BasketRogue

BasketRogue is on the App Store for iPhone, Mac and Vision Pro. You draft a squad, pick an X-Factor that defines the run, and play your way across a map of American cities — three choices of where to go next after every win, the route reversing direction each time you finish a league, bosses every fifth game, and the odd rivalry night where every opponent is a point better at everything.

A game is three possessions each, most points wins, overtime if it is tied. That is deliberately short, because the interesting part is not the scoreline — it is that every offensive action is answered. Shoot and the defender picks how to contest it. Pass and he decides whether to sit on the receiver or gamble on the lane. Drive and he chooses to cut you off, absorb the contact, or reach in. Each possession gives you an energy pool, nearly everything costs some of it, and at zero your only choices are a rushed shot or a turnover.

Underneath it is a probability model rather than an animation. A three starts around 36%, a mid-range 52%, a layup 75%, and then everything moves it: the shooter against that defender, strength in the post, whether you built an advantage, whether the shot was rushed, whether he is on a streak. Players run hot and cold — two makes and a shooter gets better, two misses and he gets worse, four hard actions in a row and he tires until you pass out of it. Bosses change a rule rather than just having better numbers: no threes at all, passing and driving cost extra, no fakes, or rebounds nearly impossible to get. From the eleventh round on, your own players start degrading, so a run ends eventually whatever you do.

There is not a single image or sound file in the project. Every sprite is drawn in code and every sound is generated as the game runs — about thirteen thousand lines of it, in Godot.