A management game for the iron ball. You build the club. The match plays itself.

A match in the arena: a player mid-throw with the heavy iron ball in the air and a defender closing on him.

What it is

Iron Ball is a management game in the Speedball 2 line. You take a club, sign players, set the tactics and read the league table. You never touch the controls during a match: the arena is simulated, stat by stat, and you watch it or skip it.

Every player carries six stats, an injury history and a temperament. Every side has a shape and a strategy. The league runs on a shared signal, Kadiss, which carries strategy to the players and can go down when the club cannot pay for it.

The online league

The live server at ironball.nanonix.net carries the online league and the co-operative club. Two managers sign in, submit a squad and a set of tactics, and the server settles the week.

  • Sign in with a device id. No account, no password.
  • Create a league or join one with a code. Up to eight managers a league.
  • Submit each week: the squad, the routine and the tactics sheet.
  • Read the round as it settles. The IronMind comments on the match and keeps the record.

What it is made of

Pixel art
Every sprite, every frame, cut in the house style. Nothing is drawn in code.
Simulated matches
The arena is settled from the squads, the tactics and the seed, the same way every time.
One league
A division of eight clubs, a reserve league, a cup and the end-of-season gate.
No trackers
This page is plain HTML and CSS. It asks for nothing and measures nothing.