Today we are officially launching LIGR Fuse — the graphics configuration engine that connects Rive designs directly to live broadcast production. If you design in Rive, you can now build broadcast-grade sports graphics and deploy them to thousands of live matches through the LIGR platform.

This is a big deal for two groups of people: Rive designers who want a new creative outlet in live sports broadcasting, and sports organisations who want beautiful, dynamic graphics without hiring a development team to build them.

What is LIGR Fuse?

LIGR Fuse is a graphics configuration tool that sits between design and live production. It takes a Rive file (.riv) — a scoreboard, lower third, sponsor overlay, match preview, player card, or any other broadcast graphic — and makes it broadcast-ready.

In Fuse, you bind your Rive graphic to live data sources (match scores, player stats, team rosters, event triggers), add control variables that operators can toggle in real time, configure sponsor ad placements, and set up expressions that pull from LIGR's entire data hierarchy — from league down to individual player stats.

Once configured, you publish the graphic to a LIGR theme. That theme can then be pulled into any LIGR Control Room for live operator-driven production, or into Game Plans for fully automated, zero-operator broadcasting.

The Workflow: Rive to Air

The LIGR broadcast graphics pipeline is a four-step process that takes a design from concept to live television (or stream) without writing a single line of code.

Why Rive for Broadcast Graphics?

Traditional broadcast graphics are built by developers — coded, compiled, deployed through complex pipelines that can take weeks to update. A simple scoreboard change might require a developer sprint. Adding a new sponsor placement means another release cycle.

Rive changes that equation completely. Rive is a design tool that produces interactive, animated vector graphics with built-in state machines. Designers — not developers — control the logic, animation, and interactivity. The output is lightweight, resolution-independent, and renders beautifully at broadcast quality.

LIGR is the first platform to use Rive as the native design format for broadcast sports graphics. That means designers who already know Rive can start building broadcast graphics today, and sports organisations get 10x faster graphic iteration with zero developer dependency.

What You Can Build

Any broadcast graphic you can imagine. Fuse supports the full range of LIGR's production capabilities — everything from persistent scoreboards to event-triggered animations to sponsor overlay playlists.

• Scoreboards — persistent match clocks with live score updates, stoppage time indicators, and card/substitution counters
• Lower Thirds — player profiles, team lineups, stat overlays triggered by match events
• Full-Screen Graphics — match previews, half-time stats, post-game summaries, tournament brackets
• Event Animations — goal celebrations, card notifications, substitution graphics triggered automatically by Game Plans
• Sponsor Overlays — in-graphic banners (1000×200, 500×250, 1000×100) and detached overlays with time-based or event-based triggers
• Player Cards — dynamic player images with stats pulled from LIGR's data hierarchy (player.data.stats.goals, player.data.team.logo_url)

How Fuse Connects Rive to Live Data

The magic of Fuse is in its expression engine. When you import a Rive file, Fuse detects every exposed text input, image slot, and state machine input. You then write simple expressions to connect those inputs to LIGR's data hierarchy.

LIGR's data hierarchy flows from league down to individual player stats: league → competition → match → teams → players → stats → events. Fuse expressions can access any level of this hierarchy. For example, match.home_team.name pulls the home team name, player.data.stats.goals pulls a specific player s goal tally, and player.data.team.logo_url pulls the team crest.

You can also connect external data sources — spreadsheets, APIs, or manual inputs — for supplementary data like tournament brackets, historical records, or custom statistics. Fuse supports exporting and importing expression sets, so you can batch-modify them with tools like ChatGPT and re-import to create graphic variations (e.g., home team vs away team versions) in seconds.

Control Variables: Operator Power

Not everything in a broadcast is automated. Sometimes an operator needs to toggle a clock visibility, switch between graphic states, or manually trigger an overlay. Fuse lets you add control variables — boolean toggles, dropdowns, and player selectors — that appear as interactive controls in the LIGR Control Room.

For example, a ShowTime boolean toggle lets an operator show or hide the match clock. A Player dropdown lets them select which player s stats to display on a lower third. An AutoMode toggle switches between manual and automatic scoring updates. These controls appear as simple UI elements in the Control Room — no technical knowledge required to operate.

Game Plans: Zero-Operator Automation

Everything configured in Fuse works seamlessly with LIGR Game Plans — the fully automated broadcast engine that runs entire productions without a single operator.

Game Plans use event triggers to control graphic playback: a goal event triggers a goal animation followed by an updated scoreline, a card event triggers a card notification graphic, a period change triggers half-time sponsor rotations. Pre-game playlists loop team lineups, match previews, and sponsor ads until kickoff. Post-game playlists roll final scores, player of the match, and summary stats automatically after the final whistle.

This is how Football Australia broadcasts 4,000+ matches per season and DAZN delivers 650+ National League matches — with zero operators per game. Every graphic in those broadcasts was designed in Rive, configured in Fuse, and automated through Game Plans.

Built for Scale

LIGR Fuse is not just a tool for one-off broadcasts. It is built for organisations running hundreds or thousands of matches per season. Publish a theme once and it is available across every match in your organisation. Update a graphic in Fuse, re-publish, and every future broadcast picks up the change automatically.

Theme instances let you run multiple output configurations from a single game plan — a full-graphics media stream alongside a scoreboard-only clean feed for distribution partners like DAZN or IMG. Both instances receive the same live data simultaneously, just rendered with different graphic packages.