Overview
In-progress version of a 2-Player simplified baseball sim, with animal-based teams.
Currently implemented features:
- Team selection
- Pitching, fielding, and batting controls supporting live 2-player on any device
- Strikes, balls, walks, hit by pitch, and outs
- Hitting angle and power determined by the angle the bat is at when contacting ball, the speed of the pitch, and player BAT skill
- Foul ball handling (including run-backs)
- Non-controlled fielding players running to cover bases (including coverage by pitcher or short stop when the controlled player moves off their base position)
- Tagging players for outs, or tagging the base in a force situation
- Catching a pop fly forcing baserunners to tag up before legally advancing
- Infield fly rule
- Home runs
- Possibility of the fielder committing an error (failing on an easy fielding opportunity), missing (failing on a difficult fielding opportunity), turning a heroic play (succeeding on a difficult fielding opportunity), or throwing a wild ball.
- Checking for game-ending score, and ending the game declaring a winner.
- Basic audio
Currently, while player stats are used to determine fielding chances, run speed, pitching control and power, throwing power, and batting power all teams and players have the exact same stat values. Individual stats for each player will be updated soon.
Batting order is also currently just in fielding index order, though batting order lists are supported.
Upcoming Changes
- Making infield throws to bases not be caught by intervening players unless they're near the base (helps with mostly when throwing from second to home or 2nd to 3rd)
- Fixing cases where selecting closest player to a ball can rapidly swap back and forth if both players are moving away from the ball in same direction
- Setting individual stats for every team's players. Currently all players have AVERAGE rating for every stat, except for 2 teams which have all 1 ratings or all 5 ratings, for testing purposes.
- Setting batting orders for each team
- Additional, improved audio
- Seasonal play and records(?)
Player Control
Determining controlled fielder
- For the fielding team, when a ball is hit, the fielder closest to where the ball will end up at is automatically set to the controlled fielder.
- Once the ball touches the ground, whichever fielder is closest to the ball at any time will be swapped to the controlled player.
- When a fielder has the ball, they will always be the controlled fielder.
- When a ball is thrown, the controlled fielder will be changed only after the ball is caught or touches the ground.
Control indicators
- Arrow above head indicates controlled fielder.
- Dot inside arrow indicates controlled fielder is holding the ball.
- Dark arrow indicates the fielder is currently auto-controlled or is recovering from an error, missed play, or dash.
Controls
Team Selection
- Swap Teams to Random Selections: [X]
- Start Game: [O]
Pitching
- Catcher: Press [UP] to throw to pitcher
- Pitcher: Press [DOWN] to start pitch, then use [DPAD] to control velocity and side to side movement.
Batting
- Swing: [O]
Fielding
- Move: [DPAD]
- Dash: Double-tap [DPAD] direction to perform a short, quick dash in that direction (when not holding a ball).
-- If a dashing player catches a ball, they recover almost immediately.
-- If a dashing player does not catch a ball, they have a longer recovery period. - Throw Ball: Double-tap [DPAD] direction to throw to the associated base.
(i.e. down=home, right=first, up=second, left=third)
Baserunning
- Advance/Retreat Front Baserunner: [O] / [X]
- Advance/Retreat All Baserunners: Double-tap [O] / Double-tap [X]
(An "!" indicator above a baserunner head shows a baserunner needs to tag up. They will also be highlighted red in the baserunning mini-map HUD instead of orange)
Changelog
0.62
- Changed how catching thrown balls is handled - players will no longer interrupt throws to locations if they are not near the target location, unless the ball is already about to land. Greatly improves infield throw feel.
- Added tracking of hits, walks, and strikeouts for player's at bat banner display
- Added wall border to the bottom of the field, to block stray throws or wandering players
- Fixed an issue where walks / hit by pitch would not clear a batter's banner
0.61
- Added stat view screen during team selection (currently all team players have the same stats except for two example teams)
- Added banner showing batting player's info and skills
- Changed original batting player's info to show pitcher's info and POW and CON skills
- Added player BAT skill checks to adjust power and angle checks when hitting a ball
- Added player FIE skill checks when checking recovery (from dives, errors, reaction to hit balls, etc.)
- Fixed memory leak in team selection
0.59
- Added first pass title screen
0.58
- Added tracking of Hits, ensuring errors or fielder's choice don't add a hit.
- Added checks to player FIE skill for fielding hit balls and thrown balls.
- Added checks to player SPD skill to calculate running speed
- Added checks to player POW skill for throwing speed
- Added checks to player POW and CON skill when pitching, for adjusting ball speed and position
- Added variation to a thrown ball's angle based on player CON skill rolls, with ! alert on making a bad throw
- NOTE: All players have average skill rating for now
- Fixed a bug where movement around home could be blocked because of how distances are calculated
- Converted game handler class to bare functions and values, to get back lots of unnecessary token and character usage
0.57
- Fixed a bug where only first player was batting
- Fixed names of Detroit Ducks and Pittsburgh Pachyderms
- Fixed walks and hit by pitch to only advance forced runners instead of all runners
0.56
- Condensed team data down and changed it to a numerical indexed list
- Updated initial team, and added allowing selection of teams on start screen"
0.55
- Updated mini-map to be a bit larger to make it easier to see baserunner status
- Added hit by pitch and subsequent advance by batter
- Audio adjusts and new sounds
0.5
- Initial released version
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@RaymondBarton glad you like it! I haven’t gotten many examples of people playing it in pairs yet. Curious how the pitching controls felt especially - too much or too little control, could you fake out someone with slow or fast pitches or curves? Did you play on a computer or a mobile device? Anything obvious you felt was missing besides the stuff listed above?
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