i am preparing to build my football manager php game but i am currently worried about how i am going to implement a realistic match engine. i have no experience whatsoever of creating game engines within php.
the type of engine i am hoping to build is one which fetches a certain range of in-match phrases that commentators usually make i.e. $player1 has got the ball.... $player1 passes it to $player2... kind of like football manager (without the 3D aspect)... where there has to be some awareness to everything. the game must understand where each player is at each time on the field. it would then display a list of events sequentially over a period of 4 minutes for example that highlight the key moments of the match.
here is an example smimgs.com/images/screenshots/big/live-scores.png
any hints or books i could chase up?
thanking you in advance!