EWB Baseball
Encyclopedia
EWB Baseball is a baseball
computer game designed and published by Eddie Dombrower
based on Earl Weaver Baseball
for the iPhone
and iPod Touch
platforms. Earl Weaver
has not licensed his name to the product, making the game a spiritual successor to the original. It was released on iTunes Store on March 23, 2009.
The game utilizes the engine of the unreleased 2.1 version of Earl Weaver Baseball II. The game will allow both manage-only modes as well as an "action" mode, and multiplayer online gameplay. Games can be played in several ways: the original Earl Weaver Baseball' s single camera style, Earl Weaver II' s multi-camera views, or a 3D "Director". Games can also be simmed a few seconds.
Full leagues and round-robin schedules can be run on the iPhone, but schedules can be run manually by a commissioner. As with the original, players, stadiums and teams can be edited, but by using igiBall software on a personal computer, not on the iPhone itself.
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
computer game designed and published by Eddie Dombrower
Eddie Dombrower
Eddie Dombrower is an American computer game and video game designer, programmer and producer. He is best known as the co-creator of the seminal baseball games Earl Weaver Baseball and Intellivision World Series Baseball...
based on Earl Weaver Baseball
Earl Weaver Baseball
Earl Weaver Baseball is a baseball computer game , designed by Don Daglow and Eddie Dombrower and published by Electronic Arts. The artificial intelligence for the computer manager was provided by Baseball Hall of Fame member Earl Weaver, then manager of the Baltimore Orioles...
for the iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPod Touch
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
platforms. Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver
Earl Sidney Weaver is a former Major League Baseball manager. He spent his entire 17-year managerial career with the Baltimore Orioles . Weaver was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996.-Playing career:After playing for Beaumont High School in St...
has not licensed his name to the product, making the game a spiritual successor to the original. It was released on iTunes Store on March 23, 2009.
Gameplay
Full leagues and round-robin schedules can be run on the iPhone, but schedules can be run manually by a commissioner. As with the original, players, stadiums and teams can be edited, but by using igiBall software on a personal computer, not on the iPhone itself.