You are the umpire, not the athlete.

6 sportsSingle playermacOS & WindowsIn testing

Ninety secondsRecorded out of the running game, v0.3.2

Nothing in this is staged.

Every rally, call and crowd reaction in it is something the game did while it was being recorded.

The ideaA role nobody plays

Every sports game hands you the racket. This one hands you the chair.

  • You never hit the ballYou sit in the umpire's chair and watch.
  • You decide what is trueThe point goes wherever you say it went.
  • Nothing stops you lyingExcept everyone in the building watching you do it.

How it playsOne point, three beats

01

The rally is real

Full physics. The game knows exactly where it landed — to the millimetre.

02

You make the call

Left click IN, right click OUT. Plus lets and faults.

03

The room reacts

Crowd, players, coaches. The game never tells you if you got away with it.

The game knows the truth.
It is never going to tell you.

The moment of the call, with the shuttle cam in the corner

The temptationWhy you'd lie

Somebody wants a result.

  • 01The event needs a certain name in the final.
  • 02The panel marks whether anything happened.
  • 03A grudge from last season, kept in your save.
  • 04Your own mistake, begging to be evened out.

No bribes. Nobody ever asks.

A pre-match briefing: the event needs Petersen to go through

Before the match: nobody says a word. You can feel it anyway.

The pushbackHow you get caught

Everyone is watching the chair.

  • 01Line judges call it too. Overrule them and it shows.
  • 02Hawk-Eye replays the truth in front of everyone.
  • 03Reputation, one number out of 100, follows you everywhere.

Being wrong is fine. Being wrong for the same side every time is not.

A Hawk-Eye review on the arena's big screen

Hawk-Eye: the one moment the truth goes public.

Six sportsOne official · one reputation

Six sports. Six ways to cheat.

Badminton

Was it in? Line judges disagree.

Beach volleyball

Did it touch a finger on the block?

Indoor volleyball

Is the rotation right before the serve?

Tennis

First serve, second serve, match point.

Table tennis

No line judges. Only you.

Sepak takraw

Is the foot in the circle for the serve?

CareerFive venues per sport

Climb from the school hall to the world stage.

01

School hall

Nobody much watching.

02

District

Somebody is keeping score.

03

State open

Long enough for a pattern to show.

04

National

Hawk-Eye, and a crowd that can turn.

05

International final

Every call gets looked at again.

The same lie is almost free at the bottom and costly at the top.

Where it standsPlayable today

6

sports on one shared engine, each with its own rules

5

career venues per sport, school hall to international

2 in 5

badminton rallies land within 25 cm of a line, so close calls happen all the time

2

platforms you can download and play today: macOS and Windows, one file each

Built with

  • Godot 4.7.2, single player — keyboard, mouse or gamepad
  • Real physics for every ball and shuttle
  • Venues modelled on real Malaysian arenas, from a dewan up to the Axiata Arena

Next

  • Playtesting every sport by hand — sepak takraw is done
  • Tuning from what players tell us

Take the chair.

Referee For Fun · by Luqman Hakeem
juslangit.github.io/referee-for-fun

Thank you.

Questions? Take the chair and try it.
juslangit.github.io/referee-for-fun