Playtest and Film Day

I’m ready to start rolling the game out to more public events. This includes entering it in game festivals like GDC alt.ctrl and Indiecade. To do that I need some kickass footage of the game in action for demo videos. I invited some of my past students and their friends over for free food and […]

Party!

The game made it’s semi-public non-playtesting debut at a birthday party. Due to some space limitations, the batters were positioned on a flagstone patio in a garden, and the LED strip was wrapped around a tree. The distance from the batting stands to the tree was about 15′, so there was time to see the […]

Scoreboards

The small displays on the control box are not useful at all when playing the game. I finally focused on building the large four digit seven segment displays. It took two trips to Tap Plastics for the acrylic and three laser cutter sessions at Techshop this week to prep the parts for assembly. I ended […]

Playtest #3

Playtest #3 was at ETC’s Soft Open on Wednesday night with about 65 guests at Microsoft’s Reactor space in SF. I set up the game at the far end of the room and let it run itself. I wasn’t monitoring the game the whole time, but I would estimate that at least 15 or 20 […]