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Daily Drops

🍓 0: TIC-80, Remote Connections, and Joining a ByteJam
Some ByteJam admin!
(December 31, 2024)
🍓 1: Primitives
Spicing up the basic shapes
(January 1, 2025)
🍓 2: Code Hygiene
Optimise for the right thing
(January 2, 2025)
🍓 3: Aliases
Keep it snappy
(January 3, 2025)
🍓 4: Sin and Cos
Magic? No, Even Better: Trigonometry!
(January 4, 2025)
🍓 5: Time
*Taps watch*
(January 5, 2025)
🍓 6: Modulo
Fifty stories tall. Striding through the land. MODULO!
(January 6, 2025)
🍓 7: Print
All about text
(January 7, 2025)
🍓 8: Object Management
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(January 30, 2025)

What is This?

ByteJamming is livecoding on TIC-80 - that’s making visual effects while people watch.

Field-FX aims to run Monday Night Bytes every week - it’s an online stream, with (usually) four or more coders, making something - often with a live DJ.

I’ve been doing ByteJams since Feb 2023. It’s casual and creative, with a friendly and supportive community. My first time was scary, but they now mostly feel relaxed - and I think it’s a lovely way to experiment, make art, and often hit a ‘flow’ state of mind. It’s also a great way to appreciate what others can do, and learn from them.

Everyone has their own style and their own tricks. I’d like to share mine, with two goals:

  1. I’d like to encourage anyone who is thinking about trying a ByteJam to do so. I’ll give you some suggestions for code that will help you more confidently make something fancy. (If you’d like to try a ByteJam and would like some help getting on-boarded, drop me a message).

  2. If you’re more experienced, I hope you’ll find at least a couple of tips within the month’s daily drops that you can adapt, to expand the range of things you can make. (Maybe we can share your tips too?).

So - ByteJamuary will be one trick every day of January 2025. They’ll all be very short, but with lots of scope for you to play.

The first post, on 31st December, will get some admin out of the way (how to join a ByteJam), but the rest of the tips will be about effects and strategy. I’ll aim not to duplicate too much from the brilliant Tiny Code Christmas

If you want to see what ByteJam effects can look like, take a look at the livecode archive on DemoZoo