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

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Post by pawptart »

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 same APIs using Raspberry Pis, I have a project as well. We also support software emulation if you don't want to buy parts.

https://github.com/MLB-LED-Scoreboard/mlb-led-scoreboard

You can see it in action here:

https://mlb-led-scoreboard.dev/

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

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Post by dylan604 »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #45
dylan604 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The thing that works for baseball is how slow the game is. There's plenty of time in between pitches to make the animation simple. With sports with constant movement like a WC match would require a lot more resources. Might as well be a game engine at that point. Watching one of these live just brings home exactly how low activity a baseball match is. You can easily miss a pitch if you're not actively watching it and…

Football MIGHT be slow enough that you could animate the plays Techmo Bowl style. It would certainly be fun to attempt it. You might have to mix in some pre-defined animations for "run up the middle", that could do minimal updates like Jersey numbers.

The gamecast from places like ESPN already have a good enough version for American Throwball games. It works because it is slow enough so they can show play by play with animation showing the progress of each play. While it's not pixel art it is more than sufficient to have in a window to have open in the background.

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

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Post by brownrout »

ninju wrote: post #61

I can't seem to scroll down thru the active games list :-( The game I want to watch is a LIVE game but it's no longer one of the top 4 games I see the scrollbar but it does not interact (Chrome or Edge same issue)

Chrome/Mac working for me with touchpad. Desktop? Windows or Mac?

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

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Post by sdsdfsdfdfssdf »

TheGoodBarn wrote: post #46

This is so cool, I love these little scoreboard projects. The artwork is also such high quality. I am a big fan of the ESPN CDN data api and have made a few "scoreboards" of my own. Recently I polished a simple html one at: https://mlb.ope.cool/ But I will most definitely be reaching for yours and tossing it up on the TV's in the office, this is so cool

It's AI artwork.

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

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Post by kodablah »

mjd wrote: post #58

Best of luck with this. About twenty years ago there was a website that displayed play-by-play of games in progress with a much more minimal display than yours: just a scoreboard, balls and strikes count, and an indication of who was on base. MLB crushed them with a copyright infringement lawsuit, claiming copyright over the plain factual description of the play-by-play. It was bullshit, of course, since simple factu…

My guess is this is leveraging GDX same as "Gameday" uses (or used to use). https://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt states

> Only individual, non-commercial, non-bulk use of the Materials is permitted

Unsure if this falls within. I have written my own scripts against the XML regularly updated there, but am unsure if they allow it to be used on a shared site.

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