FieldVision Release 2.0.1 Robinson
Frank Robinson #20 ← Download Here
- Cincinnati Redlegs / Reds (1956–1965)
- Baltimore Orioles (1966–1971)
- Los Angeles Dodgers (1972)
- California Angels (1973–1974)
- Cleveland Indians (1974–1976)
Three teams have honored Robinson with bronze statues. The Reds, Orioles, and Indians. Oh and all three of those teams retired the number 20.
He’s still the only player to win the MVP in both the AL and NL.
He still holds the record for home runs on opening day (8)
He was the first black manager in the Majors.
We want our releases to highlight someone who wore that number.
Release 2.0 is about being something no one has been before. Someday someone else will win the MVP in the NL and AL. Maybe? someone will hit 9 HRs on opening day. Being the first black manager in the bigs is something no one else can ever do. And Frank Robinson didn’t become the first black manager in the big leagues by accident. It was a goal of his.
A release that someone who isn’t a developer has put their hands on hasn’t happened for a couple months now. Lots of Good stuff. Three major things.
Navigation: Navigation will be an ongoing update for a while. We added a lot of things and that added a lot of things around user experience most things are labeled better; buttons, menus, drop-downs, info messages. The flow of saving formations or creating plays is dramatically improved. Viewing plays and loading them is better. Those are really things that you wouldn’t notice too much unless you’d been spending a lot of time with the app. There’s still a ways to go.
Cameras: First person view can be applied to more than only the QB now. In order to access first person on a player other than qb select the POV button and click down the middle mouse button, the scroll wheel. If you are on a laptop there is likely a setting in your computer to turn on middle clicks. Again — lots to update around UI.
Press box view is one of my personal favorite views. We’ve got plans to allow for walking up and down the sideline in the sideline view. I don’t think people appreciate that view because it’s not as flashy as FP or PressBox. As a coach I dig it, the further down the road this gets the easier it will be to simulate scenarios and decisions that you expect in a game. Wirecam is still there, nothing crazy about that one
Defense: Defense tools are pretty limited right now. You can now save a defense on the field. In all fairness it’s what I like so it’s what gets put it. It won’t be as sparse as it now forever. As an offense you can cycle trhough all of the defense formations you’ve created while you are looking at a play.
Login: Right now this may end up being a 2.1 feature. But it’s there and it’s working. We changed some of the backend — So I guess it’s not technically working — we need to wire it up to the buttons we already had. Maybe make the buttons look nicer.
Future Releases
2.1
There should be a pretty quick 2.1 release that adds login and cloud save /backups. Along with plenty of minor things.
2.1.1
There’s no way there isn’t a bug fix kind of release right after all of these major updates.
2.1.2
Pretty sure this will be a minor release focused on some play management things. I can’t say for sure what those are. There will likely be some “everyone thinks this button is named wrong or works poorly” so lets fix it in 2.1.1
2.2 +
After that we’re weighing a lot of options. There’s some features that will be amazing and take time and there is a lot of value in smaller quick changes. We’ve been bouncing between…
The “agile” principle of early and continuous delivery of valuable software
And
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” — Henry Ford
There is a longer roadmap. It’s got arrows and plans and features. Looks neat, changes drastically whenever I look at/edit it.
