If you want to play baseball on the web, there’s only one place to go: SimYard!  SimYard is a new kind of fantasy baseball.  You can sign up and make a team in minutes, and then go into the Public Fields and find an opponent.  The game takes under 20 minutes to play, and you get to choose your lineups and pitching rotation.

If you like webgames, and you like baseball, and you haven’t tried SimYard yet, then go there right now and sign up.  Seriously, you will enjoy this game a lot!

Now that football is over, turn your attention to baseball, and join the brand new fantasy baseball management simulator, SimYard! Own your own team and make your own lineup decisions. Choose your opponent and the starting pitcher. You call the shots. You own the team.

http://www.simyard.com/

Features:

- Create your own team, choose your name, colors, and logo.
- Recruit and dismiss players as you choose.
- You create the lineups and the pitching rotations.
- Play live games against other players.
- New season every month, ending in a huge tournament.

Sound like fun?

http://www.simyard.com/

It’s free, so try it out!

My newest game, SimYard, is now available to the public. It is a baseball management simulator, set in 1898, and allows you to help rewrite baseball history. Get a team of amateur baseball players and compete against other managers. The season lasts through February, at which time there will be a tournament of the best teams, you will train your players, and 1899 will begin in March.

In March, the game will open up even further with the introduction of league play, stadiums, and salaries for members, while free players can continue playing in the public fields that are available today for no cost.

Stop by www.simyard.com and see the newest baseball game to hit the internet.

This weekend, I launched my new webgame: SimYard. It is a brand new type of webgame, allowing you to play live games in real-time against internet opponents. You choose your lineup and the starting pitcher. You can call for subs during the game. Your pitchers get tired, and you have to rotate your starters and your bullpen.

You get extra players on your team by interacting with people at the park. You can use this to raise Buzz for your team also, which results in more fans being generated if you win. The more fans you have for your team, the more money you can make once the leagues start next month. The more money you can make, the more money you can bid on players, and the better team you can put together.

Each month will bring a new season, and new growth to SimYard. The game will grow and change along with the players and the seasons. Join now and help to write a new fantasy baseball history!

Next week will see the release of a brand new entry into the Baseball Management Game genre: SimYard.  SimYard will offer a massively multiplayer universe for owning and managing a baseball team and competing with other players on and off the field.   Each month is a new season and you train your players each month to improve their abilities.  The training results are based on training method and season experience.

SimYard is scheduled to open to the public on February 1, 2008.  Memberships will be available a month later allowing for players to join leagues, handle a team budget, build a stadium, and win pennants.

SimYard is based in the past, and offers a chance to rewrite baseball history.  February will see the 1898 season, and each year will build on the stats from the previous.  You will have the opportunity to turn one of your players into the first superstar of baseball and have your own Babe Ruth.

See you next week at the opening!

I posted some new screenshots for SimYard, my new baseball management simulator which is going to be open to the public soon.  You can view them on the homepage.  They focus on your team: setting your lineup and pitching rotation, viewing results and stats.

The beta test for SimYard will begin in less than two weeks.  I’m expecting the servers sometime next week, and it shouldn’t be too bad to configure and test them.  I’ve got great hosting lined up, and everything’s ready to rock and roll.

I hope you’ll come by and play.  February will be the inaugural 1898 season, and each month after that will be a new year.  There will be a tournament at the end of February, and only the best teams will be invited to play.

I’m calling SimYard a “baseball management simulator”, but it’s more like a “baseball owner /manager simulator”.  There are some elements of managing involved, like setting lineups, pitching rotations, and choosing the closers, but there’s also team management and ownership elements as well.

When you sign up and get a team, you own that team.  You can cut players from it, and if someone wants to play for you, you can add them to your roster.  You start with a 25-man roster, but you can have up to 40 men if you find more guys to join your team.  You choose which teams to play and when.  You can choose exactly which pitcher to start, and you can adjust your lineup before the game begins.

Once you get a stadium and join a league, your team will play 162 games per season, and each season is 26 days long.  If you do the math, that’s about 6-7 games per day, and they’re at least two hours apart.  It would be unrealistic to think that you could be present for each of them, but there’s a computer manager that takes care of the on-field decisions.  He decides when to pull a pitcher, who to pinch hit with, and when to intentionally walk a player.  When a player is trying to steal, it’s the player on the field that decides exactly which pitch he’s going to go on.  If you’re watching the game, you can also provide some instructions to the dugout, such as to pull a pitcher, or to put a certain player into the game.

