Hi Everyone,

You can now easier switch the controller input method in the controller tab of the pause menu and in settings soon.

Let me know if this has helped.

Thanks,

Hey I’m a new dev and wondering if anyone has advice to this aspect of development.

Idea generation can come so easy when you’re very passionate about a project but how do you know when it’s time to be hands off on building more?

My game is looking ready and is deep but I can’t help perfectionist in me want to critique everything harder and fine tune it.

Can see it being tough to get 30 people in a queue or league for a season sim in some games but thoughts?

Thank you all, this game has grown a lot I'm sure you have seen it but its no where near its potential see below, some updates!

Light mode - Easier on eyes. Settings now has Light / Dark instead of Retro / Modern. Light runs through the whole game, including the loading screens, the 3D game overlays and the store. If you play outside or on a bright screen, try it. Dark is still the default.

On the court

• Smart off-ball defense. Defenders read cuts and help now instead of standing on their man.
• Pick-and-roll coverage: drop, hedge and ice, picked by who is on the floor and what scheme you run.
• AI shot selection prices the alternative, not just the shot in front of it. Fewer bad early threes.
• Off-ball offense stopped bunching. Spacing is a real solver now.
• POV camera rebuilt from scratch. It has its own heading, movement is camera-relative, and your look holds.
• Pinch to zoom in every camera.
• New rules: goaltending and basket interference, and up-and-down when you land with the ball. The 8-second call is gone.
• Draft combine: closer cameras, a 3-2-1-GO on the agility drill, and floor arrows that light up the way to the next cone.

Career

• Summer workouts redesigned: declare a focus, three blocks, burnout and setback stories, and the game remembers what you did.
• Per-save settings: court rules, injury severity, trade fairness, a narrative dial, and a rules lock.
• Rare hidden-gem prospects in the draft. Low pick, high ceiling, about one class in ten.
• Leaderboards use your real accumulated 3PT data instead of a generated number.
• All-Star weekend has a Skip to Summary if you just want the results.

GM and Coach

• Trade offers from the AI are no longer lopsided.
• Smart rotation benches injured players.
• Your coach and GM finally wear a suit instead of a block.
• Sim recaps show both crests, full All-Star box scores, and the Office has a Future tab.
• Franchise History moved to the Schedule screen where it makes sense.

MHL World

• The fictional stars now have real skill profiles, so the world is no longer statistically generic. Julian Cross is who you think he is.
• Nine franchise crests redrawn and the AAU clubs got their own.

Sound and feel

• Seven real music tracks in the hub.
• Court audio actually plays now and is mixed: dribbles, whistles, buzzer, crowd.
• Collision rumble and camera shake toned down and no longer fire on AI-only plays.
• Home-screen app: no more dead band above the nav, and the 3D stage uses the whole screen.

Stores are next. If you have been here since before launch, something is coming for you. More on that soon.

Post bugs below or in Discord. I read all of it.

Just to let you all know this game runs much smoother especially the 3D gameplay when downloaded and played through IOS or Android. There are many allocations and calculations running in game and I don’t know what I can do to fix this for web.

Of course native IOS apps have access to much more of your phones memory and processing, maybe requiring a download is the solution.

Can anyone help?

Hey everyone,

This was by far the biggest update I have pushed for My Hoop Legacy. It covers 365 commits and was mainly about fixing bugs, improving consistency, and getting the game closer to launch.

I won’t list every internal change, but here are the improvements that directly affect you while playing.

Bug fixes and stability were the priority

• Fixed multiple 3D crashes, including an error triggered by every user dunk attempt.
• Fixed sim locks that could leave a session stuck.
• Rebounds now register correctly during the tutorial.
• Camera controls no longer cause accidental passes.
• Team chemistry no longer resets after every season, and its effects now work properly.
• Injury rates were much too high and have been corrected.
• MVP voting is no longer decided by the standings.
• All-Star box scores no longer drop two selected players, and lineups should use the correct positions.
• Standings no longer tell low-seeded teams they have clinched.
• Playoff storylines no longer trigger during the offseason.
• Fixed a Community Market exploit that allowed purchases without charging the player.
• Fixed several age and development issues that treated players in their mid-20s like declining veterans.
• Fixed historical player jersey numbers, missing player heads, incorrect relationship-card colors, and several other presentation issues.

