One of the most important elements in Copa City is football club fans. The gameplay revolves around them. To adapt this concept to a tycoon game, we had to create a unique approach—a matrix that allows us to present the fans of a given club in a way that highlights the significant differences between them.
[h2]Everything Starts with Needs[/h2]
Copa City is a tycoon game that revolves around the needs of the fans. Everything starts from there. When designing the system of needs, we divided them into four main areas:
• Need for food
• Need for accommodation
• Need for safety
• Need for entertainment (which we call the need for a football festival)
The expectations of the fans in the game are built around these four needs. The player's task is to adapt the city's infrastructure to meet these expectations. Importantly, each club will have a different way of realizing these needs—some will require better hotel facilities, while others will demand higher security levels at events—this will influence the player's strategy during gameplay.
Additionally, the needs of both clubs affect each other, meaning that each match-up will require a different approach to gameplay and strategy.
[h2]Demographics of the Fan Base – The Basis of Balance[/h2]
Another very important aspect of the game is the demographic structure of the fan base. To add depth to the game, we divided the fans coming to the city into three main categories:
• Fans
• Ultras
• Family supporters
Each of these groups focuses on different types of needs, as mentioned earlier, adding further depth to the gameplay. Depending on the club, the player must not only manage the "needs of the club" but also the needs of the various groups coming to the city.
For example, ultras will be a group of fans for whom identification with the club and the football festival atmosphere are the most important, while family supporters will prioritize providing attractions for children and ensuring a high level of safety in the city.
The demographic structure of each club is also different, adding another element that distinguishes clubs from each other. All differences between clubs are based on analyses of the behavior of fans of specific clubs, their preferences, and the priorities of different demographic groups. At Triple Espresso, we work with a scientist who holds a PhD in this field, specifically in the behavior of football fans 😊
Thanks to these aspects, choosing any club for a match will present a different organizational challenge, which is intended to make the gameplay unique in specific match-ups of particular clubs and cities.
[h2]Visual Component – A Sense of Completeness in Representing the Club in the Game[/h2]
The visual representation of clubs in the game is a major challenge for us, so we approached it very thoroughly.
At Triple Espresso, in addition to our Art Director who ensures the visual consistency of the game, we also employ people who have worked on the visual representation of the biggest football club in Poland (from which country we originate). These individuals form a team that ensures all elements related to club branding and characteristic visual elements perfectly reflect the club and fan realities. We believe that club heraldry and symbols are among the most important values in the fan community—hence our very detailed approach to this topic.
Thank you for reading this text. We hope to see you in future articles where we will describe more elements of Copa City in detail. We warmly invite you to add the game to your wishlist!
While preparing for the production of Copa City, we made several very important decisions regarding the basic design of the game. One of them is the maximum neutralization of the stadiums where matches take place in Copa City, which the player must prepare, as this is the core of the gameplay. In today’s article, I want to explain why we made this decision.
