PC Replay Baseball V2 was released by Richard Hanna (of Roo Games – SAT fame) and Pete Ventura (Replay Sports Games) today, and it includes some of my efforts, so I’m pretty stoked to see the early positive reaction to the new features. While I love to hear compliments for the Replay Radio feature introduced in V1, I am really proud of my involvement with the V2 “Replay Roundup” feature. The original idea was to provide the Replay gamer with a “Web Site” feature similar to games like OOTP and PureSim. The more Richard and I kicked around ideas however, we settled on a Newspaper approach, and I think it works really well within the board-game context that exists throughout the UI.
To see my quick mockup become nearly exactly what the user will see in the game is damn cool. To be trusted to help out with the design for this and other features is even cooler. Maybe Richard indulges me to make sure I keep creating mods for the game for each season that is released, but I don’t care. This may be the closest I ever get to being a involved with game development, so I’m going to jump at any opportunity I’m offered. For those of you unfamiliar with the game, here’s an image of “half” of what the Replay Roundup looks like (Sorry, couldn’t grab the whole issue in a single screen shot, but this still gives you an idea…). For more information, I suggest you download the 5-day demo at http://www.replaybb.com/
