Image: u/spite_as_an_arrow on Reddit · A Scorchball match on the pixel-art pitch
Scorchball TV, a 24/7 channel for an invented sport in pixel art
Claude Code wrote every line of an always-on browser channel where eight invented clubs play a simulated sport, with replays, a studio desk, interviews, adverts for made-up sponsors and an evening podcast.
Credits
- Reddit poster spite_as_an_arrow Source ↗
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The full story
Scorchball TV is an always-on browser channel for a sport that doesn't exist. Eight invented clubs play a season a week, with a live match about every 2 hours 40 minutes; between matches the channel runs replays, a studio desk, post-match interviews, adverts for made-up sponsors and an evening podcast. The league keeps its history of drafts, contracts, retirements and records.
The maker directed and Claude Code wrote every line. The process was a vision document, then a design document for each phase, and throwaway mock-up pages comparing looks side by side with real code and data. Timings, rules and commentary lines all live in data files. There is no game server: every browser rebuilds the same league from a snapshot and a daily key, so everyone sees the same match. The voices are about 11,000 pre-made ElevenLabs clips and every other sound is synthesised.
The code is MIT-licensed, with the CLAUDE.md and design documents included, and results are posted automatically to Bluesky each night.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built a 24/7 live sports channel for an invented sport, simulated in pixel artReddit poster: spite_as_an_arrowPosted
The maker's post in r/ClaudeAI describing how it was built.
- The project: scorchball.tv
The live channel.