Philippine Basketball Association http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.txt http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.tx...
  - CoryG89 10y ago
    This seems like a good idea. Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names. I had previously mulled over trying to make a fantasy sports site using bitcoin, but since I am based in the US, the gambling laws are too prohibitive, even just using bitcoin.
    - noir_lord 10y ago
      > Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names. Probably not but I think they might be able to send a DMCA notice.
j8m88 10y ago
Cool little game you got there. Do you have this on iOS or Android?
- streptomycin 10y ago
  No, but it runs in Firefox and Chrome on Android, and it'll run on iOS too once Apple releases a good version of Safari or allows competent browser devs to publish better browsers :)
taphangum 10y ago
Where did you get the initial traffic?
- streptomycin 10y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_singleplayer_basketball_management/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_single... got some initial traffic, and then it grew steadily for a while (although it seems to have reached a plateau this year).
  - taphangum 10y ago
    Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.

https://basketball-gm.com/ https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

mattbroekhuis 10y ago

Very cool. Where do you get your stats from?

streptomycin 10y ago
Thanks! I wrote a basketball simulation engine, it does a play-by-play sim of every game.
- truth_sentinell 10y ago
  In what language?
  - calahad 10y ago
    javascript
    - streptomycin 10y ago
      Specifically: https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm

deepaksurti 10y ago

This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.

streptomycin 10y ago
Yeah, that's the reason I don't use real players :) A lot of similar games simply ignore the law and pray they don't get sued (or that the publicity from a lawsuit would actually be good). But I do have support for uploading custom leagues, and people have made them with various real leagues like the NBA https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/tag/2017.0.6 https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/t... and the Philippine Basketball Association http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.txt http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.tx...
- CoryG89 10y ago
  This seems like a good idea. Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names. I had previously mulled over trying to make a fantasy sports site using bitcoin, but since I am based in the US, the gambling laws are too prohibitive, even just using bitcoin.
  - noir_lord 10y ago
    > Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names. Probably not but I think they might be able to send a DMCA notice.

j8m88 10y ago

Cool little game you got there. Do you have this on iOS or Android?

streptomycin 10y ago
No, but it runs in Firefox and Chrome on Android, and it'll run on iOS too once Apple releases a good version of Safari or allows competent browser devs to publish better browsers :)

taphangum 10y ago

Where did you get the initial traffic?

streptomycin 10y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_singleplayer_basketball_management/ https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_single... got some initial traffic, and then it grew steadily for a while (although it seems to have reached a plateau this year).
- taphangum 10y ago
  Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.