Soon spring will vanquish the horrible winter. Baseball will be back.
But there's no baseball game on the Playdate, you're thinking.
Build it and they will come.
I'm a huge fan of 2D style baseball games. Perfect for short pick up and play with just enough depth. Sometimes I just want to be in the flow, lock on an object moving at a variable speed and hit it as far as I can.
I'm also a huge fan of making games I want to play. So I built it.
This is not a simulation game with tons of stats and a 162 games long season grind. It's a "build your own pickup team from regular folks hanging out at the park and have fun" game.
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Win on 5 different turfs in league mode.
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Jump quickly into an exhibition game with a random team.
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Or configure a game however you want.
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Practice your skills against the Automatic Pitching Machine™.
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26 different players to build your team with.
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Players have basic attributes and innate, secret, circumstantial abilities.
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Standard games are 7 innings long.
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Unlock special secrets by beating challenges.
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Lots of different songs. The music changes according to the game.
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50 FPS
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And more!
The most fun you'll have with baseball this year. At half the price of a beer at the ballpark.
All assets are complete, the game is fully playable but not ready for release yet. It needs better CPU behaviour and lots of polishing.
Targeting an April release.
Pixel art is by the talented Jonathas Barcellos.
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This looks so good! I love the cutscene at the start and the animations are quality!
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hey i have a baseball game already for playdate CRANKS Playdate Baseball by A Novel Approach but yours looks better 
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Excellent! Giving me all the right R.B.I. Baseball 3 vibes. Can't wait to play!
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Hey @whatever - any update on this one? Looks great so far and looking forward to it!
This looks absolutely amazing! I know nothing about baseball, but I'd definitely give this a try!
@zartan917 Hah, I didn't know about CRANKS. I love the Game&Watch aesthetic.
Hello everyone, thank you for your good words.
Sorry I haven’t updated much here, was busy working on the game.
The game is complete and will be available in the catalog on November 25 2025.
I’ll try and do some weekly previews until release date.
CITY field is a huge abandonned lot downtown. Here you really want your outfielders to have good SPEED to cover all that ground. It’s very hard to hit the ball over the fence. And if you do, be careful not to break any windows because that’s an out!
This would be a home run in most fields, but not in CITY field.
Speaking of fields. Five are available from the start.
Here you can see the select screen preview for CLIFF.
I wonder what the other fields are.
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This looks amazing! Looking forward to it 
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The game is out!
Here’s a preview of one of the available players for your team.
Greg is one of the most uneven player. He’s the best power hitter in the game. He can hit it out even on a mediocre contact. And… that’s pretty much all he can do. He’s so slow, reaching first base is a problem.
He doesn’t cover any ground in defense either.
His fastball is decent but he’ll be tired after a couple of batters.
There’s no DH to hide his flaws. If you want Greg, you’ll have to figure out how to manage his downsides.
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I just submitted version 1.0.2, it should be available soon.
It fixes a couple of minor issues. Mostly related to some challenges being impossible to complete in certain circumstances:
- Fixed League record not being deleted when deleting League team.
- Fixed a problem where challenges would not be completed under certain circumstances.
- Show the last panel on the scoreboard when game ends on a walkoff.
I would like to thank everyone who provided feedback or simply played the game.
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