Ddolbeng Baseball

Baseball with your friends — time it right and it is a home run

The ball comes, you press once. That is the whole game. Hit it well and a friend runs the bases; when they reach home you have a run. All twenty friends are on the first screen and none of them is locked.

How you play

Pick four friends. Any four of the twenty, and none of them is locked.
You bat first. Tap the screen the moment the ball reaches the plate.
Dead on is a home run; a little early or late is a double or a hit. A friend who runs all the way home is one run.
After three outs you pitch. Choose a slow ball, a fast ball or a bouncy one.
After three innings the higher score wins. A tie goes to One Big Swing - one hit each, and the ball that travels further wins.

For grown-ups

There is a score. This game has a winner and a loser. That makes it different from the rest of the village, and it is deliberate - when the screen never told a child whether they had done well, they did not start a second game.
Losing is not punished. A lost game gets one line saying so and a button saying 'One more'. No red flash, no sad tone, no nudge to try again.
A grown-up sets the speed. Three steps, behind a three-second hold. It starts in the middle; move it down to 'Slow' if the timing is not landing - the child is not failing, the ball is fast.
No ads, no purchases, no account. The score book lives on this device and is never sent anywhere. 'Clear the book' empties it at any time.

What you need

A browser. A phone held upright is best, and a tablet works the same way. With sound on you get the bat and the mitt; it plays fine with sound off.