Matchup
Author · 2026 – present
A turn-based football strategy game.
Concept
Matchup strips football down to its strategic core. No physics, no stamina bars, no licensed squads. Just a 22×11 grid, two teams of 11, and a simple constraint: one action per turn, then possession flips. Think chess, but with a ball.
The goal was to answer a question. Can football, a sport defined by chaos, be made into a pure strategy game without losing what makes it interesting?