SIBR Hackathon Project Directory
Blaseball '99
- @superfluous (davidthelazar on twitter)
Blaseball Buzz
- @Zoz aka @zwlovoy on Twitter
We all know at its heart, Blaseball is an auditory medium; all else is distractions. So experience Blaseball in its purist audio form by enjoying it in pure Morse Code (with both audio and visual representations).
Guest Judge Comments:
"-- -.-- / -.-. .- - / .-- .- ... / -.-. --- -. ..-. ..- ... . -.." - Joel Clark
Blaseball, The Book
- Wesley (@WesleyDontTweet on Twitter)
Have you ever wanted to watch Blaseball without the need to be connected to the internet? No distractions, no screens, only you and a THICK softcover book with all you need to watch Blaseball. Introducing Blaseball, The Book: Season 12 Days 1 through 7! Cuddle up with a good, definitely not cursed, book this fall.
⭐ Awards: Most Cursed ⭐
Guest Judge Comments:
"Ok but what if you printed it really really small? Good research, this will come in handy when we build the Blaseball Memorial Encyclopedia Center" - Joel Clark
Blaseball via…Hackathon Submission Form Responses
- honu
As hackathon participants completed their cursed creations, they began to submit them via a Google Form provided by the judges. After studying the form itself, I submitted several “entries” in rapid succession—resulting in a Reblase-like viewing experience of game events within the hackathon’s submission response form itself.
Blaseball Music Watch
- chadjelly
Generates music based on the games played that day. The day starts silent, but once a team scores their first point, they are randomly assigned a short loop track. Each team’s track will only play when that team is batting. As more teams get points on the board, more music is added, until there is too much. Only tested on my iMac. (“Unfinished”. I had more plans for cursing the watch page visually as the music goes on, as well as more track options, but this is as far as I got before the deadline.)
Guest Judge Comments:
"I actually listened to this nonsense for a surprisingly long time. The tracks only playing when the team is up to bat was very clever!" - Joel Clark
blaseball_rp2040
- leo homestuck
In theory, this will use a $1 RP2040 microcontroller to display games from the internet simultaneously on a monitor, Nintendo Switch, Game Boy Advance, and serial port. Implementing this was way more work than I expected, and currently it just replays a game from flash on a monitor. I’d like to get back to this eventually, though, and I did make quite a bit of progress on Switch support (though I didn’t finish it).
Guest Judge Comments:
"Very ambitious & cool & you have inspired me to finally get a Raspberry Pi" - Joel Clark
blasefs: The Blaseball filesystem
- MoxSeas
Taking the POSIX principle of ‘everything is a file’ to its logical extreme, blasefs makes historical game data available via a FUSE filesystem for easy viewing wherever you have access to a terminal!
Guest Judge Comments:
"I tried to run this, but could not. I am very curious though, this sounds .... actually useful" - Joel Clark
Blunchables: Two Cheese Pizza - BLUNCH:001 - Outline / Proposed Schema
- @Cuttlefishman agrīoeconomiae
A method for displaying and visualizing the state of a Blaseball game by using a two cheese pizza lunchables style snack meal.
Guest Judge Comments:
"Thank you. Finally someone takes Lunchables seriously. You should feel proud of yourself." - Joel Clark
Bubble Viewer
- Levi (winterhazelly on twitter)
When you watch a game on blaseball.com, are you ever overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information? Do you wish you could tune into a game without having to pay attention to pesky details like what players are up or what team they’re on? Try out the bubble viewer and be soothed by shapes and colors with no informational text whatsoever!
Chorby Soup
- concept by a cactus, execution by beiju
Blaseball used to have soul. Now it has soup!
Guest Judge Comments:
"This project taught me about a cursed hack that I am going to use in the production version of Before. You’re complicit!" - iliana quorum
Emoji Blaseball
- Danielle (@art_dmhe on Twitter)
Blaseball for emoji-fluent computers, representing game events in emoji binary
Guest Judge Comments:
"I think you have created a DNA strand, the underlying fabric of a Blaseball game." - Joel Clark
Flactorio
- @dnathe4th
Line Score Knitting Project
- @anyagee
This is a write up and example chart of how to turn the line scores of a set of games into a knitted object.
Guest Judge Comments:
"I do not know how to knit but I would knit banners of this and hang them on my walls if I could" - Joel Clark
Noel
- beiju
Have you ever wanted Blaseball to be less interesting? Noel reinterprets every* game using just the rules of baseball. You get 3 strikes per out, 3 outs per inning, 4 bases on the field, and 0 players set on fire. Why do this? Great question!
Guest Judge Comments:
"Yes. Finally, someone gets rids of all the nonsense." - Joel Clark
Plebble
- leo homestuck
Blaseball for Pebble smartwatches. Currently it displays Crabs games from a fixed offset of like 6 months ago with no actual UI because I’m extremely deep in yak shaving (see: https://gitlab.com/goethite), but once there is a UI this is probably an actual useful way to watch Blaseball games.
Guest Judge Comments:
"I have never heard of a Pebble smartwatch but thank you for putting Blaseball on it." - Joel Clark
Project Voyager
- iliana quorum, Allie Signet, fionna adams
We did compression crimes, put a full replayable archive of Blaseball: The Discipline Era and The Expansion Era onto a gold archival-grade CD, and gave it to Joel (completely coincidentally on the 44th anniversary of Voyager 2’s launch).
Guest Judge Comments:
"launch this into the sun." - Stephen Bell
Shleets Ballpark Experience
- Frostbird
Get an authentic Blaseball ballpark experience! Watch your favorite players step up to the plate and face down a field of defenders. Ooh and Ahh at the lights of the scoreboard. Observe the looming solar eclipse in the sky! It’s Blaseball as it was meant to be viewed: in a spreadsheet!
⭐ Awards: Most Accessible ⭐
Guest Judge Comments:
"99 percent of narrative design and game writing is staring at spreadsheets. i have no idea how you did this, i dont even want to think about how you would start, great job" - Stephen Bell
Slynthesizer
- @superfluous (davidthelazar on twitter)
😈 ⚾ 👀
- The Frostburner
What’s up with words anyways ? You don’t need words to watch Blaseball… Let’s get rid of them! ➡ ️😈 ⚾ 👀 ❗ 🔡 ❌ 😌 😎
⭐ Awards: Most Accessible ⭐
Guest Judge Comments:
"Big fan. Had a lot of fun trying to interpret what the emojis meant, it was like another language but one I could piece together." - Joel Clark