Extra Points’ Matt Brown, our main source for EA Sports College Football licensing scoops, has released Athletic Director Simulator 3000. With Apple IIe-inspired graphics and 8-bit audio, ADS3000 is a love letter to mid-1980s educational computer games, but with a modern twist.
ADS3000 asks players to take over as the athletic director of a low-major D-I university, managing real-world scenarios, while balancing a department budget, fan support, and athletic success. Players who are successful managers may get promoted to mid and high-major programs (that face different challenges), while players who make poor decisions will be fired. Just like in the real world, there are no right answers, and no two playthroughs of the game will be identical.
Matt designed the game not only to provide entertainment to players but also to offer readers a deeper insight into the intricate workings of managing an athletic department in the realm of college sports. To achieve this, both Extra Points and D1.ticker, drawing from their wealth of experience and expert advice from the industry, have extensively covered administrative matters in college sports, crafting the game’s questions, probabilities, and other elements. Matt is confident that not only regular fans but also students studying college athletics administration will find enjoyment and valuable learning opportunities through this project.
If you’re interested in trying it out, you can access it by clicking here. The game is currently available for free until July 22. After that, it will be accessible only to EP subscribers, who pay $8 per month or $75 per year, which also includes the newsletter.
For more information on Athletic Director Simulator 3000, be sure to check out his EP post. Additionally, you can find an in-depth interview about the game at Awful Announcing.
- Built with Construct 3 and Java
- Game library includes more than 100 different potential scenarios across low, mid and high majors, each with multiple answers. Questions (and success rates) are randomized, so no two playthroughs will be exactly the same
- Built by Extra Points, a newsletter reaching 15k+ readers that covers off-the-field stories that shape college athletics
- ADS3000 will be regularly updated all football season, adding new features, variables, art, and questions…pulled from the news, history, and interviews with administrators and industry professionals
- Steam/Google Play-only version will hopefully come later in 2023
