@hex thank you! got these ones listening to Eruption Radio at the moment. It took so long to find the patience to get Linux audio working with the fft build of the tic80, but so glad i did!

next step is to put a handle to some code at a bytejam :) https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/ #ByteJamuary

#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...

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/7-print/

And a nudge to check out some of @evilpaul_atebit's fine work!

#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!

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/6-modulo/

#ByteJamuary 5: Time - *taps watch* (approprialtely enough)

A couple of options for running time through your code.

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/5-time/

Hat-tip @HeNeArXn for the topic suggestion

#ByteJamuary 4: "Sin and Cos - Magic? No, Even Better: Trigonometry!"

I can't do a better deal than this. I'm giving away my secret sauce already. These two absolute rocks give the smoothest, gentlest movements, which can be organic and complex. Absolute heroes.

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/4-sin-and-cos/

#ByteJamuary 3: "Aliases - Keep it snappy"

Lua allows you to assign functions to variables which gives us a neat little trick to keep your maths code tidier!

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/3-aliases/

(I did briefly release this as part of Day 2 yesterday, but decided I was better off splitting it!)

#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

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/2-code-hygiene/

#ByteJamuary 1: "Primitives - Spicing up the basic shapes"

Throwing basic shapes around will very likely be your first experience of ByteJamming on #TIC80.
And they can look... basic.
You should take a moment to explore!

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/1-primitives/

Shout outs: Mantratronic (hope you're well! ) and @enfys

#ByteJamuary 0: "TIC-80, Remote Connections, and Joining a ByteJam"

Prelude - I wanted to get some admin out the way before we start making pretty things, so day 0 aims to explain how to get connected as a client to a remote #ByteJam session.
For giggles it also explains how some of those nuts and bolts work.

Effect exploration starts properly tomorrow!

https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/blog/0-prelude/

(Thanks @doop for the opportune Mac heavy-lifting!)

So, here launches #ByteJamuary - A month of ByteJam tricks!

Intro post tomorrow and runs daily from 1st through 31st January 2025. Let's see where we get to

Details: https://bytejamuary.creativenucleus.com/