I missed the football managers I grew up with, so I spent 100 days building one with AI

Let's label this "self promotion" but I want to show around my project and workflow and you might like the story behind the game if you like long reads. Earlier this year, I used Claude to rebuild my local football club’s website. The old one must have been published in 1998 and then carefully avoided touching it while also not maintaining or updating their php4.# forms that must have stopped working years ago. A few hours spread over a couple of days later, there was a new website. That gave me an idea which has since consumed considerably more than a couple of days. I grew up with *Anstoss* and *Bundesliga Manager Professional*, (as they are called here in Germany). I missed that kind of football manager: the presentation, personality, the feeling that you were running a club rather than maintaining a particularly demanding spreadsheet. So I started making one. It’s called **HALFTIME Manager**, it’s been in Early Access on Steam since August 14, and full release is planned for…