INDEPENDENT GAME · WEB + IPHONE · DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT

Beaver Ball.

Softball. With tails.

I designed and built Beaver Ball, a 3D cartoon softball game starring a league of beaver ballplayers at Lodgepole Park, the only regulation diamond ever built beside a beaver pond. It’s free to play in your browser, no download or sign-up needed.

RoleCreator, Design, Development

Year2026

PlatformsWeb (beaverball.app), iPhone (beta)

Built withThree.js (WebGPU with a WebGL fallback), Vite, Vercel with Neon Postgres, Capacitor for iOS, RevenueCat, Game Center, Sign in with Apple

Visit beaverball.app Play free in your browser

The game

Beaver Ball is a 3D cartoon softball game I designed and built from the ground up. Twenty beaver ballplayers, all women and all attitude, play regulation fastpitch at Lodgepole Park, a diamond gnawed out of the pines beside a beaver dam. You swing from the catcher’s-mitt view, pick a pitch and paint the corners, and send home runs into the pond, measured in beavertails.

A real ball game under the cartoon

Under the cartoon is a real ball game. The ball flies on real physics with drag and spin, fielders chase and throw on their own, runners steal, slide and get caught in rundowns, and a two-beaver broadcast booth calls every play. There’s a career mode, leagues with friends, daily streaks, replays of big plays, and seasonal events like Spooky Season with zombie sluggers and pumpkin-smashing minigames.

Players build their own beaver in a full player editor: hairstyles, any hair color, hats, bats and uniforms.

It runs in any modern browser with no download, plays with touch, keyboard or a game controller, and includes captions and reduced-motion options. iPhone apps are in beta now.

Maple Gnawsley, a beaver in a blue cap and uniform, waits for the pitch at home plate at Lodgepole Park, a log scoreboard and pine trees behind the outfield.

The batter’s view from behind the catcher: a red-uniformed beaver catcher in the foreground and a blue-uniformed beaver batter at the plate with the strike zone between them.

A beaver pitcher sets on the mound in front of the log press box at Lodgepole Park while the pitch picker shows fastball, changeup, riseball and drop.

Big Timber, a large beaver in a blue number 44 jersey, gnaws her bat into wood chips at the plate as a speech bubble shouts “TIMBERRRR!”

The Beaver Ball player editor showing a beaver pitcher beside a grid of hairstyle choices.

The Locker screen, where a beaver batter models a bat while a shelf of carved bats with names like Birch Bark Basher and Golden Log waits to be picked.

A wide view of Lodgepole Park’s outfield: green grass, a stump scoreboard, pine trees and mountains under a blue sky.

A poster titled “Who’s your fave?” showing twenty beaver ballplayers’ portraits in blue and red caps.

Highlights

3D toon look: flat two-tone cel paint and hand-tuned ink outlines, all built in code
Physics-driven ball flight, bat contact, bounces and fence plays
Fielding AI, baserunning and rundowns, a live broadcast booth with recorded voice lines
Career mode, leagues, daily streaks, a Recap Show and seasonal events
Full player editor with face, hair, body and gear options
One codebase for the web and iPhone

Made for the feed

Hit by a pitch? Charge the mound. 15 s

She flipped the bat. 15 s

Softball, but pumpkins. 15 s

Bench-clearing beavers. 30 s

Build your own beaver. 30 s