You can see the current status of SimYard on the website, simyard.com, until the end of the month when the beta test starts.  SimYard plays a season every month, and it uses real year numbers.  So the site will start testing with the 1898 season.  I am hoping that there won’t be any need for a wipe of the data on the website, and this data will become the historical data for the game.  It will be a unique opportunity to make history, and I hope you’ll join us for it.

The baseball simulator I am creating will be ready for Beta Testing at the end of the month.  Since each month will be its own season, it’s an ideal time to open it up. I will be looking for beta testers so that we can start playing serious seasons, train the players, and make sure everything is balancing out.

If you want to be a beta tester, bookmark the site www.simyard.com and check back at the end of the month.  Once the beta test is complete, the website will use a subscription model.  Free accounts will still be able to play in the public fields, which will have its own tournament at the end of each season.  Upgraded accounts will be able to create and join leagues, have their own stadiums and finances, and draft the best players from the teams playing in the public fields.

In the meantime, I have posted some more screenshots on the site.

That is right, I got to demo the game Simyard!  Yes the game that Erick has been developing for what seems like FOREVER!  I say he should go live and be done with it.  It is ready, it is fun, rip off the band-aid and be done with it!  With that said, check out the site here.  He hasn’t opened up the playing to the public yet, but I have a feeling it will be a matter of seconds now? Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? Years?

http://simyard.com

With that said, lets get to the functionality of the game!  It starts off with the ability to create a team.  I created the Koopa Turtle Shell (Erick was pissed off that I didn’t name the team the Koopas) and you get to customize your colors and what not.  Then you hit “the park” and you have 4 different fields to chose from.  If a field is open, click it!  Then like a bunch of morons, you wait for another player (yes, another human player!  I don’t know if he will give the option to play against some computer players…(but he should include that if he didn’t want to!) and then you hit the field.  You choose the pitcher you want and then you go and pick your batting order.  The game automatically picks what it feels to be the best batting order so 9 times out of 10, there is no reason to change it.  You wait for your opponent to pick and away you go!

Once the game starts playing, there is not much for you to do.  The game was hysterical for the only reason that I was chatting with Erick and another beta player throughout the games.  With this notion, chat is going to be developed where originally it was not.  You sit back and watch as your team either does well or sucks ass.  I personally think there should be a little needle icon to boost the performance of the players but maybe that would take away the integrity of the game?  NAHHHHHHHH HIT THOSE HOMERS YOU JACKASS OR YOUR FIRED!  Gameplay is a 2 (mostly because there is no gameplay) but replay with chat is a solid 10.  There is nothing better than being able to torment your opponent when your player hits a triple by sending the ball deep in the outfield.  It only happened once, but I surely had some bragging rights!

Good job Erick and make that shit live soon!

All day I’ve been playing baseball in the park, and now my pitchers are all tired and worn out.  So, I’m waiting for them to get their stamina back to go another round.  The play interface is pretty neat, I think.  I added screen shots showing what’s going on and put them on the splash page that’s up for SimYard.  Here are the three new ones:

The Park – This is where you go to find games to play.  Once two teams enter the dugout, they choose their starters, their lineups, and the game begins.  The players on the right are all of your pitchers so you can see their status before entering a game.  The pitchers highlighted in red are worn out and need the break indicated before they can pitch again.  You can pitch them on short rest, but there’s a limit to it, and they won’t be as effective.

Team List – These are the teams I created so far.  They’re displayed ordered by number of fans, record, and most games played.  This is just for teams that aren’t in leagues, though.  In leagues, those would be divisions showing each team and their placement.

1024×768 1280×1024 – Screenshots of the live games in progress at two different resolutions.  The away lineup and pitchers are on the left, and the home team on the right.  You can see the stats for the game next to each player.  Pitchers have their pitch counts displayed also (and number of strikes).

Technically, this means I could open up the game to beta testers at any point, but I want to wait until I get some more key features in place first.  I’m about to start working on some sort of draft or other distribution system for new players.  This should be challenging considering there could be thousands of teams which are going to want new players.