🟨 Ref for Sale 🟥

The beautiful game has never been this ugly.

Ref for Sale is a chaotic, cartoonish comedy game where you play as a bought referee. Before every match, a shady team slips cash into your pocket — and now you have to complete secret corrupt objectives to tilt the game in their favor... without the crowd catching on.

Think Goat Simulator meets Untitled Goose Game, but with a whistle, a red card, and zero morals.

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🎮 Core Concept

You are the most important person on the pitch — and the most corrupt. Each match hands you a set of secret missions from the team that paid you:

• 🟥 Hand out unjustified cards to slow down the opposing team.
• 🙈 Ignore obvious fouls committed by your sponsor team.
• ⚽ Whistle phantom penalties out of thin air.
• 🤸 "Accidentally" trip over yourself to interrupt a dangerous play.
• 🤯 Make absurd calls that completely change the flow of the match.

Everything is exaggerated, slapstick, and harmless — pure cartoon chaos.

🧩 Game Mechanics

📊 Corruption Meter

Every shady call fills your Corruption Meter. Push it too far and the crowd starts to notice: boos, chants, flying confetti... and eventually a full-blown scandal that ends your career (and the run).

💸 Bribery Pressure

The team that bought you doesn't sit quietly. They send you increasingly desperate messages mid-match:

"DO SOMETHING!" — anonymous benefactor, minute 73

Ignore them too long and the bribe money starts shrinking.

🎭 Dynamic Chaos

Players dive theatrically, argue with you nose-to-nose, fake injuries with Oscar-worthy performances, and swarm you after every call. The pitch is a circus and you are the (crooked) ringmaster.

🎲 Random Events

• 📺 The VAR "breaks down" at the most convenient moment.
• 🎊 The crowd showers you with confetti (and worse).
• 😉 The coach winks at you every time you make a corrupt call.

🎯 Missions

Each match comes with objectives like:

Mission	Example
⏱️ Time denial	"Make sure Team A doesn't score in the first 20 minutes."
🟥 Targeted ejection	"Get the rival striker sent off."
👻 Phantom penalty	"Award a ghost penalty before minute 60."

Complete missions → earn dirty money → upgrade your Corrupt Referee Kit (faster whistle, more convincing trip animations, VAR sabotage remote, sunglasses that hide your guilt...).

🎨 Visual Style

• Cartoonish, exaggerated characters
• Over-the-top animations and physical comedy
• Absurd humor — nothing violent or harmful, just comic chaos

🛠️ Tech Stack

The original 2D web prototype (Phaser 3 + Vite) lives on the phaser-prototype branch.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/albertolicea00/RefforSale.git

2. Open the project folder with Unity Hub (Unity 6000.0 LTS or newer — adjust ProjectSettings/ProjectVersion.txt to your installed version if prompted).
3. Open (or create) the match scene — see ARCHITECTURE.md for the scene setup checklist.
4. Press Play.

🎮 Controls

Key	Action
WASD / Arrows	Move the referee
Y	Unjustified yellow card
R	Unjustified red card
Space	Phantom penalty
T	"Accidental" self-trip

📁 Project Structure

Assets/Scripts/
├── Core/                # MatchManager (clock + decision hub), Decision types
├── Systems/             # Core gameplay systems (plain C# classes)
│   ├── CorruptionMeter.cs
│   ├── BriberyPressure.cs
│   ├── MissionManager.cs
│   └── RandomEvents.cs
├── Data/                # ScriptableObject definitions (missions, events, upgrades)
├── Players/             # RefereeController, PlayerAgent wander AI
└── UI/                  # MatchHUD (read-only overlay)

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read the Contributing Guidelines and our Code of Conduct before submitting a pull request.

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Ref for Sale is a work of comedic fiction. No referees were bribed in the making of this game (that we know of). 😉