Bygfoot is a football (a.k.a. soccer) management game for Linux and other UNIX look-alikes. It is an original concept by Gyözö Both and has been improved with suggestions by players from all over the world.
Bygfoot allows you to manage a team by training the players, buying and selling them, contracting loans, maintaining the stadium, etc. You can be promoted or relegated, even become a champion. It includes a "team editor" which you can use to create your own teams or edit the existing ones. The game is deliberately kept simple (though not easy): you only have to keep one eye at your players and another at your stadium.
You can customise Bygfoot by writing your own country definitions file or by creating your own team definitions files. A lot of files should be available from our extras section soon.
Bygfoot is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and has been compiled successfully in several Linux distros. It is a living project and has been very active lately and your help is really welcome. If you are a C programmer, acquainted with GTK+, and would like to get to know Bygfoot from the inside, please contact the project owner and come in!
You're supposed to skip this FAQ if you are not from countries where people think "football" is a game to be played with the hands. :-)
Well, "Football" is a sport invented in England in the XIX century which has become the most popular, the most watched and most played sport ever. It is called "football" because it must be played with the feet (duh!). There are other sports also named alike, all of them splitted from the original "football" foundation. They appeared because some people thought that playing with the feet only was too difficult (no trolling, this is history).
Well, they wrote the rules and played the first championships. One would say that this is "inventing" a sport. However, they derived inspiration from many different sources including ball games played in Japan (kemari), Greece (podosferiki) and Italy (calcio). They had their own "ball" games too, by the way: in mediaeval Britain when a viking incursion was defeated the populace used to behead the invaders and kick their heads about to celebrate. ;-)
A football team is composed by "10 field players and a goal-keeper". The goal-keeper (usually wearing the number 1) is the only one who can touch the ball with his hands (but only inside a delimited part of the playing field). Players are usually divided into three sections: defense, midfield and forward.
Because in the beginning the matches ended with tenths of goals scored. Someone thought that it would be better if the matches ended with a lower number of goals, so the goalie was allowed to catch the ball.
It is a game neither of the teams managed to win. When a game ends tied, both teams are given 1 point only, instead of 3.
Well, ways to "untie" football matches do exist (penalty kicks, shoot-out, extra time, golden goal) but people think they suck because they are not from the game. Usually only Americans complain about tied games and want to find ways to work this around. Elsewhere in the world people think it's just natural that sometimes there is no winner or loser.
Are you from Venus? It is played on planet Earth, almost everywhere where grass grows and -- amazingly -- also in some places where people must make grass grow to be able to play it...
Are you from Jupiter? Besides England, where it was invented, football is popular everywhere but the US and Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand and some Central American Countries. The countries whose national teams are most successful are (roughly in this order): Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy and France.
No one knows for sure but there are some theories:
It is a game that simulates a football season. You won't actually see matches going on: you will only take the management decisions that will cause your team to either become successful or unsuccessful.