Hi all,
TL;DR - #Pico1k Jam has now been simplified to have a single code size limit: 1024 of Compressed Bytes.
It's always kinda bothered me that this jam was a little confusing with the code limit. The jam started out it's life with a 1024 Char limit, as it was heavily inspired by the char-counting Tweet/TweetTweet jams. However, I also hoped that Pico1K might appeal to talented Demosceners - whose are used to writing beautiful demos within very tight, but typically "byte" size, constraints (rather than chars).
Since PICO-8 v0.2.5 (which was just released) now provides a simple & convenient way of seeing a live display of the Compressed Bytes - after much consideration, I have decided to make PICO-1K Jam have a single code size limit of 1024 Compressed Bytes.
Apologies for the late change in the Jam, but TBH - had PICO-8 had this feature last year, I probably would've started the 1K jam with this setup. But hopefully, most people will agree that this is a "win win" for everyone - as not only does it make the rules very simple (one single limit), but this also means that we all now have even MORE code room to play with. 馃槈
Right - let's make the most of the extra code space & create something cool in 1K 馃