u/Infamous-Street8327

About two months ago I released my first game, Wicket Empire, a cricket career sim and manager game. What I never told anyone: Wicket Empire was technically my SECOND game. I made it during a creative block on my first one… which is

TONK! Cricket.

Right now it's planned for mobile, with Steam and controller/console support coming once the full roadmap is done. So for now, here's a little sneak peek.

It won't be out until mid-to-late November, but I really wanted to get hearts pumping and show that cricket games are still well and truly alive!!!

Save the date, set a reminder, tattoo it on yourself, just get excited!

What's the one thing you'd want in a mobile cricket game? 👇

(PS: GO PLAY WICKET EMPIRE! Just search the name on Play Store)

Hi GM Games. First, an apology: I cross posted a thread here two days ago without writing a word for this community, and the mods were right to pull it. This is the proper version.

I'm 17, from Windhoek in Namibia. Football has FM, baseball has OOTP, and cricket on Android has games with energy timers and ad-gated training. The management side I wanted didn't exist, so over the last two months I built it. Version 1.3.2, public on Google Play since 3 September, no beta

One more thing, because it came up elsewhere: the game isn't AI-generated. The mods of another cricket subreddit assumed it was and banned and berated me over a post, so I'll say it plainly here. I wrote the game myself over the last two months; the website and a couple of my videos used AI tools, the game didn't.

What's in it, in GM terms:

• Live player auctions against 7 AI owners. Each owner values a player by his own squad holes and purse, so bidding wars happen to you and to him. Power bids, rival personas, marquee lots.

• A board with confidence, objectives and a memory. Every board in the game will sack you eventually. When they do, the phone still rings: club, T20 franchise and national jobs can all be held at once if you earn the calls.

• Ball-by-ball matches where you set bowler, field pressure and batting intent every delivery, with a pressure model in chases (a batter needing 16 off the last over doesn't play the same shot as one cruising at 40 for none). Highlights mode and delegation when you only want the season.

• Real records for every player in the world: averages, strike rates, best figures, wagon wheels of where they score. Retirements, regens, 50-year careers.

• No timers, no rating caps, nothing to buy to win. Optional rewarded ads and one short ad at an innings break, never mid-over.

Honest caveats: names are fictional, but every one is editable and name packs export and import. It's one person, so there are bugs, and every update so far has come from someone reporting one.

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wicketempire.wicketmanager

I'd rather be roasted by GM people than praised by anyone else. What would you want from a cricket GM game that this doesn't do?

Last time I posted about building a cricket manager game, way more of you read it than I expected (1.5k views, more than anything I've ever posted).

Then I realized I never actually showed the game.

(Also again this wasn't made by ai and I'm just saying that cause I was handled very meanly by another subreddits mods. Website and a few videos i made use ai though.)

So, screenshots.

What you're looking at, in order:

1. The match screen. Every ball is yours: bowler, field pressure, batting intent. Pitch, weather and scoreboard pressure change what happens.

2. The auction. Seven AI owners with their own purses and squad holes, so bidding wars happen.

3 and 4. Club, a T20 franchise and your country at the same time also the WC.

5. Your Manager Creator

6. The Jobs Menu

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wicketempire.wicketmanager

It's three days old and rough in places. Tell me what's broken. That's how every update so far has happened. Thank you all so much!! Also I have a Youtube Channel For SomeDEV LOGS. Muppet Dev.

I'm committed to improving this game until it knocks every single mobile manager game out the park.

Also this will be my last post here for a while don't wanna get banned for excessive promotion.