- Coming Soon: Front Office Football Nine - 8 October 2023
Front Office Football Nine was built on an entirely new code base, designed for simulation speed, growth and flexibility. The list of new features is extensive: An intuitive interface, redesigned from the moment you enter a new career. The emphasis is on clear, quick navigation to the information you want to see. Flexible league sizes and structures. Front Office Football Nine ships with 17 different league configurations, ranging from nine teams to 32. Each configuration has a designated schedule rotation ensuring teams play a fair schedule each season. Franchises can be based in default cities or randomly assigned when you start a new universe. Calendar-based actions. Each year has a month/day calendar, with important dates highlighted. A Team Management screen is always available, with links and descriptions of everything you can do for your team on that day. You can simulate to any…
- Steam Sports Fest Sale - 11 May 2023
As part of Steam's week-long Sports Fest, Solecismic Software is offering a 20% discount on Front Office Football Eight. The sale begins on May 15 at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. In Front Office Football, you play the role of your favorite team's general manager. You determine your team's future through trading with opponents, negotiating contracts, bidding for free agents and building through the annual amateur draft. You can also play the role of the armchair coach, setting game plans and depth charts, or even calling each play from an extensive playbook. You can determine ticket prices and submit stadium construction plans for public approval. You can even move your team if the public won't properly support your franchise. Front Office Football Eight includes a multi-player career mode with full ftp support, allowing you to compete in a league with up to 31 other enthusiastic general mana…
- Front Office Football Development - 20 February 2021
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly,” - Henri-Louis Bergson Today marks 23 years since I was last employed. I’ve enjoyed creating Front Office Football and shepherding it through eight full versions and numerous large updates. I’ve learned to solve a wide variety of issues related to running a business. And now it’s time for something new. This week, I began a job with a startup company. This is an exciting opportunity for me, one that will bring brand new challenges and use many of the skills I’ve built over the last 23 years. The computer gaming industry has grown enormously during that time. When I started, computers simply weren’t big enough to support the development work of many programmers. A lot has changed since the ‘90s. About ten years ago, I started to feel I couldn’t work on the heart of Front Office Football as m…
- Front Office Football Eight, Version 8.4 Update - 20 February 2021
This is a small update to allow players to begin new careers with the 2020 season. - Added player and other data files for 2020 season - Modified chooser, to allow start in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020
- 8.2a Update - 27 October 2018
We released version 8.2a in an attempt to handle an issue where the game doesn't properly handle some display requests on systems using 4K resolutions. Hopefully, this will solve all of these display issues. We apologize to those affected. It was an inadvertent issue caused by updating our Microsoft Visual Studio version. There are also fixes in place designed to ensure that the playbook and offensive game plan screens react properly to play deletion.
- Version 8.2 Released - 22 October 2018
Front Office Football Eight has been updated to Version 8.2. The update contains the 2018 player file, coaching file and schedule. New games will default to using these files and will begin in 2018 with the current salary cap structure This update will not affect saved games, though you should review the notes below for key details. The update includes new intermediate game-planning screens. These allow a little more fine-tuning of playbooks and game plans without having to design everything from scratch. You will still benefit from doing everything by hand, but the guided plans will allow considerable customization of your offensive game plan without having to spend hours working on every play. During the season, you will able to install up to 12 new plays to your playbook each week. If you're at the limit of 200, you will have to delete plays to make room for the new ones. If you are…
- Front Office Football, Version 8.1 Released - 24 October 2017
Front Office Football Eight has been updated to Version 8.1. New games now default to using the new 2017 player file and coach file, and use the 2017 schedule. This update "moves" the San Diego franchise to the Los Angeles area for new careers. In order to have this reflected in new careers, you will need to delete the files beginning with frfoot.* in the universe folder where saved games are stored (see the FAQ at solecismic.com for instructions on how to find this folder if you're not already familiar with saved games). There are also a few minor AI tweaks, bug fixes and interface enhancements. Nothing earth-shattering. None of this will affect saved games. The only bug fixes relate to removing players from IR and a couple of penalty decision quirks. The biggest AI tweaks relate to late-game defensive calls (this is very tricky for many reasons), AI passing targets and classification…
- Front Office Football, Version 8.1 Released - 24 October 2017
Front Office Football Eight has been updated to Version 8.1. New games now default to using the new 2017 player file and coach file, and use the 2017 schedule. This update "moves" the San Diego franchise to the Los Angeles area for new careers. In order to have this reflected in new careers, you will need to delete the files beginning with frfoot.* in the universe folder where saved games are stored (see the FAQ at solecismic.com for instructions on how to find this folder if you're not already familiar with saved games). There are also a few minor AI tweaks, bug fixes and interface enhancements. Nothing earth-shattering. None of this will affect saved games. The only bug fixes relate to removing players from IR and a couple of penalty decision quirks. The biggest AI tweaks relate to late-game defensive calls (this is very tricky for many reasons), AI passing targets and classification…
- Front Office Football Eight, Version 8.0a - 1 December 2016
The 8.0a update was uploaded late on November 30. Your Steam installation will update automatically. You can check which version you have by looking at the About box (Solecisimic icon on the menu bar). There's a lot in the update. As always, if you have any customer support issues related to the game, check the game's help file (F1 from any screen). Go to http://www.solecismic.com if you need additional support.
- Front Office Football Eight, Version 8.0a - 1 December 2016
The 8.0a update was uploaded late on November 30. Your Steam installation will update automatically. You can check which version you have by looking at the About box (Solecisimic icon on the menu bar). There's a lot in the update. As always, if you have any customer support issues related to the game, check the game's help file (F1 from any screen). Go to http://www.solecismic.com if you need additional support.
- Initial Discount Expires Wednesday - 30 November 2016
The initial 10% discount on Front Office Football Eight sales expires on Wednesday, one week from the initial release of the product. We also plan to release a minor update some time on Wednesday (these are usually late at night) to address issues found in the last few days. Not everything will be included, but a large percentage of the initial bug and suggestion reports. When there's an update, you'll usually receive it automatically at some point that day. If you are using custom graphics in the installation file, it's likely those will be replaced. So it's a good idea to keep those custom graphics backed up and ready to put right back in there.
- Initial Discount Expires Wednesday - 30 November 2016
The initial 10% discount on Front Office Football Eight sales expires on Wednesday, one week from the initial release of the product. We also plan to release a minor update some time on Wednesday (these are usually late at night) to address issues found in the last few days. Not everything will be included, but a large percentage of the initial bug and suggestion reports. When there's an update, you'll usually receive it automatically at some point that day. If you are using custom graphics in the installation file, it's likely those will be replaced. So it's a good idea to keep those custom graphics backed up and ready to put right back in there.
