Jervis Fantasy Football
Jervis Fantasy Football is a new free game client for the game of Blood Bowl, a board game owned by Games Workshop.
It is not intended as a replacement for neither FUMBBL nor Cyanide Blood Bowl 3, but exists as an experiment to develop a better game client and as a platform for developing a proper Blood Bowl AI.
Jervis focuses on the actual game-play part of Blood Bowl and not team building or league management.
Supported Platforms
The Windows client is self-signed, so depending on your security settings you might be prevented from opening the app.
If blocked, go to Settings > Apps > Advanced App Settings and set Choose where to get apps to Anywhere.
The macOS client is signed and notarized by Apple, but is distributed outside the App Store. Depending on your security settings you might be prevented from opening the app.
If blocked, go to System Settings > Privacy & Security, scroll to Security, and click Open Anyway.
The Linux client is distributed as a .deb package and should work on most Linux distributions without any issues.
The web-based client is built using WASM and should work on the latest browser versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari. See this page for more information.
The iPad client is currently not distributed anywhere, and must be built from source. See the Developer Documentation for more information.
Android is currently not supported. There is no technical limitation that prevents Jervis from running on Android, but it is currently not a priority. If you are interested in this, please add your support in the issue tracker.
Developer Clients
All Game Clients currently released are Developer Versions. A new version is released on any change to the codebase. No guarantees are given with regard to the stability of the game client or the UI.
Desktop and Web-based clients will update themselves automatically whenever a new version is released.
Features
The main features of Jervis are:
- Scalable Client UI that runs on many different platforms.
- 2025 Ruleset (Season 3), including Blood Bowl Sevens.
- Hotseat and Peer-to-Peer play modes.
- Undo support. All actions can be undone, even dice rolls if the game is configured to allow it.
- God Mode making it possible to edit player stats and skills during play and fully control all game actions, including dice rolls.
- AI Player support. Only a Random Player is currently implemented.
- Team Import from FUMBBL and TourPlay.
Under Active Development
Not all rules and skills are implemented yet. The current state is being tracked in a number of files that loosely match their area: UI, Base Rules and Skills.
If you have other ideas for features, please create an issue in the issue tracker.
Disclaimer
Blood Bowl is a trademark of Games Workshop Limited, used without permission, used without intent to infringe, or in opposition to their copyright. This project is in no way official and is not endorsed by Games Workshop Limited.