Combat Sports Manager

Hi. I’m Jeff. SingleSave Studio is me, and the studio’s first game is Combat Sports Manager.

It’s a 2D management sim about running a combat sports promotion. You sign fighters, you book cards, you negotiate the broadcast deal, you fill the building. The hook is that the cards are multi-discipline by default — boxing, kickboxing, and MMA can all share the same fight night, and most of the interesting decisions in the game come from how you build a card across three sports that pay differently, draw differently, and end differently.

I’m making this game because nobody else was going to. The combat sports management sub-genre has maybe four games in it, depending on how generous you’re being, and none of them treat the cross-discipline question seriously. I’ve been waiting for someone to ship the version of this game I wanted to play, and at some point you stop waiting.

The demo is live on itch right now. It’s a vertical slice of the booking and event-night loop — small roster, one venue, simplified economics, no career mode yet. Enough to feel the core decision-making. Play it. Tell me what’s broken.

This devlog is going to be a record of building the rest of it. No schedule, no SEO plays, no fluff. Posts will go up when there’s something to say. The Discord is the fastest way to hear things first; otherwise the RSS feed works.

Demo: singlesavestudio.itch.io/combat-sports-manager

— Jeff