Sports Heads Cards: Soccer Squad Swap Out Now
We’ve released a new Sports Heads game. Only: it’s not a Sports Heads game like you know it, it’s a card game.
Now I know we’re not known for these, but stick with it as it’s a game invented from scratch in Mousebreaker HQ, and we’ve all got quietly addicted to it over its development process. This is one we’ve continued to play long after the last bugs have been ironed out (touch wood).
We’ve been drawing Sports Heads for years, and realised we had over 100 footballers now, so decided to reuse them in a card game. The development process was quite fun: before even contacting a developer, we drafted out some rules and played it in the office. With real cards. Well, I say real cards: it was a spreadsheet with all the names of players on and a bunch of ratings.
So we played a hand, modfiying the rules as we went along, and eventually landed on the game you can play today, in all its fully drawn up glory. I hope you all give it a chance: I can’t say I’d call myself a card game fan, but I really like this a lot, and there’s loads of potential for more with this if you do.
Play the tutorial first. It may seem complex when you set out, but there’s not that much to it, although there is plenty of strategic thinking to win consistently.
As I invented this game and have been testing it for a long time, I’ve picked up a few tips along the way which might help you if you’re struggling to win:
- If you have to discard a card (in a hand you can’t win) go for the lowest value card, but also the one with the least fellow countrymen in play. Because even a weak Spanish/English/Italian card can be used to win a great one when doubled up with another.
- Lure out the opposition’s best cards by playing a weak card if you have another of the same nationality in your hand. E.g: You play a 72 rated English card, he plays 92 rated Portuguese card, you play your other 75 rated English card and take all 3.
- Look at the number on the bottom of the cards, which tells you how many of that nationality are in the deck, and how they rank within the list (e.g: 15/15 means there are 15 of that nationality in total, and this player is the best of them). This can help you judge the odds of your opponent being able to push you to penalties, or double down on their card.
- Keep an eye on the timer in the top right hand corner of the screen and make sure you play your best cards before 90 minutes. If the clock ends and the players are still in your hand, they’re lost.
Good luck!
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You guys really know how to invent things, and when you do, you make them awesome!
As I said before, can you please make a Sports Heads CRICKET?
Thanks Fairuz, appreciate your kind words.
As for Sports Heads Cricket… I don’t see how that would work. We get quite a lot of requests for Sports Heads games, some which would work but would have little interest (Hand Ball, for example, which just doesn’t have an interested enough fanbase) and others which have the fanbase, but wouldn’t make for a fun game (rugby, baseball, American Football) – if we can think of a way to make the mechanic work, we’ll do it, but right now we can’t see a way of making these ones work but still feel like a Sports Heads game.
I played this game last night and it was great! However, today I can’t get off the start menu. It is probably my connection, but it has been persisting.
Same computer and browser?
i have the same problem as needforsleep….
yahhhhhhhhh baseball and AMERICAN Football
yah Baseball and AMERICAN Football
Proabobly lots of work though
Great game! Unfortunately I can´t see the time on the top right after a rounds first penalty kick. Seems like a bug to me. Can you fix that?
Could you make a multiplayer version of this?
Hekto: Works fine for us here, so probably not. If it helps, each round is exactly 18 turns, so you can count your way through it to keep track.
nameless: It’s definitely possible! We were thinking about it before launch, but didn’t think it would be popular enough for it, but its really exceeded our expectations and people seem to be really liking it a lot…
When is Sports Heads Football 2012-2013 coming?
Excellent, I congratulate you for doing these fantastic games!!
Waiting for the online version!
thanx you mousebreaker for doing this
With regards to Sports Heads: Rugby, If Top Gear did car rugby, why wouldn’t it work for sports heads?
Johnny575: http://blog.mousebreaker.com/2013/01/what-sequels-are-coming-to-mousebreaker/
Namleless: I’ve not seen the clip, but it doesn’t seem like a particularly fair comparison. Sports heads is about one button gameplay (kicking, hitting, etc) – there’s no capacity to hold onto a ball, like in rugby and we don’t want to add more buttons to it because its beauty is its simplicity. There would be no tackling, no scrums, or anything like that – I really can’t see a way that it would work and be fun, but do let me know if you have any ideas!
Alan, yes it is on the same browser, and sorry that I was so late replying.
its a very good game
how can I find out the stats of every player as i want to make it so I can play it with my friends in real
Is it possible to make Sports Heads Cards available for ipod/iphone/ipad?
It’s just fabulous game, great job. it would be awesome if you can add new football players (these who are still playing) and some old stars. Definetely after this expansion, game would be totally epic.
Hello Allan!!
Been thinking about some stuff!
Do you think it’s possible to combine
Sportshead, Ultimate Football Manager and Jumper for Goalposts???
I mean, not the gameplay necessarily, but all the other stuff, like a bit of FIFA-magic into MB (which I already think is the best free web game site by a long way!!)
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