Tennis Elbow 4, the long-awaited sequel to Tennis Elbow 2013, will be released in Early Access on Steam on June 4th.

It has been already available from managames.com for almost 2 years now, and the game is already more complete than TE2013, except its Modding support is still limited.

TE4 current main improvements are :
- Improved visuals, including new players, 9 stadiums and 9 more coming
- Reworked physics so everything is more realistic ; as the main example : now if you hit a ball when mispositioned and/or too late, it'll always have a chance to end in the net or go wild
- Redesigned menus
- Dynamic animation so the players always put their racket on the ball (it still needs tuning to look ok in all situations)
- Men Tour starts in 1973 & Women Tour in 1983
- Junior Tour
- Future fictional years are generated in real-time, so each playthrough sees different top players in the future
- Olympiads

https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/760640

The future main area of improvements will be the animations, but it'll have also new content : mainly new stadiums & a single tournament mode.

I hope you'll enjoy all this and if you have any feedback, you're welcome here : https://gtm.you1.cn/app/760640/discussions/ ; and there : https://www.managames.com/Forum/ .

ManuTOO
=== Mana Games ===

I just added a little TE4 button on the top right of the main menu to let TE2013 players aware the sequel will come soon... :-)

You'll find it here : https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/760640/Tennis_Elbow_4/
It's coming in Early Access on June 4th.

Note : the button doesn't weigh 25MB ; it's just the Steam delta-update that kinda failed... ːsteammockingː

After a few months in Beta, the game has finally reached the state where it deserves the v1.0 label ! ːsteamhappyː

There's no common big bad bug anymore (although it may still have a few rare ones, so be sure to report them if you meet them), and all base features are there now with the Steam achievements and the completed documentation : https://www.managames.com/tennismanager/doc/TeManager-Tennis_Game.html

In the incoming months I will still add small user-requested features, and in the years to come I'll try to regularly add bigger features or do some noticeable rehauls from your feedback.

For now, I'll let the game in the Early Access state as it might still need a series of polishing improvements, and to encourage new users to give feedback & request features..! :-)

So if you have any suggestion, please go here : https://gtm.you1.cn/app/760630/discussions/ .

And if you have the time & the mood to write a positive review of the game in its Steam store page, it's always helpful for the game and encouraging for me ! :-)

https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/760630

TEM2 is finally playable on Steam, in Early Access for a couple of months.

The main improvements over TEM1 are the new menu design, the Junior Tour and the 3D matches, watchable or playable, with better physics & AI than TE2013..!

Here a couple of games from a CPU vs CPU match on clay :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utt0RNZTPQo&t=104s
And you can check the game more here :

https://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/760630

After 8 months in Early version on managames.com, Tennis Elbow Manager 2 Beta is released ! (still on Mana Games' website, it'll come in a while on Steam)

The state of the game is changed to Beta because now all the important new features are implemented in the game. However it still misses some polish and some secondary features that may come later on.

I'll keep fixing the bugs reported during the next few months while I'll be busy porting the game to the Unity engine. The version 1.0 will come shortly after it's done.

The main new features added since the release of the Early version are the 3D matches, with real-time coaching, and the possibility to play yourself the 3D matches both in the World Tour and in the newly added Training Club free mode.

The TEM2 3D matches let you test the new ball, court, strike & player physics of TE4, as it's all implemented in TEM2 !

Players physics may change a bit, but the rest is very close to the final results, except for tuning, of course.

The AI is also greatly improved, but more will be done, especially as only the Pro-10 difficulty has been tuned, and not for the gameplay but for the realism.

So the gameplay of TE4 will be more refined and less raw than what you can find in TEM2, but be careful though : after a couple of hours of play, you may have some trouble to come back to the old TE2013..! ;-)

And if you had missed the previous newsletter, here the main new features since TEM1 :

• Men Tour starts in 1973 & Women Tour in 1983
  
• Fictional years are generated in real-time, so each playthrough sees different top players in the future
  
• Junior players, management and training
  
• New menu design
  
• Olympics
  
• Better injury handling (eg: can go on playing with the risk to get more injured)
  
• Training Schedule (can save a training schedule & reapply it)

You can download & play the demo now :

• Windows 7/8/10 : https://www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TennisManager_nle47.exe
  
• macOS 10.7+ : https://www.managames.com/predownload_en.php?f=TEM-Mac_nle47.pkg

And it's 20% off till November 28th : https://www.managames.com/buy.php?g=TEM2 .


you can now pre-order TE4 from Mana Games with a 20% discount during the Autumn sales if you want to give it the best chances of success : https://www.managames.com/buy.php?g=TE4 . (Windows 7/8/10, macOS 10.11+)

Release schedule (it may change without prior notice) :

• Playable Alpha Version : around April 2019
  
• Fully playable Early Version : around June 2019
  
• Online mode : around September 2019
  
• v1.0 & Steam release : around June 2020

You can find more info about TE4 in the forum here : https://www.managames.com/Forum/topic15-30551.php

A few screenshots of the stadiums (it's work in progress, of course) to give you an idea where we are headed visually with TE4 :

Would you like to be a tennis coach ?

Then head to the Mana Games forum to try out the demo of the Early Version of Tennis Elbow Manager 2 : http://www.managames.com/Forum/topic11-29241.php .

You can find more info on the game here : http://www.managames.com/tennismanager .

Hello,

version 1.0j has just been released.

This version allows the engine to render faster than 60 images per second, up to 144 fps ; this means if your monitor supports a refresh rate higher than 60hz, the game will look a lot more smooth.

Also, depending of your setup, the game may also look smoother at 60hz, especially as the time polling got a couple of fixes.

Changelog since release of the game on Steam can be read here : http://gtm.you1.cn/app/346470/discussions/0/618456760265331075/ .

Enjoy ! ːsteamhappyː

Tennis Elbow Manager finally arrived on Steam, you can find it here :
http://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/app/528110

If you already bought Tennis Elbow 2013, or want to buy both TEM & TE2013 now, here's a bundle for an extra discount : http://gtm.you1.cn/storesteam/bundle/1475/ .

Hello,

Tennis Elbow Manager is in Steam Greenlight ; it's an old game, but fans of tennis and/or manager games can still appreciate it.
If you have a Steam account (with at least 1 paid game), please vote for it :
Steam Link (you have to copy/paste it because it's not automatically made clickable) =>
steam://url/CommunityFilePage/708418451

Web link =>
http://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=708418451

Thanks ! ːsteamhappyː