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Hoopland

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By Koality Game

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Hoopland is a highly anticipated basketball simulation game developed by Koality Game, known for their unique blend of detailed mechanics and engaging gameplay. It aims to offer a deep, career-driven basketball experience, going beyond simple arcade action. Players will manage their own aspiring basketball player through the rigors of training, development, and competitive play in a quest to reach the top. With a focus on granular control over your player's attributes, skills, and even off-court life, Hoopland promises a level of role-playing depth rarely seen in the sports genre. The game features a distinctly retro-inspired pixel art style that gives it a nostalgic charm while maintaining sophisticated statistical tracking and management elements, making it a compelling title for fans who appreciate both strategic management and on-court action

Functions

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  • Build Your Legacy (Career Mode): This is a deep role-playing mode where you create an aspiring player and guide them from a high school prospect through college ball, the draft process (including pre-draft workouts), and a professional career. You must manage relationships, earn accolades, and accumulate Legacy Points across various statistical milestones (Points, Rebounds, Assists, etc.) to achieve "Greatest of All Time" status.
  • Lead a Dynasty (Franchise Mode): For the management enthusiast, this mode puts you in the general manager's chair. You take control of a struggling professional team and are responsible for all aspects of a dynasty, including scouting college prospects, drafting players, developing rookies, signing free agents, managing trades, and ultimately, winning championships.
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  • Be the Commissioner (Commissioner Mode): This offers the ultimate sandbox experience, giving you full administrative control over the league. You can manually dictate trades, oversee expansion teams, enable or disable advanced settings like CPU roster changes and injuries, and essentially shape the evolution of the league over endless seasons.
  • Full Customization: A massive feature is the ability to customize nearly every aspect of both the college and professional leagues. This includes editing team names, uniform colors, court designs, rosters, coaches, and awards. Players can also import and share their custom leagues with the community for infinite replayability.

Gameplay

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  • Deep Retro Gameplay: The actual on-court action is not ignored, featuring a variety of control options for complex moves like ankle breakers, spin moves, step-backs, and alley-oops. The gameplay incorporates true 3D rim and ball physics to ensure dynamic and unpredictable moments, blending the simple charm of pixel art with sophisticated simulation mechanics.

Hoopland tracks all the major traditional basketball statistics that fans and managers would expect, both on a per-game and cumulative season-long basis.

  • Scoring and Efficiency: Tracks Points (PTS), Field Goals Made/Attempted (FGM/FGA), 3-Pointers Made/Attempted (3PM/3PA), and Free Throws Made/Attempted (FTM/FTA). This allows for the calculation of important efficiency metrics like Field Goal Percentage (FG%) and 3-Point Percentage (3P%).
  • Playmaking and Defense: Tracks key foundational stats like Rebounds (REB), Assists (AST), Steals (STL), and Blocks (BLK).
  • Player Discipline/Control: Tracks Turnovers (TO) and Personal Fouls (PF), which are crucial for assessing a player's reliability and discipline on the court.
  • Career/Legacy Tracking: The game tracks these stats across a player's entire career to contribute to their "Legacy Score," allowing players in Career Mode to chase all-time records for points, assists, etc.

In Career Mode, player performance is often tied to a Teammate Grade (similar to modern basketball games) that reflects their real-time impact on the game beyond just the box score

Teams

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Hoopland's structure mirrors real-life basketball hierarchy by featuring two primary organizational levels: the College League and the Professional League. The college level serves as the starting point for players in Career Mode, featuring numerous amateur teams that mimic the intensity and rapid player development of collegiate athletics. Upon entering the Professional League—which is the main setting for both Franchise and Commissioner Modes—the player interacts with a comprehensive league system comprised of many teams. Crucially, all of these teams, across both amateur and professional tiers, are fully customizable by the player, allowing for comprehensive editing of names, logos, colors, and rosters to create a unique or highly realistic league universe tailored to the player's personal preferences. 

Coming Soon More Info and a Chart of teams