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We have had this for a while but we didn’t want to get everyone excited until we were close to beta. Which I guess that means we are close to beta doesn’t it!

So there it is. It doesn’t look like much right off of the bat and that is by design. This thing needs to be able to load very fast on mobile devices as well as computers. We needed to keep the graphics to a extreme minimum. The one nice thing about this is that the interface will take on the colors of your favorite team. Ours is obviously the Oakland Athletics and it is good that they are beating the Anahiem Angels I mean the Los Angles Angels of Anaheim ahh who the hell knows anymore, we’ll just call them the ducks hows that. Anyways, here in detail is what you are seeing on this screenshot.

The Field Box

This is where all of your choices are displayed. As you can see I picked that a home run would happen as well as a RBI and someone would attempt to steal before the home run was hit. It shows what I scored on the last play as well as the status. The status indicator is key. When a play is happening the play is locked. You make your predictions in between plays, when the play is locked your choice boxes will slide up and hide from you. This way you know it is locked and can’t change your choice. Once the status changes from locked to open it will process your last choice do some theatrics and show you what you scored. The field is there basically to remind you you are watching baseball.

Now some of you might wonder why there is no area for who is at bat, what pitcher is pitching etc. Well the basic assumption of PredictAPlay is that you are watching the game. Hopefully you are paying enough attention to know who is pitching and at bat right? In that case the scoreboard may be redundant as well. We agree… it may go away depending on how big of a hassle it is.

Leader-board

This one is pretty self explanatory but I would like to touch on a couple of things. You can filter the leader board based on a few things. Your friends, your leagues, and everyone. This can keep the game personal so you can play against your friends either at the game or over vast distances. Also this will quickly allow you to filter out SOXFAN5512123, cause frankly… that guy sucks. Ohh and don’t worry your name doesn’t have to be “user1″

At Bat and Bonuses

These are your prediction boxes. You can pick one pick for “At Bat” and as many “bonuses” as you want. When you pick these they will change the field box so that you know what you chose when these boxes hide when the status is locked. We are contemplating adding 1-2 point simple predictions in here as well. Things like Out, Not out, Infield, Outfield predictions this is for those of you who bet on red and black or odd and even on the roulette table, but we want to test what the scores will be like without these “gimmies”

As always please leave your feedback below. Hell I will give away a beta account to anyone who can point out a continuity error in the interface (there are a couple, and SSI employees are exempt since you get accounts anyways you slackers).

Beta Update!
I am planning on putting something up for beta sign ups starting next week so get ready!