EHM The Blue Line

Hey all. I am a long time fan of the EHM series, and this site. I don`t really post, or compete in your challenges just kind of play by myself to occupy myself when bored. If this topic is annoying, or has been discussed I apologize I tried a search and got no results. I am not trying to pester anyone with a new thread just a curious gamer with a few thoughts.

I always thought that eventually a serious demand would build-up and new game development would start up and after several down years we would eventually see a brand new game, alas this appears to be quite the pipe dream. I notice and appreciate all of the amazing amount of hard work that goes into keeping this game current(I checked the forum almost every day for about 2 months waiting for the new series of Lidas rosters to come out).

I dont claim to know much about the game aside from some basic game modifying to players and such. My curiosity is about the programming of EHM2007. I understand some things(like the start year) are hardwired into the game. How exactly is something hardwired, and how difficult is it to get into something like that. With the large number of contributors on this forum that have extensive knowledge of the game, and the hours upon hours put into trying to keep this game alive is it completely out of the realm to use this power towards a new game. I fully understand how this post is probably about 99% ridiculous. I am just hoping for some quick answers and dont mind taking some shots for being ignorant.

Also on a side note, is there any connections on this forum directly to SI games. I just wonder if they are aware of how well EHM is still thriving and if there is any chance at all that eventually they may get to work on a new game.

soccer_pro101 wrote:I always thought that eventually a serious demand would build-up and new game development would start up and after several down years we would eventually see a brand new game, alas this appears to be quite the pipe dream.

Actually, there have been a few people, myself included, who have considered remaking EHM. One project is from another forum, but so far appears to only be a three-week school project. The other is from dabo, who has a thread of his own Here.

I dont claim to know much about the game aside from some basic game modifying to players and such. My curiosity is about the programming of EHM2007. I understand some things(like the start year) are hardwired into the game. How exactly is something hardwired, and how difficult is it to get into something like that.

Something that's hard-coded is is something that's written as a part of a program's source code. Changing such values would require decompiling the EXE, changing the code, and then re-compiling the program. This, however, would be illegal.

With the large number of contributors on this forum that have extensive knowledge of the game, and the hours upon hours put into trying to keep this game alive is it completely out of the realm to use this power towards a new game.

I wouldn't say it's completely out of the realm, but probably not very close to happening, either. The key positions we need are programmers - guys who can write the actual program itself. Mostly what we have here at TBL are graphics guys and database guys. dabo is probably the closest we have to a programmer, but he sounds pretty tight on free time. Speaking for myself, I know the basics of C#, VB.NET, and Java, but I'm only just learning and couldn't be relied on to write any significant programs yet.

Also on a side note, is there any connections on this forum directly to SI games. I just wonder if they are aware of how well EHM is still thriving and if there is any chance at all that eventually they may get to work on a new game.

Of the active users, I don't believe any of them are a direct connection to SI. A handful of us have been around long enough that we know Graeme (programmer) and Riz (the mastermind behind EHM), but that's about it. As for EHM coming back: highly unlikely; The team has been disbanded, and sent to other projects - the most important being Riz, who has been working with the Football Manager team.

Thanks for the response. I appreciate the info, I love the game and all the hard work that goes in to keeping it relevant. So I was just curious about what was going on.

B. Stinson wrote:

With the large number of contributors on this forum that have extensive knowledge of the game, and the hours upon hours put into trying to keep this game alive is it completely out of the realm to use this power towards a new game.

I wouldn't say it's completely out of the realm, but probably not very close to happening, either. The key positions we need are programmers - guys who can write the actual program itself. Mostly what we have here at TBL are graphics guys and database guys. dabo is probably the closest we have to a programmer, but he sounds pretty tight on free time. Speaking for myself, I know the basics of C#, VB.NET, and Java, but I'm only just learning and couldn't be relied on to write any significant programs yet.

I am a web developer by trade, and have a computer science background. I know C++, some Java and Visual Basic and PHP (which wouldn't be too relevant here)