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#ByteJamuary 7: Print - making text pop!
TIC-80's text has a very distinctive clunky look. Here are a few ways you can smooth it out...
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/7-print/
And a nudge to check out some of EvilPaul's fine work!
#TIC80 #demoscene #livecoding
#ByteJamuary 6: Fifty stories tall. Striding through the land...
MODULO!
Value wrapping in percentage clothing - It looks like % but loops your values. What's it good for? Plenty!
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/6-modulo/
#TIC80 #demoscene #livecoding
#ByteJamuary 5: Time - *taps watch* (approprialtely enough)
A couple of options for running time through your code.
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/5-time/
Hat-tip for the topic suggestion to HeNeArXn 🙂
#TIC80 #liveCoding #ByteJam
My intentions for #ByteJamuary slid.
I nailed myself to a schedule, forgetting that I'm drawn to completism and perfectionism - I thought these would be single, short little tips; but I find myself trying to cover a topic instead.
I don't want to change that, but the timeline won't be daily drops!
#ByteJamuary 4: "Sin and Cos - Magic? No, Even Better: Trigonometry!"
The secret sauce already! These two give the smoothest, gentlest movements - organic and complex.
Absolute heroes.
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/4-sin-a...
#demoscene #livecoding #generativeArt #creativeCoding
Some aliased Lua code
#ByteJamuary 3: "Aliases - Keep it snappy"
Lua allows you to assign functions to variables and this trick will keep your maths code tidier!
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/3-alias...
(I did briefly release this as part of Day 2 yesterday, but decided I was better off splitting it!)
#TIC80
Some Lua code
#ByteJamuary 2: "Code Hygiene - Optimise for the right thing"
If you're #livecoding, you'll almost certainly fall into some hole or other.
Today's suggestions are about giving your future self a better chance to dig a way out 🙂
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/2-code-...
#demoscene #TIC80
#ByteJamuary 1: "Primitives - Spicing up the basic shapes"
Your first #ByteJam will likely involve a lot of basic shapes and they can look... basic.
Here's a nudge to explore! 😄
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/1-primi...
Shout outs: Mantratronic and Enfys
#demoscene #TIC80 #livecoding
A bouncing set of FFT lines in TIC-80
#ByteJamuary 0: "TIC-80, Remote Connections, and Joining a ByteJam"
Admin out the way before we start pretty things; day 0 explains how to connect to a #ByteJam.
Effect explorations from tomorrow!
bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/0-prelu...
(Tx @doop.bsky.social for Mac-lifting!)
#demoscene
I'm launching #ByteJamuary tomorrow - it's month of ByteJam tricks for all experience levels!
Intro post tomorrow, then runs daily from 1st through 31st January 2025. Let's see where we get to 😄
Details: bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com
#demoscene #livecoding #TIC80 #MondayNightBytes
#ByteJam