3D gameplay should feel much better

All 29 player ratings now affect live 3D gameplay. Previously, many ratings never reached the 3D engine, which could make very different players feel almost identical.

Archetypes now affect behavior too. Slashers attack the basket more, playmakers prioritize passing, shooters look for space, and defenders play more aggressively.

We also improved:

• Help defense and defensive rotations.
• Shot difficulty and green-window balance.
• Layup hand selection based on which side of the rim you attack.
• Free-throw shooting animations.
• Dunk requirements and success logic.
• Dribble moves, including a proper hesitation move.
• Shot contests, rebounding, inbounding, transition defense, and shot selection.
• Camera visibility, portrait-mode court coverage, and off-screen player indicators.

Open shots are still rewarded, but being wide open no longer makes almost the entire meter green.

Practice Gym and tutorial

There is now a proper Practice Gym with no clock, shot clock, or forced defender.

The tutorial walks new players through shooting, dribbling, finishing, rebounding, camera controls, defense, and a final one-on-one possession. Several problems that could reset your player, block progression, or fail to recognize rebounds have also been fixed.

New players can now choose between playing the tutorial or reading a shorter three-page guide.

Better players, rosters, and league history

Historical rosters have been re-rated using what those players were actually good at. Every roster player now has explicit ratings instead of relying on generic templates.

We also added:

• More accurate primes for players such as LeBron, Jordan, Kobe, Duncan, Dirk, and others.
• 140 authored draft prospects with more realistic draft-round talent levels.
• Proper depth charts instead of teams having two stars surrounded by filler.
• Position- and skill-aware archetypes—point guards will no longer be labelled “Stretch Bigs.”
• Real faces for legends and improved generated hairstyles.
• Complete histories for all 30 franchises.
• Player career timelines, rivalries, league memories, and save-specific legends.
• Career pathway moments and a proper career obituary when you retire.

Career, GM, and Coach improvements

Career storylines now trigger more reliably, characters remember what happened in your save, and older players can become mentors themselves.

GM Mode received a large pass as well:

• Text replies can make real roster changes.
• Owner objectives are visible and explain their stakes.
• Trades use one clear approval step.
• The trade block shows whether teams are interested.
• Game plans can be set manually or delegated to the coach.
• Box scores now include steals, blocks, and shooting numbers.
• Franchise history and draft grades persist properly.

Coach Mode can now play games instead of only watching them, with improved opponent preparation, scheduling, recruiting battles, scouting, and season presentation.

UI and Quality Of Life improvements

• Faster screen transitions and better button feedback.
• More useful Game Guide pages with real thresholds and explanations.
• Disabled buttons now explain why they are unavailable.
• Box scores, league leaders, and player profiles should agree with one another.
• Sim recaps include shooting splits and full tap-through box scores.
• Improved team crests, jerseys, player portraits, borders, lighting, and retro presentation.
• Better language support throughout the hub.

This still isn’t every change, but it covers the improvements players are most likely to notice.

Bug fixing remains the priority as we move toward launch. If you run into something, please include your game mode, device, and what happened right before the issue it makes tracking these problems down much faster.

Thanks to everyone who has been playing, testing, and sending feedback.

**Mobile Game**

Many of you have commented saying that you either like or don't like game which I love but I am left with little useable feedback. I am wanting your thoughts on specifically what you like don't like and more.

Of course somethings are apparent and I have a list of bugs and tweaks to polish things.

