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MLB Developer Insights: Fielding Improvements

02/23/10

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Fielding Improvements
Tuesday February 23 2010

Hi everyone,

My name is Jonathan Rivera and I am a Gameplay Designer for Major League Baseball® 2K10. This year we spent a lot of time fixing bugs and improving the overall quality of the game. I’m not going to pull any punches, I look back at 2K9 and think about things we could have done better or wrapped with more polish if we had a full development cycle. This year, we worked tirelessly to address those problems while adding fun new features surrounding the mechanics of fielding. As a high level goal, we wanted to remove the frustrating areas of our game.

As one of our other designers Sean Bailey (who some of you know from writing the My Player Insight) said, “There’s nothing more frustrating in a baseball game than when you expect an out and you don’t get one, or you expect to be safe and are called out” due to some blip in the game. That pretty much summarizes our overarching goal for Major League Baseball® 2K10, we want to address those frustrating areas and make sure that your expectations are not only met but hopefully surpassed.

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