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===FULL GAME OVERVIEW=== **Artificial International Hockey League** is a freeware ice hockey management simulation by Aspenth (Bradford James Focht). Version 1.1, October 2026. You are the general manager. Build a career in a fictional hockey world seated in real hockey cities. Nothing in it is a real franchise, logo, or trophy. **The world** - Four leagues: the 32-team AIHL, a 32-team Reserve League, the 16-team Crown League in Europe, and a 24-team Prospect Circuit of junior and college clubs - East and West, with Atlantic, Metro, Central, and Pacific divisions - An 82-game schedule redrawn every year, plus four exhibition games before the standings start - Best-of-seven conference playoffs, with their own overtime - A full calendar from camp through the deadline, playoffs, awards, re-signing, the draft, and free agency **Your career** - Start at any club, in any league, with your own name, age, and nationality - Reputation, prestige, a year-by-year record, lifetime earnings, and a job that can be renewed, lost, or walked away from - Offers from other clubs, including a path back up after a firing - Retire on your own terms, or at 85, and keep a closing page of seasons, trades, cups, and awards **The desk** - Office, team, schedule, roster, stats, chemistry, contracts, trade, scouting, draft, agents, inbox, staff, league, playoffs, retirements, jobs, and a manual - A news wire along the bottom of the screen - A jukebox of original music, quiet until you start it **Roster and the room** - Four forward lines, three defense pairs, two goalies, and extra spots - Drag players into the lineup, or let the staff build optimal lines - Roles from sniper, playmaker, and power forward through two-way, shutdown, and three goalie styles - Chemistry, morale, and opinion of the club - Personalities, from leader and mentor to diva, hothead, and ironman - Send, waive, and call-up moves, with confirmations, and the real limits of a lower-league job - Rare family ties, nationality-true names, and no repeated names, retired players included **Contracts and the cap** - Entry-level deals, restricted and unrestricted free agency, and qualifying offers - Year-by-year salaries, no-trade and no-move clauses, buyouts, and retained salary - A year-by-year cap sheet for the whole roster - Waiver priority from last year’s table until November, then from the current standings **Trades** - Two-team and three-team deals - Cap hit, term, chemistry, and trade value on every piece - A live cap projection for every club in the deal, with the offer blocked if anyone would finish over the cap - Other managers deal on their own clock: camp, injuries, the deadline, the draft floor, and the summer - League mail lists the full accepted trade **Scouting and the draft** - Four levels of a report, from unknown to highly scouted, one week per pass - Regional assignments across the hockey world - A lottery for the clubs that missed the playoffs - Rights held for three years, then lost if still unsigned - A separate Prospect Circuit entry draft that feeds the leagues above **The games** - Every night is simulated in short stretches: lines, shots, saves, penalties, fights, injuries, empty nets, overtime, and shootouts - Your games keep a full event log and box score - Counting stats, rates, on-ice share, quality of competition, and a goals-above-replacement estimate, every column sortable - An assistant GM’s note on your own players and the prospects you still hold **People, awards, and history** - Injuries with a real clock, injured reserve, and a hidden health rating that can shorten a career - Staff for the bench, the crease, the training room, and the scouting map - An awards night after the playoffs, with a winner, two finalists, and the last five names on each trophy - A Hall ballot, retired numbers, and separate retirement lists for players and staff - Players who sit unsigned for two seasons leave the pool **Yours to keep** - Careers save in the browser, with an autosave and named slots - Share a world, a club, or a draft class as a foundation file, and drop one into a new career - The same seed rebuilds the same world #indiegames #indiedev #Hockey