Match builder

Every Exhibition match starts in the match builder. It works in four steps: Start, Layout, Rules, Wrestlers. Pick a ready-made match and play in seconds, or build something nobody has seen before.

1. Start

Choose a preset match type, load one of your saved matches, or build a new one from scratch. Presets fill in every setting for you. You can still adjust them where it makes sense, and the builder shows when you’ve changed a preset.

Start screen of the match builder, with the Cage preset selected — Mockup, work in progress

2. Layout

Set the stage. Choose up to 30 sides in any combination of team sizes: 7-on-1, four tag teams, 3-on-3-on-2. Up to 8 wrestlers can be in the ring at once, and more can join over the course of the match. Use one to four rings with 4, 6 or 8 sides, raised, at floor level or sunken. Add cages in chain-link, steel bars, solid panels or bamboo, around each ring or around all of them, stacked up to three tiers high with a ladder up to each one.

Layout screen showing four rings under a three-tier stacked cage — Mockup, work in progress

3. Rules

Decide how the match is won: pinfall, submission, knockout, count-out or disqualification. Or pick one special way to win, like first blood, putting your opponent through a table, escaping the cage, or grabbing an item hung above the ring. Then choose how it ends: first fall, last side standing, best of 3, 5, 7 or 9 falls, or the most falls before time runs out. Set the tag rules, time limits, rounds and rope types, and even turn on old-school disqualifications for closed fists or top-rope moves.

Rules screen for a team match, with win conditions on the left and match rules on the right — Mockup, work in progress

4. Wrestlers

The number of slots comes from your layout, so you choose who fills them last. Each side gets its own color, up to 8 people can play on one screen, and anyone can face anyone. In big timed-entry matches, every player can even pick their entry number.

Wrestler select for a 30-wrestler timed-entry match with four players — Mockup, work in progress

Rules that always make sense

The builder keeps your settings consistent. A cage with a roof can’t be escaped, so “escape the cage” switches off. Falls count anywhere turns off count-outs. Whatever you build is a match that actually works.

Rules screen with Retrieve an item selected and the standard win conditions locked off — Pick Retrieve an item, and every standard win condition locks off. You choose the item and where it hangs.

Everything shown here is a work-in-progress mockup and may change as the game is built.