The Famista in Scratch
Famista
A shelf of Scratch baseball games cut from the Famista cloth. Most of them trace back to one shared codebase, and cracking any of them open turns up the same engine: the launch angle gets rolled at random the instant you connect, initial speed comes off bat power, then sine and cosine push the ball’s position forward every frame while a gravity term drags the height back down. That hand-rolled ballistics math is the heart of the whole genre. Better still, those same movement values get piped into scrolling the field, so the camera chases the ball across the diamond. The smooth top-down pan you see is all falling out of that one calculation.
What separates the versions is what each author did next. One loads real 2022 season stats, another stacks a dream lineup of legends, another goes full WBC with a separate fight song cued up for every batter. There’s a build running a shared leaderboard through cloud variables, one rewritten for phone taps, one with two-player mode and an English toggle. At the far end sits a stripped-down 1,500-line take with stealing and pickoffs cut out completely, which makes “how far do you push it” easy to compare side by side. One project even lets you design a pitcher’s arsenal and encode the whole setup into a string you can hand to a friend.
Here to play? Every version walks you from title screen to team select to first pitch. Here for the build? The pen-stamped scoreboard and the message-driven inning flow are the parts worth reading. Here for assets? The umpire calls, the stadium crowd loops, and the pixel-art count displays are all worth borrowing.
#01 Famista Baseball Board Game
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Inspired by the original Famista, created by akamaru_prg. Controls: Use the spacebar and arrow keys (no mouse). Ensure half-width mode is active; full-width disables the spacebar.Rules:Batter- Arrow keys: Move- Spacebar: Swing batPitcher- Arrow keys: Move/control pitch- Spacebar: Throw ball
#03 A Marriage of and Epochs Baseball Board Game
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How to play
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Movement | Arrow key |
| Throwing the ball, swinging the bat | Space (room, area, outer space) |
This is a unique creation that combines the famous Famicom baseball game "Famista" with Epoch's board game "Baseball Board Game". The batting and pitching systems are taken from Famista, while the ball hitting system is borrowed from the Baseball Board Game. Once the ball is hit, fielders cannot be moved. The hit or out is determined by where the ball lands. Please note that the game does not accept key input in full-width mode, so play in half-width mode for the best experience.
