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Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by kevinsync »

This is super duper cool! I sat there and watched like 10 minutes of a live game and it was just balls, strikes, swing & miss, and foul LOL -- reminded me of that old Simpsons episode where soccer comes to Springfield and nothing happens in the match [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=442NF5cZhyc

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by brownrout »

deadbabe wrote: post #114
brownrout wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Claude and Codex heavily to help build this, yep.

There is another project that does exactly this, looks like it was basically copied verbatim.

Not familiar. Do you have a link to the project?

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by noduerme »

movedx wrote: post #93
noduerme wrote: post #92

This is adorable. But gosh that font is hard to read on a phone. Couldn't the score box be a bit bigger?

Does everything _really_ need to be compatible with a phone screen? Use a computer to view the website.

No, and it's fine if you just want to make a desktop site, but if you're designing a game or UI then why not add some nice touches to make it look as good as possible on any size screen? Everything I've designed in the past 15 years has tried to cater to both with whatever adjustments can be made to make it take advantage of more screen real estate if it's available, or rearrange to a compressed visual format on a phone. It's not hard to do, it's just a series of design decisions to make whatever you're doing better across platforms.

I'd even argue that in this case, on desktop, you could have a whole side panel with play by plays, while on mobile you could make the small UI elements larger, without losing any of the charm of either one.

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by noduerme »

brownrout wrote: post #94
noduerme wrote: post #92

This is adorable. But gosh that font is hard to read on a phone. Couldn't the score box be a bit bigger?

Did you add Ribbie to your home screen? That mobile version makes better use of the full phone screen.

Yes, and it helps some. Still wish there was a mode for people who need to squint to see the score.

Re: Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Post by mc3301 »

tcbawo wrote: post #108
pawptart wrote: post #62

Always love to see new baseball visualizations. Not necessarily a big fan of AI art, but it's cool how dynamic it is. Some constructive criticism: I think using a real pixel font and maybe writing a deterministic downsampling algo for the images instead of relying on AI would go a long way to make this look better. Not to hijack your thread but in case anyone's interested in a physical scoreboard built on top of the…

I was somewhere recently where the World Cup games were on the TV, but the current score was also on what appeared to be a split-flap board mounted to the wall. Seeing your post had me look up commercial availability of these (it seems they exist, but are pricy). Serving up baseball scores in that kind of display would be pretty cool.

I've seen a few 3d printed projects that did similar, displaying some live API-received number on a 3d-printed split-flap board.
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