Sandlot City
Neighborhood baseball with a world built around the at-bat.
My role. Game direction, neighborhood world design, and the feel of the at-bat.
In development
Packaged development capture from the October 21, 2026 verification collection.
The block is the ballpark
Sandlot City is an original Unreal Engine baseball game in development. Its direction comes from the scale of childhood baseball: the block, the improvised field, the people watching, and the next ball in play.
The project's visual direction starts with small, authored neighborhoods. Buildings, fences, pavement, and the lot itself give a field its identity. In the development capture, the surrounding block stays visible from the plate.
Stylized characters and a painted color language carry the scene. The design brief puts playful movement, expressive animation, and quick rewards ahead of simulation detail. That is the standard the work is being built toward, rather than a claim that the full envisioned city is finished.
- Stylized neighborhood fields
- Expressive characters
- A readable at-bat
Make contact readable
A baseball game lives in a short chain of actions: see the pitch, commit to the swing, read the result. The captured build keeps the batter, the incoming ball, and the field in the same view, with timing feedback beside the action.
The interface uses the language of the neighborhood game. The score, count, and contact response are part of the scene's personality, while still giving the player something concrete to react to. Game direction and the feel of that exchange are central to my work on the project.
Build from the playable exchange
Sandlot City is a native Unreal prototype, separate from Sandlot Sluggers, the BSI browser arcade game. The portfolio shows an actual development capture from the packaged game; it does not offer a public release or browser-playable version.
The broader direction includes distinct neighborhood lots, crews, and local rules. Those ambitions sit beyond the captured exchange. The current focus is the foundation they depend on: a field that feels like a place and an at-bat worth coming back to.