Since our son Emil was born last summer I did not have much time for personal creative practice, but during the Christmas holidays I had some fun getting into a virtual game console called TIC-80 thanks to #lovebytetcc.
So I did my first 256 byte demoscene production for the @lovebyteparty new-talent competition.
It's called Hellschreiber inspired by a 1920s teleprinting machine invented by Rudolf Hell.
It was quite challenging to get everything down to only 256 bytes, but also fun. There's a bunch of techniques you can make use of like manipulating memory via memory address directly and also there are tools that help to pack the original source code by e.g. removing comments and whitespace etc.
@lovebyteparty I remember browsing https://www.pouet.net/ as a teenager to download some mind-blowing demos to watch and out-max my graphics card. Haven't been into programming back then and haven't done it for quite a while. So it's extremely nice to rediscover this community and even be able to participate 🎉
@bobby@guidoschmidt The party system will be open for a few more hours (new talent will close first, but regular 256 bytes and all other compos will be open a bit longer) so if you suddenly feel the urge to drop everything and start coding a fun tiny thing... we will be waiting with open arms. 🤗
@lovebyteparty@guidoschmidt Very tempting! <3 I´ll resort to getting inspired by all the amazing entries this weekend. Hopefully next time! Have a great party!!! :)
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