But overall in goal of creating an immersive enjoyable simulation/basketball game, what hits and what misses the mark

I have little coding experience hate on AI will be ignored, my expertise is sql querying which allowed me to build the database and calculations for game engine and player components to support. I have no UI or game development experience before this.

Thanks,

This was a major stability + Career/gameplay tuning window.

What you’ll actually notice in Career / gameplay

Better in-game basketball feel

Fixed inbound weirdness (including the ball teleporting back to the inbounder).

Improved spacing and inbound claiming.

Shot timing + ball anchoring fixes (jump balls, free-throw/sub timing races, layups/FT/post-up alignment).

Prevented unrealistic heaves from “going in.”

More reliable Career progression

Fixed the broken “local vs cloud save” prompt so the selected choice actually becomes authoritative everywhere.

Improved save syncing and discovery across devices.

Fixed a save security issue in the legacy delete flow.

Improved “save healing” for missing/corrupted/older-format issues.

Playoffs & simulation got real fixes

Hopefully fixed players getting stuck after game 82 with no playoff access.

Corrected bracket/seeding generation and playoff stat handling.

Reduced simulation distortions (AI scoring inflation / overly dominant stat lines).

Elite teams are stronger and less “randomly” knocked down andteams behind the playoff race will still tank to chase draft positioning.

Story and Text delivery system upgraded

Storytexts/events now require meaningful triggers (role/team/relationships/performance/story context), with repetition controls and better duplicate prevention.

Fixed edge cases like simulated vs live message expiration.

I agree the texts and events are too much and annoyingly repetitive

League and Draft class behavior

Added a shared fictional league world with recurring league voices and connected histories.

Default draft is now Default / Randomized only, and off-season navigation opens the full 2-page community draft library.

Historical prospects now load better ratings (no scouting inflation rerolls).

Fixed age/rating issues like LeBron (now correctly 18 years old, 85 OVR, and the only 85-rated historical prospect).

Economy / progression tuning

Reduced the attribute upgrade price curve ~10%

Adjusted rookie usage boost + made summer training bonuses more consistent (whole- number ratings, OVR impact, one-season effect)

Still in progress (not for this patch)

Playable 3D practice tutorial (design done, gameplay wiring not fully committed yet)

Bigger Career storyline catalog + some media/cutscene plans

AdSense confirmation not yet live

Premium/store redesign + Ad-related public setup work still pending deployment/verification

I've been working on My Hoop Legacy for almost two years now, and I'm finally opening it up for testing. It's a mobile basketball sim built around a blocky/retro 3D game engine, with three full game modes. It is meant for mobile and eventually will be released on IOS and Android but I am working on cleaning up the desktop or laptop version.

Career lets you create a player and live the whole journey — college, the draft, and a full NBA career — with a deep skill tree, signature moves, badges, sponsorships, and a text/relationship system with teammates, agents, and media that actually shapes your story as you go.

GM puts you in charge of an entire front office: trades, cap management, draft scouting with private workouts, facility and staff upgrades, and a season-long relationship with ownership where ambition, budget, and job security are all genuinely on the line.

Coach has you building a college program from scratch through recruiting, a real staff, and a playbook, with the option to climb all the way up into the NBA coach ranks.

Every game can be played out live in 3D — full arena crowds, a shot-stick control scheme, real box scores and shot charts — or simulated if you just want to manage and watch the results roll in. I've also put a lot of work into building real historical NBA rosters and draft classes, so you can start a rebuild or a career in a specific era with actual players and actual draft boards instead of generic fictional teams.

This is currently a web build for testing, but it's eventually headed to become a proper phone app. Longer term, I'm hoping to build out online gameplay, a persistent world/environment, and real multiplayer modes.

Development is very much ongoing — there's a long list of features and polish still planned — but I want to get more people testing it at this stage to catch bugs and hear what's working (or not). Any feedback, bug reports, or suggestions are genuinely welcome and will directly shape what gets built next.

Let me know what you think!!!

https://my-hoop-legacy.fly.dev/