Amazing project! I'd love to see something like this for the football world cup. Maybe a FIFA 97 style?

I wonder if some kind of filter would work or we would need some data source. Looks much harder given the fast-paced nature of the game.

This is great! Thank you for coming up with this.

edit- First 2 plays I watched are back to back homers. Go Royals!

This is brilliant. Can you make a sub-game, Streets of Rage II beat em up that you can play when the benches clear in a real game? Perhaps have Mortal Kombat finishing moves when the managers are fighting the umpires?

Ha! And when the batter rushes the mound. Jokes aside, like the idea of some interactive minigames between plays and innings...

Love the look of this! Enjoyed watching a bit, will definitely have it on later.

One comment is, during “in between innings” when it was showing around the league and other stats, the text was really small on my phone. If possible I’d rather have it scrolling or switching between pages of data than trying to fit it on one screen. I get that on a tv or pc it’s probably the right size, so not sure if you’d want to spend the effort to have a separate view for small screens.

(this and Urgo's comments were posted to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377493 a week ago, but since that thread didn't get much attention, I've moved them hither)

I'm not a sports person and other then going to a superbowl party really don't watch anything but this is really cool. I even put a game on the tv and was comparing it to the site. Very well done :) If there was some way to have live audio streaming in to hear what was going on while the screen animated it that'd make this perfect but I imagine that isn't really a thing that can be done.

Either way though, great job on this!

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.

This is a classic problem for people who didn't grow up making 8-bit pixel art. Typing "pixel art" into Nano-Banana only creates the illusion of pixel art, which quickly breaks down under modest scrutiny, particularly at larger resolutions.

That's why you can see "smeared edges," "fringing," etc.

Even a basic nearest neighbor downscale/upscale would have squashed some of the higher frequency noise.

OP: Look into palette reduction and pixel grids. This is a decent start as a post-processing tool for this stuff.

https://github.com/jenissimo/unfake.js

yes. i am more perceptive of bad art vs bad code. seeing so much bad generated art...everywhere...makes me wonder how much bad code is being put out there. art isn't load-bearing, but code can be.

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.

this f**ng rocks

Something about the way baseball itself is played seems to make recreations really satisfying -- like, more accurate? -- and fun compared to say, soccer hilights of matches on Youtube made with what looks like an EA soccer video game

I also really like the idea of recreating any type of event in this format. It's almost like photogrammetry but with as much creative intention as you have documentary. very awesome, very inspirational really

Awesome! Sometimes a thing conveys it was built with some love or intention. It's not restricted to fun/entertaining content, it can be Saas too. I'm talking more from how it looks and feels than necessarily what's going on in the backend, but I'm not really talking about graphics.

What a joy this is

"joy" is the word

Thanks! Glad you like.

very cool! maybe make a soccer one for world cup?

Love this idea. Golf and Tennis, too. I think the main challenge for other sports would be less access to near-realtime game data down to the ball and player position, etc.

Football. Not soccer.

Tomato, tomato.

When I choose "Full" view it should go to fullscreen view of the browser (hiding address bar, bookmarks, tabs, etc...)

PEDANT ALERT:

This is clearly 16 bit.

This is really cool! Would love a technical breakdown on how you put this together.

Agreed. As a developer, I'd love to see how this was done or if you have it out on Github.

Do you have a video of past livecasts to gt a feel?

Here you go! https://youtu.be/ILgyiNxCQHE