Ribbie turns real-time baseball stats into arcade-like, pixel art broadcasts
Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, there’s a lot to love about Ribbie, a vibe-coded website that turns real-time Major League Baseball (MLB) data into 8-bit broadcasts with arcade-style, animated pixel art.
“I love how much data is available to baseball fans […] but when I try to follow a game with ESPN Gamecast, I find it kind of boring,” Ribbie creator Eric Brownrout told TechCrunch.
Still, the idea for Ribbie didn’t materialize until Brownrout generated a pixel-art image of Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber to use as his fantasy baseball team’s logo.
“I love the aesthetic, and started thinking about ways I might be able to apply it to a data or visualization tool,” Brownrout said. “A quick Google search revealed the MLB public StatsAPI, and I realized I could theoretically recreate an entire baseball game in the same pixel format.”
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