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

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vibe coded project people like = omg so amazing, you did so great. wow the ai art is so amazing!

vibe coded project people dont like = llm vibe coded slop, waste of the internet, why did you even try. cant believe you didnt pay hundreds of dollars to a human artist.

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

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post #12

fun idea and gj execution, but the art looks like bad ai pixel art, at least on my screen. gives it that uncanny youtube music stream look.

Yeah because it is AI pixel art :/ But something also seems off with the AA right now. Going to try to fix. Then, maybe sponsor some artist-made sprites later if there's interest in the project.

fine for prototyping! good news for you is there are a lot of talented people if you are ready to commit.

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

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post #90

Could you display live data in a browser tab title? Not just the score, but actually mostly when it's not between innings so I know when to switch back to it. I also wish it was more zoomed-in on the action, but I get why that's not in v1.

- will add the title bar idea to to-do list - yeh would love to mirror the backyard baseball format where it's batters box view and then whole field for play resolution

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

#97
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.

plaintextsports.com has been doing this for a long time. It has always been free. ie 'non-commercial'.

https://plaintextsports.com/mlb/2026-06-17/tb-lad#play-by-pl...

edit: typo

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

#98
post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah because it is AI pixel art :/ But something also seems off with the AA right now. Going to try to fix. Then, maybe sponsor some artist-made sprites later if there's interest in the project.

fine for prototyping! good news for you is there are a lot of talented people if you are ready to commit.

Any platforms you recommend? Fivver?

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

#99
post #90

Could you display live data in a browser tab title? Not just the score, but actually mostly when it's not between innings so I know when to switch back to it. I also wish it was more zoomed-in on the action, but I get why that's not in v1.

- will add the title bar idea to to-do list - yeh would love to mirror the backyard baseball format where it's batters box view and then whole field for play resolution

Great! Since you're taking feature requests, I'll add that it seems like sometimes lots of data comes at once and then everything gets rushed. But then nothing happens for a while. So it has a "hurry up and wait" feel.

I think it'd be worth slowing down when you have receive data for multiple pitches at once, which would also mean it wouldn't feel as slowed down at other times -- even if that means at some points you're further behind the real-time nature of the game.

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