CWick Contest #1: 140 characters

u/Yuki September 25, 2015, 01:57:45 AM

Meh, okay, I'll give you a chance, let's count tokens.

u/semiprocoder September 25, 2015, 02:30:51 AM

Does the 140 bytes include any images that my code relies on and loads. Otherwise I will just draw rectangles or something.

u/Yuki September 25, 2015, 02:31:56 AM

If they're considered inputs (and therefore I can replace them with whatever image that can fit), no.

u/Ivoah September 25, 2015, 02:40:34 AM

Quote from: Juju on September 25, 2015, 01:57:45 AM
Meh, okay, I'll give you a chance, let's count tokens.

Woo!

u/Unicorn September 25, 2015, 02:56:38 AM

hmm... now I need an idea that can go with a cmd theme...

Maybe some sort of color changing program...

Last Edit: September 25, 2015, 02:59:01 AM by Unicorn

u/semiprocoder September 25, 2015, 03:53:57 AM

I have been trying to make something in lua for the nspire for hours now. I could not make anything at all that came even close to 140 bytes in source size. Anyways, I look forward to the next competition. Hopefully I will be able to do something.

u/Yuki September 25, 2015, 04:19:30 AM

Heh, you can always try another language, if you can.

Last Edit: September 25, 2015, 05:10:52 AM by Juju

u/Dream of Omnimaga September 25, 2015, 03:15:19 PM

So far, it looks like for this contest that only TI-z80 Basocand to a lesser extent Casio Basic are viable options.

u/Ivoah September 25, 2015, 03:15:53 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 25, 2015, 03:15:19 PM
So far, it looks like for this contest that only TI-z80 Basocand to a lesser extent Casio Basic are viable options.

PICO-8 is a viable option since it's measured in tokens.

u/p4nix September 25, 2015, 04:06:50 PM

Pww, if I was about to post my code on Twitter, I'd use Twitlonger, pastebin, github or a picture

u/Yuki September 25, 2015, 04:10:06 PM

You'd be surprised what you can do with nothing.

u/Snektron September 26, 2015, 10:06:04 PM

Processing would actually be an allright option.
Also shaders could do something, but you lose characters with uniforms etc. Shadertoy would be a solution to that, but still
their variable names are long

u/semiprocoder September 26, 2015, 10:21:39 PM

Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on September 26, 2015, 10:06:04 PM
Processing would actually be an allright option.

Really? I tried, but couldn't make anything good with 140 bytes. This is the beggining of something I was going to make, but gave up because it already had passed the 140 byte(17 bytes too big already) limit(also im not sure it will even work if I finish it I didn't really check if it works or if I wrote something wrong, I was only focusing on the size of the source)(also btw I know you are not supposed to release source but since im not doing anything with this I hope its ok):

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int a[]={3,0,999,200};int b=200;void draw(){rect(b/3*a[1],b/2,b/2,b/2);int m=millis();if(m%1000==0){a[0]+=(int)key-2;a[1]=(int)random(4);}if(m%1000==a[2]){}}

Last Edit: September 26, 2015, 10:23:11 PM by semiprocoder

u/Snektron September 26, 2015, 10:22:52 PM

Yeah i guess you're right :/. 140 is really not that much

u/semiprocoder September 26, 2015, 10:27:02 PM

maybe if it was like 0.5k it would be manageable, but at 140 bytes I think anyone would be hard pressed to make anything, even in ti basic(which I kind of know the basics of but am too lazy to actually learn the functions and stuff).