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560 Characters or Bytes?

A topic by frankforce@gmail.com created May 14, 2019 Views: 240 Replies: 2
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Submitted

Hi, I'm pretty sure it's meant to say 560 bytes, but just wanted to ask.

The difference being that Unicode characters require extra bytes and would count as 2 or more characters on Twitter. 

For JavaScript this can make a fairly big  difference.

HostSubmitted

The rules aren’t entirely stringent, but the key is that you should be able to fit the entirety of your game code into two tweets. This jam started on PICO-8, which has some special Lua functions and libraries, so if you need to stretch the rules a bit in JS, that’s fine too! Just follow your conscience!

Submitted

cool, i'll see what i can do.