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From 9 to 11 February, the biggest online party with the smallest prods is back!

Streaming right into your home, we bring you ... *breathes in*
- 1K intro competitions
- 512 byte / bootsector competitions
- 256 byte competitions
- 128 byte competitions
- 64 byte competitions
- 32 byte competitions
- Nano game competitions
- Tiny executable graphics competition
- Tiny pixel graphics competition
- Tiny executable music competition
- Bytebeat music competition
- New talent intro competition
- Wild showcase

And of course a wide range of events, like seminars on sizecoding and other topics, a byte jam, introshows and various DJ sets. ✨

Check out the www.lovebyte.party for rules and details! If you have any questions, ask away! Here at the discord, or at whatever socials you fancy.

We hope to see you all there, and eagerly await your tiny entries... 💖

Quick links:
- Website
- Party system
- Discord
- Twitch
- Mastodon

Compo Highlight:
🎨 𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗬 𝗣𝗜𝗫𝗘𝗟 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗖𝗦 🎨

- 512 pixels total
- any dimensions (rectangular)
- 16 colors in the default CGA/EGA palette

To check the exact rules and submit your entries, visit lovebyte.party 💖

needs more invitation intros.

you typoed the palette url: https://lospec.com/palette-list/color-graphics-adapter

I'm being dense, what size can the gfx be for the 512 pix comp, is 16x32 a valid res ?

Two weeks to go is a rather short notice, unfortunately.
But thanks for also giving fantasy consoles the value they deserve.

...is there any useful free tool or editor for a pixel graphic like that on PC ?

ms paint ftw

We love Lovebyte <3

Thanks maali! I screwed that one up nicely 😄

Spiny, yes, 16x32 is perfect res.

Grafx2

Most of you reading pouet.net are grizzled veterans of course... but maybe you are a gfx artist and want to try your hand at coding something tiny, or maybe you have some non-demoscene friends that you suspect might enjoy becoming one of us. 😄

Anyway, we invite you to join the 256 byte

⭐ 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗣𝗢 ⭐

at Lovebyte!

• Open to everyone that hasn't qualified top 3 at a major demoparty before with a thing they coded.
• 256 bytes executable/binary/rom/etc
• On any old school, new school or supported fantasy (TIC-80/PICO-8/MicroW8) platform.

To check the exact rules and submit your entries, visit lovebyte.party

If you need some help getting started, going through the daily challenges at tcc.lovebyte.party might a quick way to get up to speed. 💖

On the topic of "getting started doing 256 byte demos", since Jan 1 we've been doing a daily 256 byte invitation, slowly counting down towards Lovebyte.

Todays invitation was crafted by none other than Sir Garbagetruck 🧙‍♂️
[watch it on youtube]

If you'd like to see the earlier days, here is link to the full playlist

Compo highlight:

⭐ 𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗬 𝗘𝗫𝗘𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 ⭐

• Max 256 bytes (including headers)
• No MIDI allowed, but otherwise open to all platforms
• Max. Duration 2 minutes
• Provide both the binary and a wav/mp3 recording

To check the exact rules and submit your entries, visit lovebyte.party

⭐ DJ Set Announcement #1 ⭐

𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗫 𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗠
featuring chiptune DJs
𝒋𝒐𝒓-𝒆𝒍 & 𝑾𝒆𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅

⭐ DJ Set Announcement #2 ⭐

.:. 𝒄𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒙 .:.
𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗕𝗬𝗧𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗦𝗘𝗧
8 different musical devices and computers with floppy drives, united in sharing a single 720k double density floppy

⭐ DJ Set Announcement #3 ⭐

𝗦𝗬𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗫 𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗖𝗞𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗠
featuring 𝑭𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒃𝒐𝒎
on real C64 + Gameboy

Need details about the Oldschool vs Highscool Highend compo; what are the specific requirements. Does oldschool mean platform. I.e. will all Windows productions only be allowed in High-End regardless of Shader / Non-shader code?

From the General Rules section:

ah thankz

There are currently 𝟭𝟮𝟴 entries in our party system.

4 days remaining. Keep them coming, folks. 💖

(Submit using SceneID at https://lovebyte.party, or ping us for a votekey)

⭐ Seminar Announcement ⭐

𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘 𝗭𝗫 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗥𝗨𝗠 𝗦𝗜𝗭𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚
by 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆

And very good! Maybe I'll finally learn something on the zx! ;)

😄 If Superogue misses out on some great tricks, maybe you can do a mini-seminar on those for the next event?

I guess my very poor English will be a bigger obstacle than my poor coding skills ;)