Ep 48 | Creator Kerry Batts takes us inside his Pro Strategy Football 2023 video sim, talks features to come

Straddling the line between pure arcade fun and statistics-based simulation, PSF’s latest iteration, released Sept. 8, features a wealth of new features and aesthetics. Designer Kerry Batts takes us behind his thought process, the many community contributions to PSF 2023, and some of the key new features he’s cooking up for ’24. Like many great endeavors, Pro Strategy Football by Batts, a computer programmer, began as a quest to produce something to meet a personal desire — namely a game that he and his brother, Kenneth, could play long distance. Having played wargames with his brother, Kerry visited him one fateful day in 1975 — the day the Cowboys downed the Vikings in Minnesota with the legendary Hail Mary pass that moved Dallas a step closer to Super Bowl X. Kerry, a veteran of Paydirt and Strat-O-Matic, has been a Cowboy fan since that day and created a game in the early ‘90s that he eventually shopped to a company that suggested a collaboration with none other than Tom Landry. PSF 2023 is the latest version derived from those early days and boasts a highly active community of contributors and modders; there are plenty of tutorials and game play videos on YouTube. Buy PSF on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1935910/Pro_Strategy_Football_2023 PSF group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prostrategyfootball Video version: https://youtu.be/mNnTJilJiHE