The First Look!

After a long wait the UFL developers are proud to show us the first screen shot of Ultimate Football Live. This first teaser shows us a German striker called Thierry Henry and an overview of his abilities (not to be confused with the attributes page itself). In addition we also see a shot of the client, the tactics page and at the bottom what looks an overview of the squad page. It has to be said that the screen shots are very clean and crisp. They are a very promising start and insight into a game that should be going into alpha at some point over the next 6 weeks (according to sources upon the UFL forums)

Today has also marked the first UFL newsletter for quite a while. We now know that team name reservation will also begin shortly. This is rumoured to begin around March time. This marks an important step towards getting Alpha under way and getting towards a big kick off in the near future. I for one can't wait to get The Flooslights FC underway. 

The newletter also mentioned in passing the match engine: "Work is well underway on an inhouse ME which is already producing results, and talks are ongoing with other parties regarding graphic ME content. We hope to offer more concrete news on this in the near future. Stay tuned!" So it appears that they are going on the in house route for the underlying code, which is an interesting development. Hopefully it won't be too long before we hear more and perhaps even get a glimpse of what they've been up to!

Finally, the possibility of getting your own UFL shirt may become a possibility shortly with the developers looking to create some sort of shop where you can purchase your own UFL kit from. As always the developers are grateful for any donations which so far equal around £750. So if you have any spare change at the end of the month please think of UFL!

Hopefully the Floodlights will be able to bring you coverage from the very start of Alpha testing so please keep an eye out on the Floodlights because the night has only just started and we want to keep the UFL pitch illuminated right until the dawn!

UFL Affiliates goes LIVE!!!

As of today the UFL Affiliates page has gone live. It can be found at http://uflive.com/community/affiliates where you can keep tabs upon all of the websites and blogs focusing upon UFLive and it's development. However, as of yet only one site has gone live on the page, according to the UFL community guru Tommy, which is http://www.uflive-fan.com/ so a big congratulations to them from me here at the Floodlights. Hopefully, it won't be too long before the Floodlights will be shining out from the affiliates page too.

For those of you who may be considering creating a blog or website there are 2 different levels of affiliate fan site status, normal and gold. The normal fansites will be given alpha/beta places, mentions in community newsletter round ups, links from the main UFL website as well as assistance with graphics/website design. The gold status will give additional bonuses to the normal fansite status such as access to developers and more forum privileges as well 2 live accounts. However, this is in exchange for at least 6 months of content with weekly updates.

In other news, there is going to be another backstage blog around Valentines day, or the 14th February for those of you who are not mini Casanova's. Hopefully we will soon be hearing about when alpha will be starting in ernest.