In a time where Australian rules football leagues are shut down due to the Coronavirus crisis, like practically every sport, the minds of those of us who love our footy turns to wondering what to spend our days doing. We haven't had much luck as footy fans with games based on our great sport, and Mr Football is here to hopefully change that. 

Mr Football is set in an alternate universe which diverges from our own in the 1980s. The long project by Allen Aylett, Ross Oakley and others to create a national competition failed miserably. This failure was so complete that all of the existing teams in the state leagues ran out of money and had to be disbanded. Let us not talk of the sordid details of those terrible times, but focus on the footy clubs that were formed from the wreckage of the doomed "Awful" experiment. Your club is one of these, playing in the same kind of stadiums as exist today with the same sorts of players in the same sport... but in a much different landscape. 

• Be the coach of a football team with full power over list management, player development, team selection and matchday tactics;

• Build your team up with card packs, both free or paid for using in-app purchases (IAPs), and merge them to form the best players in the land;

• Customise preset player cards with your own names, or download the most popular customised sets prepared by other coaches;

• Compete with other coaches in many different game modes, from ladders to divisions to lightning premierships to carnivals;

• Participate in multiple types of weekly events which reward with in-app currency, cards and other prizes;

• Join other coaches in factions, where you band together to compete for glory with legendary players.

This is the first title from Tickle Monster, which at the moment is a one-person band consisting of founder Paul Montgomery. Paul has spent the last 15 years developing and maintaining FanFooty, a fantasy Australian rules football site which hits the top 500 Australian sites in traffic during the southern winter with millions of page views per week, which means he has most of the skills necessary to make Mr Football a reality from a technological sense... but he can't draw to save himself. He needs at least one artist, most of all, and some sound production as well. That is where at least half of the Kickstarter funding will go.